Book lovers with aging Kindles might want to find a new e-reader soon, as Amazon is discontinuing support for its older devices next month. On May 20, the e-commerce giant is set to cut off support for devices released in 2012 or earlier, notifying active users of the affected devices via email. “These models have been supported for at least 14 years—some as long as 18 years—but technology has come a long way in that time, and these devices will no longer be supported moving forward,” an Amazon spokesperson told Fast Company. While the devices will still be able to power on, users will no longer…
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Some Buc-ee’s customers are complaining of pain at the pump—and it’s not the surge in gas prices that’s to blame, but rather the chain’s pay-at-the-pump policy. While it’s common practice for gas stations to require customers paying for gasoline with cash to prepay with a cashier, Buc-ee’s instituted a new policy in March that affects customers paying with credit or debit cards. Customers paying with credit or debit cards are now required to pay at the pump, and can no longer pay at the register, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman. The new policy is intended to speed up transactions…
April officially marks the beginning of spring. But for Halloween fanatics, it marks the halfway point until the year’s spookiest holiday, and decorations are already available for those planning ahead. Unveiled on the morning of April 8, Home Depot debuted its annual “Halfway to Halloween” collection, a line of exclusive and over-the-top decorations for those who like to get a head start on the holiday. “Halloween lovers have started shopping for decor and planning their setups earlier and earlier,” a Home Depot spokesperson told Fast Company. “We wanted to provide another moment for them to prepare for the Halloween season.…
I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is a highly dangerous psychopath, which is defined as a person characterized by traits such as a lack of empathy, remorse, or guilt, and often engages in manipulative or antisocial behavior. From the outset of this war, Netanyahu was very bullish that his dream of destroying Iran would follow. His ruthless tactics of assassinations actually prevent negotiation because they fear that just attending a meeting gives him the opportunity to kill them. The tone of the statement from his office, acknowledging the ceasefire, was far more muted than his boisterous announcement at the outset. The ceasefire…
If you bought Tom’s of Maine toothpaste in the last six years, you could be eligible for a cash payout stemming from a recent $2.9 million settlement. The class-action lawsuit filed against Tom’s parent company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, “alleged deceptive and misleading business practices with respect to the manufacturing, marketing, and sale” of certain toothpaste products.” Tom’s is best known for its natural products. The toothpaste products were produced at its manufacturing facility in Sanford, Maine, where the company also makes deodorant and bar soap, and sold to consumers through third-party retailers. What’s the issue in the class-action lawsuit? During a…
While we are a tech company focused on financial services, we’ve realized a hard truth: in the high-stakes world of regulated AI, your model is only as good as the person who built it. While the rest of the industry is obsessed with “GPU-first” strategies, we are betting on a “human-first” approach to technology. In our newly released white paper, The Making of the Brillianeers, we outline a strategy, inspired by Toyota’s “just-in-time” manufacturing philosophy, that treats engineering talent not as an operating expense, but as a strategic, investor-level asset. THE TOYOTA PARALLEL Toyota revolutionized the automotive industry by moving…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 2,878.86 points or 5.39% to 56,308.42 • Shanghai increased 104.833 points or 2.69% to 3,994.998 • Hang Seng increased 776.49 points or 3.09% to 25,893.02 • ASX 200 increased 223.00 points or 2.55% to 8,951.80 • SENSEX increased 2,946.32 points or 3.95% to 77,562.90 • Nifty50 increased 873.70 points or 3.78% to 23,997.35 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.008 or 1.15% to 0.70535 • NZDUSD increased 0.00982 or 1.71% to 0.58322 • USDJPY decreased 1.21 or -0.76%…
The spring bloom of cherry blossoms are known to be a stunning sight. Across Japan, Korea, and places like Washington, D.C., the trees burst with dense, pink flowers for just one or two weeks, bringing millions of tourists. But climate change is threatening these blooms. As the planet warms, our winters are getting milder. And those mild winters can delay the flowering of cherry blossom trees by up to 32 days, according to a new study from researchers at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Kyushu, Japan, and at Boston University. Without enough cold weather, the trees don’t…
In 1990, my mother discovered a four-year-old startup called American Girl, and she liked what she saw: Books about different eras in American history, told through the eyes of a girl roughly her daughter’s age, with an 18-inch doll based on each character. It was more educational and wholesome than Barbie, so she was happy to buy them for me. My favorite character was Molly McIntire, a 9-year-old living through World War II in Illinois, whose father had been sent to the front lines and hadn’t written home in months. What I loved about the books was that they trusted…
As a teenager, my Sony Walkman was my most treasured possession. It was a portal to another world that let me consume music in industrial quantities. By the early 1990s, it wasn’t new—Sony invented it in the late ’70s—yetit still held incredible power. Sony sold more than 220 million units globally. When one died, often from overuse, I’d use a birthday or Christmas present to upgrade it, usually with a trip to an electronics store with my Dad. Those places felt mythical. That feeling came flooding back when I visited a big-box electronics store with my kids. Retail is under…