Just $3,000 over six months was enough to fundamentally reshape people’s lives. | Continue reading
Even SpaceX is a massive fan. | Continue reading
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Fish fertilize the plants—and then become another income stream. | Continue reading
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When I quit my job, I didn’t think about the challenges of moving down the career ladder. | Continue reading
The cars were retired in 2008 and started disintegrating almost immediately. | Continue reading
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Nurturing talent, supercharging inclusion, and creating mission-driven cultures are key workplace themes for 2022, according to the Fast Company Impact Council. | Continue reading
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
How Wikipedia volunteers are battling censorship, threats, arrest, and violence—and exposing growing threats to the movement’s free-knowledge mission. | Continue reading
In an exclusive essay, the actor and his coauthor say science funding is broken and launch their own ‘fast grants’. | Continue reading
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
The websites of today are the historical evidence of tomorrow—but only if they are archived. | Continue reading
After seven years of development, Typora’s distraction-free text editor is out of beta. | Continue reading
Organization aims to help startups and fast-growth companies think about social impact as they build their businesses. | Continue reading
The budding pet fitness industry goes way, way beyond Fitbit for dogs. | Continue reading
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
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
Whether indoors or outdoors, frequent physical activity can improve the efficiency and precision of your brain. | Continue reading
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
The community turned walking and cycling into a game—and saw car usage plunge as a result. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
You.com ditches the vertical list of links for horizontally scrolling panels—with mixed results. | Continue reading
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
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
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
Austin-based startup Terradepth aims to map the ocean floor and its environments with thousands of autonomous robotic submarines. | Continue reading
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
It may look like an inconsequential tweak, but it marks an important step in the company’s quest for inclusivity. | Continue reading
One dairy cow burps the same amount of emissions as a car. Seaweed can cut that in half. | Continue reading
The company’s “moonshot factory” is letting anyone build and tweak the design of its new atmospheric water harvester. | Continue reading
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
It could be used near buildings, in cities, or on the side of a highway. | Continue reading
Everybody poops, sure. But do we need to use water-based toilets for the job? | Continue reading
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
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
Social networks like Facebook should be paying attention. | Continue reading
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
The founder of this finance platform credits cutting daily meetings as part of his company’s COVID-era success. | Continue reading
In the future, your flights could be powered by recycled carbon emissions. | Continue reading
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
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it. | Continue reading
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
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