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Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, Andrew Couts

Mystery Drone Sightings Lead to FAA Ban Despite No Detected Threats

Plus: Google’s U-turn on creepy “fingerprint” tracking, the LockBit ransomware gang’s teased comeback, and a potential US ban on the most popular routers in America.

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David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Saturday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

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46 Cleaning Products That’ll Have Your Home Shining As Bright As Rudolf’s Nose

If the one thing on your wish list was a cleaner house, you may want to look at this list before the ball drops...

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Fast Company

Stirling Kelso

5 expert hacks to ease air travel this holiday season

Flight attendants and other travel experts share their tips for navigating packed airports, delayed flights, and more.

It’s safe to say that air travel—especially holiday air travel—is back. 

Fast Company

The Conversation

Trump’s 2017 tax cuts made income inequality worse. Here’s how

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has disadvantaged middle-income, low-income and Black taxpayers in several ways.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a set of tax cuts Donald Trump signed into law during his first term as president, will expire on Dec. 31, 2024. As Trump and Republicans prepare to negotiate new tax cuts in 2025, it’s worth gleaning lessons from the president-elect’s first set of cuts.

Fast Company

The Conversation

‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ became a holiday classic against all odds

The ‘Peanuts’ special came together out of a last-minute scramble.

It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without A Charlie Brown Christmas. The 1965 broadcast has become a staple—etched into traditions across generations like decorating the tree or sipping hot cocoa.

Fast Company

Next Big Idea Club

Forget greatness. Manage your time like a lazy genius

The goal of excellent time management shouldn’t be to achieve maximum productivity and perfection. That approach is a recipe for fleeting satisfaction amid anxiety and shame.

Kendra Adachi is the host of The Lazy Genius Podcast and the New York Times bestselling author of two books, The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen.

Fast Company

Michael Grothaus

3 new Mac menu bar shortcuts will make you even more productive in 2025

Quicker, easier ways to access passwords, maintain focus, and look stuff up.

Anyone using a Mac in the workplace knows it’s a productivity powerhouse. Not only do Macs run business staples like Microsoft Office and Google’s suite of online software but, thanks to Apple Silicon chips, modern Macs are absolute workhorses capable of driving advanced design, media creation, and scientific apps with ease.

Fast Company

Yasmin Gagne

Image Architect Law Roach takes our career questionnaire

In November, Law Roach unveiled his new educational initiative, School of Style.

As a stylist, Law Roach has helped stars like Zendaya, Celine Dion, and Anya Taylor-Joy stand out on the red carpet, dressing them in his signature mix of haute couture and vintage finds from designers such as Bob Mackie. Roach is also the author of How to Build a Fashion Icon, a guide to developing personal style. After announcing his retirement from day-to-day styling on Instagram in 2023, he launched School...

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The Conversation

Why teens engage in deadly social media challenges like the ‘choking game’

The ‘skull breaker challenge,’ the ‘Tide Pod challenge,’ and car surfing are but a few of the deadly games popularized through social media.

The “choking game” has potentially deadly consequences, as players are challenged to temporarily strangle themselves by restricting oxygen to the brain. It sounds terrifying, but rough estimates suggest that about 10% of U.S. teenagers may have played this type of game at least once.

Fast Company

Arloa Fluhr

I’m a Starbucks barista, and here’s why I’m going on strike

As Starbucks workers across the country prepare to strike, one barista explains what brought the union to this point.

This holiday season, the last thing my coworkers and I wanted to do was go on strike—but this week Starbucks has left us no other choice.

Fast Company

Paul Mueller

In an exclusive Q&A, Alex Morgan talks about life after soccer

Her number one retirement tip? Don’t tell Alex Morgan she’s retired.

Alex Morgan doesn’t like the word retirement. “I’ve been saying ‘post-playing career,’” she said, “because retirement makes it sound like I’m old. It’s definitely more of a transition.”

Fast Company

Jessica Bursztynsky

Andrew Ng is betting big on agentic AI

The entrepreneur and investor has been a driving force in the push to get consumers and businesses alike interested in artificial intelligence.

Andrew Ng came up with a theory almost 15 years ago: What if Google, the internet giant, thought of machines like the brain and trained neural networks on mass amounts of data using computational power in an attempt to lead to artificial general intelligence? 

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Eric Berger, Ars Technica

A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time

On Christmas Eve, NASA's fastest-moving probe will come closer than ever to the surface of the sun.

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Eat For 24 Hours To Discover The First Letter Of Your True Love's Name

Maybe you'll get the letter you want... ????

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27 Celebrities Who Opened Up About Hating Their Cosmetic Procedures And Whether Or Not They Got Them Reversed

Priyanka Chopra Jonas opened up about getting a botched nose surgery that left her "devastated and hopeless."

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27 Reusable Products That’ll Cross Expensive Disposable Versions Off Your Shopping List For Good

You could throw away a small fortune with every dead battery...or finally make the switch to rechargeables.

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33 Products That Are Super Simple But Totally Genius

You'll wonder why you didn't think to invent these helpful things.

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Maya C. Miller

Congress Approves Full Social Security Benefits for Public Sector Retirees

The popular measure gives full benefits to millions of people who currently receive them at a reduced level. Critics warn the $196 billion cost will speed up the program’s insolvency.

Mashable

The Wild Robot and Flow are quietly revolutionary climate change movies

It's easy to read Chris Sanders' The Wild Robot and Gints Zilbalodis' Flow — two of the best films of 2024 — as companion pieces. Both are animated, both feature little to no human involvement, and both center on unlikely animal allies (and one incredible robot) coming together against all odds. But the similarities between these films go further than skin-deep. The true connective tissue here is the unspoken calamity that's befallen the animals' worlds, hinted at in shots of flooded...

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