First, right here in these Cool Tools headquarters last week, my compadre and fellow Fast Company contributor Jared Newman showed you a series of simple sites for ​seeing minimalist, plain-text ...

AI chatbots tell you what you want to hear. So, if your prompt implies a certain point of view, the response you get will ...

Israel Mendoza will begin serving that sentence after he completes serving a seven-year federal prison term for trafficking ...

Audible has begun rolling out a new feature that allows users to follow audiobook narration with synchronized, word-by-word highlighted text—provided they already own the matching e-book in their ...

As a long-time staple on Pixel phones that recently took over for Samsung Messages in the U.S., Google Messages is the closest thing we have to a default texting app on Android. It has built-in RCS ...

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This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files. That’s because we’ve begun to learn more about the Justice Department’s controversial ...

At some companies, the whispering begins with a single employee, and then spreads from there. Gooseneck microphones start appearing on desks as a growing number of workers forgo keyboards to murmur ...

The contents of a letter Vance Boelter wrote to the FBI was released Tuesday along with a search warrant and six-count indictment charging Vance Boelter with stalking and fatally shooting DFL lawmaker ...

If you’re like us, you have a dozen stories open in tabs you swear you’ll read later—right after you finish work, cook dinner, and log your long training ride. Now, thanks to a new feature on Outside, ...

In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat. By Jeffrey Gettleman In a text message over the weekend, ...

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...