Meta Connect 2024: Here are the most exciting hardware updates, from Orion to...
Meta hosted its annual Connect conference on Wednesday, which highlighted the social media giant’s push into its artificial intelligence and metaverse ambitions. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at...
View ArticleCalifornia avocado growers oppose U.S. handing pest inspections to Mexico
California avocado growers are fuming this week about a U.S. decision to hand over pest inspections of Mexican orchards to the Mexican government. Inspectors hired by the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleMusk, X ask judge to dismiss Don Lemon’s lawsuit over a canceled partnership
Elon Musk and X asked a federal judge to dismiss former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s lawsuit claiming they defrauded him by canceling a partnership on the social media platform following a contentious...
View ArticleOpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces she is leaving—the AI startup’s latest...
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said Wednesday that she is leaving the high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) company after six and a half years. “There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one...
View ArticleClimate change made floods in Central Europe more intense and likely to...
Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood and intensified the heavy rains that led to devastating flooding in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found. Torrential rain in...
View Article‘More interested in the tax cut’: A frank explanation as to why Silicon...
Over the past several election cycles, each election has been seemingly more meaningful and impactful than the last. And 2024’s presidential election is no different. There’s a great deal at stake...
View ArticleClimate change is tricky to teach. Here’s how to get students excited about it
Climate change is among the more difficult but important topics to teach to young people. It involves complicated science and data, and it can be really depressing, given the bleak picture it paints...
View ArticleMcDonald’s and Olive Garden are feeling the pinch as diners shift to...
Eating in is in and eating out is out.That’s the message that inflation-squeezed consumers have been sending to fast-food companies and other restaurants. Meanwhile food producers are benefitting from...
View ArticleOpenAI brain drain: What to make of CTO Mira Murati’s sudden exit
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. OpenAI CTO Murati...
View ArticleDeSantis warns Florida EV drivers to move cars to higher ground ahead of...
As Hurricane Helene intensifies and moves toward Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has warned electric vehicle owners in the state to move their cars to higher ground because of the risk of saltwater...
View ArticleAre ‘green bonds’ just another way for banks to greenwash?
When Italian energy giant Enel announced in April that it had failed to meet the carbon emissions reduction goals in a third of its sustainability linked bonds (SLB), it exposed significant...
View ArticleUK police probe Islamophobic cyberattack on train stations’ Wi-Fi
U.K. transport officials and police said Thursday they are investigating a “cyber-security incident” after users of public Wi-Fi networks at the country’s biggest railway stations reported being shown...
View ArticleFree COVID tests are back: Here’s how to place your USPS mail order from the...
Free COVID tests are officially back. With COVID-19 cases on the rise, and reports that the new XEC variant is now in half of U.S. states, the government is once again providing free at-home test...
View ArticleVideo game maker Ubisoft in chaos after anti-DEI backlash
On September 24, Ubisoft abruptly canceled its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show and postponed all press previews of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Wednesday, we learned why. Anti-DEI backlash...
View ArticleThe chaos at WordPress revolves around a clash of egos
Millions of websites worldwide are unable to update thanks to an ongoing dispute that has bubbled over between a core backbone of the internet and a popular hosting platform that brings it to many...
View ArticleWhy the baby aisle is the newest hot spot on TikTok
Moms know that sometimes, parenting goes hand-in-hand with self-sacrifice. That was the thought that struck DeNaesha Gonazalez when she saw a cute silver purse abandoned in the baby aisle of...
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Everything we know so far about Southwest’s new assigned-seating policy
In July, Southwest Airlines announced that it would be ditching its signature open-seating model for a more standard assigned-seating system—leading some to wonder whether Southwest is losing its most...
View ArticleParents, here’s how to use Instagram’s new teen account settings
Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has rolled out a major new update to protect young people and give...
View ArticleCalifornia claims Exxon created a public nuisance. Here’s what it means
California’s lawsuit on Monday accusing Exxon of fueling global plastic waste pollution by misleading the public about the limitations of recycling is the latest in a line of recent cases based on a...
View ArticleShein faces probe in Italy over alleged greenwashing
Italy’s antitrust agency has launched an investigation into a Dublin-based company that operates Shein‘s website and app over possibly misleading environmental claims made on the fast-fashion...
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