What happened after these unhoused people got monthly $500 checks?

Just $3,000 over six months was enough to fundamentally reshape people’s lives. | Continue reading


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Why are people so obsessed with NASA's worm logo? (2020)

Even SpaceX is a massive fan. | Continue reading


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Tim O’Reilly helped bring us Web 1.0 and 2.0. Here’s why he’s a Web3 skeptic

Is tech history repeating itself? O’Reilly believes we’re now in the ‘irrational exuberance’ phase of crypto and Web3, and that a reckoning is coming. | Continue reading


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The world’s largest vertical farm will have a secret ingredient: fish

Fish fertilize the plants—and then become another income stream. | Continue reading


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The Great Resignation Has Morphed into the Great Sabbatical

Mid-career sabbaticals have tripled over the past four years—and the gap year is losing its stigma. | Continue reading


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Why sometimes harder to get a job you’re ‘overqualified’ for

When I quit my job, I didn’t think about the challenges of moving down the career ladder. | Continue reading


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Sinking 1k NYC subway cars in Atlantic to create a reef didn’t go as planned

The cars were retired in 2008 and started disintegrating almost immediately. | Continue reading


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Heyday: a clever app that makes you way more productive – automatically

A new service called Heyday wants to act as your intelligent information organizer—without ever forcing you to lift a finger. | Continue reading


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Going from the Great Resignation to 'The Great Retention'

Nurturing talent, supercharging inclusion, and creating mission-driven cultures are key workplace themes for 2022, according to the Fast Company Impact Council. | Continue reading


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I was rejected 357 times before landing my dream job. Here’s what I learned

Although she thought she was prepared to make a major career pivot, Sophie Cheong soon learned some other tough lessons about landing in a career she loves. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet

How Wikipedia volunteers are battling censorship, threats, arrest, and violence—and exposing growing threats to the movement’s free-knowledge mission. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Robert Downey Jr.: Here’s how to accelerate discoveries to help the planet

In an exclusive essay, the actor and his coauthor say science funding is broken and launch their own ‘fast grants’. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Leap Photovoltaic says it can cut the cost of solar cells in half

Leap Photovoltaic is working on a way to build solar panels without the use of silicon wafers, a hard-to-manufacture component that bottlenecks the solar production process. If it works, it could mean vastly expanding domestic solar production. | Continue reading


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Parts of the web are disappearing every day. Here’s how to save Internet history

The websites of today are the historical evidence of tomorrow—but only if they are archived. | Continue reading


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Typora: Best Markdown editor for distraction-free writing

After seven years of development, Typora’s distraction-free text editor is out of beta. | Continue reading


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Ex-Stripe execs, VCs launch new nonprofit to promote ‘responsible’ innovation

Organization aims to help startups and fast-growth companies think about social impact as they build their businesses. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

The Pet Body-Shaming Industry Is So Much More Intense Than You Thought (2014)

The budding pet fitness industry goes way, way beyond Fitbit for dogs. | Continue reading


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The social media platform says it will no longer allow users to tweet photos or videos of other individuals without their consent. The internet is not happy. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

You need to turn off news notifications

Dave Pell who writes about news believes that the notion that you need to know about world events right when they happen is a marketing creation of media brands. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Maintain a healthy brain in lockdown through regular exercise

Whether indoors or outdoors, frequent physical activity can improve the efficiency and precision of your brain. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

What I learned from teaching the children of the 1%

Blythe Grossberg shares insights on how to make things more equitable for all kids from working with some of the most privileged children in America. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

One London suburb reduced its morning traffic by 53%

The community turned walking and cycling into a game—and saw car usage plunge as a result. | Continue reading


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Next big things in tech 2021

Technology is the backbone of every company today. For the first time, Fast Company is recognizing the tech breakthroughs that promise to define the future of industries, from healthcare to agriculture to artificial intelligence. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Simplify Gmail Extensional

With ‘Bundles,’ the same guy who designed Google’s cult favorite Inbox app is taking his boldest step yet toward bringing its best features to Gmail. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

IKEA is raising its prices, but could be a good thing for the environment

Cheap, disposable furniture is a blight on the planet. Experts believe Ikea’s higher prices could accelerate the shift toward a more sustainable furniture. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Why You’re Not Funny: A Professor’s Scientific Approach to Dissecting Humor

Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner talk to Co.Create about the academic and scientific research they conducted while writing their book, The Humor Code, all in service of determining why your pun sucks. Plus: They evaluate some well-known bits to determine if, in fact, … | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Try this new Google alternative for a radically different way to search

You.com ditches the vertical list of links for horizontally scrolling panels—with mixed results. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

What’s Really Behind the Great Resignation

On the latest episode of The New Way We Work we find out why so many people are quitting and how managers can get them to stay. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple isn’t what you’d expect

Ive spoke with Fast Company about how his design collective LoveFrom developed an intricate, organic logo mark and a new typeface called LoveFrom Serif. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

What Big Tech’s vision of transportation gets horribly wrong

Autonomous vehicles are pitched as the solution to all our transit woes, leading to disinvestment in public transit that’s safer, cheaper, and more sustainable. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Former Navy SEALs are using robot submarines to build Google Earth of the ocean

Austin-based startup Terradepth aims to map the ocean floor and its environments with thousands of autonomous robotic submarines. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine

Amid rising tensions with China, a cadre of defense insiders and tech players want to remake the Pentagon in Silicon Valley’s image. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

A simple change makes new MasterCard better for blind and sight-impaired people

It may look like an inconsequential tweak, but it marks an important step in the company’s quest for inclusivity. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

University research: Reduce Cow's burp emissions with Seaweed

One dairy cow burps the same amount of emissions as a car. Seaweed can cut that in half. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Alphabet open sources low-cost device to make drinking water from air

The company’s “moonshot factory” is letting anyone build and tweak the design of its new atmospheric water harvester. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Clark Valberg Accidentally Discovered the Weakness in Adobe’s Empire (2018)

The InVision founder’s goal is nothing short of creating the only tool you need as a UX designer–and the only software you need to share your designs with thousands of coworkers. | Continue reading


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Ingenious wall could harness enough wind power to cover your electric bill

It could be used near buildings, in cities, or on the side of a highway. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Symbiopunk: A machine that turns human poop into fertile soil

Everybody poops, sure. But do we need to use water-based toilets for the job? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

How food trucks and farmers markets can spell doom for affordable housing

Food can spearhead gentrification. Just look at the City Heights neighborhood in San Diego, where home prices have risen 58% over the past three years. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Imagine a Hyperloop that uses underwater tunnels to replace cargo ships (2016)

You might be excited to take Elon Musk’s crazy transportation tech, but the first use is going to be for freight–and it might not be on land. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Gaming companies are leading the way on curbing hate speech

Social networks like Facebook should be paying attention. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Michael Dell on how he fell in love with computers

In an excerpt from his new book, the founder of Dell Technologies writes about his early days as a computer user—and an in-person encounter with Steve Jobs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

10-07-21 Why I only hold 3 meetings a week and don’t plan on adding more

The founder of this finance platform credits cutting daily meetings as part of his company’s COVID-era success. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Startup is using sunlight and captured CO2 to make jet fuel

In the future, your flights could be powered by recycled carbon emissions. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

By multiple standards, the company is doing better than even an optimist would have predicted in 2011. But it still has a Steve Jobs-shaped hole in it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It? (2017)

Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

Hands on with Amazon’s Astro home robot

In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don’t know what I’d do with one. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 3 years ago

An eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company invented the CT scan

Electric and Music Industries couldn’t have guessed that a side project by one of its engineers would become the revolutionary imaging technology. | Continue reading


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