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The hidden cost for women of being ‘easy’ to work with

Women leaders are often rewarded for being helpful and easy to work with. But the labor that keeps teams running rarely counts toward promotion.

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Anne Welsh

What are youth sports really for?

Fall sports season is a reminder that youth sports shape far more than athletes, even when the focus has increasingly shifted.

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Ed Foster-Simeon

Why are ‘Woke 1’ and ‘Woke 2’ suddenly going viral? AOC ‘crazy’ comment sparks internet debate

The New York representative’s recent interview has given political legitimacy to a social media buzzword.

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Jude Cramer

Why Spirit Airlines’ internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies

Google, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually...

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Steven Melendez

How the yellow school bus became an iconic symbol in America

The yellow school bus got its start in rural America.

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Why social media algorithms feed you posts you dislike

The algorithms supplying your feeds may be designed to prioritize content that clashes with your values.

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The Conversation

Fast cash isn’t always smart cash

As alternative lenders promise same-day funding, small business owners—especially women entrepreneurs—must weigh speed against long-term cost and...

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Marianne Markowitz

CRSHMARKET goes viral: You can now bet on what happens next in a livestream. Social media thinks that’s a nightmare

A new prediction market that mashes up Twitch and Kalshi launched earlier this summer, and its latest ad caught the internet’s attention.

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Jude Cramer

Ground beef prices are soaring. Trump’s fix has U.S. ranchers worried

A 90-day tariff break could bring cheaper imported beef to U.S. shoppers, while cattle producers warn it could undermine America’s struggling beef...

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Taylor Hatmaker

Why a GoFundMe campaign for Lindsay Clancy’s family has raised over $1 million

The site prohibits fundraising for the legal defense of people accused of violent crimes. In this case, the accused is not the intended beneficiary.

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Sarah Bregel

This Chinese movie’s terrible animation is an unwitting beacon of the anti-AI movement

The success of ‘Niu Lai’ shows that in the age of AI slop, viewers still yearn for content made by humans—even if it sucks.

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David Salazar

AI literacy is the buzzword this back-to-school season, as many teachers pivot to a balanced approach

Public schools in the U.S.are now encouraging classroom experimentation with AI so that students can see its shortcomings.

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The bots already won the front door

Publishers will never stop all the scrapers. The fight worth having is over what AI does with the content once it has it.

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Pete Pachal

Walmart will let customers use Apple Pay after holding out for more than a decade. Why it finally caved

For years, the retail giant would not support tap-to-pay—also including Google Pay—until now. Here’s what you need to know.

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Michael Grothaus

Pro-Trump board at Kennedy Center makes moves to return the president’s name to the facade

An Ohio democrat is seeking to block the engraving with an emergency request to a federal court.

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GNC has closed hundreds of stores in the last 3 years: See a list of locations that have lost the most

The nutrition and wellness retailer has continued to shrink its U.S. footprint since being acquired out of bankruptcy six years ago.

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Christopher Zara

Now movie theaters are starting to ban Meta smart glasses too. Here’s why

A trade group that represents cinema owners in the UK said some are prohibiting camera-enabled glasses amid concerns around privacy and piracy.

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Sage Swaby

This vending machine makes a California Pizza Kitchen pizza in 90 seconds. Now 1,000 could be coming

A kiosk at America’s busiest airport can crank out 140 pizzas on a busy day. CPK is betting it can work across the country.

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John Kell

Ross is opening more stores: List of new locations grows in 2026 expansion

The retail department store chain said in its second-quarter financial results that it is increasing the number of stores it plans to open this year.

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Sarah Fielding

Workplace surveillance is on the rise. Here’s how to protect your personal data from your employer

Technology that was widely adopted during the pandemic is still being used by thousands of employers to keep tabs on workers.

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Associated Press

How to turn an NIL partnership into something bigger than a campaign

The 3 most important lessons to consider.

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Amy Errett

Does generative AI actually copy artists? Researchers say it’s up for debate

Researchers from MIT unpack the idea of ‘attribution decay,’ and what it might mean for artists looking to protect their work.

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Jesus Diaz

Crypto stocks head for their second day of gains as Bitcoin and other tokens rise: Will the rally keep going?

Companies including Coinbase Global, Circle Internet Group, and even mining firms like MARA have been riding a wave of fresh market enthusiasm.

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Michael Grothaus

Tech is helping grocery stores waste less food. That’s a problem for food banks

As supermarkets adopt new tools to predict demand and reduce food waste, food banks say that donations are also shrinking.

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Adele Peters

This cheerful Brooklyn playscape is intergenerational by design

A little bit playground, a little bit park, this playscape at Marlboro Houses in Brooklyn uses abstraction to invite open-ended play and social...

