Crystal balls, reading the tea leaves, feeding quarters into Zoltar Speaks. None of these can predict exactly what lies ahead. Sometimes leaders can see shifts in the business landscape before others notice. We asked members of the Fast Company Impact Council what...

Here’s a tale of two movies.Supergirl cost $170 million to produce and had everything going for it: the backing of DC Studios and Warner Bros., worldwide distribution, and a marketing budget over $115 million. By year’s end, however, the film is projected to gross...

As organizations race to adopt AI, many leaders are asking the wrong question. Too many are using AI to optimize yesterday’s workflows instead of asking a harder question: should this process still exist? Using AI in small, incremental ways—like summarizing emails or...

In the world of dating apps, every detail is curated. Photos are filtered, prompts are workshopped, and hobbies double as personality traits. Profile details tied to healthy living also shape many first impressions. But what if the swipe economy could also reshape...

The car ride to school isn’t much fun. From hustling tired kids out the door in the morning to forgotten lunches—not to mention sitting in traffic—it’s a task that most parents dread. And it’s made more challenging by the fact that the school day doesn’t exactly line...

Though the thought of toxic waste may conjure images of comic book monsters and neon green slime, the threat of hazardous pollution is unfortunately very real—and a new report shows it’s closer than you might think. Researchers at the University of Michigan compared...

The ability to add Venmo to Google Play comes as people are spending more money on apps and games.

Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.

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Hackers linked to Iran targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at water facilities in at least a dozen US states. The post New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and...

It connects MIDI notes to the hardware instead of sending audio playback to a musical instrument.

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Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract more lightning strikes, but it’s hard to move them into a...

A new “AI-proof” font was designed to be hard for AI agents to scrape, but you can’t tell by just looking at it. Unlike other anti-AI fonts that use letters that are difficult for bots to read, ShieldFont swaps out words behind the scenes to poison the data that...

Congress has reintroduced the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that would increase benefits by 2% for some 71 million Americans—including 54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and dependents.The bill would temporarily change how Social Security’s...

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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

In two years, RiseGuide – the self-improvement platform I founded, which teaches adults essential soft skills through short, interactive lessons – has attracted over 850,000 users, traction fueled by the same mechanics that companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok have...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...