California last week finally passed a sweeping new “right to repair” law that should make it much easier to fix your smartphone or laptop when it breaks. Enacted by Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, the Right to Repair Act makes California the third state to pass a broad right to repair law, after New York, which passed a similar measure last year, and Minnesota, which passed its version in May.
It’s also arguably the strongest in the nation so far. While New
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In order to illustrate just how dead the metaverse is, I could resort to citing the single-digit user numbers in Decentraland, or the abrupt, mass pivot of venture funding away from the whole idea, or the fact that the majority of people who have no idea what Facebook Horizons even is. Instead, I’ll convey it this way: The manic hype surrounding the metaverse is so sufficiently gone that if this story were to run in the next print issue of Fast Company, the metaverse would not only no
Staring down a 90-minute delay to an evening flight from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, to New York City’s JFK last weekend, I did something I’ve done many times before. I tweeted at the airline to ask what was causing the delay.
Within a few minutes, I’d had my query answered by the official X (formerly Twitter) account of JetBlue, but I’d also been inundated with likes, follows, and replies from nearly 20 accounts—each of which boasted the same
If you scan the list of top 10 shows on Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service, chances are you’ve come across—and maybe binge-watched—the British dating show Naked Attraction. (No judgment.) “The show is performing with outstanding demand,” Brandon Katz, an entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, told Fast Company. “It’s in the top 2.7% of shows in the U.S. in that time frame, which is obviously very good. I think it&
While it’s only been going on for a little under two weeks, the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried has already had more revelations and shockers than a whole season of Succession.
Award-winning journalist Stephanie Clifford has been in the federal courtroom each day, documenting the trial and offering an inside look at the proceedings for Fast Company. (She also has a great primer on what happened at FTX leading up to Bankman-Fried’s arrest and why his parents are being s
There’s a reason you’ve maybe been struggling to find Clorox products on store shelves: For the last two months, the consumer products giant has been struggling with a large-scale bleach breach.
On Aug. 14, Clorox—which makes not only its namesake bleach but also Glad trash bags and Burt’s Bees skin products—announced in a regulatory filing that it discovered “unauthorized activity” in its computer systems. More than a month later, on
It’s officially cozy season in Baltimore. Each night, while my son is pumping his 9-year-old brain full of loud videos of YouTube bros and my teen is busy responding to thousands of notifications on her phone—I’m on my phone watching recipe reel, after recipe reel, after recipe reel. After all, what else do I have to do in the evenings when it’s below 60 degrees?
I scroll through soups with ingredients I’ve never heard of. Instant Pot meals with pa
Microsoft’s purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard won final approval Friday from Britain’s competition watchdog, reversing its earlier decision to block the $69 billion gaming deal and removing the final obstacle for one of the largest tech transactions in history.
The Xbox maker’s quest to acquire Activision — maker of other blockbuster games like Candy Crush, World of Warcraft, Diablo and Overwatch — could close i
Most of the press surrounding the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been focused on its impact on VLOPs or “very large online platforms.” And indeed, platforms like Amazon, Alibaba Express, Facebook, Google, and the like bear the greatest potential liabilities under the law. But what’s forgotten most of the time in that the DSA affects your own brand experience as well.
If your brand advertises online or runs a small online store, your business will be