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Workers in about 15 locations nationwide are about to receive a boost in their paychecks, thanks to minimum wage increases that went into effect this week around the country. On Tuesday, July 1, minimum wage increases went into effect in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington D.C. Additionally, 12 cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, are doing the same.

The minimum wage hasn’t changed on a federal level since 2009. It remains stuck at $7.25. However, local governments have been moving the needle over the years... Читать дальше...

The digital health market is growing, and according to Microsoft, its new AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) is among the latest in generative, artificial intelligence to support accurate, complex medical diagnoses—and it’s doing it better than human doctors. 

“Girl With a Pearl Earring” has taken on a new meaning on social media.

Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.

Over the past 20 months, as Palestinians have suffered under Israel’s increased military presence, crowdfunding websites have become one way for monetary relief to reach those in need. However, a recent Al Jazeera report claims that a number of GoFundMe pages with funds meant for Palestinians have had funds frozen or even refunded, the organizers say, without proper cause.

Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started over a century ago, Spain’s national weather service said on Tuesday as Europe remained in the grip of the first major heat wave this summer.

The Fabra Observatory, located on a hill overlooking Barcelona, reported an average temperature of 26 degrees Celsius (78 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking records since 1914. The previous hottest average for June was 25.6 C in 2003.
The same weather station said that a single-day high... Читать дальше...

We’re used to seeing skateboarding legend Tony Hawk on wheels, but a new campaign has him discussing his time behind the wheel rather than on a board.

The Senate is slogging through a tense overnight session that has dragged into Tuesday, with Republican leaders searching for ways to secure support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts while fending off proposed amendments, mostly from Democrats trying to defeat the package.

An endgame appeared to be taking shape. Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota spent the night reaching for last-minute agreements between those in his party worried the... Читать дальше...

Shares of Tesla are down in premarket trading today after President Donald Trump and the EV maker’s CEO, Elon Musk, traded barbs on their social media platforms, reigniting a public feud that had boiled over early last month only to die down in more recent weeks.

Yahoo is at a critical inflection point. Despite having a large user base—across Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo News—the media company hasn’t reclaimed the buzz of its early days. CEO Jim Lanzone candidly discusses the fear of being “left behind” and how he’s pushing the brand to shed its old skin. He explains the wide-ranging implications as AI remakes search engines into answer engines and shares insights about the line between fantasy sports and gambling. 

New Yorker staff writer and author Evan Osnos spent decades chronicling the social, economic, and political changes in China and currently writes about American politics. To understand the second election of President Trump, though, he realized he needed to understand the vast inequality in American society. According to 2024 data from the Federal Reserve, more than two-thirds of the country’s wealth is held by the top 10% of U.S. households. And the top 1% of U.S. households hold more than one-third of the country’s wealth. Читать дальше...

By the time most leaders sit down at their desks, they’ve already spent a chunk of their best energy. They’ve triaged emails, squeezed in early meetings, and handled “just one quick thing” that ballooned into an hour. It’s barely 10 a.m. and their attention is already diluted, their decision-making fatigued.

Have you ever wondered where the unsold concert merch from decades worth of tours end up? For artists associated with Universal Music Group’s merchandise arm, Bravado, it often winds up in a massive Nashville facility, gathering dust. “It’s like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark,” says Matt Young, president of Bravado. “This stuff predates me—I believe it was just forgotten.” 

Perched on a dusty high desert plain about 100 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, the Mojave Air and Space Port looks more like a final destination for aerospace experiments than a stepping stone to the stars. A field with dozens of decommissioned commercial jetliners bakes in the early morning sun–it’ll eventually hit 110 degrees around noon–and the small shacks set between dusty roads and cracked pavement look mostly empty.

In 2014, I left a secure job at Goldman Sachs to start a nonprofit. On paper, it looked like a reckless move: no funding, no team, barely any experience. But it was the best decision I ever made because it taught me that adaptability matters more than certainty.

For centuries, we’ve believed that the act of thinking defines us.

In what is widely considered a major philosophical turning point, marking the beginning of modern philosophy, secular humanism, and the epistemological shift from divine to human authority, the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596–1650) famously concluded that everything is questionable except the fact that we think, “Cogito, ergo sum”(I think, therefore I am).

Fast-forward a few hundred years... Читать дальше...

Enterprises are on track to pour $307 billion into AI in 2025—more than $35 million dollars every hour. Yet most of that cash will never see daylight: an S&P Global survey found that 42 percent of companies scrapped most of their AI projects this year. The problem isn’t funding or ambition; it is a failure to see that the moonshots need to be balanced by sure things, the stretch goals by easy wins.

Each generation of employees is shaped by its times. In today’s era of “perma-change,” Generation Z is exhibiting distinct professional traits. 

While Northern California is famous for its wines, it is also full of olive groves, many of which have been owned by the same family for generations. Since 2018, Aishwarya Iyer has devoted her life to persuading the world to appreciate American olive oil through her brand, Brightland. Her trick? Putting it in gorgeous glass bottles with art-adorned labels. “The bottles were a Trojan horse,” Iyer says. “They’re what pulls you into the brand, but what’s inside is magnificent. It was the tactic we... Читать дальше...

The sun is out and your weekends are packed with plans to head to the nearest beach or pool. Now, you have to figure out how you’ll carry the piles of things you need for a day out, which might include towels, hats, drinks, a change of clothes, sunscreen, books, snacks, toys for the kids, and more.

Sam’s Club shoppers will soon notice a change to the retailer’s private-label rotisserie chicken packaging. A new tray means the grab-and-go prepared foods favorite is now more sustainable.

In a high-profile attack on LGBTQ science research this spring, President Donald Trump decried supposedly wasteful research like $8 million for “making mice transgender.” Trump played the mice remark for laughs during a joint address to Congress on March 4.

The thought of one day retiring and no longer having to punch a clock, answer required emails, work long hours, and the other responsibilities of employment is a dream that can get you through the hard moments of work.

As Fast Company wrapped up its latest report on the state of the design jobs market, we wondered which companies paid the highest premium for designers.