Jon Stojan

Farming row crops has always required a careful balancing act between managing costs and maintaining soil health. For decades, the most efficient way to handle weeds at scale was through chemical herbicides. But the agricultural landscape is changing rapidly. The emergence of herbicide-resistant “superweeds,” like waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, has driven up weed management costs by roughly $20 per acre over the last 20 years . At the same time, consumers and major food brands are pushing for cleaner supply chains and regenerative practices.

As Oppenheimer and Co. mark 145 years with the ringing of the NYSE closing bell, Alon Rosin acknowledges the significance of this professional milestone. Here, he shares his perspective on the occasion, shaped by nearly three decades spent on trading floors and in hedge funds on both sides of the market.

When people think about starting a business, the focus is often on launching something new. But another route has become more visible in recent years: acquiring an online business that already has products, customers, and day-to-day operations in place. In e-commerce, that can mean taking over a store with an established sales history rather than starting from scratch. Sell Wasabi is one of a number of brokerages that operate in this market, connecting sellers of online businesses with prospective buyers.

With blockchain technology, Stellar is able to facilitate the rapid, low-cost exchange of funds on a global scale.

For most of the last decade, getting found meant one thing. You optimized for Google, you climbed the rankings, and you hoped a buyer clicked your link out of the ten they were shown. That world is quietly closing. More and more, people do not scroll a list at all. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews a question, and they take the single answer it hands back.

Patients ask it before lip filler, before Botox, before skin treatments, and before procedures designed to address scars or signs of aging. The concern is rarely about pain or recovery time. Instead, many people worry that treatment will somehow make them look less like themselves. They want improvement without obvious intervention, confidence without dramatic change, and results that fit naturally into their lives.

Explore how physics offers a new framework for understanding AI reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty.

Something unusual is taking shape on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula next summer. From August 11 to 15, 2026, Iceland Eclipse is expected to bring together musicians, scientists, astronauts, researchers, and cultural innovators for a five-day gathering centered around a rare astronomical event. According to organizers, the event will combine elements of a music festival, educational programming, and cultural experiences. The gathering is the work of founder Mitch Morales, who also founded IMXP (Immersive Experiences) and has spent years developing the project alongside a team of cultural and scientific collaborators.

For decades, the global telecommunications customer service relied on a foundation of legacy infrastructure. While these heavy, legacy systems were synonymous with reliability, they were inherently rigid, relying on rule-based architectures that forced customers to navigate tedious options over the telephone. The rapid evolution of consumer expectations coupled with AI has since compelled a massive industrial pivot. Today, the modern enterprise must move beyond simple call routing to embrace AI-centric Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) architectures with real-time analytics, and cloud-native scalability. This transition introduces a major challenge: how can a global entity migrate millions of minutes of mission-critical customer traffic to the cloud without compromising service continuity?

Discover how Uday Surendra's IEEE research explores cloud-native analytics that unify fragmented enterprise data to improve forecasting and decision-making.