When Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress, she asked the audience to demand better ethnic and gender representation on their projects. Here’s why they should listen. When Frances McDormand won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, she began her speech by admitting to the audience that she was […]
The Instant Pot is an incredibly successful product. In fact, it’s arguably the single most successful product in the history of Amazon. It’s not just that the you’ll find the Instant Pot itself consistently among the top sellers; it’s that it’s spawned an entire industry of people, supporting smaller entrepreneurs around the world. Heck, look up the
When big fashion houses put on shows, they usually try to surprise and entertain what can be a pretty jaded audience. So when the legendary Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana showed its Fall 2018 fashion lineup during Milan’s Fashion Week, it decided to try something new: Drones carried its line of handbags up and down the runway
You heard about the Southwest Airlines flight where the little girl was injured by a support dog, right? The story went viral. Questions were asked. Was she bitten? Was she merely “scraped?” Was it all her fault to begin with? In all the noise, however, something was glossed over: an entire legal specialty with an admittedly
The last time anyone got this excited about orange juice was probably at the end of the movie, Trading Places. Americans don’t drink anywhere near as much O.J. as they used to. The blame falls largely on the fact that while it was once viewed as an incredibly healthy drink, people now focus on its alarmingly
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Earlier this month, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space exploration company that (he hopes) will one day take humans to Mars, suffered a setback. A Falcon 9 rocket was carrying a top-secret government payload that was meant to go into orbit. But according to multiple reports the payload was lost instead. No one involved is offering much information.
The first-of-its kind Amazon Go store opened in Seattle this week after just over a year overcoming glitches in beta mode, when it was only open to Amazon employees. Touted or lamented by many as “the store of the future,” Amazon Go has no cashiers or cash registers. You scan a smartphone app to get inside.
Want to change the world? Begin by envisioning it as it could be. The world of literature–science fiction and otherwise–is a much sadder place this week after the loss of the iconic novelist and writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who died at home, after months of ill health. Her list of accomplishments is impressive–she authored more
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Early Saturday morning, the federal government shut down after Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach an agreement that would keep the government funded. How is the shutdown likely to affect you if you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner? It depends. If the shutdown is very brief, it may not affect anyone
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Last night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via a Facebook post that Facebook is changing how News Feed works. In short: more posts from friends and family, less reach for publishers and brands. Now, it seems that announcement might have cost Zuckerberg roughly $3 billion, personally–as a result of the effect it had on Facebook’s share price
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