U.S. ports strike averted as longshoremen reach tentative deal with shippers
U.S. longshoremen reached a contract agreement with ports and shippers Wednesday, averting a potential strike that could have damaged the American economy.The International Longshoremen’s Association...
View ArticleAI at CES: a look at the wild PCs, smart glasses, and body-scanning mirrors...
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. AI hasn’t taken over...
View ArticlePark City ski patrollers reach tentative deal to end strike
Ski patrollers at the biggest U.S. ski resort reached a tentative deal with the corporate owner of Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort to end a strike and resume normal operations after almost two weeks...
View ArticleD-Wave is not happy about the Nvidia CEO’s thoughts on quantum computing:...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have thrown cold water on the quantum computing sector this week, causing shares of companies in the space to crater on Wednesday. However, one industry leader is firing...
View ArticleWatch Duty overtakes ChatGPT in the App Store as California wildfires spread
As devastating fires continue to rage in the Southern California area, an app that tracks wildfires with live maps and alerts has become the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store. Watch Duty, launched...
View ArticleSony PlayStation is adding smell—yes, you read that right—to its games
Sony has unveiled a new gaming system that could allow PlayStation players to sniff their way through games like The Last of Us. Unveiled at CES 2025, the Future Immersive Entertainment Concept (FIEC)...
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Dell’s new PC names are boring—and a smart move
There are surely many reasons that the parents of tech icon Michael Dell did not name him Inspiron or XPS. For one, Dell’s parents aren’t Elon Musk. More generally, there is appeal to a commonplace...
View ArticleCalifornia overhauled its troubled insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught...
On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa Ana windstorm blew through Southern California, a severe brush fire broke out in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, burning more than 1,000...
View ArticleIncarcerated firefighters are making as little as $27 a day to battle L.A.’s...
Hundreds of prisoners are battling the devastating Los Angeles wildfires through a longstanding program with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Currently, 395...
View ArticleWhy fire hydrants were never going to be enough to combat L.A.’s fires
At 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the first of three municipal water tanks in Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood ran dry, as emergency responders stretched the system to its limits in...
View ArticleGoogle, Microsoft, Meta, Apple: Here’s a list of Big Tech companies donating...
Google and Microsoft are the latest tech companies to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. Google, which will also livestream the swearing-in on YouTube on January...
View Article6 years ago, Elon Musk offered help during wildfires. This time he blamed DEI
When a devastating wildfire hit California in November 2018, a powerful CEO went on Twitter to ask how his company could help. That CEO’s name was Elon Musk. What a difference six years can make. The...
View ArticlePowerSchool data breach: Hackers steal student Social Security numbers,...
PowerSchool, a leading education technology firm, said the company was the target of a data security breach in late December, in which hackers stole sensitive data including Social Security numbers,...
View ArticleWhat immigrant entrepreneurs can teach us about success
Maybe you found this article on Google, in which case you have an immigrant to thank, Sergey Brin, the search engine’s cofounder. Or perhaps someone sent you the link on WhatsApp—a company created by...
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1.5 degrees of warming has always been a red line for climate. We just passed it
This week, multiple wildfires have burned more than 33,000 acres across Los Angeles, fueled by a rare set of perfectly terrible conditions, including a midwinter drought. On the other side of the...
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Peyton and Eli Manning face off in FanDuel’s 2025 Super Bowl ad
NFL legends and brothers Peyton and Eli Manning may have two Super Bowl rings of their own, but they’ve never faced each other in competition on Super Bowl Sunday. Until now. FanDuel, the fantasy...
View ArticleL.A. wildfires have destroyed these film and TV landmarks
The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s Carrie to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house, and a motel owned by William Randolph Hearst are among some of the famous structures that have...
View ArticleFarming tech is on display CES: How John Deere and others are embracing...
When Russell Maichel started growing almonds, walnuts and pistachios in the 1980s, he didn’t own a cellphone. Now, a fully autonomous tractor drives through his expansive orchard, spraying pesticides...
View ArticleCanada’s growing list of retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. has been revealed
Canada is looking at putting retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, toilets and some steel products if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to impose 25% tariffs on...
View ArticleWhat’s driving the ‘weather whiplash’ that’s fueling the Los Angeles fires
It’s supposed to be the rainy season in Southern California, but the last time Los Angeles measured more than a tenth-inch of rain was eight months ago, after the city logged one of the soggiest...
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