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What if calorie labels told you how many minutes it would take you to run off your snack?Happy 100th birthday, Beverly Cleary!Harvard Law students say they found a recording device under a table in their “safe space”Watch SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 ocean landingEverything You Need To Know About Health Tech In 5 Minutes Or LessTouchdown! SpaceX finally lands on drone shipDude hooks up Amazon Alexa in his car using DotPrepare to Have Your iPhone Hijacked By This Music VideoWatch this incredible video of a bipedal robot designed by Google’s X labWhy would the CIA’s venture arm invest in a beauty brand?Experienced health-tech CEO: “I have no interest in being a unicorn”This is the future of live streamingIs This Drink Disrupting The Alcohol Business?Tesla’s biggest competitor may be TeslaCataloguing The World’s Disappearing Places In Stunning, 360-Degree VideoPeriscope adds on-screen sketching tool for broadcastersApple Suspects The Latest Encryption Case Has Nothing To Do With Law EnforcementThe Real Reasons That Amazon’s Alexa May Become The Go-To AI For The HomeHow An Ad Agency Responded To The Return Of “Mein Kampf” In GermanyThink You Know The News? Take The Fast Company Quiz!#Cancer: Researchers Are Conducting Huge Studies Using Twitter, FacebookAmid latest FBI-Apple feud, senators float new bill creating encryption backdoorsCounsyl Lays Off Significant Staff In Product And Development Teams (confirmed)Counsyl quietly made significant layoffs last week (confirmed)Watch Chance The Rapper Play A Superhero In The Video For “Angels”Incredible Modular Sofa Rearranges ItselfWhat Do We Mean When We Say “Clean Energy”?Does Your Favorite Newspaper Section Have An Impact On Your Job Prospects?Why Peloton Says They Have No CompetitionSee Office Supplies Go Full “Toy Story” In a Vivid Animated ShortThe filmmaker behind “Helvetica” launches a VR documentary studio10 days left to get your bids in for Yahoo!Here we go again… the Justice Department is trying to force Apple to unlock another iPhoneYou can rent an i3 by the minute with BMW’s new car-sharing serviceDrones Deliver Sterile Tsetse Flies To Ethiopia To Fight A Deadly DiseaseHow Art And Algorithm Came Together To Create “The Next Rembrandt”Me want more hilarious outtakes from that Cookie Monster ad for iPhone 6sThese are the sloppy ways that three states left their health insurance sites vulnerable to hacking“The Matrix” Meets “Drive” In This Explosive Data Viz For PorscheIs Brooklyn’s Microgrid-On-The-Blockchain The Future Of The Electric System?Me Want More Cookie Monster: Adorable Outtakes From The Apple CommercialA Love Letter To Modernism’s Most Mundane BuildingsCan fake shrimp help prevent human slavery?The Future Of Microsoft Office: Many Apps, Many Interfaces, Many DevicesNow there are two women on Twitter’s boardIf You’re Poor, You’ll Get Less Out Of Social Security Than If You’re RichMapping Mexico City’s Vast, Informal Transit SystemBest Buy just expanded its same-day delivery program, but can it compete with Amazon?Tesla has received $14 billion worth of Model 3 preordersIn case you missed itVCs are abandoning startups for more mature companiesHamburger Helper’s Mixtape, Calling Random Swedes: The Top 5 Ads Of The WeekThe world’s smallest pacemaker has been approved by the FDA“Helvetica” Filmmaker’s New Venture Is A VR Documentary CompanyAt This Art Exhibit, The Artists Are Also AstrophysicistsHow A Color Designer Creates The Perfect Backdrop For Famous ArtMeet Wolff Olins’s New American Branding Head, A Vet Of IBM, Adobe, Amazon, And R/GAApple wants to make a keyboard with no keysSonic Wants To Change Its Instagram Look, With The Help Of Chef Jacques La MerdeDid This New Nonprofit Crack The Code For Building Developing World Housing?Paris Is Redesigning Its Major Intersections For Pedestrians, Not CarsA Week Behind The Great Firewall Of ChinaUber settles claims that it misled customers over driver background checksHow To Spot (And Work With) The Office NarcissistWhy Gender Parity Could Be A Massive Boost To The GDPHiring Managers Reveal The 10 