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How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Top EdTech Companies of 2026
—Illustration by TIME; Mst Innaka Akter/Getty Images TIME has published the third annual “World’s Top EdTech Companies 2026” ranking, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The result of this quantitative study: 500 companies dedicated to the development and provision of educational technologies, encompassing both products and…
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Trump’s Explosive Diarrhea Scandal Is Getting Worse and Worse
There’s something undeniably fishy about the Trump administration’s handling of the rising outbreak of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite — and we’re not talking about tainted iceberg lettuce. On Saturday, the FDA announced that it had found traces of the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite — which more than likely won’t kill you, but will almost certainly cause…
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The L.A. roots of Jimmy Eat World’s biggest record — 25 years of ‘Bleed American’
On stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, a far cry from the sweaty basement punk shows of the band’s early days, Jimmy Eat World played breakthrough power pop hit “The Middle” as the sold-out crowd sang along with the final chorus that “everything will be all right, all right.” “It really is incredible to…
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John Thune casts aside ‘Trump’s whims’ as ‘GOP bickering’ rattles party: report
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been forced to cast aside President Donald Trump’s “whims” amid a “formidable” dilemma facing Congressional Republicans this week, a week that serves as one of the party’s “last” chances to advance the White House’s agenda, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday. Under the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA),…
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US hits most cases of ‘world’s most contagious disease’ in 35 years — and it’s only July
Less than seven months into 2026, the United States has already reached a 35-year high for annual measles cases. As of Tuesday, there are 2,295 confirmed cases across the country, according to Johns Hopkins University’s US measles tracker — which has published the more up-to-date data than the CDC. That surpasses 2025’s record-breaking total of…
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‘Devastated’ Millie Bobby Brown reacts to ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ co-star Kaylee Hottle’s tragic death at 18
Millie Bobby Brown is “devastated” over her “Godzilla vs Kong” co-star Kaylee Hottle’s death at 18 on Tuesday. The “Stranger Things” alum posted a black-and-white photo of the late child star in the 2021 film via Instagram Stories. “I’m so devastated to hear this,” the 22-year-old told her followers of Hottle’s fatal Maryland car accident.…
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Discovering Charles Manson was her grandfather plunged her into crisis: ‘I come from a murderer’
Sophia Maddox knew nothing about Charles Manson when she was listening to the Beatles’ double album known as the White Album, 10 years ago when she was a teen. She loved the group but couldn’t understand the meaning of the song “Helter Skelter.” “I Googled it and the first thing that came up was Charles…
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Climate adaptation isn’t surrender. It’s survival.
In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: the most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather than clever approaches built on human insight. It didn’t…
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They’re raffling off their $2-million home for $7 to travel the world: ‘If not now, when?’
It began as a whimsical idea that occurred to Daniel Leigh after an idyllic trip to the United States: Sell his family’s five-bedroom home in England and travel the world with his wife, Lauren Vaknine, and their two children. So he was surprised when, a few months later, Vaknine and their children, Braxton, 10, and…
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‘Recruiter’ who sent models to Jeffrey Epstein found dead: report
Daniel Siad, a prominent French modeling scout named more than 1,000 times in the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files, was found dead at his home near Paris this week, according to CNN. An autopsy of the “recruiter” — who arranged for the late sex offender to meet models for more than decade —…