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Fast Company

Rob Walker

Donald Trump sends a message—in a Big Mac Combo Meal

Donald Trump’s photoshoot with RFK Jr. made a statement about McDonald’s, even as it rolls out half-gallon jugs of McRib Sauce.

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Prepare To Be Impressed: These Popular 55 Beauty Products Will Make You Go “Oooooh”

You're guaranteed to find a new personal fave in this line up.

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15 Super Weird Hazing Stories From Members Of Sororities And Fraternities That Left Me Speechless

"I walked into a fraternity house once and saw a pledge duct-taped to the wall wearing skis and goggles while drinking a beer. He didn’t seem to mind."

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31 Things That Must Have Been Designed By Geniuses

Prepare to have your mind blown.

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Wired Top Stories

Angela Watercutter

The Website of Old YouTube Clips That Feels Like a Gut Punch

Bluesky will never be Twitter. YouTube is no longer about funny videos made with your friends. The old internet is gone, but it can be remade. The website IMG_0001 proves it.

Wired Top Stories

Andy Greenberg

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

Wired Top Stories

Carlton Reid

The World’s Biggest Maker of EVs Has the Worst Appraisal of Human Rights

Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles promise.

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Friday 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...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Valtteri Bottas hit with grid penalty at F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

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Sauber driver Valtteri Bottas has taken a five place grid penalty at the Las Vegas Grand Prix

Sauber is still seeking their first points of the 2024 Formula 1 season.

If veteran driver Valtteri Bottas is going to deliver those elusive first points at this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand, he faces an even steeper climb now thanks to a grid penalty.

The team announced on Thursday that they had installed a new energy store component on Bottas’ C44 ahead of...

Fast Company

Diana Budds

This famous designer changed the way cities think about public lighting

Poul Henningsen hated bright lights and glare. So he designed better lights that today are in cities worldwide.

Danish designer Poul Henningsen’s collaboration with Copenhagen-based heritage brand Louis Poulsen produced some of the most recognizable icons of 20th-century modernism. The Artichoke pendant and PH table lamp are part of the permanent collection at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, while Henningsen’s other designs make frequent appearances in the stylish homes featured...

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

7 miles off the Oregon Coast, scientists are about to start harnessing power from the ocean’s waves

PacWave handled all the permitting and construction, so wave energy developers can test their tech in the ocean.

One of the biggest challenges with renewable energy is its inconsistency: clouds might block the sun one day, or winds die down. But there are always waves in the ocean—even on calm days, and even at night. Harvesting wave power, though, has been historically difficult. Now, a project off the coast of Oregon hopes to change that, by providing a testing ground for wave energy to...

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Ari Zoldan

Beyond EVs: 4 other ways to green your travel

Even if you already own an EV, there are some additional things you can do to green your travel and transportation habits.

Anyone who spends any time reading climate-oriented articles knows that electric vehicles will play a significant role in a net-zero carbon future. After all, it’s important to realize just how serious this issue is.

Fast Company

Rebecca Houghton

82% of middle managers feel invisible—here’s why

Many middle managers feel frustrated, unnoticed, and overlooked. Fortunately, there are steps teams can take to better support them.

The vast majority—82%—of middle managers feel invisible and frustrated. 

Fast Company

Joe Berkowitz

Bluesky has a growing problem: fake accounts

Is that really Ben Stiller? Or Mark Hamill? Bluesky has more than 21 million members now—but it lacks a robust verification system.

On Wednesday afternoon, billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman appeared to post on Bluesky a plan to destroy the burgeoning social media platform. Though the poster turned out to be an impostor, whoever it was so thoroughly captured the long-winded Ackman’s rhetorical style on X, they managed to briefly convince many people—including some high-profile...

Fast Company

Joe Berkowitz

Can Democrats win back podcasting? We asked 6 popular show hosts to weigh in

It seems opinions are mixed on whether Democrats can—or should—build a level of influence in the podcast space to rival Trump’s.

Plenty of questions remain around Democrats’ election loss. What seems beyond dispute, however, is that the Republican candidate got a big boost from appearing on—and being otherwise supported by—a loose network of simpatico podcasters.

Fast Company

Sadiya Kherani

Ultimate guide to managing distractions

From understanding the different types of attention to dealing with distraction, here’s how to find your focus and feel accomplished again.

Distractions are inevitable, whether it’s your phone pulling you away from work or sleep, the noise in your office, or a home workspace that just isn’t conducive to productivity.

Fast Company

Elizabeth Segran

How Sol de Janeiro became the crown jewel of Sephora

The bodycare line Sol de Janeiro launched in 2015. Today, it’s the top-selling brand at Sephora.

Historically, perfume ads have followed the same plot: the heroine cinematically spritzes herself with a scent, immediately rendering her irresistible to everyone she encounters. But this formula may no longer be working. For Gen Z, the point of perfume isn’t to make others swoon with desire. Spraying yourself with fragrance is a form of self-care, an opportunity to boost your mood. At least...

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Grace Snelling

How ‘Flow’ turned a $4 million budget into an animated work of art

The filmmakers used open-source software to create an unexpectedly fresh animation style.

Nearly every still of the animated film Flow, directed by Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, feels like an art piece that could stand on its own. The movie—which centers around a group of animals surviving in a post-apocalyptic, human-less world—combines the edge-of-your-seat feeling of a survival video game with the painterly brushstrokes of an Impressionist artist. And, somehow, it manages to be...

Wired Top Stories

Aarian Marshall

The EV Buyers’ Guide to an Uncertain Future

The Trump administration is likely to make big changes to US federal electric vehicle incentive programs. Buy or lease now, probably.

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