You probably know friends or family members who didn’t vote in the last election. Patagonia wants to offer you $100 to nudge three of them to vote in November.

Caraway spent years designing pretty pans without the toxic coatings. Next, it’s coming for the coffee maker. 

Damaged communications lines at a key air traffic control facility in Philadelphia had been repaired, allowing airports across the U.S. Northeast to resume operations after hours of disruptions, the nation’s transportation secretary said Monday evening.

Hundreds of flights were canceled, including more than 600 into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, as the outage hit every major airport in the New York City area. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also said in an online post that “it will take some time to clear all existing delays” despite the repairs.

The primary communications line at the Federal Aviation Administration facility in Philadelphia had failed earlier Monday, while the backup fiber optic line was inadvertently severed by railroad construction workers. The failures left controllers without radar or communications for hours.

The outage brought commercial air traffic to a near-standstill at Newark for much of the day, with no commercial flights landing at the airport from about 9:40 a.m. to just after 5:20 p.m. local time, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

More than 200 flights into and out of Philadelphia International Airport were also canceled, while disruptions hit LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York. By Monday evening, flights were resuming at those airports.

Some airlines were allowing customers to change flights without charge. The FAA advised travelers to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.

The outage occurred just as President Donald Trump and numerous foreign leaders were flying into New York City for the U.N. General Assembly. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney missed an event Monday on the sidelines of the General Assembly because of the flight disruptions but his office said he had arrived in New York by Monday night.

Cindy Phan said her morning flight from Newark to Minneapolis was repeatedly delayed before she learned around 3 p.m. that it had been canceled and rescheduled for Tuesday, requiring her to find and pay for another night at a hotel.

“We could have had a whole day in New York,” Phan said, adding that she wanted to get home to her “two little Chihuahua babies.”

Shannon Franke and her husband took a connecting flight from Nashville to Chicago when they found out their final Southwest leg home to Philadelphia was canceled. They had gone to Nashville to see the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Tennessee Titans 24-20 on a touchdown in the last seconds Sunday.

Stuck in Chicago, Franke said, they lucked out finding a hotel room and decided to enjoy some deep-dish pizza.

“We’re just making the best of it,” Franke said. “If the Eagles would have lost … it would have been so much worse.”

The technical problems stem from the same FAA facility in Philadelphia that caused numerous disruptions at the Newark airport last spring.

Regional control centers like these have two lines that carry radar and communications data in and out: the primary and the backup. The FAA said a circuit on the primary failed Monday morning, and when the system tried to switch to the backup, workers discovered that the fiber optic line had been cut.

Earlier in the day, Duffy said an Amtrak construction crew was to blame. Amtrak, however, pointed to a New Jersey Transit construction crew that was working in the area between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey.

FAA administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters earlier the agency had focused on fixing the primary connection as soon as possible by installing a new circuit on the primary line, while also working to repair the backup fiber optic line. Verizon said at the time that its technicians were also working to restore service.

Bedford earlier described the fiber break as “massive,” saying it would take several hours to repair, according to a video posted online by a CBS reporter.

The primary circuit that failed is due to be replaced as part of a massive overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system.

Also Monday, the FAA began testing a new computer system that uses AI to help predict schedule conflicts and weather issues to help air traffic controllers reroute traffic. But that system is initially being tested only in the Washington, D.C., area, so it did not appear to be linked to the outages.

PepsiCo may be known for beverages, but it is also one of the world’s largest food companies. Ensuring a sustainable, resilient supply of agricultural ingredients is a business priority—and transformation starts in the fields. Perry Farms in Southern Alberta, Canada, has grown potatoes for Lay’s for more than four decades. Here, the family farmers demonstrate how they use regenerative practices and technology to strengthening soil health and crop resilience.

Forty-five billion. That’s how many potatoes are used every year to make Lay’s, Ruffles, and other snacks produced by food and beverage giant PepsiCo. These potatoes are a crucial link in PepsiCo’s global supply chain, so it’s in the company’s best interest to make sure every farmer’s annual harvest is dependably strong.

Shares in both Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have received a significant boost over the past 24 hours after multiple states agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking to block the merger between the two Hollywood giants.

It’s only late September, but the first nor’easter of the season is upon us. 

At the end of the 20th century, as digital music was first becoming a thing, Winamp was must-have software for many people. The audio player, which famously featured a llama mascot and sounds of a bleating llama when you started it up, has never completely gone away, but it has long since been overshadowed by embedded media players from Microsoft, Apple, and other companies.

When it comes to making the fashion industry more sustainable, there’s only so much a brand can change about its own actions. Around 70% of the industry’s total emissions come from upstream activities in supply chains, like fiber and fabric production.

An exhausted founder is a committed one. That’s one of the non-negotiable rules of startup culture. Elon Musk slept on the Tesla factory floor. Marissa Mayer pulled 130-hour weeks during her time at Google. I worked 18 hours a day, skipping meals and sleep to squeeze in a few more “productive” hours. So if you’re getting eight hours of sleep, eating lunch away from your laptop, and your company still hasn’t made the unicorn list…well, you’re clearly the problem.

The strongest AI agent we recently tested completed 61.7% of 107 real-world commerce tasks.

Last week was a bad one for AI systems. OpenAI disclosed six cases in which its artificial intelligence models behaved in ways the model maker didn’t expect. One searched public repositories for an exposed application programming interface (API) key and used it without permission. Another uploaded a file to the internet so it could cite it. Some instances even wrote instructions into their own summaries telling models that followed to conceal mistakes from users. Then The Wall Street Journal revealed that Google’s Gemini model had also misbehaved, hacking companies’ IT systems during routine tests.

We are losing one of the most powerful drivers of performance at work, the expression of optimism. That is what I am seeing in 11 years of workplace data. While people still call themselves optimists, they are less likely these days to share that optimism with others. And given that optimism has been linked to a wide range of positive business and health outcomes, that decline matters.

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If you visit a Palestinian home, you might come across a colorful geometric pattern adorning the throw pillows or tea towels. 

English middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson set a new meet record when she won the 800 meters at the all-female Athlos track meet in London on September 18, and she did it wearing a futuristic full-length speed suit with a hood, open back, and opening for a ponytail.

“Today, brands must consistently earn the right to be chosen by proving value to their customers.”

McKinsey said it. Every brand knows it. Customer loyalty has never been more important—or harder to maintain. So, what’s the secret to maintaining it?

Ma Yansong steps into a spotlight of his own design. The star Chinese architect is in the entry plaza at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the audacious and gargantuan blockbuster of a building he’s designed in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park to hold the art collection of filmmaker George Lucas.

Over the past three years, Ford has hired about 350 veteran engineers, some of them former employees, to find the failure points its automated quality systems and AI inspection tools were missing. It needed them because, as its vice president of vehicle hardware engineering has since admitted, the company had assumed that introducing artificial intelligence and feeding it design requirements would be enough to produce a high-quality product. It was not.