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Lee created or co-created a stable of superhero characters that drove the comics industry for decades and continues to drive Hollywood profits today.

The tweet thread reveals a part of the U.S. where open bigotry often goes unchallenged.

Bell, who has led Snap’s forays into licensed and original content, had been with the company for five years–and his departure comes at an inopportune time.

With its new smartphone widget, Taboola aims to break news out of its walled gardens, says its CEO: “It’s not ads. It’s not sponsored content.”

There will never be ’nuff said about this legendary creator.

The man born Stanley Lieber published his first comic book under the pseudonym Stan Lee in 1941–Captain America Comics #3–and he never looked back. He went on to create some of the most memorable, beloved, pivotal characters in all of comics–among them, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and The Avengers–and help shepherd the industry into cultural dominance. And now, 77 years later, he has died at age 95.

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The CEO of the booming startup Twillio will put $1 million of company’s money toward alleviating homeless problems, urging other tech leaders to pony up, too.

It’s the perfect ad for the Trump era, the rare piece of agitprop seemingly perfectly created for a post-midterm, pre-2020 climate.

As more protesters use direct action–like blocking pipeline construction with their bodies–they’re winning more court cases by saying the dire nature of climate change justifies their actions.

Astronauts and researchers from National Geographic’s “Mars” grapple with the profit motives that could harm humans and the Red Planet.

School officials cut the Summit Learning online education program for 11th and 12th grade after students protested, saying it kept them tied to laptop screens.

Men aren’t allowed to sit on them.

While researching the way people present themselves online, furniture designer Anna Aagaard Jensen began studying videos of male and female guests on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon by watching them in slow motion. She noticed something odd.

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Pete Davidson and Dan Crenshaw’s plea for unity on “Saturday Night Live” reveals the hollowness of public apologies and political calls for bipartisanship.

Voters turned out for mayors focused on fighting climate change, from enacting new building regulations to shifting how people get around cities.

Disruptors are a celebrated minority. Here’s why it’s better to temper your authentic self at work.

The answer has big implications for the future of work, including possibly yours.

When a candidate is really good but not the perfect fit right now, you should put a little extra thought into that rejection letter.

Created by a design student to make controlling privacy easier, it cleverly reimagines how to teach users to protect themselves.

It devalues design and designers themselves.

Behold the finalists for the next symbol of Mexico City’s government. These are the best ideas from a controversial public contest led by the city’s new mayor-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, who launched the contest in September with a first prize of 150,000 Mexican pesos–or $7,353.

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Spurred perhaps by social media, more people are classified as perfectionists. What are the costs and how can you break the paralysis that’s killing your productivity?

WTHN has national ambitions to bring the ancient alternative medical practice to a new audience: wellness-obsessed millennials.

Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey’s support of the then-presidential candidate didn’t sit well with Facebook.

Nearly 60% of all Americans have had sex in cars. Just wait until the cars can drive themselves.

The company will test a brand-new fourth tier to lure in new subscribers.

An edit button on Twitter could be a dangerous thing.

An edit button is something many Twitter users have been clamoring for for some time. The need for such is obvious if you’ve ever published a tweet and minutes later discovered a typo in it. If so, your only option is to delete the tweet and repost it as fresh. Of course, any likes or retweets your typo-laden original tweet got will be lost.

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The company’s faux-beef will soon be available in stores–and it’s still working to get even closer to a plant-based product that can fool meat eaters into thinking they’re eating a real burger.