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Food
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PIZZA, ROBOTS, and MONEY
What if there was a BETTER WAY TO MAKE AND DELIVER PIZZA TO YOU?” ASKED CNBC'S JIM CRAMER-SHIRT SLEEVES ROLLED UP, WAGGING HIS FINGER AT THE CAMERAAS HE PASSIONATELY SET UP A SEGMENT OF HIS POPULAR MAD MONEY SHOW IN JUNE 2018. “TURNS OUT, THERE IS, W
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SHE ROSE TO FAME PLAYING FRAN FINE, THE “FLASHY GIRL from Flushing,” on the CBS sitcom The Nanny, which she cocreated and produced. But it's Fran Drescher's latest role, as president of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Ra
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Adobe
YEARS BEFORE THE RISE OF CHATGPT and Midjourney, Adobe knew that AI would be both a solution and a problem. In late 2019, the company introduced the Content Authenticity Initiative, in collaboration with The New York Times and Twitter, as a “nutritio
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The Walt Disney Co.
EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION PEOPLE THINK OF THE HOUSE OF MOUSE AS an entertainment behemoth, but over the past year, the company has been seriously flexing its tech chops on a number of fronts: A new internal ad server allows the company programmatic ad
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The Helpful hardware Man
MARQUES BROWNLEE USHERS ME INTO HIS ROBOT ROOM, WHERE I STAND FACE-TO-FACE WITH COLOSSUS. AN IMPOSING YET GRACEFUL CONTRAPTION, THE APTLY NAMED $250,000 MECHANICAL ARM TOWERS OVER MY 6-FOOT-3 HOST, WHO IS GIVING ME A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH HIS STUDIO IN
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Why Did the Chicken Cross Flatbush Avenue?
AMONG THE MANY THINGS I WAS SURPRISED TO learn while overseeing this issue of Fast Company: I live down the street from one of the highest-grossing Chick-fil-As in America. Maybe I shouldn't have been so shocked. This particular Chick-fll-A, the only
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3 real Estate
KATHY THRELFALL AND HER HUSBAND MOVED 42 years ago to a 240-acre ranch in Solano County, California, that was originally owned by her great-grandparents. Now 75, she still lives in the 150-year-old house on the property. She stayed after her husband
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Disrupters
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HONEST COMPANY CEO CARLA VERNÓN saw her first diaper “cake” at a friend's baby shower in 2017. The Instagram-worthy centerpiece featured tiered stacks of Honest's flagship eco-friendly diapers and infant-care products, such as wipes and baby wash, al
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Wiliot
EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION THE “INTERNET OF THINGS” MAY NO longer be the term du jour, in part because the idea failed to meet its original promise of connecting billions of dumb objects to the cloud in service of mitigating all manner of potential sup
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Fan with A plan
IT'S QUITE AN EMPIRE-AND NOT EVERYONE'S CHEERING. MICHAEL RUBIN, THE BILLIONAIRE CEO OF FANATICS, SPLITS HIS TIME BETWEEN THREE PRIMARY RESIDENCES-fOUR, IF YOU COUNT THE NEW $70 MILLION PIED-À-TERRE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS, OVERLOOKING DOWNTOWN LOS AN
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Travel
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AN ODD NEW EPISODE OF South Park began floating around Twitter last summer. The characters and setting looked familiar, and the voices were almost right, but something was slightly off. In the episode, Eric Cartman is disappointed that Hollywood acto
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The Rebrand
BEFORE ASKED TO FRESHEN UP THE MBA, NAMING AGENCY VESPERTINE RETIRED THE outdated “master of business administration” title and replaced it with an ostentatiously named successor: the Paragon of Harmonic Enterprise. Agency founder Jason Hall says the
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Chick-fil-a's New Testament
“ARE WE BOYCOTTING CHICK-FIL-A OVER THIS?” A PODcaster named Joey Mannarino asked his followers on Twitter last May, accusing the fried-chicken chain of pushing what he saw as an offensive political agenda. Of the more than 110,000 people who respond
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JENNY MORANT HAS had a tough year. In Manhattan Beach, California, where she works as a real estate agent, it's been impossible to sell a house. What's driving the market right now? “We're down to divorces, maybe marriages, maybe babies, and job relo
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Outdoors
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Screentime With Less Stress
These days, our screens are our lives. From laptops and tablets to smar tphones and T Vs, we spend hours and hours daily star ing at pixels. Yet whether we're scrolling through memes or reading thought-provoking journalism, all that screen time is ta
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The office you want
WE NOW KNOW WHAT MANY EMPLOYEES HAD LONG SUSPECTED: The office isn't always necessary to do our jobs. Just four years ago, 75% of workers were fully on-site, according to Gallup, with only 4% of employees regularly working remotely. During the height
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Phasecraft
EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION QUANTUM COMPUTERS PROMISE TO upend whole industries and our understanding of the world, but despite billions in investment and some scientific feats, they still can't do much. By carefully manipulating tiny physical building
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Next Big Things in Tech
With help from GPT4, Ada is automating customer service for the likes of Meta, Verizon, and Shopify. Copilot, GitHub's AI-powered coding assistant, is expanding into more parts of the coding process and integrating with popular development tools such
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Passion Points
Fanatics has licensing deals with more than 900 sports organizations, from the NFL to the UEFA. It's been expanding its e-commerce presence in Europe, China, and Japan. In addition to owning baseball-cap maker Lids, Fanatics now has a majority stake
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No Bao Ideas
ZUME'S FOOD-TECH CONCEPTS WERE MOSTLY LEGIT. A HYPE-FREE GUIDE TO WHO'S PURSUING THEM NOW. Digital restaurant brands suited for delivery and pickup Companies to watch: C3, Salted, Virtual Dining Concepts Restaurants sans dining rooms to produce order
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Wellness
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Reporting That Improves People's Lives
Dark chocolate—low in sugar and high on flavor—has a reputation for being a healthy treat. It even provides a host of health benefits, including lowered blood pressure, better cholesterol, and a reduced risk of heart disease. But research from Consum
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Shop Talk
Ben Silbermann, a low-level Google employee, and Paul Sciarra, his college friend who'd worked at a VC firm, launch Cold Brew Labs, a “mobile shopping startup.” (The name sounded cool.) Its first app, Tote, touts that it's “the first woman's fashion
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From The Ground Up
PAGE 82 FORMER PELOTON CEO JOHN FOLEY IS LAUNCHING HIS CHARM OFFENSIVE. I'VE JUST BEEN USHERED INTO THE MANHATTAN OFFICE OF HIS NEW STARTUP, THE RUG COMPANY ERNESTA, WHEN FOLEY APPEARS WITH A CRINKLED SMILE, SUMMER TAN, TIGHT-FITTING NAVY POLO, AND F
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Building the Future
THE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION IS BREAKING DOWN THE TECH SECTOR'S GENDER DIVIDE. GIRLS WHO CODE HAS WORKED WITH more than 500,000 individuals in the decade since its inception in 2012, ensuring that women and nonbinary people recognize that their contrib
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