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When you wake up in the morning, how soon is it before you roll over to look at your phone for news notifications? Or do you first call out to your smart home speaker for a weather update?
Everyone’s routine is different, but apps and gadgets that once seemed novel and exciting are now commonplace, and many of us don’t think twice about how they make our days more productive and enjoyable.
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August is upon us, which means beating the heat with a long, cool vacation.
Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, or automobile, there’s a little something for everyone in this collection of apps and tools – from cheap flights to great accommodations to road trip diversions and more.
Flight Penguin: no-nonsense flight booking
With the free Flight Penguin flight-se
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For Tinder, these last few months have been a far cry from the “summer of love” the company was hoping to see.
A recent slate of product missteps have hampered Tinder’s revenue growth operations, leading to a shakeup within the company’s leadership, Match Group CEO Bernard Kim said on a call Wednesday morning wit
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Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to demonstrate its worth, innovating operations and optimizing workloads for organizations across all industries. As more industries look to harness the power of AI, we must be extra sensitive to the data we are using to train this technology. If we aren’t, we risk backsliding against all the progress society has made in recent times in relation to intrinsic bias against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
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Huge, advertising-based, general-purpose social networks aren’t the high-growth cash cows they once were, as Facebook’s recent “growth” numbers would suggest. Many consumers, it turns out, would rather spend their time watching short-form videos than sharing memes and hitting “like” buttons. And new restrictions on user tracking have
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FC Bayern is one of the most historic and successful football clubs in the world. And with a rapidly growing global fanbase (they have more than 33 million Instagram followers vs. the Green Bay Packers’ 2.5 million), the club is passionate about connecting fans to their favorite club in new ways.
To help the club bring new, personalized experiences to its millions of current and future global fans—both on and offline—while driving greater efficiency and more sustai
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White nationalists keep showing up in the hearings of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Evidence is mounting that white nationalist groups who want to establish an all-white state
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Military rhetoric between China and Taiwan is on the rise as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits the country.
Chinese fighter jets flew along the Taiwan Strait Tuesday morning before Pelosi’s visit, and the Taiwanese gov
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Consumers are still putting their dollars toward travel and experiences despite broader economic concerns, according to Airbnb’s most recent earnings report.
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Rob Schutz, cofounder of telehealth startup Ro, is stepping down from his role as chief growth officer after Labor Day, according to a memo sent out to staff and obtained by Fast Company.
Schutz told employees in a memo on Tuesday that he will transition into an advisory role and will continue to serve on the board, according to the note shared by a source familiar with the matter. He added that he will be taking some time off in the short term to reset. “I may partner