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Fast Company

Anna-Louise Jackson

FCIF daily roundup: Highlights from the final day of the Fast Company Innovation Festival

The 10th annual festival wrapped up Thursday with sessions featuring Issa Rae, Lina Khan, Pat McGrath, and Timbaland, among others.

All good things must come to an end, and after four days of programming, the 2024 Fast Company Innovation Festival concluded on Thursday with a lively closing party. 

Fast Company

Colby Winegar

The IT paradox: Innovate while lowering carbon emissions

Three ways to manage growing data needs with sustainability.

Google recently announced that it no longer claims to be carbon neutral. Why? Because their investment in artificial intelligence has raised emissions beyond what they can offset. They now hope to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.

Fast Company

Daniella Ballou-Aares

What’s at stake for business with Trump’s civil service plan

Swapping out career professionals for political appointees will result in corruption and incompetence.

What does business need from the federal government? When we ask executives that question, a few answers dominate: a level playing field; the rule of law; predictable behavior. Former President Donald Trump’s plan for our government’s civil service would ensure the opposite.

Fast Company

Rob Pegoraro

Boom Supersonic’s flight plan has to be measured in years

The aviation startup aims to accomplish what Concorde could not: facilitating economically and even environmentally sustainable supersonic passenger travel.

A small airplane that looks like a fighter jet but doesn’t bear a single weapon could be a pathfinder towards a reinvention of commercial aviation—or a flying footnote destined for a spot in a museum.

Fast Company

Michael Grothaus

DJT stock price update: Trump Media shares continue to sink after lockup period expires

Former president Donald Trump has said that he has no plans to sell his stake, but investors appear to be increasingly unsure about the company’s value.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (ticker: DJT) are trading lower in premarket this morning after the lockup period that prevented former president Donald Trump and other early investors from selling their shares expired.

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Associated Press

$3 billion in U.S. grants aim to boost EV battery production in these states

The grants will fund a total of 25 projects in 14 states, including battleground states such as Michigan and North Carolina.

The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production for EVs and other electronics.

The grants will fund a total of 25 projects in 14 states, including battleground...

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Just 27 Of The Best Fall Shoes In Existence, No Big Deal

Keep your dogs from barkin' this fall with these stellar shoes.

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Wired Top Stories

Steven Levy

Want to Get Into Founder Mode? You Should Be So Lucky

Paul Graham’s viral essay explains why Brian Chesky and Steve Jobs ruled and professional managers stink. But if a manager is smart and the founder is meh, who’s better?

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield JaredMueller Matt Warren

3 NFL upset picks for Week 3

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Let’s choose our favorite NFL upset picks for Week 3.

The NFL season moves so quickly that you better not blink, because you might miss it.

It feels like just yesterday we were in the thick of training camps, but in the blink of an eye we are now into Week 3 of the 2024 NFL season, and some contenders are starting to emerge.

With a fascinating slate ahead of us, including some tantalizing upset picks, the staff at SB Nation got together to...

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Mark Schofield

McLaren F1 instructed by the FIA to alter their rear wing, per reports

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Days of speculation regarding McLaren’s ‘mini-DRS’ have forced the FIA to intervene

On Thursday we discussed McLaren’s rear wing, and how that component had become the talk of the Formula 1 world. Despite some consternation from rival teams, the sport’s governing body issued a statement ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix that the rear wing was legal. However, they indicated they would monitor the issue, prompting many to wonder if...

The Verge

Allison Johnson

The iPhone camera is more confusing than ever

Everyone’s iPhone camera might look a little different with the new Photographic Styles. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

When I walked into the building that houses the Steve Jobs Theater for the iPhone 16 launch last week, the first person I saw taking a photo of the room wasn’t using an iPhone; they were using a compact digital camera.

I’m not talking about a fancy Ricoh GR III. I’m talking a PowerShot, Cybershot, or a Coolpix — something with 6 megapixels and a CCD...

The Verge

Tom Warren

Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs

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Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs.

Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement with Microsoft earlier today, which should see the site coming back online in 2028, assuming regulators approve...

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Nikki Haley Unexpectedly Called Out Donald Trump's Sexist Comments

Breaking news: Women don't like being called dumb.

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You'll Thank Yourself For Buying Any Of These 29 Under-$20 Problem-Solving Products

When you've mastered air fryer cooking, your plants are hydrated, and your tub drain is unclogged, you'll be oh-so-grateful you read this list.

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Wired Top Stories

Boone Ashworth

Meta Connect 2024: How to Watch and What to Expect

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage on September 25 to deliver a keynote address about all things AR and VR, chatbots, headsets, smart glasses, and generative AI. Here’s a preview.

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Angela Watercutter

Watch Kamala Harris Take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview

Vice President Kamala Harris talked about her childhood, her debate with Donald Trump, her gun ownership, and the policies that define her campaign in this special edition of the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

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Tim Bontemps

Sources: Embiid agrees to 3-year, $192.9M deal

Saying he hopes to be a Sixer "for the rest of my career," Joel Embiid reached a three-year contract extension with the team that sources told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne is worth $192.9 million.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

LPGA: A look at Round 2 tee times for Kroger Queen City Championship

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After an incredible 1st day, check out Round 2 tee times for the LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship to avoid missing the action.

Welcome to Playing Through’s daily ritual — Golf Talk Today.

Each day, the crew will discuss various elements of the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, and more.

The LPGA is in Ohio for the Kroger Queen City Championship, and Round 1 saw impressive scores.

South African Ashleigh Buhai set the tone with her 7-under 65. She...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

F1 Q&A: Lando Norris versus Oscar Piastri in 2025, Max Verstappen and Tom Brady, and more

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Answering more F1 questions from the brilliant minds on F1 Threads

It is time for Part Two of the “Super Colossal F1 Threads Mailbag.”

If you missed Part One, you can read that here.

Normally I would dive into a little bit of an introduction, but we have a lot to get to, so let’s dive right in.

Opinion on whether or not McLaren have an illegal rear wing? - taztweetin

We kick off Part Two of the “Super Colossal Mega F1 Mailbag”...

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Rohan Chakravarthi

St. Frances (MD) vs. Mater Dei (CA) lead the 5 must-watch high school football games this week

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We break down the most important games of the week across the country.

Another week, another loaded slate of high school football games await us, as a number of teams are finishing off their non-conference slate this weekend.

A slew of top-25 teams will face off against each other, while undefeated records lay in the balance ahead of a competitive week of high school football, with key matchups in several states taking place.

Let’s break down the...

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