Chime taps T-Pain to teach financial literacy to Gen Z—and they need it more...
T-Pain may want to buy you a drink—but rest assured that he isn’t going to put it on credit, or use a “buy now, pay later” app to settle up with the bartender. The acclaimed hip-hop and R&B artist...
View ArticleHow do I change someone’s mind?
Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s mini-advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace...
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Is housing overvalued or undervalued? Here’s Moody’s assessment of 403...
Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter. In May 2022, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told me that the pandemic...
View ArticleElon Musk changing ‘Twitter’ to ‘X’ in posts was a scammers’ paradise
From Monday to Tuesday of this week, the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)—Elon Musk’s sanctum of free speech—briefly became a scammers’ paradise because of an executive decision to change...
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Ikea just opened a food hall in downtown San Francisco. Can its new model...
If you browse for a bookshelf or table at Ikea in downtown San Francisco, you can now walk next door and eat vegan Puerto Rican food. Or a bowl of Sichuan noodles. Or Danish pastries developed by...
View ArticleIs innovation in America’s healthcare system a pipe dream?
Our healthcare system is broken in many ways, but there’s an ugly truth that is less talked about. Private health insurance is failing American workers. The prevalence of high-deductible health plans...
View ArticleA massive renewable energy project wants to cut through Arizona’s San Pedro...
This story was originally copublished by Inside Climate News and Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting. CASCABEL, Ariz.—On an overcast spring morning the...
View ArticleAdvertising legend David Lubars is retiring
Back in 2001, David Lubars led one of the most influential ad campaigns of this century. BMW Films’ “The Hire,” was a series of short films released in 2001 and 2002, starring Clive Owen, with cameos...
View ArticleResearchers submitted 83,000 fake job apps to see if the biggest U.S....
In 2021, a group of researchers published the results of a wide-ranging experiment they had conducted to examine the hiring practices of leading employers across the country. Over the course of two...
View ArticleWhy Rent the Runway’s stock price is going wild this week
Apparel renting service Rent the Runway saw a significant surge in its share price after it reported an optimistic outlook for the upcoming year, bolstered by a narrower loss from the previous year....
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Bark’s new luxury airline gives dogs a first-class flight experience
There’s a brand-new airline taking to the skies, and it comes with the amenities of dreams: beds for relaxing, lavender-scented refreshment towels, complimentary champagne, and treats. The catch? It’s...
View ArticleHold on to your forever stamps! The post office wants to hike prices for the...
The U.S. Postal Service has informed its regulators of a planned increase in the price of first-class “Forever” stamps, raising them by a nickel, from the current 68 cents to 73 cents. This...
View ArticleAmazon’s marketplace is broken—but Andy Jassy wants to give you an AI...
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy released his third letter to shareholders since Jeff Bezos departed the company to go build an island compound in Miami. That annual memo gets studied inside and...
View ArticleWhy Amazon’s Dash Carts might have a tough time finding customer buy-in
Amazon’s announcement last week that it was ditching its Just Walk Out technology from its U.S. Fresh stores, which allowed customers to shop and leave without checking out through a register, came...
View ArticleTaylor Swift’s music has mysteriously reappeared on TikTok
Swifties and influencers alike will be glad to learn that Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok. It’s a surprise move that comes after all Swift’s songs were removed from the social media platform...
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Humane’s Ai Pin was never going to be great
Reviews for Humane’s wearable Ai Pin are finally in—and they are, to put it lightly, very bad. Not that we’re surprised. Before the pin officially debuted last November, Fast Company’s global design...
View ArticleA shockingly high number of hiring managers ask illegal questions during job...
Throughout the hiring process, managers typically assess a candidate’s suitability for a role by investigating their experience, communication abilities, and other relevant professional attributes....
View ArticleIRS tax day is here. Don’t miss out on a refund or these easy-to-miss credits...
The deadline to file your personal federal tax return is Monday, April 15. If you live in Maine or Massachusetts, you get a couple of extra days. If you haven’t done this yet or are not required to...
View ArticleBrain science explains how to find joy hidden in your old habits
Tali Sharot is a professor at University College London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She mixes brain science with psychology and economics to better understand peoples’ choices,...
View ArticleDove just made the best AI-related ad yet
When Dove launched its “Evolution” commercial in 2006, it went viral almost immediately. The spot showed a time-lapsed inside look at how an image goes from photograph to beauty ad—and all the digital...
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