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3 questions for reviewing your year

For many of us, December rushes by in a blur of holiday merrymaking and gift-giving, end-of-year invoicing and accounting, and hasty planning for...

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Katharine Manning

New Mac for Christmas? Try these 6 apps and games with your new Apple computer

Did your Christmas morning start off with a Mac under the tree? No matter if you unwrapped a new MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini, that hardware is just...

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Michael Grothaus

The ‘internet of beings’ is the next fronteir that could change humanity and healthcare

In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to...

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The Conversation

Zillow updates its home price forecast across 400-plus housing markets

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub  in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Zillow economists just...

yesterday 10

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Lance Lambert

10 must-read business books from 2025

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Next Big Idea Club

The banality of Jeffery Epstein’s expanding online world

In recent weeks, a project called Jmail.world has quickly recreated the online life of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex...

previous day 10

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Rebecca Heilweil

‘Meme depression,’ Ghibli-gate, 6-7: An internet-culture roundup for 2025

For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of “brain rot”, AI slop, and “rage bait,” a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate to...

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Eve Upton-Clark

The winning $1.817 billion Powerball ticket was drawn on Christmas Eve. Here’s where it was sold

A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing,...

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How China is retaliating against the U.S. after massive arms sales to Taiwan

Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms...

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Associated Press

Southern California hit with evacuation warnings after a powerful new Christmas Day storm

California, soaked from days of relentless rain and recovering from mudslides in mountain towns, was hit with another powerful storm Christmas Day...

previous day 10

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Associated Press

Stocks hover at record highs after Christmas as gold and silver prices rise

Stocks moved slightly lower in midday Friday trading as investors returned from the Christmas holiday. Trading is expected to be light. The S&P 500...

previous day 10

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White House announces new details on Trump’s ballroom plans will be revealed in January

The White House will unveil new details on President Donald Trump’s planned East Wing ballroom during a hearing early next month, according to a...

previous day 10

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Reuters

Why there are so many successful family businesses

When you hear the phrase “family business,” you might think of the backstabbing Roys of Succession or the dysfunctional Duttons of Yellowstone. But...

previous day 10

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The Conversation

From OpenAI to Nvidia, here’s a list of recent multibillion-dollar AI deals

Nvidia has agreed to license technology from AI startup Groq for use in some of its artificial intelligence chips, marking the chipmaker’s largest...

previous day 10

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Why high-speed rail may not work the best in the U.S.

High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000...

previous day 10

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The Conversation

Why 2026 belongs to multimodal AI

For the past three years, AI’s breakout moment has happened almost entirely through text. We type a prompt, get a response, and move to the next...

previous day 20

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Karandeep Anand

The future of the sperm industry

What’s one thing most Americans likely don’t know? Demand for donor sperm is increasing. Initially established in the 1970s to help men undergoing...

previous day 10

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Maureen Brown

5 things business leaders must consider for success in 2026

As 2025 comes to a close, business leaders are inevitably already planning how 2026 will shape up, particularly as the last year proved to be a...

previous day 10

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Justin Tobin

How to use AI to design your year

If you’re an entrepreneur, at the end of the year you’re probably excited about the prospect of time off, but also daunted by the new year’s...

previous day 9

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Uladzislau Yanchanka

How AI is changing the patient journey

AI is no longer the future of healthcare; it’s already reshaping how patients are diagnosed and treated. Some of the most interesting developments...

previous day 10

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Nicki Sprinz

How Vince Gilligan designed ‘Pluribus’ to destroy every sci-fi trope

Vince Gilligan spent a decade ruminating about his next TV series before he had a clear vision of what it was going to be. But through all that...

previous day 9

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Jesus Diaz

Data shows the ‘Made in USA’ brand still suffered under tariffs

In Denmark, a grocery store chain used a black star. In Canada, it was a maple leaf. President Donald Trump’s trade war inspired new...

previous day 9

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Hunter Schwarz

5 Ways AI Changed Work in 2025

2025 was unquestionably the year of the AI boom at work. When generative AI like ChatGPT entered the scene a few years ago, it started as a...

previous day 8

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Shalene Gupta

10 great books that Fast Company staff want you to read this year

It’s time to reckon with the reality that nonstop doomscrolling has delivered us: a hard-to-ignore erosion of our cognitive skills. We’ve lost the...

previous day 7

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Tania Rahman

Headed home after Christmas? A snowstorm could ground your flight

A number of airlines are waiving change fees ahead of what is expected to be a major winter storm forecast to hit the Northeast on Friday...

previous day 6

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Jennifer Mattson

Google will finally let you change your embarrassing Gmail address

If you’re embarrassed every time you have to hand over that Gmail address you came up with in 2006, you’re in luck. Google is finally allowing...

previous day 8

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Sarah Fielding

Virginia offshore wind developer sues after Trump administration halts project

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Associated Press

As flu cases surge, doctors say there’s more than one way to treat it

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Jennifer Mattson

Can AI help solve the power problem it created?

