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million dollar bank account screenshot Dropbox CEO Drew Houston recently returned to his alma mater, MIT, to deliver the commencement address. Houston has since annotated a version of the speech that’s now up on Rap Genius, the hip-hop lyrics decoder that also demystifies poetry, recipes, and news articles. Among Houston’s annotations: A screenshot of his bank account, showing the moment when he reaped the benefits of...

Niantic john hanke nianticsullivan fastcompany Before Facebook, er, Meta, and Microsoft unveiled their high-profile and ambitious visions for the metaverse in October, Niantic founder and CEO John Hanke wrote a company blog post titled, “The Metaverse Is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let’s Build a Better Reality.” In it, the leader of the company behind the augmented reality games Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards...

Robinhood trading hours Popular stock trading platform Robinhood Markets revealed Tuesday it’s bumping its extended trading hours, to 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. eastern daylight time (EDT). That gives users six and a half hours beyond normal trading hours; U.S. stock markets open at 9:30 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. EDT. And according to Robinhood, it also...

Natasha leggero porn Sitcoms and sketch shows tend to be the television vehicles stand-up comedians and comedic actors create for themselves when they get the chance. But Natasha Leggero, famous for burning the likes of James Franco and Justin Bieber at those Comedy Central roasts, and Riki Lindhome, half of the funny folk duo Garfunkel and Oates, went...

Google extensions Is ChatGPT coming to take your job? Probably not anytime soon. But while watching my editor, Harry, routinely razz the popular chatbot into the digital equivalent of the fetal position is one of the best things about the recent AI boom, the technology itself can be plenty useful for daily tasks. In that spirit, here are a few...

Interviews jeff amazonwilson fastcompany At just 30 years old, Russell Wilson became the highest paid football player in the NFL earlier this year when he re-signed his contract with the Seattle Seahawks for $140 million. Despite a cushy salary and a Super Bowl win under his belt as the team’s quarterback, Wilson internalized very direct advice way back...

Quantum spac fastcompany Yet another quantum computing company has gone public via SPAC. D-Wave completed a planned merger on Monday with DPCM Capital (the latter of which was already listed on the New York Stock Exchange), making the Canada-based firm the third quantum player to go public via a SPAC—that is, a special purpose acquisition company—within the last year. (The...

Fifa and ea split With the World Cup in full swing, the FIFA video game series—which has an official World Cup mode that lets players relive (and rewrite) their favorite moments of the 2022 tournament—should be on top of the world. Yet it’s the last time video game publisher EA and FIFA, the governing body of world soccer,...

Pinterest alternatives It’s pretty difficult to go outside for creative inspiration right now. So it makes sense that people increasingly turned to Pinterest as a place to organize visual inspo for home decor, crafting, wedding planning, recipes, and a lot more during COVID-19 (Pinterest saw a 13% increase in monthly active users between Q1 and Q2 of 2020, though revenue...

Musk to deal explore potential tender When Elon Musk tweeted “Love Me Tender” on April 16, he wasn’t sharing his favorite Elvis Presley song, he was foreshadowing his next move in his attempt to take over Twitter. Musk is currently exploring a tender offer on the social media network, according to a new filing with the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...