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Diana Budds

This new social network would be just as happy to stay small

Divine is rekindling the quirky humanity of the long-gone fan-favorite short-video service Vine—but in a decentralized form designed to remain...

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Harry McCracken

What to do when there’s too much information, and you don’t know who to trust

We’re no longer short on information. Today, our problem is an abundance of information and an inability to distinguish fact from fiction.

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Alexis Zahner

First social media came after teens. Now AI is doing the same thing

A major lawsuit against Meta hit the same week OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens. Why do stronger protections so often arrive only after mass...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Meet Niles, a new reptilian Crocs mascot

He’s 6 feet tall, hatched from an egg last week, and is part of the shoe brand’s new approach to storytelling.

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María José Gutiérrez Chávez

The Navy is rethinking what a laser weapon looks like

A new research program would separate laser sources from their beam directors, giving the military another possible way around the power and cooling...

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Jared Keller

August 2026 lunar eclipse: Don’t miss a blood moon take over the night sky. Here’s when you can see it

Skywatchers are in for a treat next week, on Thursday, August 27 into Friday, August 28, as the moon plunges into Earth’s shadow.

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Jennifer Mattson

This brain skill matters more than your IQ

Executive functions are what allow us to translate ability into action.

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Next Big Idea Club

Here’s what employees are looking for in their CEOs—and what they avoid

A new Glassdoor analysis offers a glimpse of what good leadership looks like for employees.

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Gabriela Henriquez Stoikow

What I learned when I gave up my daily to-do list and tried ‘task-batching’

Turns out I’ve been doing productivity wrong.

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Anisa Purbasari Horton

Small employers are winning over the next generation

As young workers rethink what makes a job worth having, smaller, purpose-driven organizations may have an advantage over corporate giants.

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Moe Carrick

As athletes’ pay soars, some states are finding creative ways to boost college sports budgets

Analysts in sports business are seeing an emerging trend.

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U.S. national debt crosses $40 trillion

The unprecedented figure highlights competing priorities in the Trump administration.

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Associated Press

A neighborly feud is playing out in Starbase, Texas. Cards Against Humanity wants designers on its side

The maker of the irreverent card game is crowdsourcing ideas for a monument that will annoy Elon Musk. The ideas are already pouring in.

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Hunter Schwarz

The business case for turning the barn lights back on

As U.S. farms disappear at an accelerating rate, the loss of each one ripples far beyond the family that ran it, hollowing out the rural communities...

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Shawna Nelson

Inside Berkshire’s big housing market bet to buy homebuilder Taylor Morrison: ‘Blind date to the altar’

With the speedy sale completed, Taylor Morrison CMO Stephanie McCarty tells ResiClub what comes next.

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Lance Lambert

Bought a home between 2022 and 2025? You could be most vulnerable to this housing market shift

Home equity is weakening across the U.S., but experts say buyers who purchased near the market peak with small down payments face an especially big...

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Taylor Hatmaker

This rags-to-riches property tycoon has just been sentenced by a Chinese court to life in prison

Hui Ka Yan, the founder of Evergrande, has been convicted of large-scale financial fraud.

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Associated Press

Nearly 40,000 bottles of eye drops recalled nationwide. FDA warns of ‘heightened risk of harm’

Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief is being recalled over sterility concerns. The FDA says contaminated eye drops can lead to infections and even...

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Sarah Bregel

The Champagne region in France is having its earliest grape harvest ever. Here’s why

Climate change has narrowed the window for harvesting.

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Associated Press

5 small-business ideas that can replace your 9-to-5 in a year

From online enterprises to service startups, these small businesses can quickly become your full-time focus.

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Inc

This everyday product in your medicine cabinet is wreaking havoc on people’s livers

Liver injuries linked to medications and substances are up 400%, according to a UVA study. Alcohol isn’t the biggest driver.

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Louise Imber

Palo Alto Networks and NTT DATA team up on a $1 billion AI security push

The companies are expanding their partnership to automate security operations and bring Palo Alto’s identity tools deeper into large enterprises.

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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo

Can AI solve the energy problem it created?

We have all the electricity we need to power AI’s data center demand—and AI can unlock it for next to nothing.

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Josh Wong

What to make of OpenAI’s pause on its march toward superintelligence

A new model called Astra may have crossed a dangerous cybersecurity line, so OpenAI hit the brakes on training runs.

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Mark Sullivan

Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees

Anything AI ‘employs’ more than 150 colorful, cartoony AI agents—and believes that humans could build software more easily by doing the same.

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Ella Chakarian