Missouri sues Starbucks over its diversity programs
The fight over businesses’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs is heading to the courtroom. This week, a lawsuit was filed against coffee giant Starbucks over DEI practices,…
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She helped create the U.S. Digital Service. Now it’s become the U.S. DOGE Service
As former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Jen Pahlka helped to create the U.S. Digital Service (USDS). Today, the USDS houses Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),…
Where’s my tax refund? This online IRS tool shows your refund’s status
The 2025 tax season is in full swing, and the number one question most people have on their minds after filing their return is, “Where’s my tax refund?” Thankfully, the Internal Revenue…
The New Yorker turns 100: Here’s how it started with a poker game
Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought a new – and much-needed – sophistication to American journalism when it launched 100 years ago this…
Calligraphy bot
Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 set out to make a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. They built its mechatronic parts in a month; then, fueled by Hershey’s dark chocolates, they put in…
A partnership between Jigsaw, this Kentucky city could be the future of civic engagement
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is known for being the city from which Corvettes roll off the production lines, and for Fruit of the Loom underwear, which is headquartered there. But the city of…
January was a terrible month for retail sales thanks. Blame the cold
U.S. retail sales dropped sharply last month, in part because cold weather kept more Americans indoors, denting sales at car dealers and most other stores. Retail sales fell 0.9% in…
Treasury watchdog office is auditing DOGE’s access to federal government’s payment system
The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government’s payment system, after Democratic…
The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
When news first broke about Elon Musk’s tech takeover of the United States government, a number of people who had spent years trying to transform federal IT practices were surprisingly…
National Park Service erases transgender references from Stonewall National Monument website
In a move on the petty-but-harmful bar of shutting down the White House Spanish-language page and the removal of words such as “diversity” and “fairness” from the FBI core values, the…
This DARPA-backed startup banked $100 million for its energy-slashing analog chips
A young DARPA-backed startup with a fresh spin on a low-power computer chip has raised over $100 million in a Series B funding round, a sign of the wild appetite for more energy-efficient…
Trump just drove a truck through Congress’s massive tariff loopholes
In 2018, after imposing steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Donald Trump famously tweeted, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Trump’s time out of the White House has not…
The Download: China’s EV to humanoid robot pivot, and voice clone censorship
2 We’re trying to get AI to run before it can walk AI agents aren’t really ready yet. But the logic of competition means they’re being unleashed anyway. (Vox $) + A lot of people will try…
Why leaders must slow down to speed up transformation
Jeff Bezos once said, “I like to wander.” That may seem counterintuitive in a business world obsessed with speed, but in a relentless pursuit of momentum, many leaders forget that speed…
TikTok and CapCut shoot right to the top of Apple’s App Store downloads as ByteDance returns to phones
ByteDance’s TikTok and CapCut apps are back in the Apple and Google app stores after having been absent from both for nearly a month. And in a sign of just how popular both apps are, both…
5 reasons your boss is holding you back
Reflecting on her astronomic career rise, one of the leaders I coached once noted, “I have always done better when my direct line manager was basically absent—alternatively, they were…
Local history buffs are turning to Facebook to share memories of bygone eras
Social media has a reputation for capturing ephemeral thoughts and images, but around the world, people are using Facebook for a different purpose, setting up groups to record and share…
Elon Musk’s war on USAID is a war on reality
On January 29, President Donald Trump celebrated the latest victory in unelected billionaire Elon Musk’s crusade against “inefficiency” in the government: stopping $50 million from,…
NASCAR 25, the new game from iRacing, will put Daytona 500 fans in the driver’s seat
The Daytona 500 is one of the more challenging races on the NASCAR circuit. The speedway is long and narrow, forcing drivers to be more aggressive. And the weather in central Florida…
Everything you need to know about Elon Musk’s DOGE staffers
Though only a few weeks old, already the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is radically changing the face of bureaucracy in D.C. The Elon Musk-led agency has slashed government…
Hims & Hers markets itself in a very 2025 way: by picking a fight
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. When a brand goes negative, it’s usually with a claim that a competitor is somehow…
The Trump administration’s witch hunt for climate words is going to derail major infrastructure projects
In another move from the Trump administration aimed at disrupting climate science, the Commerce Department has ordered NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to search…
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products, but even I can’t stick up for you anymore,” she stated. Róbertsdóttir, now a software developer for Icelandic…
A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.
“Well, apparently not, because the next day a human banned me!!!!” says Joyce. She says she felt mortified. “I’d just got my voice back and now they’d taken it away from me … and only two…