
A firefighter emerges from the flames, a bear cub tucked under each arm. Another, in full protective gear, carries a tiny puppy away from the inferno. A third cradles a baby deer close to their chest.
This clip posted to Instagram by @FutureRiderUS last week has more than 43 million views and counting. “Amid the flames, even the smallest lives fight for survival,” reads the caption, bearing the hashtag #CaliforniaWildf

Over the past few years, concerns about billionaires using media outlets they own to signal boost their own beliefs has become a growing concern. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns X (formerly Twitter)—and might be in the running to buy TikTok, if a Bloomberg report is to be believed.
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AOL is alive and well.
Decades after its heyday, AOL offers a subscription-based browser called AOL Desktop Gold, priced at $6.99 per month. While no longer tied to dial-up internet, it retains much of the charm of its late-’90s and early-2000s predecessor.
In a recent YouTube &t=2s">video, Michael MJD takes viewers on a tour of AOL Desktop Gold. Upon launching the app, Michael is greeted with AOL’s class


New year, new lunar lander: this time, from Firefly Aerospace on its first mission to the moon.
The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1, dubbed “Ghost Rider in the Sky,” is set to launch on January 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center for a 60-day operation to Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide b

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at CES in 2025, but in the coming months, it’s going to be a more permanent part of the Las Vegas landscape.
This March will see the soft opening of the Otonomus Hotel, which strives to be different than your typical Vegas hotel room or suit

TikTok’s future in the United States now lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, and the odds don’t look good for the app.
The ban is officially slated for January 19, 2025, when the app could vanish from app stores, leaving new users unable to download it. What happens beyond that remains uncertain, but the

In recent months, the fashion industry has seen unprecedented price hikes, CEO turnovers, sustainability backpedaling, and more—culminating in what founder and editor-in-chief of The Business of Fashion, Imran Amed, calls a “full-blown luxury crisis.” Amed joins Rapid Response to take us inside the industry chaos and share his insights and predictions for the year ahead.
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If we had an hour together, we could talk about the many ways robotics and automation are rocking our universe, in implementations ranging from manufacturing and fulfillment to food packaging and preparation. But one of the most surprising targets on the list is healthcare.
The healthcare industry is at a critical juncture. While healthcare costs are rising to historic levels, the population of individuals whose needs are highest and are aging out of the workforce is growing even f

Reddit can’t stop building shiny new advertising tools. First it was dynamic product ads, then it was AI copy tools. Now, they’re premiering custom “Ask Me Anything”-themed ads.
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