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Meet the female rancher fighting to make your clothes out of American wool
For years, luxury brands prided themselves on sourcing high quality wool from Italy. But three years ago, American designer Janessa Leoné...
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How nonbinary applicants face additional bias when job searching
While interviewing for a job with a popular car maker during an engineering career conference last year in Houston, J. Murphy*, 22, wore a pin...
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Tinder adds video verification to boost security on the app
Tinder is bulking up its user verification process in a likely attempt to build more trust on the dating platform. Any user that opts into...
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Aurora borealis visibility: Why the northern lights are traveling so far south to the United States
This week, the dancing, shimmering, luminous aurora borealis descended from the sky, further south from its typical territory, where it could be...
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Uber Eats partners with DeliverZero to bring sustainable packaging to New York delivery
Uber Eats announced today a partnering with sustainable packaging company DeliverZero to bring eco-friendly takeout containers to several dozen...
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The affordability crisis is so bad in NYC that half of its families can no longer afford to live there: report
Painting a dire portrait of a burgeoning cost-of-living crisis in America’s largest metropolis, a new report estimates that half of New...
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YouTuber Marques Brownlee gets into the sneaker game with high tops for Atoms
Marques Brownlee never thought he would design a sneaker. The technology-focused YouTuber says it all started with buying a mask from a...
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Mass layoffs haven’t dented pay for tech and finance internships, says Glassdoor
It’s easy to wonder if the recent, and in fact very much ongoing, waves of layoffs in tech and finance could be putting knots in these...
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Yelp rolls out AI, video to enhance business searches
Yelp is improving its search and review functionality with a number of features based on two of-the-moment internet technologies: artificial...
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Slack Canvas arrives, but don’t call it a Notion clone
Slack would really like you to know that its new Canvas document editor isn’t competing with the likes of Notion and Coda. While...
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This sleek electric RV was designed by two 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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How a clever Budweiser ad is helping to save Brazil’s public basketball courts
In one of the latest songs from Brazilian rap star Rincon Sapiência, streetwise lyrics take an unexpected turn to legalese. Sapiência...
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Meet the world’s lightest champagne bottle
In 2020, Ludovic du Plessis, then newly president of the century-old champagne house Telmont, embarked on an ambitious, if niche, journey:...
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The striking consistency of MasterCard’s logo
You’d recognize it anywhere: Two circles—one red, one yellow—overlapping to create an intersection of orange....
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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf: As AI becomes part of online life, we must embrace truth and accountability
Vint Cerf, widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” will be presented next month with the Institute of Electrical and...
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Focusing on happiness can make you unhappy. Do this instead
Americans long to be happy. A lot of this drive is wrapped up in consumerism, with many of today’s brands trying to sell happiness. The...
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John Mulaney escapes the prison of likability in his new Netflix special
In one of John Mulaney’s most famous bits, he asks the audience to imagine a horse running loose inside a hospital. A horse pops up in Baby...
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Big sales are coming to your Bed Bath & Beyond as stores prepare to close forever
After more than 50 years in business, Bed Bath & Beyond (BB&B) is packing it in. The company, whose finances have been fraught for years...
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Brands That Matter: Application deadline extended to April 28
The application deadline for Fast Company‘s Brands That Matter recognition program has been extended to April 28, 2023. We first...
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College campuses are facing a mental health crisis. Students are leading the way out of it
Heading off to college is an exciting rite of passage for about four million students every year. But leaving home, typically for the first time,...
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Who’s winning the space race between the U.S. and China?
Headlines proclaiming the rise of a new “space race” between the U.S. and China have become common in news coverage...
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Insider staffers say they are walking off the job today as layoffs sweep the media industry
Hundreds of Insider staffers are expected to walk off their jobs today over proposed layoffs at the company. The Insider Union, which represents...
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What do apple cider vinegar gummies actually do? Goli’s $438 million business may or may not have the answer
Ask entrepreneur Michael Bitensky, founder of Goli Nutrition, what he considers his biggest accomplishment, and he doesn’t point to the...
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Air Water Company, formerly known as Eshara Water, will trade on the NYSE after SPAC merger
Water scarcity is a big and growing problem. As many as 2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries, according to the United Nations, and...
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This startup is turning the RTO debate on its head by creating a digital twin of the office
Imagine a world in which every detail in your office, down to the assortment of items on your desk, is available from the comfort of your home....