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The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and is believed responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and critical…
For decades, automakers have been designing cars to look like they have faces. Headlights resemble eyes, grilles look like mouths, and the shape of a hood can give a vehicle something resembling an expression. That is, of course, no accident.
Under normal circumstances, I would be overjoyed that Amazon has rediscovered the appeal of dedicated page-turn buttons on its Kindle e-readers. Neither of my current models—a first-generation Scribe and a Colorsoft—have those buttons, and I miss them every time I pick up each device.
I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks. I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s futuristic gizmos. It’s heavy and impractical.
Every generation of leaders has been judged on their decisions. Ours may be the first judged on every draft, discussion, hesitation, and deleted comment that preceded them. Leadership has always required making imperfect decisions with incomplete information.
It’s no exaggeration to say that cloud storage has changed the way we work—and, to some extent, even the way we live. Gone are the days of having your mountains of saved emails exist only on a single local system, without easy instant access from any device in front of you—and dealing with the…
According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company Factory, went viral for his AI-infused parenting technique—but not in a good way.
Jeff Bezos wrote his first letter to Amazon shareholders in 1997. Amazon had just gone public and Bezos told investors he would be making decisions for the long term and that short-term Wall Street reactions would not influence his direction and decisions for the company.
HubSpot founder and chief technology officer Dharmesh Shah is drawing backlash on social media for a 28-word LinkedIn post thanking the hundreds of employees the company laid off this week. “My personal thanks to all of the people that HubSpot parted ways with today,” he wrote.
Mortgage rates marched higher for the seventh week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in nearly three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to 7.40% from 7.28% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.
They’re far more likely to take taxis or rideshares and drop some money gambling or in prediction markets, but they also use coupons and rely heavily on public transportation. Welcome to the somewhat confounding spending habits of Gen Z shoppers.
Since I entered the cotton industry, I’ve spent nearly 200 days a year traveling to farms, mills, factories, brand headquarters, and trade meetings around the world. Many people don’t realize how global a single garment’s journey can be.
Are the worlds of Frappuccinos and guacamole colliding? If recent reporting proves out, that could be the case. Starbucks is exploring a potential takeover of Chipotle, in what would amount to a restaurant megadeal, according to reporting from the Financial Times on Thursday.
Amazon’s latest flurry of layoffs will hit the company’s Stores division, the business unit responsible for its online retail storefront. The cuts will affect fewer than 1,000 workers this time—a much smaller reduction than a round of mass layoffs seen earlier this year.
Even with stubborn market forces working against them, savvy first-time home buyers are figuring out ways to get a foot in the door – and into their first home.
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.
Tropical storm Isaias is building momentum in the Gulf and, as of Wednesday evening, strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced the news on Thursday, October 8, at 7 a.m.
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