“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’”: When Neil Diamond teamed up with Robbie Robertson

In return, Diamond would perform this album’s final track, Dry Your Eyes, with The Band at their farewell show at the ...
The Washington Post

The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else

Electricians are getting harder to find, and some construction projects are on hold. Smartphones are expected to get pricier for potentially years to come. And promising innovations are being starved ...
Sporting News

What was the Legion of Boom? Revisiting the feared Seahawks defense headlined by Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor

Throughout NFL history, most of the league's all-time great teams boasted dynamic offenses, big-play quarterbacks or overpowering run games that helped pave the way to a Super Bowl title. Defense ...
The Financial Times

The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eman Sumair does not share the angst afflicting many of her contemporaries over artificial intelligence’s ...
Far Out Magazine

Five songs from the indie boom that will still fill dancefloors in 100 years

There might not be any words dirtier than ‘indie‘ in music. The mere utterance of that once innocent two-syllable word is now a pilot light for a whole host of cringeworthy images, such as skinny ...
Wall Street Journal

An Investor’s Guide to the Boom (and Bust) in Gold and Silver

What if, and bear with me here, the wild gyrations in gold and silver prices are actually telling us something? There are three plausible messages from the rise in gold prices. I’m not convinced that ...
Wall Street Journal

High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage

EAGAR, Ariz.—Sammy Collins twists and pulls on a directional drill’s controls. The former Marine uses the lurching, 15,000-pound vehicle to bore a path through the soil for future fiber-optic lines.
CNN

Look of the Week: Dua Lipa and a new era of Boom Boom fashion

EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. This week, a pack has been ...
The New York Times

How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar. Falcon Northwest, which specializes in assembling ...
energydigital

How Aerospace Firm Boom Became an In-Demand Energy Provider

The Boom Supersonic 'Superpower' system is in high demand across the tech sector right now. Credit: Boom Supersonic. American aerospace firm Boom Supersonic announced its first energy contract in the ...
The Financial Times

ASML forecasts bumper sales as AI boom drives chip demand

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ASML has forecast bumper sales of its chip manufacturing equipment this year on the back of the AI boom, ...