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AOC and Matt Gaetz teaming up to ban congressional stock trades could signal a generational divide
An unlikely mix of lawmakers spanning MAGA Republicans and democratic socialists is joining forces in hopes of finally keeping fellow members of...
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Stop asking bilingual employees to translate your work. It’s not their job
“Do you know Spanish?” It’s a question I’m all too familiar with at work—and I know what comes next:...
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‘Pay your writers or we’ll spoil Succession’: Images from day one of the Hollywood writers’ strike
Tuesday marked the beginning of the writers’ strike, as TV and film writers with the Writers Guild of America marched in picket lines in...
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These are the 10 best and worst states for working mothers
About 73% of women with children under the age of 18 work, but they face an uphill battle. On average women earn 83 cents to every dollar a man...
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At. Freaking. Last. Airbnb is fixing its core design problems, says CEO Brian Chesky
We’ve all been there. You find the perfect Airbnb for the weekend. It’s surprisingly affordable. And when you go to checkout,...
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Airbnb is going back to its apartment-sharing roots with Rooms amid tighter regulation
Airbnb, the short-term-rental behemoth, announced today that it’s putting “Rooms”—the concept that basically...
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An AI startup pledges to help, not replace, journalists
A new Journalism Hub from Microsoft, launched Wednesday in honor of World Press Freedom Day, is designed to connect newsrooms with digital tools...
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You need an e-reader, and here’s why
I’ve always loved reading books. Lately, though, it’s dawned on me that I’m not the book reader I once was. I’m not...
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How companies can solve the mental health crisis happening in the workforce
Like so many entrepreneurs, Cesar Carvalho started his company to serve his own needs, betting that a lot of other people had the same problem. In...
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Lab-grown diamonds are finally having their moment
As the great-great-grandson of Louis-François Cartier—founder of the Cartier jewelry empire in 1847—Jean Dousset knows a thing...
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Racism is not a design motif
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to the Milan Furniture Fair to celebrate design excellence with my peers in the contemporary design industry....
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POV: Here’s more evidence Twitter played a role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
Prior to Silicon Valley Bank’s March 10, 2023, collapse, conversations on Twitter among investors about the bank spiked—helping...
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The problem with green hydrogen
If you live in Minneapolis and have gas heat or a gas stove, you might have a little bit of hydrogen flowing through your pipes. CenterPoint...
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Color shapes your mood. This new tool shows you how
It’s a common art class lesson: Contrasting colors on opposite ends of the color wheel go well with each other—blues and oranges,...
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How this small Massachusetts city created homegrown solutions to urban problems
Chelsea, Massachusetts, is a small city—just over 2 square miles large but teeming with almost 40,000 residents. It sits northeast of...
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A ‘Counter-Strike’ map is raising awareness of Putin’s brutality to everyday Russians
The Counter-Strike first-person shooter games are some of the world’s most popular, particularly in Russia. Now, some Russian gamers...
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Industrial farming may be to blame for a freak dust storm that caused a deadly car pileup
On Monday, a dust storm caused by wind whipping over newly plowed fields caused a 72-car pileup outside of Springfield, Illinois, which...
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Google DeepMind’s cofounder is now building an AI that’s trained on human users
Mustafa Suleyman, one of the original founders of Google DeepMind, has launched a new AI company called Inflection AI, which aims to provide a...
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IBM is pausing hiring on jobs that could be replaced by AI
Since generative AI burst into the public consciousness last year, people have been worried about how fast the technology would impact the...
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‘Angry, sick, and alone’: Social isolation is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
We’ve just gone through one pandemic, but there’s another one we’re not even discussing: loneliness. Today, Surgeon...
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Report: Online predators are targeting children’s webcams
There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019,...
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9 ways AI is already shaping the future of healthtech
Over the past few months, developments in AI have opened the doors for improvements in healthtech to more closely and efficiently track and treat...
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Hollywood writers strike: What to know as the WGA heads to the picket line
Hollywood writers are officially on strike. About 11,500 TV and film writers unionized through the Writers Guild of America are heading to...
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Why the power of brands is getting more tribal
Fans, tribes, neotribes, community, networks, cultures of consumption, and all the many monikers that go by different names all amount to the same...
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Half of Asian Americans still feel unsafe in the United States, especially on public transit
Anti-Asian American sentiment has been on the rise ever since the first emergence of COVID-19. While many people have moved on from the pandemic,...