Yasmin Gagne

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Podcast Host at Most Innovative Companies

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The CEO behind dire wolf ‘de-extinction’ defends his work- Fast Company

1 week ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

This week, genomics and biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences unveiled genetically engineered canines—named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—that it calls dire wolves, a species of wolf that went extinct 13,000 years ago. The company, which has raised $437 million from investors and is valued at $10.2 billion, created the animals by editing the DNA of existing gray wolf cells to include traits from long-extinct dire wolves (like fluffy white fur and big size).
Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm defends his ‘de-extinct’ dire wolf

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Yasmin Gagne

21 hours agoToday's best political cartoons include Trump's Art of the Tariffs deal and dire wolvesSign up for The Week's Free Newsletters From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly …2 hours agoScientists say they ‘de-extincted’ dire wolves.
Walton Goggins lanza su emprendimiento con la IA de GoDaddy

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Yasmin Gagne

Walton Goggins ha tenido una racha increíble últimamente. El año pasado protagonizó la serie de televisión Fallout de Amazon y este año actúa en la tercera temporada de The White Lotus y en la cuarta y última temporada de The Righteous Gemstones. Estos papeles son logros destacados en la carrera de este actor de carácter, quien ha tenido papeles protagónicos en The Shield, Justified y Vice Principals. Pero no es solo un actor: también es propietario de una pequeña empresa.
This audio erotica app is seducing listeners with women-centric stories—read by ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott and others | DeviceDaily.com

2 weeks ago | devicedaily.com | Yasmin Gagne

This audio erotica app is seducing listeners with women-centric stories—read by ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott and others Hundreds of thousands of listeners are smitten with audio platform Quinn and its growing library of creator-driven erotica. Rebecca Yarros’s romantasy novel Onyx Stormstormed the book charts in January, becoming the fastest-selling adult novel in 20 years.
This 'White Lotus' actor isn't pranking you with Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

Walton Goggins has had an incredible run recently. Last year, he anchored Amazon’s Fallout TV show and this year is starring in Season 3 of The White Lotus and the 4th and final season of The Righteous Gemstones. These roles are feathers in the cap of the character actor who’s had star turns in The Shield, Justified, and Vice Principals. But he’s not just an actor—he’s also a small business owner.
Dr. Becky's Good Inside app offers an AI-powered parenting coach

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

Dr. Becky Kennedy, a New York City-based clinical psychologist who coaches parents through difficult moments with their kids, has created a booming business centered on the notion that kids are, essentially, good people. The idea sounds simple, but to Kennedy, it’s profound—the key to unlocking healthy parent-child relationships. And that insight, which Kennedy has developed into the Good Inside method, has turned “Dr. Becky” from prominent psychologist into a celebrity-status parenting guru.
Me Too founder Tarana Burke wants to turn sexual-violence survivors into a powerful voting bloc

4 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

Activist and advocate Tarana Burke has spent 30 years raising awareness of sexual violence and working to eradicate it. Burke, who currently serves as the chief vision officer of the nonprofit organization Me Too Movement, coined the phrase “Me Too” in 2006 as a way show young women of color who had experienced sexual violence that they were not alone.
The most innovative companies in media and news for 2025

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

As the hollowing-out of newsrooms across the country continues, some media outlets have stood apart by doubling down on serving their communities. Last August, the country’s eighth-leading daily newspaper rebranded from Minneapolis Star Tribune to Minnesota Star Tribune, signaling a shift to coverage of statewide issues; indeed, the paper doubled its staff outside Minneapolis, a hiring spree that bucked industry trends.
The most innovative companies in retail for 2025

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

As generative AI advanced at warp speed over the past year, innovative retail companies continued to find practical ways to incorporate the technology, helping shoppers to efficiently find what they want—even when they don’t know what they’re looking for. Amazon debuted Rufus, an AI-powered conversational shopping assistant trained on its own product catalog to help shoppers sort through the 350 million products on offer.
More Americans watch YouTube on TV than on their smartphones—here’s what that means for creators and viewers

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Yasmin Gagne

YouTube celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Currently, users watch more than a billion hours of content on the Google-owned video platform every day. And increasingly, that content is streamed on TVs rather than smartphones. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan recently announced that YouTube’s TV viewership surpassed smartphone viewership in the United States for the first time.