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 time that childcare, healthcare, and housing costs are rising.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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 the AI renaissance and the risks coupled with it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLetting 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.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMeet 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, Peach Fuzz is meant to be peaceful and cozy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Meanwhile, a third say they are worse off financially this year compared to last.
New year, new page, new life? Or so we hope. Fidelity surveyed more than 3,000 adults about their financial resolutions for the upcoming year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Sending holiday cards is a beloved tradition—even for younger generations. Here’s how we can make it merrier for the planet, too.
Most people don’t have much snail mail to send. Bills, notifications, and other communication, like keeping in touch with friends and family, can all occur online.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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 is an event in its own right—and where an artist chooses to do it can carry some weight.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The search giant announced a limited preview and staged rollout of the LLM, which will be integrated into its Bard chatbot.
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCosMc’s has no dining room and no Big Macs. But it does have plenty of drinks and a whopping four-lane drive-through.
After a week of growing hype and fuzzy shots posted on X, McDonald’s has announced the launch of CosMc’s.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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. Researchers raised eyebrows early in the year with claims of operational room-temperature superconductors, though none has been substantiated, and one paper from researchers at the University of Rochester was retracted by the journal Nature at the authors’ request in November.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUltralow 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 the daily free ResiClub newsletter.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn 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.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTwo 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 1,421 metric tons of crushed volcanic rock on his fields before planting soybeans and corn.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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 across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAstronaut Mike Massimino says the lessons he learned in space not only helped him better handle mistakes, they improved his productivity and focus.
We all make mistakes. How we respond to them, however, can be the difference between moving forward and staying stuck.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Austria’s national railway company is betting that riders will embrace the cozy quarters.
It’s the crossover innovation nobody quite expected. Like the offspring of a steam age sleeper car and a Japanese capsule hotel, new trains beginning service later this month in Europe contain what may be the most interesting new interior design railroads have seen in years.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Here’s the business news we’re following today.
Google steps up to compete with OpenAI. The tech giant previewed its own version of ChatGPT—Gemini—promising that the large language model can process sounds and images in addition to words.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The updates are meant to ‘streamline arbitration proceedings where multiple similar claims are filed,’ the company said in a note to users.
On the heels of a hack that saw the data of roughly half of its users impacted, DNA testing service 23andme has changed the dispute resolution and arbitration section of its terms of service.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAs CVS explained to Fast Company, the move won’t necessarily lead to lower costs—and it might even raise them. But there’s no easy fix for a snarled system.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSustainable holiday gifts that are actually fun to receive.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWe 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, and food didn’t leave the drive-through window until 6.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and University of Washington launch the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology to capture biology in real time.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn 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 about the year before: ChatGPT.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGhosting 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 common in the professional world when it comes to job hunting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
E-bikes and self-driving cars both entered the year with momentum. Only one maintained it.
Eleven months ago, as calendars flipped to 2023, self-driving cars and e-bikes both had momentum on their side—especially in San Francisco.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The real estate brokerage giant’s bid to remake real estate via generative AI is the most ambitious real-world test for artificial intelligence.
Jenny Morant has had a tough year. In Manhattan Beach, California, where she works as a real estate agent, it’s been impossible to sell a house.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Space Operations Command asked RAND to research a potential civil reserve space program because the military was looking for new ways to collaborate with the growing commercial space sector.
What would it look like for the Defense Department to be able to lean on the commercial space community in times of need?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology.
The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology, but it also has raised the risk of upending a European Union push to approve the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe new AI model’s ability to process sights and sounds, and its focus on learning and reason, may make for a more powerful and conversant personal assistant. But the devil is in the details.
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