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Fortune, a Rare Media Success, Faces a New Set of Challenges

Adweek.com 

When the business publisher Fortune was first spun out of the former Meredith Corp. in 2018, it faced an uncertain future. The legacy title had launched a standalone website only four years prior, had no digital subscription program, and had only a fledgling online readership. Nearly six years later, however, the 94-year-old publisher has since...

How Peacock’s Love Island USA Is Translating Into Brand Impact

Adweek.com 

Competition reality TV is having a moment for brands--and everyone wants to be the new bombshell entering the villa. According to NBCUniversal, reality television has become a true love story for brand marketing, bringing a 42% increase in likeability compared with television norms and causing a halo effect opportunity for advertisers. Among the highlights, brands...

The Big Interview Gets Even Bigger

Wired Magazine 

A YouTube series! An event in San Francisco! Even a good old-fashioned print issue! As The Big Interview expands, WIRED interviews its own global editorial director, Katie Drummond.

This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year

Vox 

More than a decade ago, scientists achieved a historic breakthrough: They found a first-ever cure for hepatitis C, one of two related liver diseases that, combined, take more than a million lives every year.  In 2016, just three years after the antiviral drug Sovaldi received FDA approval, the World Health Organization (WHO) set the audacious […]

2025 Lincoln Aviator First Drive: Still a beautiful example of American luxury

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Will computers ever feel responsible?

Technology Review  

“If a machine is to interact intelligently with people, it has to be endowed with an understanding of human life.”  —Dreyfus and Dreyfus Bold technology predictions pave the road to humility. Even titans like Albert Einstein own a billboard or two along that humbling freeway. In a classic example, John von Neumann, who pioneered modern…

This startup is making coffee without coffee beans

Technology Review  

DJ Tan, cofounder of the Singaporean startup Prefer Coffee, pops open a bottle of oat latte and pours some into my cup. The chilled drink feels wonderfully refreshing in Singapore’s heat—and it tastes just like coffee. And that’s impressive, because there isn’t a single ounce of coffee in it.  It turns out that our beloved…

Job title of the future: Weather maker

Technology Review  

Much of the western United States relies on winter snowpack to supply its rivers and reservoirs through the summer months. But with warming temperatures, less and less snow is falling—a recent study showed a 23% decline in annual snowpack since 1955. By some estimates, runoff from snowmelt in the western US could decrease by a…

25 killed in Yemen deadly flash floods

En.mehrnews.com 

TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – At least 25 people were killed after flash floods hit Yemen's northwestern province of Al-Mahwit, a local health source reported on Wednesday.

Trump, Kemp look to present united front in must-win Georgia

TheHill.com 

Former President Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) are patching things up for now as Republicans look to put on a united front in the must–win state ahead of November. The battle for the Peach State has come increasingly into focus for Democrats since Vice President Harris replaced President Biden atop the ticket. And...

Harris puts spotlight on HBCUs

TheHill.com 

Vice President Harris is the first presidential nominee from a major political party to also have graduated from one of the nation's historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), putting a bigger spotlight on those schools at a critical time. Harris, an alumna of Howard University, accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday night at the Democratic National...

Proof-of-citizenship voting bill push could threaten government shutdown

TheHill.com 

A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged a stopgap of some kind, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), will be necessary to keep the government funded past Sept. 30. But calls are growing...

California AI bill divides Silicon Valley, draws in national policymakers

TheHill.com 

A California bill seeking to create new safety rules for artificial intelligence (AI) has opened up a divide in Silicon Valley, drawing top lawmakers into the debate in a rare foray by national policymakers into Golden State politics. California Senate Bill 1047, known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act,...

Trump campaign seeks to blunt Harris momentum

TheHill.com 

Former President Trump and his campaign are aggressively ramping up their activity ahead of Labor Day in an effort to get his White House bid back on track and blunt Vice President Harris’s momentum. In a stark contrast to early August, Trump is sometimes holding multiple events a day and traveling consistently to battleground states....

Trump sidesteps his role in Afghanistan exit in trying to link Harris to chaos

TheHill.com 

Former President Trump is trying out a campaign strategy to attack Vice President Harris as a straw man for the failures surrounding the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, a chaotic and deadly event that cast a dark shadow over President Biden’s term in office but succeeded in ending America’s longest war.  Republicans and Democrats trade blame over which...