Cheddar, the so-called millennial CNBC, scooped up by Altice for $200M

The OTT news channel for millennials is joining one of the old cable ranks. | Continue reading


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Infuriating iPhone and Mac glitches–and how to cope

Though known for slick, intuitive design, Apple has let a bunch of glitches and poor design choices persist for way too long in its mobile devices and computers. | Continue reading


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Lyft’s Response to ADA lawsuit: “We’re not a transportation company”

The claim came in response to a class-action lawsuit. | Continue reading


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The $70B quest for a good night’s sleep

Rest has become the ultimate luxury. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

I took a pay cut for a more meaningful job; it was nothing like I expected

Most Americans say they would give up a more lucrative job for a more meaningful job that pays less in a heartbeat. But it’s a change that requires thought and careful planning–and doesn’t always go according to plan. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The Risks of Banning Huawei

Not only would blocking the telecom giant limit Western access to new, state-of-the-art technology, it could create a world split along technological lines. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Yes, RealNetworks still exists, and now it’s selling face surveillance software

The company best known for its early streaming media technology is continuing its push into facial recognition software. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Verizon workers to confront execs over warehouse “abuses” at shareholder meeting

Last year, Verizon’s then-CEO vowed to look into a former warehouse worker’s story of pregnancy discrimination. She never heard back from the company. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

When it comes to our DNA and social privacy, our model of consent is broken

Preventing the abuse of technology depends upon strong protections for individuals—not just for those who consent to the use of their data, and for those who do not. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Audiophiles have one less reason to be grumpy about streaming video. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

I want to make Facebook into the best blogging platform in the world that has over a billion readers. Here's what's needed to make that work and then why it's important.Links.Styling -- bold, italic, lists, subheads.Enclosures -- for podcasting.Titles -- lots of blog posts h … | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Newest hot coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour because it is a parking spot

WePark shows that in cities like San Francisco, coworking is unaffordable to many, and the sheer volume of free space allocated to parked cars could be put to much better use. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg is moonlighting as an industrial designer

He recently designed a product for his wife that helps her avoid looking at her phone. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Concr3de wants to 3D print Notre-Dame's new gargoyles from rubble

A Dutch company promises that it can use broken stone and ash to print perfect replicas of its ornate stonework. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Scientists find “biodegradable” bags perfectly usable after three years in dirt

Uh oh. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Facebook isn’t introducing the privacy focus Mark Zuckerberg touted at F8

The fifth major revision of Facebook isn’t introducing the privacy focus Mark Zuckerberg touted at F8. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Device searches at US borders are “unconstitutionally broad,” rights groups say

New documents allege that border agencies claim broad rights to inspect electronic devices to find evidence of anything from tax evasion to environmental violations. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The fake people who will soon crowd your timelines

A remarkable advance in artificial portrait generation adds a new potential layer of deception to online fraudsters, astroturfers, and propagandists. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Almost half of American workers have cried at work

A new survey revealed some less-than-inspiring workplace trends. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

McDonald's, AARP to fill 250k jobs with older workers

The move is both an encouraging sign of workplace age diversity and a devastating indictment of the economy. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem

Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn’t enough. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Dreams is the most important game in a decade

Dreams isn’t actually about dreaming, but it lets you create the stuff that dreams are made of. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Big business is poking holes in California’s landmark privacy law

Two proposals would extend Californians’ personal data rights and set a new model for the U.S., but lawmakers have only pushed forward industry-backed bills. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own

The free Chrome extension Simplify will give you the Gmail you want. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Facebook’s FTC fine will be a wrist slap, and its stock price shows it

In the context of Facebook’s explosive ad business, the FTC’s expected and “unprecedented” $3-5 billion fine won’t rock the social network very much. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Who cares about liberty? Julia Angwin and Trevor Paglen on our big privacy mess

A leading tech journalist and artist urge us to forget about “privacy” as we know it, as they discuss their common aim of exposing mass surveillance. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

I took a step down the career ladder and I’ve never been happier

For most people, taking a lower-level job would be career suicide. But these executives prove it can be a launchpad to bigger and better things. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The whole Trump-Russia saga, summed up in a single Google search mistake

The Mueller report revealed a campaign and presidency defined by bouts of amateurish incompetence and bursts of lawyerly prowess. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

How much are we sacrificing for automation?

Lessons from an Amazon warehouse, and a world where increasingly anything (and anyone) that can be measured, is. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

How to write a resume that will impress a bot

Crafting a resume that will impress artificial intelligence takes a totally different approach than writing for a human hiring manager. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Half of Instacart’s drivers earn less than minimum wage, labor group claims

An analysis of 1,400 pay records also shows half earning less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, using methodology that the delivery startup disputes. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Video: The heavy hand of New York’s social media-powered policing

New York said an unprecedented raid on young gang members in 2016 stopped a criminal conspiracy. Others say it showed the crude power of emerging police tactics. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Privacy is hard to see, so let’s put some numbers on it

We typically learn what our data privacy means only after it’s too late. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world

Using some clever physics, designers figured out how humans could move 1,000-pound concrete slabs on their own. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Ted 2019: Google’s advanced tech director wants everything to be a computer

At TED, Ivan Poupyrev showed off a tiny new device for linking sensors to the cloud, part of his vision of embedding computing in everything we touch. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

California is fighting over the future of freedom of information laws

Many people argue that public records laws are essential to democracy. Others say they’re being used by corporate interests to stifle important research. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The web pioneer taking on Google with a private browser and a loyalty club

Brendan Eich’s Brave browser is designed to make browsing faster and more private—and though it blocks ads, it has a plan for paying publishers. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Jumbo is an iOS app that protects your privacy online for you

Jumbo is like a concierge for privacy, cleaning out your old data and maintaining your privacy settings across your accounts and apps. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

In a major reversal, Netflix will reveal some metrics for its most popular shows

During the streaming giant’s first-quarter earnings call, Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos revealed that they’d be sharing more data with both creators and viewers in the months to come. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Why Apple and Qualcomm made peace now: A 5G iPhone in 2020

A report says that after the companies settled their two-year patent dispute, they agreed to a licensing agreement for 5G modems. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Jack Dorsey defends Twitter’s anti-abuse AI during heated Ted exchange

At TED, the Twitter cofounder says algorithms can help solve the platform’s problems with abuse and misinformation, but not everyone’s convinced. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft wants to use AI and data to take on climate change

In a broad new set of sustainability commitments, the company wants to use its tech to develop tools to monitor and find insights in environmental data. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The world's next wonder material is Borophene

Borophene, a single-atom layer of the element boron, is super-strong and super-flexible–plus it’s a superconductor. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Carole Cadwalladr blasts tech titans at Ted: Your technology is “a crime scene”

On stage at TED, the journalist who helped expose the Cambridge Analytica scandal rebuked the heads of Facebook and other tech giants for helping erode democracy. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Copperfield’s magic secrets crashed into the moon, but you can help find them

Even if it’s not intact, the 30-million-page backup of human history would be “the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Israel’s moon lander crashed, but don’t call it a failure

The first privately-funded lunar mission will be remembered as a pioneering achievement that helped to change the way the space industry operates. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Why everyone thinks they are middle class (even if they aren’t)

It might not feel that way, but you might actually be upper middle class. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

MIT scholar surprised by Amazon’s hostile response to her face-recognition work

Facial recognition has a race problem. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago