Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. Its natural to assume the cause is born of an individual failurethe leader lacks competence, their boss didnt prepare or train them well, they dont care about how others experience them. And many of these reasons certainly hold true. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Last Wednesday, Meta successfully obtained a ruling blocking whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Today, the book is third on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Who could have seen this coming? SEE ALSO: Meta blocks whistleblower from promoting book, guaranteeing way more people will read it Released on March 11, Careless People recounts Wynn-Williams' experiences working at Meta ( previously Facebook ) from 2

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

PepsiCo is sick of being left out of the prebiotic soda crazeand to catch up with competitors, the multinational food and beverage corporation just dropped $1.65 billion to acquire the functional soda startup Poppi. The deal, announced this morning, will bring Poppis range of 14 colorful, low-sugar, prebiotic-packed sodas into Pepsis expansive existing beverage portfolio.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

AI is all over social media. We have AI influencers , AI content, and AI accounts — and, now, it looks like we might get AI comments on Instagram posts, too. What are any of us doing this for anymore? App researcher Jonah Manzano shared a post on Threads and a video on TikTok showing how some Instagram users now notice a pencil with a star icon in their comments field, allowing them to post AI-generated comments under posts and videos.

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Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Everyone knows pain. It’s the most common ailment people experience, from a headache to a stubbed toe to a sore back. Treating pain can be as straightforward as popping a pill. But for people experiencing chronic painlike the lingering aftereffects of chemotherapy or the slow rehabilitation after a major car accidentmedication is rarely enough to fully erase the pain.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Few topics are simultaneously so celebrated and misunderstood as human potential. On the one hand, we have an influx of near-perpetual articles urging people to unlock or fulfill their own potential, saying essentially that anything else equates to failure. On the other hand, if we ask an average leader or HR professional how to define or explain potential, we are unlikely to get a logical, rational, or scientifically valid answer.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its moonshot incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musks Starlink network of satellites. Taara is the latest project to spring from XAlphabets experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymos self-driving carsand has its origins in a concept called Loon.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Super Bowl Sunday always mints a lot more winners and losers than just those who play in the game. Its the biggest day in sports betting annually, with the American Gaming Association estimating a record $1.39 billion in the big game last month. For casual sports bettors, a Super Bowl wager might be enough gambling to last the entire year. For many others, though, it was just a warm-up for the 67 games of March Madness , the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, which kicks off this

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

Under the hood of every AI application are algorithms that churn through data in their own language, one based on a vocabulary of tokens. Tokens are tiny units of data that come from breaking down bigger chunks of information. AI models process tokens to learn the relationships between them and unlock capabilities including prediction, generation and reasoning.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Executives and managers are traditionally reluctant to express any tender inner feelings from their teams and peers. Yet leaders who are willing to tap into the power of vulnerability are seeing benefits to their ability to connect, motivate, and lead teams. The experience of vulnerability might feel weak to some, but researchers like Bren Brown have reframed the expression of vulnerability as an act of courage , a superpower that can boost psychological safety and foster a culture of innovation

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Although the future of TikTok remains uncertain , the app continues to get new features. The latest is called Security Checkup , which is a centralized dashboard designed to help you protect your account. You can find the tool by going to Settings and privacy > Security & permissions in the TikTok app. The idea behind Security Checkup is to make it easy for you to do things like link a phone number and email address to make sure you have a backup login method, turn on two-factor authenti

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Some directors are known for their typographic flairfrom the ultrawide tracking of Christopher Nolans film titles to Quentin Tarantinos genre vernacular font and lettering selections. But last week, as we reported on Sean Bakers extensive use of Aguafina Script across his past four movies, we wondered: How many other directors have firmly embraced a single, singular typefaceand what does that typeface say about their films?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Bumble has announced a host of new safety and compatibility features, including the ability to share your date details with friends. Bumble users can now share the identity, location, date, and time of a date with a trusted contact using the Share Date feature. Seventy-six percent of women always inform friends or family of their date details ahead of time, according to a survey of 2,500 UK dating app users aged 18 to 35, the results of which were emailed to Mashable.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im 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 Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Back when EV enthusiasm was higher, there were fits and starts of vehicle-to-home concepts and products. If EVs and their ginormous batteries are expensive, resource-intensive purchases, the thinking went, maybe we should get something more out of them than just groceries and school pick-ups. Maybe we could find other things for that huge battery to do during the 95 percent of time it spends parked in or near our homes.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

If youve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, its now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsofts Copilot+ initiative , which launched last year, were finally seeing decent notebooks powered by Qualcomms Snapdragon chips, which are leading to better battery life and lighter designs.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Google Assistant is not long for this world. Google confirmed what many suspected last week, that it will transition everyone to Gemini in 2025. Assistant holdouts may find it hard to stay on Google's old system until the end, though. Google has confirmed some popular Assistant features are being removed in the coming weeks. You may not miss all of them, but others could force a change to your daily routine.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Googles parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world.

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Futurism

MARCH 17, 2025

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters , an international team of researchers discovered that the star a small red dwarf star just 16 percent of our own Sun's mass and just under six light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus has four tiny and seemingly rocky worlds orbiting it.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Many variables can affect the quality of a steaming cup of espresso, including so-called "channeling" during the brewing process, in which the water doesn't seep uniformly through the grounds but branches off in various preferential paths instead. This significantly reduces the extraction yield and thus the quality of the final brew. Scientists from the University of Warsaw have gleaned insights into the underlying physics of channeling that will help coffee lovers achieve more consistent result

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

SAVE $300: As of March 17, Samsung 65-inch S90D OLED 4K Smart TV is available for $1,399.99 at Best Buy. That’s $300 off its regular price of $1,699.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung 65-inch S90D OLED 4K Smart TV $1,399.99 at Best Buy $1,699.99 Save $300 Get Deal A good OLED TV is like a PSA 10 Shadowless 1st Edition Charizard: Stunning, legendary, and way out of my price range.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Getting an idea of how much a dental visit is going to cost can be difficult, even if its staring you straight in the mouth. One company hopes to change that, using artificial intelligence to give patients and dentists real-time cost estimatesall while the drills are still buzzing and fluoride is flowing. Overjet, a dental AI platform , just launched the Dental Clarity Network, a collaboration of dentists and health insurance providers that aims to give more clarity into dental billing.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

We're five episodes into The White Lotus Season 3 , the tension is mounting, and it looks like things will be close to breaking point in episode 6. HBO's preview above shows the various characters dealing with the aftermath of their big nights out in episode 5, with friction developing between the trio of friends and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) telling Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) that her (very dangerous) husband Greg (Jon Gries) "knows about you.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Shares of Intel Corporation ( NASDAQ:INTC ) rose over 8% in early morning trading on Monday on news that incoming CEOLip-Bu Tan has big plans to turn around the ailing chipmaker, including restructuring the company’s approach to AI, resurrecting its manufacturing operations, and eyeing cuts to what Tan views as a “slow-moving and bloated middle management layer,” according to a Reuters report.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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