Seemingly Small Things They Judge Candidates OnHow Embracing Awkwardness Can Improve Your Work RelationshipsFrom Winning Trust To The Art Of Conversation: This Week’s Top Leadership StoriesWhy I’ll Never Put My Company’s Clients First5 Interview Questions Every Startup Needs To Ask Job CandidatesThe Introvert’s Guide To Painless Personal BrandingRichard Scarry’s 21st Century BusytownIBM and Pfizer team up to improve care for Parkinson’s disease patients3 epic truths from “Silicon Valley” writer Dan LyonsWorst advice yet: This bipolar app prompted users to drink hard liquorTheranos finally adds some scientists to its advisory board2 crazy things I heard on my first call with a genetic counselorAt Microsoft, poets teach robots how to be “authentic”– but not *too* humanLyft’s attempt to settle its class action lawsuit just hit a snagWhen privileged people discover something totally basic, like budgeting, and try to re-brand it as a hip lifestyle hackWhat if Google bought Yahoo?Unsurprisingly, the Clinton campaign’s #HillarySoQualified backfiredHow to tweet graciously after getting firedCan Agriculture Work Without Bees? California’s Almond Farmers Are TryingMashable just laid off key news staffers to focus on video contentExplaining Coral Bleaching, The Latest Disaster Destroying Our OceansSteve McQueen Made A Sexed-Up Ad For BurberryHere’s proof that digital health funding has gone nutsYou should quit your job right now and buy this taco truckMVRDV’s Latest? Stairs That Let You Climb Up The Side Of A BuildingIn some states, reporting sexual harassment in the workplace is still not fully protected by lawHow Iron Chef Morimoto Instills Happiness Into His Employees And DinersEthical concerns raised about Google’s biotech ventureFacebook is slowly but surely making Messenger shopping-friendlyFor West Elm, independent design is good businessSpaceX to launch science experiments to the ISS on FridayA Computer Paints A Rembrandt, And It Looks Just Like The Real ThingTaco Bell’s New TacoBot Lets You Order Food While Working In SlackThey’ve tried everything else, now major web sites are considering legal action to take on ad blockersDream Job Alert: Cheap Taco Truck For Sale In Gorgeous Tulum, MexicoThis Look At The Pressure on Single, “Leftover” Chinese Women Will Make You CryMarijuana research could soon get a boost from the DEAA Devastating Bird’s Eye View Of Earth’s Vanishing RainforestsIBM’s Watson Teams Up With Tom Watson For The 2016 MastersGet ready for the FBI v. Apple, round twoLearn Fascinating Tidbits About Your City, With This Government Data Mining ToolGet Free Housing Designs From A Pritzker Prize-Winning ArchitectWriter Mark Millar On Going From “Kick-Ass” To Family-Friendly Space Opera “Empress”Giphy’s New Tool Lets You GIF Anything On Your DesktopHere it is: The Star Wars “Rogue One” trailer“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” Trailer Promises Action-Packed Space CaperThis Startup Lets You Invest Only In The Companies That Share Your ValuesIn case you missed itSpain’s Babies Are Being Born Underweight, Thanks To The Economic CrisisIngenious Gag: Whoopee Cushions At A Furniture FairShould tech companies be forced to help crack encryption? The White House is “deeply divided”Small drones should be allowed to fly over cities, says FAA committeeAnd they’re off! Self-driving trucks in Europe complete first cross-border trip#TBT: A Look Back At Melissa McCarthy’s First Acting RoleNeural Networks: What Are They, And Why Is The Tech Industry Obsessed With Them?Behind The Scenes At NASA’s High School Robotics CompetitionHow West Elm Became An Unlikely Incubator Of Independent DesignHow ABC Family Renaming Itself Freeform Is Growing Its AudienceHow A Former “Veep” Producer Is Changing Comedy For WomenThis Simulation Rewinds Bike Accidents To See If A Helmet Would Have Saved Your HeadThe World’s First Large-Scale Drone Delivery System Will Be In RwandaThis App Takes A New Approach To Sex Ed: FunWe Need To Redesign Work To Fight Bias, Because People Won’t Get Any Less SexistThe Hidden Power In Trusting Your Gut InstinctsThe Surprising Impact Of A Referral On Promotions