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Thanks to design, ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ is seared into our collective memory
When I close my eyes and think about the 1980s, Pee-wee’s Playhouse is more or less what I see. The colorful walls. The outlandish...
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Why is Roku’s stock soaring? Take a look at Roku City
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Presumably when you flick on Roku,...
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Blinded by his own light, Oppenheimer illuminates our own dilemmas
Oppenheimer is at once threatening and spectacular, tragic and terrible, moving and unsettling. Made with the ambition and secrecy and star power...
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Move over, Barbie. The icons of women’s soccer are stepping into the spotlight in a series of Nike ads
The ninth Women’s World Cup commenced this week before record crowds in Australia and New Zealand. Nike, which has long sponsored U.S....
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We had a design agency reimagine ‘bleisure’ for the hybrid world. Yes, it involves VR
The best kind of business travel? The kind that borders a weekend, making it possible to finish on a fun note before heading home. That marriage...
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What’s happening with student loans? Debt forgiveness struck down; payments set to resume
Update Friday, 11: am: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Biden administration’s plan to eliminate some $400 billion in...
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Scientists just invented a soybean that tastes like pork
If you cut open a new type of soybean, the inside is pink. It’s the first demonstration of a new type of agriculture: The soy DNA has been...
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How OpenAI designed the ChatGPT app to be addictively simple
There was one single, quasi-religious mantra that guided Patrik Goethe and the rest of OpenAI’s user experience team as they worked through...
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Fifteen Percent Pledge founder launches a fund for Black founders (exclusive)
A decade ago, Aurora James, founder of the luxury shoe label Brother Vellies, was eager to grow her nascent business. She needed a cash infusion...
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A linguistics expert explains why humans and AI both recycle language
ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to...
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How do you build a brand to last? It’s about evolution, not revolution
The most powerful brands continually evolve. When a competitor gains ground or unveils a new positioning, the instinctive FOMO-driven reaction is...
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Apple’s new Vision Pro headset is more for developers than consumers (for now)
For the first time since Tim Cook became CEO, Apple has introduced a whole new computing platform. At today’s WWDC developers event in...
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$7 million in a single drop: How Telfar built a fashion powerhouse
On a dreary February day in New York City, the Queens-based fashion designer Telfar Clemens is 3,000 miles away, sitting in a thatched-roof...
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Work Smarter: Your weekly guide to career satisfaction, workplace happiness, and productivity
We get it, you’re busy. Your inbox has 678 unread messages, you never seem to cross everything off your to-do list, and your days feel lost...
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4 ways AI will transform personalized learning
Over the last decade, educators and administrators have often encountered lofty promises of technology revolutionizing learning, only to...
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This biotech startup wants to color your clothes with proteins—not toxic dyes
As a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology five years ago, Chiu-lian Lee couldn’t stop thinking about the environmental impact of...
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How powerful is your favorite brand? A new tool from the VC firm behind Warby Parker can tell you
Forerunner Ventures, the female-founded VC firm, is famous for identifying breakout brands. It has funded some of the most iconic consumer brands...
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How labor secretary nominee Julie Su Labor could change the landscape for gig workers
When Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Labor Department, heads back to the Senate in the coming weeks for a full...
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What we learned from the LinkedIn spat between two trendy olive oil brands
The world of trendy, Instagrammable olive oil brands got heated this week. If you’re not familiar with this particular corner of the...
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What the Alphabet and Microsoft earnings calls tell us about the AI arms race
Alphabet and Microsoft each announced favorable first quarter results Tuesday afternoon, and both companies’ executives brought carefully...
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This sleek electric RV was designed by former Tesla engineers
Three years ago, stuck in a Bay Area apartment in the early months of the pandemic, Ben Parker quit his job as an engineer at Tesla, rented a...
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Hollywood writers vote overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. What’s next?
Hollywood writers are officially prepared to strike if they’re unable to reach a contract with the top film and tv studios, the Writers...
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4 under-the-radar gadgets I find indispensable
This story is from Fast Company’s Plugged In newsletter, a weekly roundup of tech insights, news, and trends from global technology editor...