Thank your Amazon driver with a free $5 tip this holiday season
Amazon is letting customers tip their delivery drivers at no extra charge. The company is bringing back Thank My Driver, a holiday promotion that allows anyone who shops on Amazon the ability to give...
View ArticleHow social media unspooled Luigi Mangione’s life after UnitedHealthcare CEO’s...
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday sparked a five-day manhunt for the mysterious killer, who left behind irresistible clues like a hidden message on bullet casings and a...
View ArticleCharacter.AI is being sued for encouraging kids to self-harm
Two families in Texas have filed a new federal product liability lawsuit against Google-backed company Character.AI, accusing it of harming their children. The lawsuit alleges that Character.AI “poses...
View ArticleUnitedHealth Group shares keep falling, other health insurance stocks follow,...
Major insurance stocks including UnitedHealth Group, Cigna Group, and Elevance have fallen in the past five days. The decline has been pronounced since their closing prices last Tuesday, which was one...
View ArticleInfluencers are tagging the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi...
Is there a more creative way to clout-chase than to tag an alleged assassin in your Instagram photo dump? For some aspiring influencers, every view counts, it seems. After 26-year-old Luigi Mangione...
View Article80 colleges could close by 2029, even as elite Ivy League schools thrive
American higher education is in crisis. This year, some two dozen colleges shut their doors and more are forecast to close in 2025, CNBC reports. According to new research from the Federal Reserve...
View ArticleGoogle’s new AI projects aren’t ready for the masses yet. Good!
Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in question are just slower to finish their...
View ArticleHow to disagree with someone without being disrespectful
When it comes to important values, a 2024 Gallup News poll found that 80% of U.S. adults believe Americans are greatly divided—a record high. Holiday gatherings often set the stage for discussions...
View ArticleThis New Jersey bill targets pollution from plastic packaging material
New Jersey is aiming to drastically reduce the amount of packaging material—particularly plastic—that is thrown away after the package is opened.From bubble wrap to puffy air-filled plastic pockets to...
View ArticleWith drones flying over New Jersey, thousands of worried locals are turning...
Over the last few weeks, residents across New Jersey and nearby environs have reported sightings of large drones flying across the nighttime sky, and not even the government seems to have any clue who...
View ArticleBiden’s NLRB nominee got rejected by the Senate. Here’s why this is bad news...
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected Democratic President Joe Biden’s nomination of a U.S. labor board official for a new term, giving President-elect Donald Trump a chance to cement Republican...
View ArticleWhy Arizona’s attorney general is suing this Saudi-backed farming company
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday she’s suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness for allegedly violating a public nuisance law, contending that its groundwater pumping threatens the...
View ArticleHow presenters can nail the Q&A session
Imagine this: you’ve just crushed your presentation. The audience was nodding along to your key points, your slides were sharp, and your examples hit home. When it was time for Q&A, you felt...
View ArticleThis New Jersey bill wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-driven...
It’s not an accident that The Sopranos, the quintessential show about New Jersey, opens with its main character driving past gasoline and oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike.From the...
View ArticleYou’ll spend almost $200,000 in your lifetime on streaming, cable TV, mobile,...
We often consider the significant purchases in our lives to be the big-ticket items: a home, a nice car, or a college degree. Not many of us would expect our subscriptions to streaming services,...
View ArticleStudy links common cooking oils from corn and sunflower seeds to increased...
The foods we eat might be influencing our body’s ability to fight off cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, according to a groundbreaking study published in Gut, the journal of the British Society...
View ArticleBoeing is struggling to restart production of its best-selling 737 Max....
Since a crippling strike at many of Boeing’s U.S. plane factories ended more than a month ago, progress ramping up production of its best-selling 737 MAX jet has been deliberately slow. Safety...
View ArticleWhy OpenAI’s Sora has so much trouble depicting gymnasts
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. What gymnasts can teach...
View ArticleTrump’s pick of David Sacks as AI and crypto czar shows how cozy his White...
President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to crypto is becoming clearer with the appointment of entrepreneur David Sacks as Trump’s “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar”—signaling a shift in how the U.S....
View ArticleWhat to know about Tron, a Trump-backed crypto venture linked to Hamas,...
A crypto venture recently unveiled by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his new Middle East envoy, billionaire Steve Witkoff, has partnered with a crypto platform that authorities and financial...
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