For African-American WorkersDespite ban, terrorist groups have been busy trading weapons on FacebookHow Not To Flub That Big Talk You’re PreparingHow To Get (And Keep) Others Committed To ChangeHere’s What Recruiters Are Asking Your ReferencesThis Is The State Of Workplace Sexual Harassment Protections In The U.S.Four Reasons Why The Most Successful People Are Great CollaboratorsMedStar hack: “Some cancer patients were unable to get radiation treatment for several days”Y Combinator is asking Hacker News to pick its next Fellowship batchPandora’s executive reshuffling continues…Genetics companies start to speak up about “genetic discrimination”Live Coverage Of Facebook’s F8 Conference: Day Two KeynoteNotifications may suck less soonThis hot tub-rental startup sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happenApple’s ResearchKit might soon include mood trackingThis Wristwatch Has No Hour Hand–Just A Subtly Shifting Color GradientHow An Infamous Dictator Helped Inspire Mark Duplass’s CareerLive Coverage Of Facebook’s F8 Conference: Day One KeynoteYou’ll never guess how much Yahoo spends on trafficWe wouldn’t be having this conversation if women’s magazines didn’t have such a dysmorphic view of women’s bodiesEating Less Meat Would Save The World Trillions Of Dollars“Bond. James Bond” (at your service to help set up an offshore tax shelter)Reddit’s new blocking feature sounds like, well, shadow banningIt’s been 20 years since the CDC seriously studied gun violence, but that may changeBad CEO going to jail for being bad CEOAmerica’s Oldest, Most Crumbling, Most Crowded Bridges, MappedFind Out What Happened When We Called Random SwedesThe Panama Papers Expose Shady Deals Behind The Luxury Housing BoomFacebook is still hiding some of your messagesA Charming Nightlight Co-Designed By KidsUber warns against sleep-deprived driving after nap turns into high-speed chaseDomino’s New App Lets You Get Pizza By Giving Zero ClicksI’m on a spiritual journey to access my medical recordsHere’s one way to game Facebook’s algorithmWhen will women finally be beautiful enough to grace magazine covers?Live VR Streaming Is Made Easy With The Orah 4iCheap Plastic Toys Spring To Life In Hypnotizing Kinetic SculptureHow Collective Energy Buying Is Helping Communities Go 100% RenewableMoleskine just changed the digital-note-taking gameThis Swedish Scientist’s Transparent Wood Could Transform ArchitectureIn a nod to Snapchat, Facebook Live is getting a bit more funThese are the 11 cities that are now also getting Amazon same-day deliveryThis Artist Turned Empty Manholes Into Decorated Rooms To Raise Homeless AwarenessAt This Elementary School, Kids And Their Parents Can Shop For Free, Healthy FoodThe World’s First Decent Ad For Virtual RealityDon’t get too excited about WhatsApp’s encryption: There are exceptionsNike Unofficially Gears Up For Euro 2016 With French Soccer Star Blaise MatuidiWhy Heineken Got A Dutch Rap Star To Perform Its 2015 Sustainability ReportWhy Bike Sharing Is Way Safer Than Riding Your Own BikeMaking Sense Of The Many Business Models In The Sharing EconomyIn case you missed itThis New Moleskine Notebook Backs Up To Your iPad InstantlyThe Future Of Space Architecture? Soft And InflatableMoleskine Built An iPad Out Of Paper And We Tried ItFacebook Embellishing Live Video With Snapchat-Like Bells And WhistlesIf You’re A CEO In Israel, Your Pay Is Now Tied To The Pay Of Your WorkersThe next RembrandtMIT Invents A Way To 3-D Print Liquid RobotsThere was no Snowden-like whistleblower behind the Panama Papers leak, claims law firmBy buying this startup, Amazon now knows even more about what to sell youHow To Kill A Product GracefullyApple fixes iPhone 6s Siri bug that allowed unauthorized access to photos and contactsSheaMoisture Brings “Ethnic” Empowerment To The Beauty AisleIt’s Time To Stop Pretending Patients Don’t Care About Their Medical RecordsCould A Minimum Wage Work In The Gig Economy?Tough new rules on “insidious” tax loophole derail the biggest drug merger in historyLook How Much Of Your City Will Be Underwater By 2100 (So Much)The FBI’s lawyer won’t reveal if information found