I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks despite few browser updates. From CSS Quake to CSS Gap Decorations, this isn’t one to miss! Hyperblam: Make music with HTML Heydon Pickering created Hyperblam, a HTML-driven implementation of the Web Audio API that uses…
The numbers are clear: President Donald Trump’s approval rating is cratering across the board, and he’s losing the most ground with groups that were key demographics to his win in 2024. In that election, men under 30 broke for Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris by about a single point — not a lot, but…
WAN-IFRA has released a new special report, Carbon Audit: Call to Action – Managing Emissions in Newspaper Printing Plants, aimed at helping newspaper printing facilities better understand, measure and manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As climate change continues to reshape economies, industries and societies worldwide, the report highlights the growing importance of environmental accountability…
A conversation with Uri Poliavich Journalist: You have built technology businesses, led engineering teams and invested in innovative companies. Yet your story began very far from the technology world. When you look back today, what part of your early life do you think shaped you most? Uri Poliavich: When I look back, I don’t think about a…
Missed payroll expectations and revised April and May numbers put the Fed in a tough spot for rate cuts. June’s employment numbers showed almost no change from the previous month, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 4.2% unemployment rate and an estimated 57,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, roughly half the 115,000 economists expected. At…
We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to users’ context, intent, and cognitive load, so the interface adapts to the user, not the other way around. The design community has entered a period…
“We are focusing on signature journalism. We are focusing on our brands. We are focusing on customer value. And that’s how we think we can build a sustainable business model in this new era where AI and creators are reshaping the media industry,” Matthijs van de Peppel, of Mediahuis, Netherlands, told World News Media Congress…
Automated trading systems operate in markets where volatility can very much change rapidly, making effective risk management just as important as finding profitable trade setups. As these platforms become more sophisticated, built-in safeguards are increasingly designed to limit excessive exposure, enforce strict loss thresholds and help preserve retail trading capital amid unpredictable markets. The foreign…
For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s conventional…
Gold is currently attracting renewed attention. Alongside inflationary concerns and economic uncertainties, geopolitical risks are increasingly influencing investors’ decisions. In particular, tensions in the Middle East and the conflict between Israel and Iran have prompted many investors to rethink their strategies. The issue is no longer simply whether to buy gold, but also where and…