How to find hidden cameras in your Airbnb, and anywhere else

Sharpen your vigilance—or paranoia—with these tricks and tools. | Continue reading


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Pete Buttigieg debuts a radical new approach to campaign branding

Mayor Pete officially announced his candidacy with a sporty new logo and design toolkit that supporters can download to “use however they want.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Tech elite are taking to silent vipassana retreats

It’s not just Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doing silent meditation in Burma; more tech execs and business leaders are signing up for vipassana retreats, and million-dollar compounds are going up in Silicon Valley. | Continue reading


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Prison inmate charged with pulling a $5,500 phone scam from behind bars

It wasn’t the first time inmates at the Georgia state prison have been charged with wire fraud. | Continue reading


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Unraveling the Enigma of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, 20 Years Later

How the 1990s VR craze inspired an infamous–and still misunderstood–failed video game console. | Continue reading


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Incognito mode won’t keep your browsing private. Do this instead

Browser compartmentalization can help you escape the clutches of the data gathering machine. | Continue reading


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Peccy, the bizarre, beloved mascot you didn't know Amazon had

Universally recognized by Amazonians and a nobody to the rest of us, he’s, well, peculiar—and an unexpectedly rich symbol of the tech giant and its culture. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Disney+ video service coming November 12 for $6.99 per month

The company released important details of a broad and competitive subscription offering that could challenge Netflix and Amazon in some ways. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Tree-planting drones are firing seed missiles to restore the world’s forests

In Myanmar, a major project is under way: restore coastal mangrove forests—with a little air support. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Amazon offered countries $5M in Kindles to get the “.amazon” domain

Despite the countries having claim to the actual Amazon River centuries before amazon.com existed. | Continue reading


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Why finding “meaningful work” is overrated

You shouldn’t feel pressured to follow your passion or find purpose in your job. | Continue reading


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Fast Company is the world's leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design. | Continue reading


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Apple censored this pro-democracy music in China

Did Apple comply with a Chinese government request when it removed songs from Apple Music? It certainly looks like it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Frieberg's Vauban neighborhood created a car-free paradise

In Freiburg, Germany, a neighborhood called Vauban made it unnecessary to own a car–and very difficult to do it even if you wanted to. After 20 years of success, it could be a model for how we design future walkable neighborhoods. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Dropbox and G Suite’s new integration is more like a mind meld

The long-awaited ability to keep your Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in your Dropbox isn’t just about plumbing. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

JJ Abrams Office

The production company behind Alias, the Star Trek reboot, and Star Wars Episode IX is a creative playhouse. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Influencers are flocking to a surprising new kind of social media

350+ influencers with a collective audience of 3.5 billion people are flocking to a platform called Escapex, which gives them their own apps. It’s part of the next wave of social media focused on smaller, more private groups. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Influencers are flocking to a surprising new kind of social media

350+ influencers with a collective audience of 3.5 billion people are flocking to a platform called Escapex, which gives them their own apps. It’s part of the next wave of social media focused on smaller, more private groups. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

How-our-brains-process-praise-and-why-its-killing-our-potential

When your brain gets a reward (and your brain treats praise from others as a reward), what it learns is to do that action again.But, repetition builds habits, not growth. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Another Facebook fiasco–over 540m user records reportedly exposed on public DB

In total, roughly 22,000 Facebook passwords were openly exposed “for an unknown period of time.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Now wanted by big credit bureaus like Equifax: Your alternative data

Banks and credit bureaus say a bold new data push can help expand credit to more people, but some worry the shift could sting the people it’s meant to help. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned

It might be a good idea to eat lunch together over video chat. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

What the “painless woman” says about how anxiety and fear fit into pain

Life without pain might seem like a blessing. But her case–and how we understand what pain really means–is more complex than it first appears. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Amazon says face recognition fears are “insignificant.” The SEC disagrees

Investor proposals limiting Amazon’s face recognition sales can now proceed after the company argued they concerned “an insignificant public policy issue.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Apple’s shaky plan to deliver a 5G iPhone in 2020

