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Air Traffic Control Applicants Top 8,000 in 13 Hours, Transportation Secretary Says

Air Traffic Control Applicants Top 8,000 in 13 Hours, Transportation Secretary Says

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) – A record 8,000-plus ⁠people ⁠have applied for jobs in ⁠the troubled U.S. air traffic control system in the first ​13 hours of a recruitment drive focusing on individuals who enjoy playing video games, Transportation Secretary ‌Sean Duffy said on Friday. The ‌Federal Aviation Administration, facing a shortage of air traffic controllers in towers across the ⁠U.S., opened ⁠applications overnight to fill more positions, Duffy said at the Semafor ​World Economy gathering in Washington. After 12 hours, according to Duffy, the FAA had received some 6,000 applications. Posting on X later in the day, he said a total of 8,004 applicants ​had filed in 13 hours, a rate of 10 every minute, marking the fastest ⁠pace ⁠ever for applicants seeking jobs ⁠as U.S. ​air traffic controllers. Duffy said 7,252 of those applicants met basic qualifications, though they would ​still need to go ⁠through a rigorous assessment process. “We’ve had a flood of young people coming in who want to be air traffic controllers,” Duffy said at the conference, calling the Trump …

Best Desks of 2026: I’ve Spent Nearly 4,000 Hours Testing Desks. These Are the Ones You Want

Best Desks of 2026: I’ve Spent Nearly 4,000 Hours Testing Desks. These Are the Ones You Want

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Testing desks is something of a subjective game. Much like office chairs, the tests are based on comfort, reliability and ease of setup rather than things you can test in electronics such as wattage and battery usage. I still tested each one rigorously and will continue to test them for longevity in the coming months. I tested these desks by asking three people to try each one. Each of them used the desk for at least 16 hours and then gave me their impressions. The three people were 6 feet, 1 inch tall; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 5 feet, 4 inches tall respectively, to give me a good cross-section of average user height. James Bricknell/CNET Setup time and package quality Building desks can often be difficult and time-consuming. For each desk, I timed how long it took to unpack and assemble, and I noted whether the manual was easy to follow. I followed the instructions as closely as possible so that each build was performed as if I had never built one before. …

This Android shortcut saves me hours every week, and almost nobody knows it exists

This Android shortcut saves me hours every week, and almost nobody knows it exists

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I’ve spent 15 years writing about mobile operating systems. Yet I still get that “eureka” moment when I find a toggle I’ve ignored for three hardware cycles. It’s usually tucked away in a sub-menu with a boring name like “Gestures.” I scroll past it a dozen times before finally tapping it and wondering how I ever lived without it. Quick Tap was exactly like that for me. I enabled it on a whim, fully expecting to forget about it within a week. Instead, it became one of the first things I set up on my Pixel 9 Pro XL. I’ve done the same on every Pixel I’ve tested since then, including older ones. Most Android users I know have never heard of it. Some have carried a Pixel for years and still haven’t stumbled across it. That’s the thing about Android: it hides its best stuff just far enough off the beaten path that most people never find it. Here’s what I reach for every day, and a few others worth turning on while you’re …

Half of all US employees use AI at work now – and waste almost 8 hours a week doing it

Half of all US employees use AI at work now – and waste almost 8 hours a week doing it

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EschCollection/DigitalVision/Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Half of employees now use AI at work at least occasionally. Many of them also don’t know their employers’ AI strategy. AI is boosting productivity, but not reshaping workflows. Half of all employees now use AI at work at least a few times each year, Gallup reported on Monday. Up from 46% last quarter, the new figure marks the polling company’s highest-ever reported rate of AI usage in the workplace. Among more frequent AI users, the number of employees who report using the technology on a daily basis was also up (13% compared to 12% last quarter), as were those who report using it a few times each week (28% vs. 26%). Based on a February survey of more than 23,700 US employees, the new report from Gallup highlights both that the use of AI in the workplace is continuing to climb and also that this increase is causing some structural changes within organizations. The ‘integration-adoption lag’ The poll found that 41% of …

U.S. military turned back six ships in first 24 hours of Iranian port blockade

U.S. military turned back six ships in first 24 hours of Iranian port blockade

Published by Sam Flores

During the first 24 hours of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, American warships issued warnings to six vessels, prompting them to turn around, a U.S. official said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. No shots were fired in the encounters, the official said, and U.S. personnel did not board any of the vessels before they reversed course. Five of the ships were carrying oil, according to the official. The contents of the sixth vessel were not immediately clear. Two of the oil-carrying ships turned back in the first two hours after the blockade went into effect Monday morning. President Donald Trump announced the blockade Sunday after negotiations with the Iranians failed to produce an agreement to end the war. Since fighting began in late Friday, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been at a near-standstill, sparking a rise in the prices of oil and other key goods. The U.S. military is using more than 100 U.S. fighter and surveillance aircraft to enforce the …

I Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO

I Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO

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Despite all the hate it gets, anyone who’s been to Coachella knows it’s a damn good time. I attended once in 2024, where I was welcomed as a Coachella elder. The music is killer, if you can dodge all the influencers setting up ring cameras. I’d likely be right back there huffing dust in the day-glo desert if I could afford the tickets, flight, and potentially very annoying drive into the Colorado Desert. Luckily, I have a smartphone. And Coachella, which has livestreamed its sets for years, has revamped its vertical video feed to appeal to mobile users. So what better way to embrace “Couchella” than by watching only in this one format all weekend? Coachella’s feeds got a quality boost this year, now streaming seven stages exclusively on YouTube, with 4K video and multiview options that you can swap between like they’re Olympic events. The festival’s EDM and DJ oriented Quasar stage, livestreaming on YouTube shorts all weekend, was shot exclusively on Google Pixel devices. That’s the one I’ve decided to mainline. Vertical video …

My Husband Killed Himself Just Hours After I Asked For A Divorce. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known Then.

My Husband Killed Himself Just Hours After I Asked For A Divorce. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known Then.

Published by Sam Flores

It was a night in October of 2004 when everything changed. I still remember the metallic click of my key in the door. It was late, clients had run long, traffic even longer — and all I wanted was to get out of my work clothes and lie down. Instead, the house felt … wrong. Though my husband’s truck was in the driveway, everything was dark. The porch light wasn’t even on. I called out his name as I stepped into the foyer — once, twice, then louder a third time. No answer. It was too quiet, like someone had pressed mute on a life that usually hummed with stereo music and my husband’s booming voice. I heard the wind chimes tinkling in the breeze on the deck. There was not even a sign of our cat. “Hello?” I called, more hesitantly. My chest tightened as I walked through the dark house, then spotted a dim light shining under the closed dining room door. I sensed there was something wrong as I pushed the door …

Huge UK fashion chain closing website in hours with 80% off everything | UK | News

Huge UK fashion chain closing website in hours with 80% off everything | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

An iconic UK fashion retailer is closing its website in a matter of hours, offering customers huge last-minute discounts in its “biggest ever sale”. LK Bennett announced the closure of its website, which is taking place tonight (April 13) and added it wil cut the price of its products by at least 80%. The retailer also said they have an online exclusive sale of up to 90% for its high-end dresses, shoes, accessories, and customers can grab last minute bargains today. The retailer began the closure of its shops in January. The company, founded by Linda Bennett in London in 1990, collapsed in January, with John Noon and Mark Firmin of Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP appointed as joint administrators later that month. The brand has since been sold to US firm Gordon Brothers, but nine stand-alone stores and 13 concession stores, located across the UK, were not included in the deal. Last month they launched sales with up to 75% off. On the sales, a spokesperson added: “There are some truly exceptional offers available …

Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt

Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt

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When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit’s TurboTax team had a question: could AI compress a months-long implementation into days without sacrificing accuracy? What they built to do it is less a tax story than a template, a workflow combining commercial AI tools, a proprietary domain-specific language and a custom unit test framework that any domain-constrained development team can learn from. Joy Shaw, director of tax at Intuit, has spent more than 30 years at the company and lived through both the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the OBBB. “There was a lot of noise in the law itself and we were able to pull out the tax implications, narrow it down to the individual tax provisions, narrow it down to our customers,” Shaw told VentureBeat. “That kind of distillation was really fast using the tools, and then enabled us to start coding even before we got forms and instructions in.” How the …

Research Warns Popcorn Brain Is Affecting People Who Scroll On Their Phone For Hours A Day

Research Warns Popcorn Brain Is Affecting People Who Scroll On Their Phone For Hours A Day

Published by Jenni Sidey

Anyone who spends more than two hours a day on their phone will notice their brain change over time, and not in a good way. Unfortunately, one study found that the average American spends over five hours a day on their phone, so most of us are feeling the effects. Even those who are the best at setting their devices aside to get things done have experienced that feeling that says you simply need to pick up your phone. It’s great at distracting us when we desperately need to focus on something else. Research shows that the desire to hop from one app to another is actually affecting your brain in a pretty deep way. People who use their phone for over two hours a day are likely experiencing a phenomenon called ‘popcorn brain.’ The first person to use the term “popcorn brain” was University of Washington computer scientist David M. Levy, PhD. He defined that as “being so hooked on electronic multitasking that the slower-paced life offline holds no interest.” Ivan S | Pexels …