How NFL teams turn schedule reveals into viral social media moments

For NFL teams’ social media departments, May 14 is the Super Bowl.

NFL Schedule Release Day has become an unofficial holiday on the league calendar. All 32 teams unveil their season schedules in the most creative and entertaining ways possible—chasing quote tweets and marketing impressions before the internet crowns a winner.

This year, the Los Angeles Chargers dropped a Minecraft-inspired video, complete with a nod to a viral Starbucks altercation between NFL re

Meet the startup taking on Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation

Switch, PS5, and XBox might be the biggest names in video games, but David Lee and a group of entrepreneurial alums from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are carving out a niche market with Nex, a new alternative. 

The company’s Nex Playground device has sold more than 200,000 units. Instead of buying individual games, families buy a subscription-based collection of 40-plus titles. Like the

Who invented Facebook’s Like button? It’s complicated, say the authors of this new book

The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip.

Like it or not,

A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession

It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI systems, with ChatGPT suddenly turning sycophantic, and Grok, xAI’s chatbot, becoming obsessed with South Africa. 

Fast Company spoke to Steven Adler, a former research scientist for OpenAI who until November 2024 led safe

For this CVS Health developer, making tech more accessible is personal

Cory Joseph has been blind since birth. So he’s among the people Apple aims to serve with an addition to its App Store called “Accessibility Nutrition Labels,” one of a raft of features the company announced earlier this week to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Once the labels go live later this year, each app’s listing will detail the accessibility features it

Why tech billionaires’ plans for space colonies and AI gods are delusional

Adam Becker is a science journalist and astrophysicist. He has written for The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist, Quanta, Undark, Aeon, and others. He also recorded a video series with the BBC, and has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Ologies, The Story Collider, and KQED Forum.

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How AI could sabotage the next generation of journalists

A question I often get when I train editorial teams on the use of AI is, “Is using AI cheating?”

Although it’s a yes or no question, it’s obviously not a yes or no answer. The short answer is sometimes, but the key to figuring out the long answer is using the tools with an open mind. If you’re a professional in a field like journalism, you’ll generally be able to tell when it’s speeding up drudgery and when your judgment and expertise are m

Letterboxd is launching a curated streaming service for indie films

Exciting news for anyone who’s already burned through the entirety of Netflix: There’s a new online movie rental platform coming to town.

Letterboxd, the movie-tracking app and the preferred social media of your most insufferable film-loving friend, announced this week that the Letterboxd Video Store is on the way.

The announcement was made

Gaming is the key to reaching Gen Alpha consumers

If brands want to reach the shoppers of the future, they’ll need to meet them where they already are: playing video games.

For this youngest generation, the coolest places to hang out aren’t the local mall or park but inside virtual worlds. While millennials had Sega Mega Drive and Mario Kart, and Gen Z grew up on The Sims and Angry Birds, Gen Alpha—born between 2010 and 2024 and still younger than 17—is coming of age in a world even more seamlessly integ

Trump just handed data brokers a gift in the form of our data

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director Russell Vought, canceled proposed new rules this week that would have protected Americans’ sensitive private data—including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers—from being collected by data brokers without consent and sold to advertisers and other third parties. 

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