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Harmony reigns porn This is the 39th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing. You can check out 50 Days to the Moon here every day. Amid a dusty landscape anchored by a futuristic space outpost, two children, one white and one...

Top 100 ceo Workplace culture platform Comparably has released its sixth annual list of the best CEOs of the year. Its list for 2022 is actually split in two: one featuring the top 100 CEOs of large companies (defined as those that have more than 500 employees), and one featuring the top 100 CEOs of small and mid-sized...

Airbnb backyard In 2008, a few years after graduating from design school, Joe Gebbia cofounded Airbnb—and he believes the company succeeded because of its focus on design. Now he’s starting a new company with the same ethos but a different challenge: how to build better tiny homes for backyards. Samara, the startup, began as an innovation studio inside...

Putin memes ukraine The Russian invasion of Ukraine has quickly snowballed into one of the great calamities of the 21st century, sure to have unforeseen consequences for years to come. And yet, in the midst of the death, destruction, and geopolitical turmoil, the memes continue. Perhaps this is not as nonsensical as it sounds; perhaps even in such...

Doodles nft During NFT NYC this past June, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian made a surprise remote appearance to announce the latest company for which his VC firm 776 opened a lead round of funding–a company that he said would “set all kinds of standards” in what blockchain technology can do and has the potential to become a global...

Interviews bezos amazonwilson fastcompany I like to putter in the morning. I get up early. I go to bed early. I like to read the newspaper. I like to have coffee. I like to have breakfast with my kids before they go to school. So my puttering time is very important to me. That’s why I set my...

Fb outage meme It was already a brutal moment for Facebook. The social media goliath had just capped off a week of negative press around its halted Instagram Kids project with a bombshell 60 Minutes interview, in which a whistleblower detailed how the company has misled the public about its efforts to curb misinformation and hate speech. In...

Flavored water bottle The vertical farming bubble is finally popping Salesforce’s Einstein GPT may be the most meaningful application of AI chatbots yet How OpenAI CTO Mira Murati became one of tech’s most influential innovators BY ELISSAVETA M. BRANDON6 MINUTE READ My water bottle is manipulating me. I just filled it up with tap water, so I know...

Zoom background wall Look—it doesn’t really matter what the background of your room looks like when you’re on a Zoom meeting. These days, something as small as a perfect piece of statement art here or a new throw blanket there are pretty trivial. But if you have a big presentation, an important meeting, or a cable news interview...

Russian mcdonalds logo Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, McDonald’s sold its Russian business to a regional franchisee with a caveat: He could serve the same food, but he couldn’t use McDonald’s iconic branding to do it. McDonald’s called this “the process of ‘de-Arching.'” Now, from a report by the state-run TASS news agency, we have a first look...