on San Bernardino iPhone is usefulWhy Employees Don’t Trust Their LeadershipSix Habits of The Best ConversationalistsSix Reasons To Say “Yes” When You Really Want To Say “No”How To Enlist Other People To Do Your Networking For YouThese Female Developers Explain How To Recruit More Female Developers13 Tactics That Work In Every NegotiationHow To Gracefully Backpedal When You’ve Said The Wrong ThingHere’s How A Month Of Exercise Affected My BrainNo, it’s not crazy to launch a new web browser in 2016Amazon’s new Kindle may come with a snazzy rechargeable caseFacebook employee publishes a “field guide” to egg freezingWhich U.S. Cities Have The Most Hybrids?Cruz Campaign Abandons Cutting-Edge “Behavioral” Voter Targeting Tech, Say Sources“Game Of Thrones” Writer George R.R. Martin Likes To Be Captain Of The TeamPayPal cancels plan to expand in North Carolina over LGBT discrimination lawBernie Sanders: “Apple is not destroying the fabric of America”Adidas’s new wearable is targeted at schoolsApple is really getting into Twitter23andMe gets grant to study underrepresented groupsNow you can sell your very own chatbot in Kik’s new storeEtsy sellers now have less reason to ditch the platform for Squarespace or ShopifyJust how skinny is HP’s new laptop?Cruz Bets On Data To Find Enough Voters To Match Trump’s Loyal BaseGoogle’s Tilt Brush Is The First Great VR AppPresident Obama condemns corporate tax avoidanceTwitter would really like to take this to DMIceland’s prime minister resigns after Panama Papers revelationsWhatsApp just added encryption for its 1 billion usersMeet The Actors From The Original “Star Wars” Who Didn’t Become StarsWhy Kik Thinks Chatbots Will Kill WebpagesStarz’s $9 streaming service isn’t just for “Outlander” fansToast UNC’s Loss With A Trailer For A Fake “30 For 30” Doc On The “Crying Jordan” MemeXiaomi Mi 5 Review: A Nifty Cheap Phone, Yes, But Also Something BiggerThe $799 HTC Vive’s room-scale VR is “worth the money”How Contact Lenses Lead To Dry Eyes–And How We Could Fix ItYahoo can’t quit trying to be a media companyThese Are The White House’s Favorite Economic Opportunity Apps9.7″ iPad Pro Review: It’s Two Tablets In OneMartian dust devil spins close to Opportunity roverThis new startup will let you pay your coworkers via SlackFrom Two Ex-Nokia Designers, The Ultimate Analog Bike AccessoryHTC’s Vive Is Finally Here And It’s Very CompellingThe Mysterious Infrastructure Of The Internet Made VisibleLeast Creative Of The Day: This Gym Ad Claims Aliens Will Target Fat PeopleIn come-from-behind victory, Twitter beats out Amazon, Verizon with NFL streaming dealSee How Your Likelihood Of Divorce Changes With Age, Education, And EthnicityIt’s not just Bill Simmons: The Awl and a dozen other sites are moving their sites to MediumRoku just packed more power into an even smaller Streaming StickA Texan Solar CEO Who Wants To Eliminate Subsidies Is Now A Fox News DarlingIn case you missed itThis Company Wants To Make Tax Season Easier For The 1099 EconomyCandidates agree on date for next Democratic debatePersado’s A.I. automated copywriting service gets $30 million in fundingForget The Foosball Table. This Startup Office Was Built For MeditationWhy A Virtual Reality Web May Never HappenHow An MIT Data Viz Guru Is Exposing Cryptic Government DataA Video Game About The Secret Lives Of Everything In The UniverseScientists discover a new state of matter that could transform computingThis security flaw provides access to an iPhone 6s’ contacts and photosIn This Tiny Arctic Town, A Third Of The People Are Syrian RefugeesKaryn Kusama On Finding The Perfect Team To Make ‘The Invitation’ Creepy As HellCan This Cargo Scooter Replace Bikes–Or Even Cars–For Short Commutes?Lessons From The Epic Fails Of Well-Funded StartupsTesla’s first quarter sales are lower than expectedChrome is about to become the world’s most popular browserThe Top 10 Industries For FreelancersThe Secret To Creativity: Become An Intellectual MiddlemanWhy We Trust People Who Are Clearly UntrustworthyHow To Learn A New Skill Well Enough To Do It AutomaticallyHow Your Company’s Lame Hiring Process Is Losing You Customers10 