The College Board is introducing a new yearlong Advanced Placement course, AP Business with Personal Finance, set to debut nationally in the 2026-27 school year. The course combines core business topics like entrepreneurship, marketing and accounting with everyday money skills such as budgeting, saving and investing, using case studies and project-based learning. It aligns with national financial literacy standards from the Council for Economic Education and the Jump$tart Coalition.
New CAD renders from OnLeaks and Android Headlines reveal the standard Galaxy S27 in a light purple finish, closely resembling one of the Galaxy Z Fold 8's colors. Unlike the redesigned Galaxy S27 Ultra leaked a day earlier, the base model appears to retain nearly identical dimensions and a 6.3-inch display similar to the Galaxy S26, with only a slight increase in thickness.
A workplace analysis outlines seven common leadership behaviors that gradually erode employee morale and push skilled workers to leave their jobs. Rather than a single bad incident, the piece argues these are repeated patterns—like poor communication, favoritism, or lack of recognition—that accumulate over time until employees decide to walk away.
Dick's Sporting Goods is closing more Foot Locker stores in 2026 as part of an ongoing effort to shrink that chain's retail footprint. The company's stock dropped sharply after it issued a revised financial outlook, signaling that its turnaround plan for Foot Locker is behind expectations.
Android Authority's reviewer spent weeks testing the Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max, a €1,149 flagship phone with an aluminum frame, Kunlun Glass, and a notably large camera module. Despite Huawei's US ban and shrinking global market share since losing Google services seven years ago, the reviewer found the build quality and craftsmanship rival any top-tier device on the market.
Bose has released a second-generation QuietComfort Headphones priced at $359, positioned as a step-down model from its $449 QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2. The new version keeps a similar design with more plastic parts, adds new color options like mauve and light avocado green, and offers improved default sound tuning compared to earlier Bose models, though the midrange still sounds muted.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that companies plateau not because of competitors but due to self-imposed limits, chiefly the habit of chasing a comfortable 'fair share' of the market instead of defining themselves by unmet customer needs. The piece, drawn from a keynote at CIBC's Global Corporate and Investment Banking Offsite in Detroit, identifies five internal drag factors—complacency, fear of failure, intimidation by larger rivals, reliance on legacy approaches, and false confidence from busywork—as the real obstacles to becoming a great company.
A promotional video for a co-branded golf driver from Callaway and content creator group Good Good sparked online backlash after viewers said it depicted violence against women. The ad, reportedly styled after a perfume commercial, prompted widespread criticism on social media over its imagery and tone. In response, the CEOs of both Callaway and Good Good issued public apologies for the campaign.
Apple has refreshed its Mac Mini and Mac Studio lineups, but industry-wide memory chip shortages combined with surging demand for AI computing hardware are expected to limit availability. Buyers hoping for quick access to these updated compact desktops may face delays or stock shortages in the near term.
Spotify suffered an outage that stopped many users from playing or downloading audiobooks across phones, desktops, and the web, with symptoms ranging from stalled loading to chapters skipping without playing. Spotify acknowledged the problem on its Community forum and has since marked the incident as fixed, though some users still report ongoing playback issues.
Pangram, a commercial AI-text detector built by New York start-up Pangram Labs, is being adopted by scientific publishers, computer-science conferences and universities to flag undisclosed AI-generated content. The American Association for Cancer Research uses it to catch peer reviewers who submit AI-written reports without disclosure, while NeurIPS rejected 18% of paper submissions after running them through the tool, and arXiv preprints can now be checked via a mirror site called alphaXiv.
As salmonella outbreaks spread across more than 30 states this summer, affecting products from eggs to nut butters, WIRED's cooking technology reviewer highlights that proper cooking temperatures remain the most reliable way to kill the bacteria. Despite most households owning a food thermometer, surveys show over 70 percent of Americans rarely use one to check whether food has reached safe internal temperatures.