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What Mastercard is racing to snag before Visa — or Coinbase — gets there first
Stablecoins might not send your digital wallet to the moon, but the less speculative side of cryptocurrency is definitely enjoying its moment in the sun. According to a new...
NBA approves $10 billion Los Angeles Lakers sale to Mark Walter
Mark Walter is the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers after the NBA Board of Governors approved his purchase of a controlling stake from the Buss family. The...
U.S. allowed and helped firms sell tech used for China’s surveillance state
U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful...
How Hurricane Melissa quickly became one of the most powerful landfall storms in recorded history
Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, October 28, was one of strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the Atlantic Ocean ever recorded. And it was supercharged...
In the future, U.S. troops won’t just deploy drones. They’ll make them
For U.S. soldiers who find themselves at the front lines of a future conflict, it’s fast becoming gospel, due to the way warfare is rapidly evolving on the battlefields...
Canva’s new free Affinity app wants to sink the Adobe flagships
Last year Canva reworked its user experience and tools in a full-frontal attack on the productivity and enterprise markets now dominated by Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Now the...
Weight-loss drugs may be slimming America faster than anyone expected
The obesity rate in the U.S. is continuing its downward trend. The news comes three years after obesity rates hit a record high. In 2022, almost four out of...
Canva introduces an AI fix-it button
Generative AI ranges from gimmicky to powerful, depending on its context. But the biggest shortcoming is that whatever you make isn’t really all that editable— you typically have to...
Trump-Xi summit brings a tactical truce
U.S. President Donald Trump hailed a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping as “amazing” and “12” on a 10-point scale, but the agreement the two leaders reached appears to be...
Starbucks finally said how many U.S. stores it closed: The list of locations was bigger than many estimates
Starbucks released its fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, October 30, finally providing an official figure for its recent wave of store closings. The Seattle-based coffee chain shuttered a total of...
More than a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide each week
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company,...
Navan IPO: Stock price will be closely watched today as travel startup goes public on the Nasdaq amid the shutdown
I-P-Go! Navan, a travel-tech firm based in Silicon Valley, priced its initial public offering at $25 per share, raising roughly $923 million, as shares hit the exchanges on Thursday....