Questions To Avoid Asking On A Job Interview (And When To Ask Them Instead)Can You Get Promoted If You Work From Home?Facebook has found a way to better describe photos to the visually impairedGap Apologizes For Kids Ad Controversy, Swaps ImageThis Is How To Elicit Passion In Your EmployeesHow A Practical Joke By CB Insights Skewering VC Culture Fooled Silicon ValleyDisney is losing its longtime heir to the throneSix years after BP oil spill, judge approves $20 billion settlementIf you own a Revolv device, it’s time to go shoppingThis Is Why You Should Ask Someone The Last Time They FailedWhy Privacy Protection Technology Is So ImportantVisualizing A Hurricane’s Wrath With Wild, Kinetic Data SculpturesRegular Cigarettes Are Still Way Cheaper Than E-Cigarettes In Most Of The WorldHoney Maid Sees The World (And Internet) Is Better With More AcceptanceWatch Amy Schumer Preview Her Own “Hamilton” For Lin-Manuel MirandaThis is one way to express your outrage over the Panama PapersDoctors Who Take Big Pharma Money Prescribe More Brand-Name DrugsWhen is the next Democratic debate?Yes, Groupon still exists…Why Virtual Reality Needs A New VernacularThis May Be The Most Altruistic Reason To Lie Awake At NightAlmost 22% of U.S. homes won’t have pay TV by the end of this yearThe FCC just introduced broadband fact sheets modeled after nutrition labelsAmazon to introduce a new Kindle next weekWall Street Considers Blockchain For Tracking Trades On $2 Trillion “Repo” MarketFormer Tesla exec is quietly working on his own startupNew Health App Shows How Your Body Would Sound If It Was A BandThis Stunning, 3-D Model Of Space Could Fit Inside A Tiny JPEGWatch the latest drone footage of Apple’s new spaceship campus100 Portraits That Tell The Stories Of People Underrepresented In TechToyota’s new data company will partner with MicrosoftThe iPhone SE disappoints in opening weekend salesUncanny Doppelgangers Show Two Workaholics The Vacations They Should Be HavingChina may widely adopt self-driving cars before the U.S.Richard Branson is not happy about Virgin America’s sale to Alaska AirThis Floating Sauna Is Like Your Own (Very Small) Private IslandYou may have to wait a little longer for that Oculus Rift to arriveThis Hacker Feline Is Creating The Internet Of CatsRooftop Solar Panels Could Supply A Really Huge Portion Of Our Electricity NeedsA 24-Year-Old Redesigns Shakespeare For A New GenerationWould You Be More Worried If Your Cab Driver Was Drinking Or Texting?Weekend Recap: SNL Reveals The Truth Behind The “Game Of Thrones” Dragon EffectsA First Look Inside WeWork’s New “Coliving” SpacesHere’s what we learned from Elon Musk’s 68 tweets about the Model 3In case you missed itThe Big Easy Budget Game Lets New Orleanians Balance The City BudgetAirbnb is purging illegal hoteliers in San FranciscoTesla received $10 billion worth of Model 3 orders in just 48 hoursThe hacker who built his own self-driving Acura just raised $3.1 millionConversational Interfaces, ExplainedHow Isaac Mizrahi Became A Champion Of Accessible DesignHow A Geologist Designed The Perfect App For The Window SeatCan Corporate And Creative Cultures Ever Truly Merge?People smugglers are posting ads on Facebook for rides into the EUThis Classroom Stationary Bike Generates Electricity From Kids Who Pedal As They LearnThe biggest data leak in history exposes how the rich and powerful evade taxesWhy Tribeca Film Institute Is Doing Screenings In PrisonThese Aerial Photos Explain Why Europe Has Such A Lower Carbon Footprint Than The U.S.Lessons In How To Build A World-Changing Online Community From Black Lives MatterWhy Certain Facebook Friends Can Boost Your Chance Of Landing A New JobWhat You Should Do When Someone Takes Credit For Your IdeaBlue Origin vertically lands its rocket a third time and shows it off in its coolest video yetThree Ways Google Predicts Your Smartphone Will Change The Future Of WorkAsking These 4 Questions Can Help You Stop Procrastinating7 Steps To Take When Your Work Stress Gets Too Much To HandleHow To Actually Land Interviews From A Job FairLet These Game Theorists Show You A Better Way To Resolve Conflicts