The richest person in your town probably isn’t a technology entrepreneur or a hedge fund manager. More likely, it’s the dentist who runs six offices or the HVAC contractor whose trucks you see everywhere, according to economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick. These “stealthy wealthy,” as the duo describes them in their new book, “The…
Artificial intelligence is believed to save workers time by helping them complete their daily tasks. But just how much more efficient can it make employees? About 55% of workers say they use AI on the job, with about one-third of those saying it cuts down the time they need to complete their assignments by one…
Police said a man charged with starting a wildfire in Spokane, Washington, confessed to the crime, describing how he planned it for weeks and created a device to ignite a blaze that destroyed hundreds of buildings. Aaron Farinacci researched the weather to predict a day that would have “high winds, low humidity, sort of high…
