Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). Apple and Microsoft are expanding their work with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Apple’s $100 million represents just 0.18 percent of the $55.3 billion in profits the company made in 2019.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

It’s World Happiness Day, otherwise known as International Day of Happiness , but if you’re not feeling the love, you’re not alone. Many Americans aren’t that happy, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 , which ranks happiness across nations. 24earning its lowest ranking yet.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Read full @Nature paper: [link] pic.twitter.com/RgZ44VF6v4 — International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (@ICCInet) May 30, 2024 These risks and the loss of freshwater supplies are some of the reasons the United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers Preservation and March 21 the first World Day for Glaciers.

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Futurism

MARCH 25, 2025

The online comics, titled "First Woman : NASA's Promise for Humanity," and "First Woman: Expanding Our Universe," tell the stories of young women training to become astronauts, in anticipation of NASA's upcoming Artemis missions, which had been set to see the first female astronaut to set foot on the lunar surface.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 29, 2025

But they, too, can cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations. Overexploitation of ocean fisheries is a common root of international conflict. The Icelandic government sought to ban British trawlers from a broader area around the countrys coast, but the British continued to fish.

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