Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco’s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated to the city’s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers. But in a new, wide-ranging phone interview with the New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political transformation that seemed to surprise even his own communications team, despite that Salesforce...

In a development born of the government shutdown, the SEC announced Thursday that companies can proceed with IPOs using an obscure automatic approval process, now with the added bonus of skipping pricing information entirely. What’s happening is that with 90% of SEC staff furloughed, startups can file their paperwork and have it automatically become effective after 20 days. This option...

Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/AlamyMark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged 68. As a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Norell combined fieldwork, cutting-edge analysis and a gift for collaboration, transforming how scientists and the public see dinosaurs.Norell and his colleagues showed that birds belong to the group...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsWashington Post via Getty ImagesNaked mole rats live for up to 40 years, compared to about three years for a mouseThey are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life.A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- This week is the National Fire Protection Association's "Fire Prevention Week" across the country, which means local firefighters want people to review fire safety at home, so they're saved from heartbreak and damage. Henrico Fire Battalion Chief Doug Reynolds said it all starts with having a working smoke detector, and your local Greater Richmond firefighter...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is clear in his first formal document: The love of money really is the root of all evils. At a press conference on Thursday (Oct. 9), the Vatican presented his apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”). More a pastoral presentation than an expansive theological treatise, it criticizes the expansion of wealth to the...

Although Mars has an extremely thin atmosphere, it still experiences powerful winds that play a major role in shaping the planet’s climate and in distributing its ever-present dust. These winds stir up dust into swirling columns called dust devils—rotating plumes of air and fine particles that sweep across the Martian surface. While the winds themselves are invisible, the dust devils...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a new way that brown fat, a type of fat that burns energy, can boost the body’s metabolism. This process allows cells to consume more fuel and generate heat, improving overall metabolic health. Conducted in mice, the research points to new possibilities for using brown fat to address...

May 28, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov (52) warms up prior to the game against the Florida Panthers in game five of the Eastern Conference Final of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Lenovo Center. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images Carolina reserve goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov will miss the Hurricanes' season opener against the New Jersey...

Android Studio lets you directly edit the XML files used in the Watch Face Format. It now provides code completion for tags and attributes based on the official Watch Face Format schemas and live error validation that helps identify issues like missing required attributes. Android Studio also includes resource linking to quickly navigate to drawable resources and other referenced XML...