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A creator published a collection of custom icons representing 544 cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico, built for a project called TrainGame. The set covers every city above 100,000 people in each country, plus five smaller exceptions in states lacking a city of that size, and uses population data from 2024 (US), 2025 (Canada), and 2020 (Mexico).
Researchers trained a machine-learning model, OneStrata, on global fossil-record data rather than text, using it to reconstruct biodiversity changes across hundreds of millions of years. The model, presented at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver on October 12, indicates that three of the so-called Big Five mass extinctions unfolded as gradual declines rather than sudden catastrophic events.
In an NYSE interview, a manufacturing executive said domestic production in the U.S. can reach price parity with, or even undercut, Chinese-made goods. The claim came in response to a question about whether a focus on American-made products puts the speaker at a competitive disadvantage on cost.
Elon Musk announced plans to give one SpaceX share to every child in the United States beginning next year. With roughly 72 million children in the country as of July 2025, the pledge would amount to about $10.5 billion in shares, according to CNBC. The announcement comes as Musk has also been making large political donations, including $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund PAC and $76 million to his own America PAC.
Fast Company interviewed more than 130 working mothers who said they started companies to address problems in childcare, parental support, and family logistics that they felt were unaddressed by government policy or employers. The outlet compiled an accompanying list of over 75 such businesses founded by mothers. One example cited is Stephanie Fornaro, who left a sales job before the birth of her second child in 2017.
Belgian photographer Eva Verbeeck spent six years traveling through 28 U.S. states to photograph more than 400 girls aged 8 to 18, shooting on analog film. Each girl was invited to bring an object of personal significance for her portrait, and the resulting images make up a new book, America's Girls, On the Edge of a Dream, published by GOST Books. Verbeeck says the project grew out of her childhood fascination with American teenage life as seen through magazines and pop culture while growing up in rural Belgium.
Elon Musk has agreed to settle two lawsuits filed by Arizona residents in Austin, Texas over his 2024 promise to give $1 million daily to randomly selected registered voters in swing states. The settlement terms have not been disclosed. The plaintiffs alleged the drawings weren't actually random and that they wouldn't have signed the required petition had they known this.
In a Verge interview feature, former Radiolab host Jad Abumrad discusses the everyday and digital tools he relies on, from a flat travel pillow to the calendar app Fantastical, which he says makes scheduling meetings enjoyable. The piece also recaps his career, including his Peabody Award-winning shows Dolly Parton's America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, and his 2022 departure from Radiolab, the show he founded that pioneered cinematic sound design in podcasting.
The FDA has submitted an 'Interim Access Policy' on peptide drugs to the White House for review, according to people familiar with the matter cited by the Associated Press. The policy would reportedly let the agency decline to enforce existing restrictions on certain peptides, reassuring compounding pharmacies that they won't face enforcement action if they begin producing them. This comes as FDA scientists are re-reviewing a dozen peptide drugs previously found in 2023 to lack sufficient safety and efficacy data.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that reshoring production to the U.S. is primarily a financial calculation for business owners rather than a patriotic gesture. The piece walks through a hypothetical $10 million consumer products company weighing higher labor, facility and supply-chain costs against the benefits of automation and shorter logistics chains if it moves manufacturing stateside. The author frames the central issue as whether entrepreneurs can make the economics work, not whether domestic manufacturing is possible in principle.
Federal filings show Elon Musk's America PAC spent $76.7 million in the third quarter of 2026, including $35.8 million on a voter-turnout canvassing operation across seven Senate battleground states and various House races. That canvassing spend already exceeds the roughly $45 million the PAC had spent at the same point in the 2024 presidential cycle. Musk also directed $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund and a similar sum to a newly registered Texas PAC supporting Ken Paxton's Senate bid.
Fast Company's Shalene Gupta surveyed more than 100 women on balancing motherhood with career advancement, finding that even accomplished women in leadership roles struggle to maintain work-life balance. Many described relying on personal workarounds or 'hacks' they developed on their own to cope with workplace structures not designed with parenting responsibilities in mind.