Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

How employees work is just as important as what they achieve. Ensure recognition is visible and equitable Its easy to default to recognizing the employees who are the most vocal or who work on high-visibility projects. When recognition is equitable, employees across all levels feel like their work matters.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

In effect, this means that D-Wave has achieved quantum supremacy on a useful problem, something it says nobody else has yet been able to accomplish, and which is detailed in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science. But there was a lot of work that went into it. D-Waves team did it in 20 minutes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Its about taking control of your own work experience. Were working in a world of hybrid teams, instant messaging, and four generations collaborating side by side. and its not going to work for long. Whats the big idea?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. The most challenging problems centered around culture.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Too many of us feel unseen, undervalued, and unhappy at work. The problem? But fitting in at work? Work is not familyits a professional environment where people collaborate to achieve shared goals. If your employees are only being noticed when they fight for themselves, youre not leadingyoure making them do all the work.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Its about harnessing a belief and way of working that will refuse to allow the status quo to take hold or accept that things are inevitably going to be terrible. Try it, I promise it works. So it can sometimes feel like theres no good news, or that its only ever a problem. From there we can build a way forward. Even if they are.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

The way we work is changing. The benefits of skills as a new currency of work Focusing on skills-based hiring benefits individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and society as a whole. Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more.

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Wired

MARCH 23, 2025

Britta Spth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. Shes finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 16, 2024

Small and medium-sized nonprofits, in particular, often lack the resources and expertise to craft compelling narratives, engage supporters, and clearly define the problems they address. Without clear, concise communication, potential supporters may not grasp the full impact of the nonprofit’s work.

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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. Thorleifssons work is beginning to change this. “These problems have been discussed for decades, often with very little progress.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 3, 2025

If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests. Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF), which you can download at your convenience.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Past Is Not Always Prologue On its face, it can make a lot of sense to look at what has worked, and continue doing that. What worked last year will likely be relevant to the interests of your members next year. Data can tell you what works much more than just the whims and musings of a longtime executive or board member.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

If he could just hear about our work, he’d give us the million dollars we need to build our new building! Statements of these are symptoms of a big problem at your non-profit. They are a sign that you, your board, or your team are waiting for a “magic bullet” to solve your fundraising problems. It seems like so much work!

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Ars Technica

MARCH 28, 2025

While human understanding of this internal LLM "decision" process is still rough, this kind of research could lead to better overall solutions for the AI confabulation problem. Read full article Comments

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Thats the problem. Relying solely on generative AI to create messaging means forfeiting the work and creativity required to forge real relationships. Generative AI is like a ginormous digital Encyclopedia Britannica that compiles the internets knowledge base and immediately plops it on a screen. However, theres nothing new there.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 27, 2025

Which suggests, in their words, that the problem is "animus" against minority drivers. And the results also show that minorities aren't in any way more likely to speed or engage in unsafe driving.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 24, 2025

In the ideal scenario, priorities align, the foundation recognizes the value of the proposed work, and the nonprofit receives a grant award. Evaluate – Take the time to gather all relevant parties and think critically about the problem. Ask questions to get to the root of the problem. Were the original goals too ambitious?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Algorithms reinforce biases More and more, our capacity to think, create, and problem-solve is being challenged by algorithms delivered through social media. After meetings, emails, unplanned interactions, and rest breaks, how many hours do we have left in a day for thinking and productive work? Heres why: 1.

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Futurism

APRIL 15, 2025

In a grotesque twist to the online trend of " looksmaxxing ," a term referring to male incels looking to maximize their own physical attractiveness, a TikTok user has spent over 160 days working out just a single trapezius muscle. And it's like, people have that problem?" I've the opposite problem.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The ability to make sound, high-impact decisions isnt about working harder; its about creating space for deep thought. Through my work advising leaders , I have seen the biggest shift happen when they gain clarity on what is most important for them to focus on. Redesigning meeting culture is another way to protect deep work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2022

Basically, it is a third-party bit of code that tries to fix accessibility problems on your site as it loads on someone’s computer or phone. . They often look something like this: Why don’t they work as intended? The problem is so widespread that there’s even a community-developed browser plugin to block overlays from loading.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

First, it has to solve its biggest problem: scaling qubits. Big Tech thinks quantum computing will supercharge AI. Artificial intelligence has transformed how companies process data and make decisionsbut Silicon Valleys biggest players are already chasing what could be the next technological

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

As researchers, we had heard many similar accounts so we decided to dig down into the research on work and dementia. We were curious about how typical Pauls experience was of the trajectories of people diagnosed while working. Almost all our working lives are now shaped by digital technologies in some form.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. The total value of the hours of unpaid work volunteers put in totals an estimated U.S.$170 Halvorsen is an associate professor of social work at Washington University in St.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

They're annoying autodialers at best and illegal scams at worst, and they're part of an ongoing problem the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been trying to crack down on for years. consumers in 2024, which worked out to nearly 200 robocalls for every adult with a phone throughout the year. "The

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sgEngage

JANUARY 6, 2025

The problems you are trying to solve are complex and the potential organizations you can support are many. Just because one path worked well for a peer organization doesnt necessarily mean its the right path for you. It means you made a difference, and peoples lives are better because of the work you did. Innovation is exciting.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Some examples of rule-bender language include develops creative and innovative solutions to problems, communicates in a tactical and persuasive manner and thinks outside the box. The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. This earnings management can misrepresent the companys true financial position.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

SEE ALSO: Apple's child safety changes put more of the onus on app developers Fortnite may be distracting them from their school work, or maybe you'd just feel more comfortable about this increase in screen time if you knew that your child wasn't landing on any inappropriate sites or scrolling through Instagram at 3 a.m.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Board members want and need meaningful work tied to the mission. That means they have to have time to commit first, then the skills we need — not all organizations need the same skills — and then the follow-through to get the work done independently.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. Jump ahead to 2024, when over 76 million Americans were said to be freelance workers , up from 64 million in 2023. Involuntary freelance is hard enough.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

These polite reentries signal youve been cut offand trained to work around it. Is this a meeting problemor a culture problem? If you often hear yourself say, As I was saying earlier, or, Just to finish that thought, youre probably being interrupted more than you realize. What to do: Dont just circle backown the space.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve. Define your value propositionwhy your organization is the best positioned to solve this problem. Ensuring agreement on these elements may involve working through disagreements, engaging in constructive critique, and resolving conflicting views.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Central to that success is their ability to leverage their innovation capital — the trust that funders place in their ability to solve problems and break new ground. You can’t really solve problems that way.” We know how to solve problems, and we understand the communities in which we operate.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nonprofits are staffed by incredibly competent and dedicated people — experts who understand their work backward and forward, whether it be housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or supporting these programs through effective fundraising and building sustainable solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

And yet, there is a well-established science on human potential, with decades of empirical research resulting in replicable generalizations to predict and explain why some people perform better than others (across different work settings), and why some people develop more than others. How can you work out if you may be one of them?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Reddit ran into some problems on Thursday. Reddit is not working for me on either a web browser or the mobile app at the time of writing. A Reddit outage started roughly between 3 and 4 p.m. ET on Thursday and is currently ongoing at the time of publication.

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