This YouTuber is livestreaming in ‘solitary confinement’ for a month

How long do you think you could last in total seclusion? YouTube creator Norme is putting that question to the test, now 500-plus hours into his attempt to livestream in “solitary confinement” for a whole month. 

Why? For views, of course. 

Norme, who has more than a million subscribers, is no stranger to streaming challenges. Some of his achievements, according to his YouTube bio, include not blinking for 2 hours and 6 minutes, and eating a cactus. The Australian Yo

What is the 4B movement? Women practice no-sex in a quest to regain rights post-election

“American women, looks like it’s time to get influenced by Korea’s 4B movement,” read a post on X just hours after it became clear Donald Trump had won the election and would become the 47th president of the United States.

american women, looks like it’s t

Betting odds called the 2024 election better than polls did. What does this mean for the future of prediction markets?

Election Day has come and gone, and once again, millions of people are sifting through the data and trying to make sense of it all.

One big question that remains unanswered: How accurate were the polls this time, and how well could they predict the outcome of the election compared to the prediction markets?

Polling errors in 2024

There’s almost always a polling error in one direction or another. In 2012, f

How a new Trump administration will treat the budding AI industry

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

How the Trump administration will, or won’t, oversee AI

A second Trump administration will almost certainly reduce the government’

Apple’s new M4 Mac mini is the perfect computer for testing out AI

Along with the new M4 MacBook Pro series Apple is releasing this week (here is Fast Company’s review of Apple’s latest laptop), the company is also debuting a new Mac mini. The Mac mini is arguably the more radical of the two: Apple’s diminutive computer has now received its first major design overhaul in 13 years. 

Yet the new mini has more to offer

Why some Florida parents are pushing back against school cellphone bans

It’s no surprise that students are pushing back on cellphone bans in classrooms. But school administrators in one South Florida county working to pull students’ eyes away from their screens are facing some

Why I can’t get enough of the new M4 MacBook Pro’s nano texture display

Apple gave me an advanced look at its newest flagship laptop, the 16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro, which goes on sale to the public tomorrow. I was interested in giving it a test run, of course, but aside from expecting speed increases, thanks to the M4 Pro chip, I honestly wasn’t expecting to be too wowed. MacBook Pros are usually always the best laptop on the market anyway—and this one, on the surface, didn’t seem much more than a spec update over

TikTok ordered to dissolve its business in Canada

Canada announced Wednesday it won’t block access to the popular video-sharing app TikTok but is ordering the dissolution of its Canadian business after a national security review of the C

Will Trump ban TikTok?

Four years ago, Donald Trump worked to cut off Americans’ access to TikTok. Now, as an actual January ban looms, he could be key to keeping the platform operating as usual in the U.S.

The president-elect, who joined TikTok in June to campaign, appears to have flipped the switch and has come out in support of the ByteDance-owned app in the past year. TikTok executives are also hopeful that the

The fatal flaw in road safety

Unless you’re surrounded by two tons of SUV steel, America’s roads can be a scary place. You’ve seen it crossing a busy street—drivers looking up suddenly as they roll through a stop sign. Vehicles cutting off pedestrians while rushing to make a turn. And far too many people are looking at their phones instead of the road.

More than 25 years ago, Swedish safety engineers created a plan called Vision Zero to eliminate pedestr


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