It’s an unfortunate but ever-present truth: The realities of COVID-19 are still far from over. In fact, cases are actually on the rise again—concurrent with easing U.S. restrictions, quarantine fatigue, waning vaccine efficacy and the increasing (yet misguided) belief that the pandemic is behind us. Now, with recent reports showcasing rising infections and hospitalizations in Europe, as well as new media coverage highlighting renewed lockdowns in China, it’s clear that we, a
NFTs couldn’t have gotten much frothier last year, and recent data suggests the bubbly is still flowing—despite, perhaps, fizzling, too. That’s as a third of NFTs minted since January 2021 ended up a “dead collection, with little or no trade activity post-minting,” reports blockchain analytics firm Nansen, which surveyed roughly 8,400 collections composed of more than 19 million NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Meanwhile, another third of NFTs are trading
The main thing to know about CNN+, which launches on March 29 after a hype cycle that began last summer, is that it’s entirely different from the CNN cable channel. For $6 per month or $60 per year, CNN+ offers none of CNN’s live or primetime programming. Instead, new shows from stars, such as Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, distinguish the nascent streamer from what’s on CNN proper. Lemon, for instance, will host a talk show instead of his usual nightly newscast; Jake Tapper
Remarkable engineering progress has made space tourism a practical pastime for billionaires. But it’s too early to say whether it will ever become a financially feasible endeavor for mere millionaires—much less anybody with a net worth below seven figures. The next small step in a journey that began with American businessman Dennis Tito’s 2001 flight to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft (for which he paid a reported $20 million) certainly doesn&#x
My friend Dave just finished an Ironman triathlon, which is something he and I definitely don’t have in common and almost certainly never will. And fit though he may be, he said something to me once that I’ll never forget: “I know I’m going to gain, like, 15 pounds over the winter. I just accept it and then I work it off in the spring.” I always thought that was an excellent attitude. Instead of beating yourself up for putting on a few pounds during the winter
Recently, the U.S. Social Security Administration sent out an email to subscribers of its official blog explaining how to access social security statements online. Most people know to be suspicious of seemingly official emails with links to websites asking for credentials. But for older adults who are wary of the prevalence of scams targeting their demographic, such an email can be particularly alarming since they have been told that the SSA never sends emails. From our resea
If there’s one thing that never gets easier as a leader, it’s saying goodbye to a valuable team member. Employees leave for all kinds of reasons, but as a CEO, it’s easy to feel like you’ve failed somehow. So, how should you feel when they come back? The corporate world is dealing with a new phenomenon right now—boomerang employees. About 4.5 million U.S. employees quit in November 2021 alone, and people who made big decisions in that sweeping resignation wave
While the NFT craze isn’t going nearly as strong as it was in 2022 as it did last year, that’s not stopping a lot of big mainstream businesses from setting up shop alongside the Bored Apes in hopes of discovering a new revenue model. Everyone from GameStop to the NFL has their own NFT marketplace in some stage of planning, including a few that have launched recently. And while the jump from blurry pixel art to being the newest fascination of multibillion dollar companies is certain
In 2021, Michael Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s (and grandson of the soap company’s namesake) was feeling depressed. His company had recently shut down its German distribution center, leading to a handful of layoffs. The company had offered those employees a one-year severance package, but still Bronner felt like he had failed them. “I was super depressed and wasn’t sleeping,” he tells Fast Company. “I tried upping my dose of antidepressants and was
Even if you’ve never heard of Steve Wilhite, the amount of time you’ve spent staring at computer graphics powered by technology he created may be incalculable. Wilhite, who died from complications of COVID-19 at age 74 on March 14, is the man who gave us a graphics file type called Graphics Interchange Format, better known as GIF. Used today mostly to display brief, silent loops of animation or far-from-HD video, GIFs are the internet’s visual lingua franca—and so fam