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Fast Company

Chris Morris

How Disney creates a ‘Disney Bubble’ around its theme parks

The ‘Disney Bubble’ makes theme park visitors forget about their everyday lives. And everyone at Disney World is working hard to maintain it.

Disney might tout its rides and character IP when it looks to lure people to its theme parks around the world, but once visitors get there, the draw is an escape from reality. Fans call it the “Disney Bubble”: The day-to-day world melts away and you’re immersed in an environment that is carefully crafted (and controlled) by Disney. 

Fast Company

Yasmin Gagne

How Dr. Becky created a pocket-sized parenting coach

The Good Inside parenting expert trained AI on her advice to create an app that helps parents deal with their biggest dilemmas on the go.

Dr. Becky Kennedy, a New York City-based clinical psychologist who coaches parents through difficult moments with their kids, has created a booming business centered on the notion that kids are, essentially, good people. The idea sounds simple, but to Kennedy, it’s profound—the key to unlocking healthy parent-child relationships. And that insight,...

Wired Top Stories

Matt Burgess

Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online

Plus: Alleged Snowflake hacker will be extradited to US, internet restrictions create an information vacuum in Myanmar, and London gets its first permanent face recognition cameras.

Wired Top Stories

Akielly Hu

US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court

After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.

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23 Subtle Pieces Of Life Wisdom That Will Make A Huge Impact On Your Happiness

"That one sentence summed up so much of life in just three words."

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Mashable

When does Amazons Big Spring Sale end?

Amazon's Big Spring Sale is in full bloom, bringing sitewide discounts on a huge range of items. While the sale is billed as a seasonal event packed with deals on outdoor gear, spring cleaning necessities, and home decor, the Mashable Shopping team is also seeing steep price cuts on Apple devices, laptops, headphones, and other tech.

The Big Spring Sale is Amazon's first major savings event of the year, and it's more than three times longer than the retailer's flagship Prime Day sale in July....

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This touchscreen car display transforms your cars entertainment system for only $80

TL;DR: Let this 9-inch wireless car display with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility and phone mirroring give your car's entertainment system an upgrade for just $79.99. 

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Get Babbel for life and learn 14 new languages for just $125

TL;DR: Learn 14 different languages at your own pace with a lifetime subscription to Babbel Language Learning, now on sale exclusively through StackSocial for just $124.99 with code LEARN through March 31.

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Get a portable VPN without subscription fees on sale for $150

TL;DR: These VPN routers are selling out fast: Save $69 and get free shipping while supplies last.

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YouTube channels to help keep your mind calm

Outside my apartment’s living room during work hours, there’s a regular cacophony: revving motorcycles, emergency sirens, honking horns. I love working from home, but a quiet oasis it is not.

That's when I seek restorative, calm bliss from an unlikely source: YouTube.

The age of being extremely online has produced many unusual meditative practices. Many of us apparently enjoy singing bowl TikToks. Others prefer Spotify's spa-like sounds, or their "deep focus" study playlists.

But lately...

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Grab a 3-pack of sleek trackers that fit in your wallet for $80

TL;DR: Keep track of important property with the KeySmart® Smart Card, a slimmer tracking option that works with Apple's Find My app. A three-pack is now just $79.97 (reg. $119.97) through March 30. 

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Get a lifetime license for Microsoft Office Pro + Windows 11 Pro for life for just $55

TL;DR: Only while supplies last, you can buy Microsoft Office for $54.97 and get Windows 11 Pro free (normally a $418 value).

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Mashable

Scientists find a galaxy that defies conventional wisdom

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy.

Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268?0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It hosts an enormous supermassive black hole that emits powerful jets of energy into space — the type that would wreak havoc and destabilize such a spiral galaxy.

"This discovery...

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The unicorns in Death of a Unicorn are total movie magic

You've never seen unicorns quite like those at the center of Death of a Unicorn.

Not the sparkly, sweet unicorns of modern-day pop culture, these are primal beings with sharp fangs, killer horns, and a bloodthirsty need for revenge. They're movie monsters in the vein of Alien's Xenomorph or Jurassic Park's T. rex: larger than life and utterly captivating, even as they make mincemeat of their victims.

SEE ALSO: 'Death of a Unicorn' review: A24's fantastical monster...

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Shark vs. Roomba: Comparing top-rated robot vacuum lineups

SEE ALSO: I've tested 20+ robot vacuums and these are the best for every budget in 2025 The new 2025 Roombas just changed everything

This would have been a very different article to read had you stopped by any time before March 2025. Before then, iRobot and Shark were both kind of plateauing in terms of the variety of their respective lineups. It was like a competition to see who could be the most mid — especially compared to the robot vacuums...

Fast Company

Hamilton Nolan

Trump wants to destroy unions. A general strike is the only way to fight back

Now is not the time for organized labor to sit in conference rooms with their lawyers.

The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened this week. Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the government will no longer recognize and bargain with a huge portion of the unions that represent federal workers. Among the agencies where he says he is tossing out the union contracts are the VA, the Department of Homeland Security, the State...

Fast Company

Nicole Gull McElroy

‘I like things to be optimized’: Ford’s head of design on how to be creative under constraints

Todd Willing on his love of industrial design, the importance of building creative teams, and how racing cars is the ultimate form of therapy.

When Todd Willing was 15, he entered a high school work experience program at Ford’s Australian Design Studio. His father owned a garage, and he’d always been around cars. “I had a loose understanding of what went into them because of that exposure, and I always had a creative bent I guess,” says Willing. “I would be drawing cars most of...

Fast Company

Emily Guy Birken

Here’s what happens to your student loan if the Department of Education disappears

Moving federal student loans to another agency is the latest proposal in the ongoing effort to dismantle the Department of Education. But where does that leave borrowers?

Continuing its adherence to the tech industry’s motto of “move fast and break things,” the current administration has recently put the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) on the chopping block. This 46-year-old institution (yes, it really is younger than the original Star Wars) oversees federal education policy,...

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Anemona Hartocollis

Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.

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Isabelle Taft

How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now

Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.

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