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Housing market map: Zillow just released its updated home price forecast for 400-plus housing markets

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 0.7% from May 2025 to May 2026.

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Perplexity’s new AI features are a game changer. Here’s how to make the most of them

Your quick guide to voice mode, transcription tools, and much more.

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Should you name-drop on your LinkedIn headline?

Attention grabbing or pretentious? It depends.

What’s the quickest way to get attention on LinkedIn? Some users think they’ve cracked the code by flaunting elite schools and prestigious firms at the very top of their profile where job titles typically go. Alums from the likes of consulting giant McKinsey, Harvard Business School, and investment bank Goldman Sachs are now shouting about their networks from the digital rooftops. 

How ‘try before you buy’ can help you make better hiring decisions

In an excerpt from her new book, a Harvard lecturer offers tips on making better hires.

Getting the hiring process right is one of the most critical and challenging aspects of building a startup. Early hires shape your company’s culture, operational efficiency, and future growth, yet many founders face this task without prior hiring experience or a clear sense of what their evolving business truly needs. Without being thoughtful about hiring—from crafting compelling job descriptions to setting consistent compensation and onboarding practices—startups risk bringing in team members who are misaligned with the company’s needs or culture, creating friction and slowing momentum. Over the course of my three decades as a startup operator, executive coach and educator of entrepreneurs, I’ve observed that investing the time upfront to build strong hiring practices not only helps attract the right talent but also lays a foundation for a healthy, scalable organization.

Humanity has been through many apocalypses. Here are some lessons

If we can move beyond denial and fear and look straight at the apocalypse, we have the chance to participate in—and even guide our own transformations.

What’s the big idea?

In the book Apocalypse, the term itself is understood as a rapid, collective loss that fundamentally changes a society’s way of life and sense of identity. Viewed as an ending of existence as we know it, rather than an end of all existence period, helps reframe such terrifying times of upheaval as our greatest opportunities for growth and improvement. Human history shows that our species has approached and retreated from the brink of annihilation time and again, offering inspiring wisdom and tales of resilience that should empower the modern reader to seize our turbulent moment by the horns.

Autodesk CMO Dara Treseder on how brands are navigating attention and polarization at Cannes Lions

From the rise of creators to building trust with audiences, Treseder shares the marketing strategies taking shape at this year’s festival.

At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, top agencies and brands vie for awards and hustle to close deals. As this year’s event wraps up, Autodesk CMO Dara Treseder shares the insider buzz—from the continued rise of creator-led content to how brands navigate getting the right kind of attention in a polarized market. 

Gold phones, meme coins, and Instant Pots: Trump’s MAGA economy is taking shape

Trump Mobile is just the beginning. The president is building a MAGA goods empire to turn political supporters into loyal customers.

Winning the 2024 election came with lots of benefits for Donald Trump: more Cabinet secretaries to fire via tweet, more grimacing sit-downs with foreign heads of state, and more time beyond the reach of the criminal legal system, thanks to a generous assist from the conservative justices on the Supreme Court.

The story behind the innovative L.A.B. putter that just won the U.S. Open

Club maker Bill Presse discovered his unique lie angle balanced design by accident in his garage, and a Facebook crowd of devotees called the Lab Rats soon followed.

On Sunday, J.J. Spaun sank a 64-foot putt to win the U.S. Open, one of the PGA Tour’s four major tournaments. Over the final seven holes, he made more than 136 feet of putts, including that curling 64-footer on 18. He was the only player to finish the U.S. Open under par, and it was his first career major win. It was also the first major win for L.A.B. Golf, the boutique manufacturer that outfitted Spaun with his DF3 custom putter.

Buyer’s or seller’s housing market? Zillow’s new rating for 250 major markets

Where home sellers—and home buyers—have the most power right now, according to Zillow’s updated analysis released in June.

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This is the best online file converter—and it’s totally free

The web is rife with sleazy, cheesy file conversion tools. Ignore them all and use Vert.

We were supposed to be finished with files by now.