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If you want to buy a sleek new heat pump or home battery before tax credits might disappear, here are some of the choices. A handful of purchasing decisions in your own life can make an outsized difference for the climate, from choosing an electric car (or replacing your car with an electric bike) to adding solar on your roof.

Talia Cotton, Joe Doucet, and six other designers reveal the trends they want to let go of next year. There is no escaping the tyranny of trends. But as 2024 draws to a close, we reached out to eight designers and architects, including Talia Cotton, Joe Doucet, and Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi, and asked them to play Ceasar for a day.

Here’s what experts believe could happen to social media over the next 12 months. As 2024 rolls into 2025, big changes are potentially afoot in the world of social media. TikTok is potentially weeks away from closure in the United States. X (the app formerly known as Twitter) continues to deviate from the mainstream under its ownership by Elon Musk.

Young professionals must begin to prepare for board service early in their careers to increase their odds of getting a seat at the table. The next generation of corporate directors will need to be more adaptable, strategic, and visionary than ever. Today’s pace of change demands it, and obligations to generate long-term value creation necessitate it.

Incessant redesign is like having a roommate who randomly rearranges the furniture and constantly switches the contents of all the cabinets. Here’s my Christmas wish this year: I wish everybody would just quit redesigning everything.

The video platform will take action against content that features clickbait titles and thumbnails, particularly those tied to breaking news or current events. Thumbnails play the YouTube equivalent of a movie poster, aiming to draw your attention to click and watch when you have hundreds of videos clogging your recommended content.