Apple is relying on Intel for its 5G modem, and things are not going smoothly between the two companies. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Why Accenture Interactive buying ad agency Droga5 is such a big deal

Is this David Droga’s latest bid to be at the forefront of advertising–or an amiable payday for a modern legend? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Sully on flying: Human are better suited for doers with technology monitoring us

Better technology doesn’t necessarily mean a better flying experience. The former airline captain shares his thoughts on the unpleasant parts of air travel, and whether ground transportation will ever rival the skies. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Most mental health apps lack any scientific backing

Many mental health apps don’t have any scientific evidence or peer-reviewed research to back up their promises. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The iPhone should be banned from sale in U.S., says trade judge

Trade judges in three countries have now said iPhone sales should be stopped after Apple infringed chip maker Qualcomm’s patents. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Cities which are taking bold steps to get rid of cars

Cities around the world are starting to see that they’ll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if people–not cars–are the priority. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

McDonald’s tries to be more like Amazon with $300M AI buy

McDonald’s just bought Israeli startup Dynamic Yield, its biggest deal since it invested in Chipotle in 1998. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

United Airlines accuses its own flight attendants of an elaborate scam

The airline reportedly unearthed an elaborate system of code words that were used to further the kickback scheme. Even the flight attendant union is angry. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Apple felt like a different company today

For most of the big new services announced Monday, Apple supplies only the packaging. “It was Apple not telling it’s own story, maybe for the first time,” said one analyst. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The healthcare system can’t get a grip on its giant patient-matching mess

Some of the biggest health companies are trying to fix it, with the help of biometric data and A.I. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome When in a Leadership Position

This Silicon Valley executive became a manager at 25. Here’s her secret to gaining confidence to overcome imposter syndrome when in a leadership position. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A Modest Proposal for Facebook: End Facebook Live

I’m calling on Mark Zuckerberg to shut down Facebook Live until the company can prove to the public—and to regulators—that its design is safer. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

What you don’t know about your health data will make you sick

You can’t opt out of a shadowy system that’s hungry to know everything about your health—and without knowing it, you may have opted-in to share even more. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A eulogy for every product Google has killed (145 and counting)

“This project was born as an act of criticism toward a culture of software product churn,” says the creator of Killed By Google, an archive of products lost to the sands of time. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

John Maeda: “In reality, design is not that important”

The head of inclusion and computational design at WordPress parent company Automattic thinks that designers should be more like supporting actors to the leading characters at tech companies–the developers and product managers. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Dyson’s new algorithmically controlled lamp

The algorithmically controlled lamp can also adjust how much light you need based on your age. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The paranoid person’s guide to online privacy

Bust out the tinfoil hats and follow these 8 steps if you don’t want to be tracked online. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Apple promotional walk down memory lane

When the Mac was new, Apple’s cofounders took a nostalgic look back at the Apple I and II. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

There will soon be a community of ultra-low-cost 3D-printed homes

The latest iteration of New Story’s home can be printed in a single day–and is being designed by Yves Behar’s Fuseproject. Soon, they’ll start going up in Latin America. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Augmented Reality When? We Asked Magic Leap, Facebook, Google, and More

“A ‘Black Mirror’ episode—in a good way!”: Key players in AR, MR and even XR talk about the near future, and explain what could go wrong. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Powerful Israeli cyberweapon targeted the wife of a slain Mexican journalist

NSO Group has claimed that its software was used to catch El Chapo, but researchers have shown that a total of 25 Mexicans have been abusively targeted. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Even cacti have eyes: The random things surveilling our everyday lives

Your every move online is tracked. In the era of smart homes and smart cities, everyday objects are starting to keep tabs on you too. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Millennial women are struggling financially: (and why it’s not their fault)

Everything from rising tuition costs, lack of robust parental-leave policies, and mass incarceration have set young women in the U.S. up for financial difficulties. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Google could conquer gaming by having nothing to lose

Every other gaming company is too scared to disrupt consoles and PCs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago