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The goal is to be not so much future-proof, as future-compatible.

Yesterday, Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd announced at Advertising Week that the Post, the 10-year-old news aggregator and publishing empire founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, was working with Code and Theory on a massive network redesign. But while site redesigns generally revolve around page layouts, new logos, font choices, and color schemes, the Huffington Post is taking a broader view. More than just a redesign, it’s a reconception of a blogging behemoth that racks up over 240 million page views every month.

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“At the end of the day, I still want people to look at this car and think, I want to get in and drive it!”

Years in the making, Tesla’s new Model X is the safest SUV ever created, according to CEO Elon Musk.

After many years of delays, Tesla has finally released its new Model X SUV to the public—and the car sure is worth the wait.

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Shopify, Bigcommerce, and Demandware are the latest companies to partner with Twitter to bring e-commerce to tweets.

The next time you spot a pair of rad sneakers or a handmade iPhone case on Twitter, it may be dangerously easy to have it shipped to your door. That’s because more tweets will be affixed with a “Buy” button, thanks to new partnerships Twitter is announcing today.

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The developer of Adblock Plus, Eyeo, has decided that an independent board should determine which ads can bypass its ad-blocking filters.

Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus—an ad-blocking tool that removes pesky banner ads, pop-ups, and video advertising and is available today for iOS devices—has opted to allow an external board to determine which ads are “acceptable” and can pass through Adblock Plus filters.

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Use the Frontier Plus in tents, sheds, tipis, and tiny houses—and pack it up when you’re done.

Anevay, a camping product company based in England, started with a humanitarian mission: its woodburning stove was initially deployed to disaster zones. After word got out about how well the product performed, Anevay put the Frontier Stove on the consumer market. Now it’s re-engineered the design and launched a Kickstarter to get the Frontier Plus on the assembly line.

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TV’s greatest, most dysfunctional family, the Belchers, returns this weekend. That’s excellent news for viewers—and would-be entrepreneurs.

Here at Fast Company, we pride ourselves on being a beacon of advice for entrepreneurs looking to inject innovation and creativity into their business. However, there are some small-business owners who are dismally beyond help—Belcher family, we’re looking at you.

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This week’s top leadership stories may help you cherish your friendships, follow up more tactfully, and boost your intelligence.

This week, we learned why having friends at work makes such a big difference, the right way to follow up, and how to boost your own intelligence.

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Inside the struggle museum and gallery conservators face while fighting bit rot and broken parts.

As a teenager in the early 2000s, London artist Alexander Taylor and his friends shot videos on their Motorola Razr-era cellphones. They swapped the movies they made with one another in the already largely forgotten .3gp file format.

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