Sustainable holiday gifts that are actually fun to receive. For many, waking up on Christmas morning to a tree overflowing with presents and stockings peeking over the mantel isn’t just a chi...
Goldbug is funding a guaranteed income pilot for pregnant women—the first privately financed program like it in the country. Maternal mortality has been on the rise in the U.S. at the same ti...
The business news that we’re following closely today. Meta: Facebook and Instagram’s parent company announced Purple Llama, a project that prioritizes safety tools and best practices amidst...
Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. ...
The Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and University of Washington launch the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology to capture biology in real time. What mysteries might a time-lapse of ...
Silicon Valley is buzzing about this simple way to sum up tech doomerism. Where are you on the scale of 1 to 100? So, what’s your p(doom) score? Read Full Story
We visited McDonald’s new spin-off restaurant, where everything is sweeter, saltier, and a little more in-your-face. The first car lined up at 3:30 a.m. Employees didn’t even show until 5, ...
Ultralow mortgage rates, which were available during the pandemic, have locked up the housing market. Want more housing stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to th...
Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient—not even Meta—can decipher people’s messages. Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages ac...
Ghosting in the job hunt is now a fact of life. Being up front about salary and benefits might help. Unfortunately, ghosting just doesn’t happen in the dating world. The practice is quite com...
Meet Peach Fuzz. It evokes comfort, kindness, and tenderness. Peach Fuzz has been crowned Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2024. A soft, warm shade that is nestled between pink and orange, Pea...
An annual ranking from Morning Consult shows how younger consumers are gravitating toward brands that go viral on TikTok. The fastest growing brand of 2023 was one that hardly any consumer knew...
Two years ago, a startup called Lithos didn’t yet exist. Now it’s selling its carbon removal service to companies like Alphabet. Last fall, on a farm in Northern Wisconsin, a farmer spread ...
Letting you watch Hulu shows inside Disney’s flagship streaming service required a massive reengineering project—and reflects the company’s overarching vision for its future. Four years a...
On this week’s episode of Most Innovative Companies, we speak with Shein’s head of strategic communications Peter Pernot-Day to understand Shein’s business model. Last week, ulltra-fast f...
Global music tours–and their economic benefits–tend to skip over Africa. The new Move Afrika concert series aims to change that. For a major artist like Kendrick Lamar, dropping a new album...