I spend most of my non-Fast Company work time creating marketing videos. I use pricey, complicated software for several aspects of the process. But I’ve also built a nice stable of cheap or free tools that enhance my workflow tremendously.
Aside from requiring little to no money, these tools are also extremely easy to use. So whether you’re just entering the exciting* world of digital video creation or you’ve been at it for decades, here are some sites worth boo
(Reuters) — Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March, moving forward with a listing it has been eyeing for more than three years, according to people familiar with the matter.
It would be the first IPO of a major social media company since Pinterest’s debut in 2019, and would come as Reddit and its peers face stiff competition for advertising dollars from the likes of TikTok and Facebook.
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The latest chapter in the fight for the future of crypto kicked off this week in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York heard oral arguments in a courtroom battle between the popular crypto exchange Coinbase and the federal government over whether it’s operating as an illegal securities exchange.
In June, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the popular crypto exchange Coinbase al
“It’s a pretty unlikely pairing: taxes and reality TV.”
Jill Cress is putting it mildly. And yet the chief marketing and experience officer at H&R Block is describing exactly what one of the oldest brands in tax preparation services is attempting: making a reality TV show.
In December, the three branches of the European Union came to a hard-fought agreement on the world’s first set of rules on the development and use of artificial intelligence. The so-called AI Act uses a “risk-based” approach, applying a light touch to more benign systems (recommendation engines, for example) while applying stricter transparency rules to more dangerous systems (like those dealing with loan qualification), and outright banning others (surveillance). As has
You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for a year. And they say the site, which is responsible for 90% of all search queries worldwide, does indeed appear to be losing the war against low-quality SEO spam.
When it comes to the best-selling video games each year, it usually isn’t much of a contest.
If there’s not a new release from Rockstar Games (a shoe-in for the top seller), then Call of Duty rules the list. It’s been this way for the past 15 years. But the rankings for 2023 are out—and the firepower of Task Force 141 has been defeated by a bunch of kids running around in robes waving wands.
Hogwarts Legacy was last year’s best-selling ti
On the Hopi Reservation’s more than 1.5 million acres of desert landscape in northeast Arizona, most residents live in villages atop arid mesas.
Below ground, there’s a network of copper wires that provides telephone and internet service. Hopi Telecommunications in 2004 bought the company that had installed them, but has been struggling ever since to upgrade the network to broadband speeds.
Hopi Telecommunications serves both the Hopi reservation an
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ChatGPT is the most powerful AI tool. It’s useful for dozens of daily tasks—from idea generation to editing suggestions.
To get ChatGPT to do what you want, you have to give it clear, detailed instructions. Use a framework I call POP to consistently get useful responses:
Air traffic controllers need help. We don’t yet know what caused the recent Japan Haneda airport runway collision earlier this month, but there is evidence, both abroad and in the U.S., that air traffic control is stretched too thin. And that could have disastrous consequences on planes’ and passengers’ safety.
Last month, the New York Times reported that air traffic controllers have become “an exhausted and demoralized workforce that is increasingly pron