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Nike was the fastest-growing shoe brand on StockX last year — and it wasn't because of a sneaker

Nike released the ReactX Rejuven8 in early 2025. Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nike was the fastest-growing shoe brand on StockX in 2025. It wasn't a sneaker that fueled a 5,...

20hBusiness InsiderlifestyleImpact

Show HN: Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals

Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block...

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Goldman Sachs breaks down what the doomsayers get wrong about the US economy in 8 charts

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images In 2026 outlook, Goldman Sachs says US economic and stock market risks are overstated. The firm underscored US strength and projects continued growth. US stocks are in good ...

1dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Marc Benioff says a documentary about Character.AI's effects on children was 'the worst thing I've ever seen in my life'

Marc Benioff said that Section 230 needs to be reformed and tech companies should be held responsible for online harm. Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images Marc Benioff said that AI-related suicid...

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I took a career break to travel in my 40s, but even that exhausted me. I reparented myself — and finally learned to slow down.

Mandalia left his job in 2022 and spent 18 months traveling. Courtesy of Himal Mandalia Himal Mandalia took a six-month career break , which turned into 3 ½ years. He struggled to slow down during the...

19hBusiness InsiderlifestyleImpact

My husband and I built careers in tech and law. In our 40s, we sold our house, traveled for a year, and left both industries.

My husband and I sold our house and spent a year traveling. Jason Prokowiew After my husband was laid off from his tech job, we decided to sell our house and travel for a year. During our time abroad,...

1dBusiness Insiderlifestyle

Ford is so desperate for mechanics it's giving some of them free tools and Carhartt gear

Ford can't find enough mechanics to service its new cars. It's trying to create a pipeline of young workers with Carhartt. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Ford and Carhartt entered into a three-pronged p...

2dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

The 10 highest-grossing actors at the global box office

Zoe Saldaña doing a motion-capture performance to play Neytiri in "Avatar: Fire & Ash." Mark Fellman/20th Century Studios Stars like Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson have ...

2dBusiness InsiderEntertainment

Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk's xAI over alleged explicit Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...

5hBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Building a Better Hijack: Going From Planes to Trains in Season 2 of the Idris Elba Show

Back in the far-away days of 2023, Apple TV dropped a series titled Hijack. Starring Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, a high-end business negotiator caught in the middle of a complicated and twisty plane hij...

1dIGNEntertainment

BlackRock is now $14 trillion after a record-breaking year. The firm has an ambitious fundraising plan for 2026.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has gone all in on private markets Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty Images BlackRock hit $14 trillion in assets after bringing in close to $700 billion in net inflows in 2025. ...

16hBusiness Insidereconomics

I'm glad I made time to get to know my grandmother as an adult. Learning about her 99 years helped me see the world differently.

The author's grandmother lived to 99. Courtesy of Tracy Granzyk My grandmother lived to 99, and I got to know her better as an adult than I did as a child. I'm glad we spent that time together and tha...

1dBusiness Insiderlifestyle

David Ellison's Paramount suffers a setback in its legal fight with Warner Bros. Discovery

David Zaslav is chief of Warner Bros. Discovery, left, which just rejected Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison's latest bid for Warners. JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images; Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via...

14hBusiness Insidereconomics

Ubisoft Layoffs Continue With 55 Staff at The Division Studio Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm Now Impacted

Ubisoft has today announced that it expects 55 jobs to impacted as part of further cost-cutting, now at The Division studio Massive and fellow Swedish outfit Ubisoft Stockholm. The likely job losses f...

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Anthropic says its buzzy new Claude Cowork tool was mostly built by AI — in less than 2 weeks

Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...

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Who Ends the World? Fallout Season 2 Just Got a Lot More Interesting With Episode 5 — and Fans Have Plenty of Theories About What It All Means

Fallout Season 2 Episode 5 contained a number of revelations for the ongoing storyline of Amazon’s adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video games — some of which have ramifications for what we underst...

18hIGNEntertainment

US planning for the Maduro raid eyed a time when much of the Venezuelan military was expected to be on holiday, memo reveals

The US initially planned its raid into Venezuela at a time when soldiers would be on leave, a newly released memo reveals. AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez US planning for the Maduro raid focused on a time...

14hBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

'Pay Attention' — Avengers: Doomsday Directors Issue Cryptic Message to Fans, Insist the 4 Teaser Trailers Are Neither Teasers nor Trailers

Avengers: Doomsday directors the Russo Brothers have issued a cryptic message to fans following the release of the fourth teaser trailer for the upcoming Marvel movie, insisting they are neither tease...

2dIGNEntertainment

Universal Fan Fest Nights Returns in 2026 With Scooby-Doo Meets Universal Monsters, One Piece, Dungeons & Dragons, Harry Potter, and Super Nintendo World Experiences

Universal Fan Fest Nights is back again at Universal Studios Hollywood beginning on April 23, and this year it will feature Scooby-Doo Meets Universal Monsters, One Piece, Dungeons & Dragons, Harry Po...

12hIGNEntertainmentImpact

Democratic congressman Ro Khanna wants creators to have their own 'bill of rights'

US House Rep. Ro Khanna. The Washington Post/Getty Images Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a resolution Thursday called the "Creator Bill of Rights." The progressive congressman is...

21hBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact
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