The ridehailer’s latest marketing stunt includes rides to see the former Beatle perform. | Continue reading


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Why work has failed us: Because no one can afford to retire anymore

As people struggle to make ends meet, fewer are saving for retirement, and fewer companies offer retirement accounts: 66% of millennials have nothing saved. | Continue reading


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4 ways to secretly teach your boss to become more emotionally intelligent

Sometimes it isn’t someone’s fault that they are a bad boss. Here’s how you can manage up. | Continue reading


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A Facebook employee tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook

Joe Chancellor worked at Facebook since 2015, around the time the company reportedly first learned of a controversial data harvest that he helped carry out. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

When should you take a mental health day?

Even for people who are not suffering from clinical levels of depression and anxiety, the occasional “mental health day” might still be valuable. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The Outline has laid off all of its staff writers

The media startup’s last two full-time writers were let go today. Others seem to have been let go as well. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

These 5 things are causing your teammates to burn out

This Finnish company shares how you can recognize when one of your coworkers is overworked, and what you can do to help. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

This SimCity-Like Tool Lets Urban Planners See the Potential Impact Of

UrbanFootprint makes it easy to run simulations to see how a new plan might change traffic and commute times, the ability of kids to walk to school, access to jobs, energy use, the local economy, health, and carbon emissions.  | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

California may mandate women board members–here’s how it would work

On Wednesday, the State Assembly passed a bill—the first of its kind in the U.S.—that would require companies to have women on their board. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

To upgrade techno, this engineer plays his own robots

Morgan Simon Geist started tinkering to fill a gap. “I want to have electronic music… where you can walk inside it and have this LSD experience.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

How California’s super-strict net neutrality law reached the home stretch

Patient deal-making and some arm-twisting allowed a surprisingly complex bill—and the strongest of its kind so far—to survive the legislative meat grinder. | Continue reading


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Non-citizens and non-white people in this country continue to be treated with heightened and unnecessary scrutiny. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The search for new drugs is coming to your house

Virtual trials could address some of the problems that come with developing new drugs, but a host of challenges remain before they can become routine. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Digi.me wants to put you back in charge of your personal data

Harnessing the data that companies collect about you sounds like a great idea, but how much are they willing to share? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

No flipping: How smart TVs are getting quite smart about you

Smarter sets could mean more niche programming and fewer annoying ads, says the TV industry. Privacy advocates worry consumers are being kept in the dark. | Continue reading


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The move should help Chipotle increase its average order price. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Can you spare a dime for BuzzFeed? News site plans to start asking for donations

The news website is looking for new ways to grow revenue. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

iPhone’s first UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws

Imran Chaudhri discusses how we can regain control over our devices–and how Apple can do better. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The streaming music giant wants to expand into more audio entertainment but as its initiatives in podcasting reveal, it’s moving too slow and too tentatively. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The world’s 50 most innovative companies 2018

Our annual guide to the businesses that matter the most | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Meet “Watsina”: Inside the Making of IBM’s New AI for Debating

“Apparently the computer chose me,” says Eliza Foss, who won the role. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Serta Simmons Merges with Tuft and Needle

A mattress industry giant joins forces with a fast-growing digital startup. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

How encrypted communications apps failed to protect Michael Cohen

Charging documents and other court records refer to Signal and WhatsApp data from Cohen’s devices. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Can you spot fake news before hitting “share”? Kids are learning and so can you

A decade-old nonprofit is helping a growing number of students and teachers around the world defend democracy from an existential threat. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Facebook Re-Enables Firehose for Surveillance Firm

Despite policies banning surveillance, it is unclear how effective Facebook and others can be at preventing trusted third-parties from misusing user data. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Iran’s Facebook and Twitter propaganda targeted hundreds of thousands

Facebook did not say if the campaign targeted the U.S. midterms, but security firm FireEye said some of the Iranian pages it studied had broader motives. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

“Peloton” for Rowing

Crew by True Rowing has raised $5 million in seed funding for the startup’s innovative connected rowing machine that brings the outdoor experience indoors. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternativ

The Good Food Institute will sit alongside more traditional startups, as the famous accelerator tries to find ways to reduce our animal consumption. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The $29B battle to own how America sleeps is heating up

Casper has snagged a whopping $249.5 million in VC funding. But Saatva and Amerisleep believe there is value in slower, self-funded growth. Who will win? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft’s sassy teenage bot is popping up on podcast talk shows

Lauren Lapkus says that Zo’s sarcasm “really, really hurt my feelings and I still haven’t gotten over it.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Tech-Styles Brainteasers for All Hiring

Fifteen years after Billy Beane disrupted Major League Baseball by applying analytics to scouting, corporations are rewriting the rules of recruiting. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Giving chance to ex-cons good for business

Greyston Bakery uses a practice of open hiring: filling positions on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked. Now it wants to teach other companies how to do the same. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The shelf company, one weird trick Paul Manafort allegedly used

The former Trump campaign chairman is alleged to have received payments through shelf companies in Cyprus with names like Leviathan Ltd. and Peranova Ltd. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Ingredient from Monsanto’s cancer-causing weed killer found in children’s cereal

Roundup’s weed-killing poison, glyphosate, has been found in 43 of 45 cereals tested. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

First Look at Sidewalk Labs’ Futuristic City

Timber towers and smart pavement: Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is sharing an early glimpse of its Toronto development. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Meet the renegade who’s teaching the world to fix totaled Teslas

Phil Sadow reverse-engineers and repairs Tesla vehicles. He and those he’s taught have repaired nearly 400 salvaged cars. And the company isn’t happy. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Sacramento has been tracking license plates to monitor welfare recipients

The technology snaps photos of license plates when the cars they are attached to make their way past telephone poles and police cars. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

How Cheerios and Quaker Oats responded to glyphosate in cereal reports

Glyphosate doesn’t pair well with breakfast. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Amazon, Airbnb, and Asos are all investing in this one simple design idea

Service design has revolutionized our lives. Here are 15 principles for getting it right, as illustrated by some of the world’s most prominent companies. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Dollar Shave Club’s men’s magazine “Mel” grows up

Mel is leaving Medium and trying to grow to new heights. Does this Unilever-owned brand’s publication present a model for branded content that doesn’t suck? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

After a long delay, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s bots are finally talking

First announced a year ago, the integration was supposed to happen by the end of last year, but the two companies “wanted to make sure we got things right.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Inside Evernote’s brain

As it refreshes its brand, the company behind the note-taking app reflects on its past, present, and future–and the true meaning of “Remember everything.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

The first Graphene jacket is here and it’s magical

And it only costs $595. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

We’re terrible at planning our time. Here’s how to fix it

We work a lot less hours than we think. Here are some tips on how we can make the most of that time. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Study: Blue light from screens can steadily blind us

New research reveals that blue light from smartphones and laptops creates toxic mutations in our eyes. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Apple, Facebook, Netflix–and the future

An intimate look inside the mind of the CEO bending the music industry into his vision for it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

How the-#Van life movement is influencing car design

The surge of millennials who chose to live on the road has more automakers investing in amenity-laden van models. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Computing’s Hippocratic oath is here

Cherri M. Pancake writes about the Association for Computing Machinery’s new code of ethics, two years in the making. | Continue reading


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