How to organize every part of your life
Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. A few years ago, personal branding expert...
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Why ‘Girls5eva’ star Busy Philipps chose QVC to make her return to late-night TV
Busy Philipps is, as they say, having a moment. She stars in the Tina Fey-produced musical comedy Girls5eva as a member of a ’90s girl group hilariously trying to bring the band back together. The...
View ArticleApple is late to the AI race. Here’s how it plans to beat early leaders
Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference on Monday is expected to herald the company’s move into generative artificial intelligence, marking its late arrival to a technological frontier that’s...
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How Google ditched plastic packaging
If you take a new Pixel 8 phone out of its package, you might not notice what’s missing. But there’s no plastic wrap around the box. There’s no plastic coating on the box itself. The labels that seal...
View ArticleUnited Airlines wants to show you personalized seatback ads: Here’s how to...
On Friday, United Airlines announced that it is bringing personalized advertising to the seatback entertainment screens on its flights. The move is aimed at increasing the airline’s revenue by...
View ArticleU.S., in a ‘more competitive approach,’ may have to increase its deployment...
The United States may have to deploy more strategic nuclear weapons in coming years to deter growing threats from Russia, China and other adversaries, a senior White House aide said on Friday. Pranay...
View ArticleWegovy could attract more male patients, here’s why
Evidence that weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound can cut heart disease risk, treat sleep apnea and address other health issues may help convince more men to use...
View ArticleWeed will run out on Martha’s Vineyard by Labor Day, here’s why
An 81-year-old woman on Martha’s Vineyard drove up to the Island Time dispensary last week seeking her usual order of pot. But owner Geoff Rose had to tell her the cupboard was bare — he’d been forced...
View ArticleCities crackdown on food delivery companies over driver complaints
A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto...
View ArticleU.S. jobs report: These numbers have economists jawboning
The latest U.S. payrolls report did little to settle the debate about where the job market is headed, with ample fodder for both “soft-landing” believers and doubters over whether the Federal Reserve...
View ArticleBoeing’s Starliner has more test objectives to reach
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft scored a crucial achievement last week with the delivery of two astronauts to the International Space Station, but problems encountered along its journey in space and...
View ArticleTesla banks on small investors to vote for Musk’s $56 billion payday
With major Tesla shareholders appearing divided over whether to endorse Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the company also is looking for support from retail investors who make up an unusually high...
View ArticleBP requires employees to disclose intimate relationships with coworkers...
BP employees must disclose any intimate relationships with colleagues or risk losing their jobs, the oil major told staff in a policy update, following the sacking of former CEO Bernard Looney for...
View ArticleUber loses its California appeal to label employees as independent contractors
A U.S. appeals court struck down a bid by Uber and its subsidiary, Postmates, on Monday that tried to reignite a challenge to a California law that could force certain companies to treat gig workers...
View ArticleCable manufacturers ramp up copper recycling to meet clean electricity demand
In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot furnace. Next...
View ArticleBig banks spend millions to make new branches feel more welcoming
It’s like Sephora or Starbucks now offered a checking account. After years of closing or mostly neglecting physical bank branches across the U.S., the nation’s largest banks are spending hundreds of...
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6 great Apple UX updates that will make your digital life easier
The iPhone is an iterative machine. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone launched, and truth be told, it’s getting harder to wow people with unheard-of new features. The most we can ask for are little...
View ArticleWhat to know about OpenAI’s new CFO and CPO
OpenAI named Sarah Friar as its CFO and Kevin Weil as CPO, the artificial intelligence company announced Monday. The move to bring in the two Silicon Valley veterans comes as the company is expanding...
View ArticleVisa wants you to carry fewer cards around
Mark Nelsen, Visa‘s global head of consumer payments, sees a world where the plastic card in your wallet becomes increasingly obsolete and the standard 16-digit account number becomes worthless....
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Apple Intelligence sure looks lame, but it shows how Apple can still win AI
I want to tell you about a future. A future where, just by talking to your phone, you can book appointments, set timers, play music, check the price of a stock, and find out the weather. These are...
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