Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. Its natural to assume the cause is born of an individual failurethe leader lacks competence, their boss didnt prepare or train them well, they dont care about how others experience them. And many of these reasons certainly hold true. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

“ Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.” Stephen Few, data visualization expert On a single day, Facebook users share 2.45 billion pieces of content and thats on just one platform. Add in news sites, cat videos, promo emails, memes, and podcasts, and you quickly understand why organizations struggle to attract attention.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2025

Cutting government waste does not mean cutting people off. We are calling upon Idahoans to help find a way to maintain essential services while making sure every dollar works harder. At Idaho Partners for Good , we believe the key is to invest in solutions that empower diverse nonprofits, leverage community strengths, and promote long-term sustainability ensuring that fiscal responsibility and social good go hand in hand.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 18, 2025

New data shows 69% of nonprofit professionals believe using AI for manual tasks would improve job satisfaction, plus other findings.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Executives and managers are traditionally reluctant to express any tender inner feelings from their teams and peers. Yet leaders who are willing to tap into the power of vulnerability are seeing benefits to their ability to connect, motivate, and lead teams. The experience of vulnerability might feel weak to some, but researchers like Bren Brown have reframed the expression of vulnerability as an act of courage , a superpower that can boost psychological safety and foster a culture of innovation

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2025

This post is adapted from Association 4.0 Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption , originally published in 2018. At the time of this interview, Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE , servedand continues to serveas the CEO of APICS (now the Association for Supply Chain Management ). While the governance landscape has evolved, the strategies and leadership insights shared here remain timeless.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

You don't see this every day. It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR 8799. These large, gaseous worlds are located 130 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy (a light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles).

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Ars Technica

MARCH 18, 2025

There's a new Google AI model in town, and it can generate or edit images as easily as it can create textas part of its chatbot conversation. The results aren't perfect, but it's quite possible everyone in the near future will be able to manipulate images this way. Last Wednesday, Google expanded access to Gemini 2.0 Flash's native image generation capabilities, making the experimental feature available to anyone using Google AI Studio.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

PepsiCo is sick of being left out of the prebiotic soda crazeand to catch up with competitors, the multinational food and beverage corporation just dropped $1.65 billion to acquire the functional soda startup Poppi. The deal, announced this morning, will bring Poppis range of 14 colorful, low-sugar, prebiotic-packed sodas into Pepsis expansive existing beverage portfolio.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

Audible enclaves are local pockets of sound no one else can hearno headphones required. What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Newly published research from our team at Penn State introduces a way to create audible enclaves localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Last Wednesday, Meta successfully obtained a ruling blocking whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Today, the book is third on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Who could have seen this coming? SEE ALSO: Meta blocks whistleblower from promoting book, guaranteeing way more people will read it Released on March 11, Careless People recounts Wynn-Williams' experiences working at Meta ( previously Facebook ) from 2

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant. Copilot has made it into Windows 11 (and even, to a more limited extent, the aging Windows 10) as a native app, and then a wrapper around a web app, and soon as a native app again.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Few topics are simultaneously so celebrated and misunderstood as human potential. On the one hand, we have an influx of near-perpetual articles urging people to unlock or fulfill their own potential, saying essentially that anything else equates to failure. On the other hand, if we ask an average leader or HR professional how to define or explain potential, we are unlikely to get a logical, rational, or scientifically valid answer.

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

As slumping EV giant Tesla's sales slow to a crawl , rival Chinese company BYD is starting to eat its lunch. Yesterday, the Shenzhen-based corporation revealed a lineup of cars it claims can soak up nearly 250 miles' worth of battery charge in just five minutes just a hair longer than the time it takes to pump a traditional car full of gasoline. The buzzy new tech will be available next month in BYD's flashy new Han L sedan.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

AI is all over social media. We have AI influencers , AI content, and AI accounts — and, now, it looks like we might get AI comments on Instagram posts, too. What are any of us doing this for anymore? App researcher Jonah Manzano shared a post on Threads and a video on TikTok showing how some Instagram users now notice a pencil with a star icon in their comments field, allowing them to post AI-generated comments under posts and videos.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its moonshot incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musks Starlink network of satellites. Taara is the latest project to spring from XAlphabets experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymos self-driving carsand has its origins in a concept called Loon.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Everyone knows pain. It’s the most common ailment people experience, from a headache to a stubbed toe to a sore back. Treating pain can be as straightforward as popping a pill. But for people experiencing chronic painlike the lingering aftereffects of chemotherapy or the slow rehabilitation after a major car accidentmedication is rarely enough to fully erase the pain.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Futurism

MARCH 17, 2025

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters , an international team of researchers discovered that the star a small red dwarf star just 16 percent of our own Sun's mass and just under six light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus has four tiny and seemingly rocky worlds orbiting it.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Googles parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 18, 2025

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost science station accomplished a lot on the Moon in the last two weeks. Among other things, its instruments drilled into the Moon's surface, tested an extraterrestrial vacuum cleaner, and showed that future missions could use GPS navigation signals to navigate on the lunar surface. These are all important achievements, gathering data that could shed light on the Moon's formation and evolution, demonstrating new ways of collecting samples on other planets, and reveali

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Lidar has long been considered the gold standard of self-driving technology. Most car companies use the technology, alongside cameras, radar, and AI, to fully assess a vehicles’ environment. Except for one notable exception: Tesla. Elon Musk has always had it out for Lidar, calling it a a crutch, a losers technology and too expensive. After experimenting with Lidar in early autonomous driving prototypes, Musk went a different direction.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

We're five episodes into The White Lotus Season 3 , the tension is mounting, and it looks like things will be close to breaking point in episode 6. HBO's preview above shows the various characters dealing with the aftermath of their big nights out in episode 5, with friction developing between the trio of friends and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) telling Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) that her (very dangerous) husband Greg (Jon Gries) "knows about you.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

The quick-service restaurant industry is a marvel of modern logistics, where speed, teamwork and kitchen operations are key ingredients for every order. Yum! Brands is now introducing AI-powered agents at select Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations to assist and enhance the team member experience. Today at the NVIDIA GTC conference, Yum! Brands announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA with a goal of deploying multiple AI solutions using NVIDIA technology in 500 restaurants this year.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Back when EV enthusiasm was higher, there were fits and starts of vehicle-to-home concepts and products. If EVs and their ginormous batteries are expensive, resource-intensive purchases, the thinking went, maybe we should get something more out of them than just groceries and school pick-ups. Maybe we could find other things for that huge battery to do during the 95 percent of time it spends parked in or near our homes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Some directors are known for their typographic flairfrom the ultrawide tracking of Christopher Nolans film titles to Quentin Tarantinos genre vernacular font and lettering selections. But last week, as we reported on Sean Bakers extensive use of Aguafina Script across his past four movies, we wondered: How many other directors have firmly embraced a single, singular typefaceand what does that typeface say about their films?

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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