Artificial intelligence is transforming how we cure disease, defend nations, and deliver goods. But the same technology driving this surge of...

previous day 3

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Chris Crosby

Times Square NYE ball drop will be patriotic for America’s 250th birthday

After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white, and blue to usher in 2026 and kick...

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U.S. demand for graphite renews amid battery boom

Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors...

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Associated Press

Why Apple and Google want your ID

Apple and Google would like to see your identification, please. With the former’s “Digital ID” launch last week, both companies now let you scan a...

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Jared Newman

5 of the hottest jobs in 2025

In 2025, AI became officially unavoidable: It had been lurking in the background before, as early adapters experimented with it. But this year,...

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Shalene Gupta

How classy Jell-O shots became the boozy treat of the season

This holiday season, an unexpected treat has stepped into the limelight and onto the buffet table at many a festive gathering: the Jell-O shot. But...

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Grace Snelling

Top 12 productivity books of 2025 to change your relationship with work and time

Somewhere between endless meetings and half-finished projects, we all went looking for better ways to get things done this year. These are the 2025...

thursday 10

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Next Big Idea Club

5 surprising ways to use AI

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools , a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I like pushing...

thursday 7

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Jeremy Caplan

Giant homebuilder KB Home shifts strategy amid a housing market where it lacks pricing power

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. There’s no doubt about it:...

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Lance Lambert

What’s open on Christmas Day: Holiday hours for fast-food chains, grocery stores, CVS, and more

It’s normal—perhaps even biological—to slow down at the end of the year. Winter weather brings less sunlight, causing our bodies to produce more...

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Shannon Cudd

Here’s why visiting museums between Christmas and New Year’s makes me a better leader

My working days often unfold in either Zoom minimalist workplaces or glass-walled conference rooms with sleek windows, filled with entrepreneurs...

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Svetlana Stotskaya

Young people are lying about work to their families at the holidays

To quote Vince Vaughn in Four Christmases: “You can’t spell ‘families’ without ‘lies.’” That’s a cynical view, for sure, but when it...

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Sarah Bregel

I’m a founder: here’s why I spend my holidays at the doctor’s office

Fluorescent lights that softly hum. Magazines nobody reads. A television mounted in the corner playing cable news as a receptionist mispronounces...

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Dustin D. Mcmahon

How the Nex Playground game system became the holiday’s hottest toy

The best-selling video game console this Black Friday was the PlayStation 5. That surprised no one. The number-two spot went to the Nintendo Switch...

24.12.2025 10

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Chris Morris

Markets hover near record levels as Wall Street prepares to close early for Christmas holiday

Wall Street was largely unchanged early Wednesday as markets hovered near record levels on a holiday-shortened trading day. The Dow Jones...

24.12.2025 1

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Associated Press

Christmas Eve storms in Southern California have officials urging travelers to reconsider holiday plans

California officials and weather forecasters urged holiday travelers to avoid the roads and reconsider Christmas travel as a series of powerful...

24.12.2025 1

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Associated Press

How a ’60 Minutes’ segment on Trump immigration policy accidentally aired online

A news segment about the Trump administration’s immigration policy that was abruptly pulled from “60 Minutes” was mistakenly aired on a TV app...

24.12.2025 3

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France’s postal service was hit by a major cyberattack right before Christmas. Here are the hackers who did it

A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just...

24.12.2025 2

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Associated Press

Google is betting on carbon capture tech to lower data center emissions. Here’s how it works

As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and...

24.12.2025 20

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The Conversation

Nike shares are up after Apple CEO Tim Cook buys $3 million in stock

Nike shares ticked up 2% in premarket trading on Wednesday after Apple CEO Tim Cook bought nearly $3 million worth of the sportswear maker’s stock....

24.12.2025 1

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Reuters

Europe slams U.S. visa bans for targeting allies over ‘censorship’

The European Union, France, and Germany condemned U.S. visa bans on five Europeans combating online hate and disinformation on Wednesday, after...

24.12.2025 2

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Reuters

Why TikTok’s ‘For You’ page is so valuable and what’s to change for U.S. users

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President...

24.12.2025 1

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The Conversation