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Paul Ford

Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse.

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Joel Khalili

Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto

Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Tom Brady gets his first game assignment as a FOX Sports analyst

We now know what Tom Brady’s first game behind the microphone will be

This fall, Tom Brady will return to the NFL.

And the legendary quarterback now has his first assignment.

Brady begins his first season as an analyst for FOX Sports this fall and the former quarterback — and recent Netflix roastee — now knows where he will be for Week 1. Brady will be on the call for the network as the Cleveland Browns host the Dallas Cowboys to kick off their regular-season schedule.

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SBNation.com

Mark Schofield James Dator Joseph Acosta Ricky O'Donnell

NFL schedule 2024: Tracking latest rumors for next season’s games

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images

The 2024 NFL season schedule is coming this week, and we have every rumor in one place.

In the sports world, the NFL remains king.

Among the reasons for football’s ability to captivate audiences? The league has found ways to stay in the conversation even in the offseason. Free agency and the NFL Draft are two examples, but perhaps the biggest example of the league’s ability to draw attention during the off months comes this week, when the league...

The Verge

Georgina Torbet

The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence

Image: The Verge

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life.

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Mashable

'The Demon Disorder' trailer teases a truly disgusting zombie possession story

Shudder's trailer for Steven Boyle's "The Demon Disorder", a horror about a family being overrun by a disturbing disease, has dropped online.

Mashable

How to block websites on your iPhone

Whether you're trying to manage screen time and avoid certain websites, or whether you're setting some boundaries on your kid's device, there's an easy way to block sites on your iPhone.

If it's specifically the latter, you can also set up parental controls on your iPhone — just know they're not the full answer. But if you're keen to know how to simply filter websites directly so they don't show up in Safari, here's an easy guide.

SEE ALSO: How to put iPhone in...

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

These underground filters help eliminate the risk of ‘forever chemicals’

Regenesis’s below-ground PFAS filters are a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

PFAS contamination is becoming a crisis. According to one study, more than 57,000 locations across the U.S. are likely contaminated with the so-called forever chemicals, which are both toxic and long-lasting. When PFAS get into the soil, they contaminate the environment but also leach into the groundwater, eventually making their way into our drinking water systems. 

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

This program trains refugees in vital tech skills they can use for remote jobs anywhere

The Global Gateway Program, from Automation Anywhere and Robo Co-Op, is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Around the world, there are more than 100 million refugees who were forced to flee their homes because of violence, persecution, climate change, and more. Being displaced comes with a slew of challenges, of course, like finding work—made even more difficult by a language barrier or a mismatch in employment skills. 

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

This Singapore-based startup is creating highly sought-after milk proteins—without any cows

TurtleTree’s animal-free lactoferrin is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Fengru Lin, cofounder and CEO of Singapore biotech company TurtleTree, wants to find a more sustainable way to make milk. But she knows that lab-grown milks can’t compete with cow’s milk when it comes to price (at least not yet). Instead, she chose to focus on milk’s high-value ingredients, beginning with lactoferrin, a functional milk protein linked to iron absorption, protection...

Fast Company

Adele Peters

Why Google is Fast Company’s World Changing Company of the Year

For its work on using AI to address climate change, Google is Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Company of the Year.

As the use of artificial intelligence grows, there’s a risk that it could boost emissions as it drives up demand for energy at data centers. But AI also has the potential to help find new ways to shrink humanity’s giant carbon footprint. At Google, research teams are working on more than 20 AI tools to fight climate change and deal with impacts like flooding and wildfires.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

This new app is designed to work like Airbnb for EV charging

Plug Inn, from Renault and Publicis Sapient, is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

In the tiny French village of Guessling-Heméring, there aren’t any public EV chargers. But if you’re driving an electric car through the area, you can use an app to book time with a private charger at someone’s home.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

The clever way Google is using AI to make flying greener

Google’s work using AI to reduce contrails is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

The thin clouds that streak behind airplanes, called contrails, are a sizable source of global warming, responsible for more than a third of aviation’s climate impact. But slightly changing a plane’s flight path can help avoid the phenomenon, which happens when hot exhaust mixes with cold, humid air.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

Inside the $200 million fund that’s working to make jet fuel more sustainable

The United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Right now, sustainable aviation fuel, or alternative jet fuel made from nonfossil sources, powers less than 0.1% of planes in the U.S. That’s both because there’s so little of it available and because it’s expensive. But a fund launched by United Airlines is working to quickly scale up the tiny SAF industry.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

This sleek Paris housing complex was made from the rubble of a 1960s building

Holcim’s Recygénie is the world’s first building to use 100% recycled concrete. It’s a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

When a group of aging apartment buildings from the 1960s were recently torn down outside Paris, the demolition waste wasn’t thrown out. Instead, it was reused for two of the seven buildings in a new 220-unit housing complex now under construction on the same site.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

This Boston startup created renewable energy storage that’s 10 times cheaper than lithium-ion batteries

Fourth Power’s energy-storing technology is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Inside a lab near Boston, big blocks of carbon—each six feet long, two feet tall, and weighing more than a ton—will soon be stacked into a system that will heat them up to a glowing-hot 4,350 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a demo of new technology designed to dramatically cut the cost of storing renewable energy.

Fast Company

Adele Peters

These fridges run on solar panels and can stay cold for 40 hours

Amped Innovation’s EasyFreeze fridge is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

If you live in Lagos, Nigeria, your power might go out for hours at a time on a typical day. A standard refrigerator obviously won’t work well, and few residents own one. But a startup designed a new solar fridge with a battery to work on an unreliable grid like Nigeria’s. It can also work completely off the grid.

Fast Company

Talib Visram

Baby2Baby delivered 60 million urgently needed items after the Maui wildfires. Here’s how

Baby2Baby’s response to the Maui wildfires is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Last summer’s Maui wildfires were the fifth deadliest in U.S. history, claiming at least 115 lives and displacing thousands. As various humanitarian organizations mobilized to support communities, one in particular served an often overlooked demographic during disasters: babies.

Fast Company

Talib Visram

This smartphone tool lets Brazilians track government corruption in real time

Congress em Foco and AQKA’s Transparency Card is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Shortly before Brazil’s 2022 general election, 69% of the public believed government corruption was widespread.

Fast Company

Talib Visram

This creative conservation initiative treats the ocean like an endangered species

Niue’s Ocean Conservation Commitments is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Sponsoring an endangered animal has long been a way for people to contribute to the conservation of at-risk species like tigers and pandas. Now, a program is encouraging the public to sponsor parcels of endangered ocean.

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