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3 ways philanthropic organizations can help build trust 
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access...
Why Jimmy Fallon is now in the tortilla chip business
Jimmy Fallon has done plenty of commercials and branded segments on his late-night show. Last year, he partnered with Beats by Dre for a signature set of headphones and...
Florida is about to ban fluoride in public drinking water, following RFK Jr.’s crusade to get rid of it
Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is...
Europe’s biggest blackout made me confront my dependence on tech
Unprecedented power cuts swept across Portugal, Spain, and parts of France on Monday — instantly unravelling the tech-dependent lives of me and tens of millions of others.  At first,...
‘They got rid of some of our best talent’: How Trump is hacking away at America’s cyber defenses
“We’ve had many, many threats against our nation,” President Trump said in the Oval Office in November 2018, as he announced the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
This newly discovered cloud is 3,400 times the mass of the Sun—and we almost missed it
4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on...
California’s high-speed rail project may get another chance—if private investors agree to fund it
A long-delayed project promising nonstop rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours may be able to secure the private funding it desperately needs if...
Heart Aerospace’s US move shows Europe is ‘driving innovation away’
Swedish electric plane startup Heart Aerospace is relocating its headquarters from Gothenburg to Los Angeles in a move it says will “bolster product development.”  The company will lay off...
Starbucks is about to ‘uplift’ 2,000 stores with a new design
Starbucks held its quarterly earnings call Tuesday, during which CEO Brian Niccol highlighted a slew of design steps the company is taking as part of its overall turnaround strategy....
Visa’s new tech lets AI shop—and pay—for you
Are you ready to hand over your wallet to AI and let it do your shopping for you? Maybe not—but the technology to do it is hitting the market....
Duolingo doubles its language offerings with AI-built courses
Duolingo launched 148 new language classes that were built by generative AI, the company announced Wednesday. The move, which more than doubles it current language offering, comes as the...