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Nike's Chief Innovation, Design, and Product Officer Phil McCartney joined NBA player Cade Cunningham and WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu in a discussion moderated by Fast Company's Brendan Vaughan about the company's renewed focus on product innovation. The conversation centered on how Nike is realigning its design and development process around athlete feedback to reclaim its edge in performance footwear and apparel.
Google has rolled out its latest Pixel feature drop, giving Pixel 6 and newer users home screen widgets for quick calls or texts to VIP contacts, plus new scam detection warnings built into the Gboard keyboard for chat apps. The update also brings Harry Potter-themed customization packs and two free months of Audible, tied to the release of a new full-cast audiobook series, alongside gesture improvements for the Pixel Watch line.
Canon has unveiled the EOS R8 Mark II, a successor that finally adds in-body image stabilization, one of the biggest gaps in the 2023 original. The camera will launch in late October at $1,899 for the body alone, or $2,099 with a 24-50mm stabilized lens, positioning it between the original R8 and the pricier EOS R6 Mark III.
A developer who wrote a 174-line PHP polyfill in 2014 as a temporary fix for AOL's content management system has now marked the package as deprecated. The code, originally meant to replace a deprecated function from the pecl_http extension, was shared on Packagist and has since been installed nearly 20 million times, with over 400,000 installs still occurring monthly. It also spread indirectly through WPML, idna-convert, SPIP, and Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu.
Actor and entrepreneur Elizabeth Banks joined Archer Roose, a canned wine company, as an investor and chief creative officer. Alongside founder and CEO Marian Leitner-Waldman, she has taken an active role in reshaping the brand's marketing and public image within the traditional wine industry.
Yellowstone National Park officials disclosed that visitors have thrown a wide variety of objects into the park's hydrothermal vents this year, ranging from unusual to unsanitary to inexplicable. The park did not release a complete inventory, but staff described the debris as a mix of the wacky, the yucky, and the puzzling.
J.Crew Group's CIO Danielle Schmelkin and CEO Libby Wadle discussed how the retailer is integrating artificial intelligence into its operations while preserving its creative identity. The conversation, moderated by Fast Company's Elizabeth Segran, framed AI adoption at J.Crew as a cultural undertaking rather than a purely technical one.
Insomniac Games, known for its expansive Spider-Man titles, took a different approach with its new Wolverine game by building a linear, chapter-based narrative instead of an open world. The game follows Logan through a tight series of locations and personal relationships, prioritizing emotional storytelling over exploration or side content.
Steve Bannon, the former Trump strategist, and Senator Bernie Sanders have publicly aligned on an unlikely issue: both warn that unchecked artificial intelligence development could pose catastrophic dangers to society. Despite their sharply opposing politics, the two are calling on Washington to move quickly to impose regulatory limits on AI systems.
A rare alignment has formed between rival AI executives Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, who are voicing alarm over existential AI risks after an Anthropic researcher publicly quit citing safety fears and a colleague estimated AI could have over a 10% chance of causing human extinction. President Trump has dismissed these warnings as a hoax meant to slow data center buildout, a stance echoed by Nvidia's Jensen Huang and former crypto czar David Sacks.
Director Mike Flanagan, who is developing a new adaptation of Stephen King's 'Carrie,' has suggested the project could weave in elements linking it to King's sprawling 'Dark Tower' multiverse. Flanagan has previously expressed a long-held ambition to adapt 'The Dark Tower' himself, and appears to be looking for ways to incorporate that world into his current King-related work.
Apple has classified the 2019 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display as vintage worldwide, following last month's addition of three MacBook models to the same list. The designation applies to products discontinued for more than five but less than seven years.