IKEA’s next big play for the smart home is here

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What Is Zero UI? And Why Is It Crucial to the Future of Design?

What does UI design look like after screens go away? Fjord’s Andy Goodman explains. | Continue reading


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Everyone else seems to have more money than you

Comparing yourself to others is natural, but it doesn’t always give you an accurate picture of other people’s lives. | Continue reading


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What not to do if you get laid off or fired

Dwelling too much on the past can prevent you from moving forward. | Continue reading


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Copenhagen wants to build its own Silicon Valley from scratch

And it plans to build nine fake islands to do it. | Continue reading


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Companies are still designing open plan offices

Employees don’t like them. Research proves they’re ineffective. Why is it taking so long for us to get rid of them? | Continue reading


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Apple’s inconvenient truth: It’s part of the data surveillance economy

It’s good that Apple is a vocal supporter of privacy. But that doesn’t mean that its own behavior isn’t subject to criticism. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A lawsuit would reveal how the Trump administration spies on social media

The ACLU is taking seven federal agencies to court to obtain records whose existence the FBI says it can neither confirm nor deny. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Facial recognition for chimps searches the internet for stolen baby apes

Algorithms can be trained to recognize ape faces as well as human faces. Now ChimpFace is being deployed to help track down poachers who put the animals up for sale online. | Continue reading


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Read the privacy demands that Amazon-investing nuns sent to Jeff Bezos

A group of investors joined hundreds of employees in calling for Amazon to halt government sales of face recognition until it can ensure the technology is safe. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A man found cameras in his Airbnb rental

Just another day in bizarro Airbnb world. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Rules to Building a Successful Business with Purpose

Jean Case’s new book looks at how successful entrepreneurs have made their breakthroughs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

More support for Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook than in the broader tech industry

Anonymous survey app Blind polled tech workers and found that they think that Sandberg shouldn’t continue in her role as COO. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Travel Destinations Are Fighting Back Against the Instagram Effect

Travelers are all headed to the same places in pursuit of selfies. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Apple buys $150M worth of plane tickets a year from United

Including 50 business class seats every single day from San Francisco to Shanghai. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The most powerful person in Silicon Valley

Billionaire Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. And he’s spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

This is the first truly great Amazon Alexa and Google Home hack

The two designers behind Project Alias compare it to a virus–or perhaps a parasitic fungus. In a good way. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare

Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

California has a new plan to give a monthly check to low-income residents

In his proposed budget for the state, California’s new governor plans to dramatically increase funding for the state’s tax credit program for low-income workers, and change up the way it’s delivered so people can get support year-round. | Continue reading


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What to do when your new company name is shared by a gang of criminal fraudsters

Textivia, a marketing agency, was in the midst of a rebrand when it learned its soon-to-be name, 3VE, was also the code name of an alleged multinational fraud ring. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Don Norman on how pizza can save the world

If you want to see how platforms can save humanity, don’t look at Facebook. Look at pizza. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Bendgate: Why some iPad Pros are bent, and what Apple is doing about it

Apple releases an official statement on reports that some iPad Pros have come bent right out of the box. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Nine innovations creeping us out in 2019

The technology that deserves our vigilance before creepy creeps into dangerous. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

WeWork rebrands to We Company, reveals details of SoftBank deal

CEO Adam Neumann reveals the name change, goes into detail on his recent conversations with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, who invested $2 billion in the company at a $47 billion valuation, and discusses the company’s grand plans, alluding to a push into financial services. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Exclusive: WeWork rebrands to The We Company; CEO Neumann talks about disappointing SoftBank round

CEO Adam Neumann reveals the name change, goes into detail on his recent conversations with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, who invested $2 billion in the company at a $47 billion valuation, and discusses the company’s grand plans, alluding to a push into financial services. | Continue reading


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2019 is the year to stop talking about ethics and start taking action

Here’s how. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

NSA expert on the new ways we could get hacked (and defended) in 2019

Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security, and why you really need to change your passwords. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

A New York City lawmaker is taking on companies that mine your face

It’s hard to know when and why face recognition is being used in New York City. Ritchie Torres wants to change that. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

What Microsoft thought the future would look like in 2019

This future looks… oddly familiar. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The fate of self-driving cars hangs on a $7T design problem

Waymo One is the world’s first self-driving taxi service. Just two rides in, and we’re already bored of the future. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Apple and Google, Give Us a Dumbphone Mode

I don’t want to trade in my smartphone for a dumb one, but I do want the benefits. | Continue reading


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America’s national parks are overrun with trash and overflowing toilets

The Smithsonian is now closed, too. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

How I redesigned Twitter to be mostly harmless

You don’t need to wait for a capital-D designer to save you from bad UX. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

“Smart uniforms” help schools in China monitor students

The GPS tracking pairs with facial recognition software to ensure kids stay in school. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

This health startup lets you monetize your DNA

23andMe and other DNA testing companies make money by selling genetic data. LunaDNA wants to make you the one who benefits when your genes are worth something. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The Science of Comic Strips

Our brains recognize them as a distinct, and complex, “visual language.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Facebook pays $238k to settle lawsuit and will halt political ads in WA state

Facebook and Google paid up after being accused of breaking state campaign finance violations, in what may be the first such challenge to either platform. | Continue reading


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Take off for the world’s first passenger flights without any single-use plastic

The airline hopes to be permanently single-use plastic free by the end of 2019. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The U.S. is spending millions to solve mystery sonic attacks on diplomats

The source of diplomats’ illnesses in Cuba and China—said to be connected to a high-pitched cricket-like sound—is still unknown, but the damage is real. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

How to respond if you keep getting interrupted at meetings

We associate participation with power, so here’s what to do before, during, and after meetings if regular interruptions are preventing you from being heard. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

VT to give $10k to get remote workers into state

Want a change of scenery? Applications open on January 1 for a program to attract more workers to Vermont. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Study: Female-led movies make more money at the box office

CAA and shift7 commissioned a study whose results fly in the face of everything marketers have been arguing about moviegoing habits for decades. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The chatbot bubble has officially burst

Google Allo is the latest casualty of Silicon Valley’s course correction on conversational interfaces. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

The prison-reforming First Step Act has a critical software bug

The bipartisan bill has been hailed as a triumph, but its reliance on algorithms might only reinforce existing disparities. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Sixteen apps to delete before the new year

Want to be a better you? Rid your smartphone of apps that bring you down, waste your time, and invade your privacy. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Buy more books (even if you never intend to read them)

An overstuffed bookcase (or e-reader) says good things about your mind. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

To save agriculture from climate change, we need better weather forecasting

Tiny monitoring stations that alert farmers to every change in conditions on their farms could help them better understand the extreme weather shifts that are becoming more common due to climate change. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Asbestos might be making a comeback?

Trump’s EPA has made it easier for companies to begin using asbestos again—here’s what it could potentially mean for American consumers, architects, and builders. | Continue reading


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