The countdown is on for Apple’s devoted flock: Later this month, the tech giant will permanently close three stores in California, Connecticut, and Maryland. The Cupertino, California-based company confirmed the store closures back in April, blaming “the departure of several retailers and declining conditions” where they are located, as the company said in a statement to MacRumors. More recently, it updated the details for each of the affected stores, citing the same closure date for each of June 20. The affected stores are: California: Apple North County retail store at the Shops at North County, 272 E Via Rancho Parkway,…
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As a freelance writer, I have it easy. When someone asks for samples of my work, I can send them a link. My skills are right there on the page, with my name on it. But a lot of the solopreneurs in my network don’t have the same experience. Take a marketing strategist, for example. They put a lot of thought into a detailed quarterly plan for an existing client, but there’s no way to share that work with a prospective client. The challenge for consultants, strategists, coaches, and other service providers is that the work sits inside someone else’s…
It’s the first Friday of June (June 5, 2026), and that means it is once again National Donut Day in America (or National Doughnut Day, if you’re Krispy Kreme). Despite the urge to assume the unofficial holiday is just another modern-day marketing scheme by the donut industrial complex, National Donut Day’s origin actually goes back nearly 90 years. As Fast Company previously reported, the first National Donut Day was actually observed in 1938. Per SFGate, the Salvation Army declared the holiday that year to commemorate the volunteers who handed out donuts to frontline soldiers during World War I. Those volunteers,…
Last week, Fast Company reported that Clover Food Lab was closing after over 17 years in business due to financial challenges. The Boston-based vegetarian eatery was a local favorite known for its locally sourced, farm-fresh ingredients. In a May 27 message posted to the Clover website, CEO Julia Wrin Piper announced that the restaurant chain’s last day of operation would be May 28, after which all locations would close. One week later, Piper shared an update announcing that Clover would reopen some of its locations on Tuesday, June 9. Here’s the latest and what to know: Customers weren’t ready to…
U.S. officials have confirmed the presence of a flesh-eating maggot in the United States that has the potential to devastate livestock populations and, as a result, send beef prices spiking. Here’s what you need to know about the New World screwworm that is a threat to both animals and humans. What’s happened? This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed what Texas farmers and the broader American cattle industry had long worried about: the New World screwworm (NWS) has once again been detected within America’s borders. Despite its name, the New World…
In the days leading up to the 2026 State of the Union, George Santos was acting—at least in public—like a man preparing to take a victory lap. In October 2025, President Donald Trump had commuted the former Republican congressman’s 87-month federal prison sentence, which he’d received in April 2025 after pleading guilty to various forms of campaign funds-adjacent fraud. Four short months later, on X, Santos began teasing his triumphant return to the chamber from which he’d been expelled two years earlier. “I’m going to be there for the State of the Union, in the gallery, guys,” Santos said in…
The market research sector has a problem: You don’t pick up your damn phone anymore. Some eight in 10 of us don’t answer when an unknown number calls, according to the Pew Research Center, a shift that has had a knock-on effect on pollsters’ ability to get us to share our thoughts. Online surveys, too, can be easily gamed, and because they require people to opt in by physically visiting a website, they can be even easier to ignore than phone surveys. That’s where AI can help. Across the polling and consumer research industries, firms are using artificial intelligence to…
If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York—say, an NBA Finals game—one aspect of your visit will be having your face scanned by a facial recognition system. Major event venues are increasingly using the technology. Some, like the Garden, use it for surveillance purposes, and some, like Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia and Oracle Park in San Francisco, to offer visitors optional ticketless admission. Adoption of facial recognition technology is increasing, becoming more prevalent in daily life, from public buses to public buildings. The Transportation Security Administration has deployed…
CrowdStrike Holdings (Nasdaq: CRWD) released its fiscal 2027 first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, using the opportunity to announce an upcoming stock split. It’s a first for the cybersecurity company, which made its IPO nearly seven years ago to the day, and will bring a major drop in its per-share price. Here’s everything you need to know about CrowdStrike’s upcoming stock split. What is a stock split? A stock split is a tool companies can use to change their number of shares. Typically, this means increasing the amount, which is the case for CrowdStrike. In these situations, each stockholder will see…
Zelensky is now warning that Russian intelligence preparations point toward a “massive new strike” against Ukraine. He urged Ukrainians to pay attention to air raid warnings and said Ukrainian intelligence services have information indicating that Russia is preparing another large-scale attack. At the same time, Moscow has warned diplomats and foreigners to leave Kyiv while threatening what it called “systematic strikes” against targets in the Ukrainian capital. Most people continue to view these announcements as simply another chapter in a war that has dragged on since 2022. That completely misses the larger picture. This conflict stopped being about territory long…