Amazon Prime Video is confusing its customers with bait-and-switch tactics

28 of the top 100 shows on Amazon Prime Video aren’t available with a membership. | Continue reading


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The comments on Zuckerberg’s free-speech address sure look censored

Almost every single one includes the words “thank you.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Not even Airbnb can turn a profit

The company’s operating loss more than doubled in its first quarter, according to a new report. | Continue reading


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Machine learning isn’t effective at identifying fake news

Thank means right now no quick fix is going to be available for identifying the score of false information propagating across the web. | Continue reading


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Google’s auto-delete tools are practically worthless for privacy

By the time Google deletes your activity data, it’s already extracted most of the advertising value. | Continue reading


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Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The hicks, skids, and jocks of ‘Letterkenny’ are back

With its seventh season premiering as a newly-minted Hulu original, the rural Canadian hit deserves more than a cult following. Here’s why. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

New gaming device is like a Game Boy for design snobs

Slick, clean, and plays all your old cartridges . . . on TV! | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Instagram Shadowbans Continue on the Fat

The Visible Collective founder Jessica Richman explores the impact of Instagram’s unintentional algorithm that discriminates against fat bodies. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all

The executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance sees a crisis of poverty and despair among app drivers. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The billion dollar race to change how drugs are made

Alphabet’s AI lab DeepMind is proving that artificial intelligence can be game-changing for drug discovery. Could savvy upstarts upend Big Pharma? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

What operating rooms can teach us about “calm” design

Proprio’s Evie Powell shares what she’s learned about not bombarding users by creating new VR tools for surgeons. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Laser cutters sold on Amazon and elsewhere are cheap, fun–and dangerous

Bargain-basement laser cutters offered at major shopping sites don’t adequately protect buyers from the risks inherent in playing around with laser beams. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Bumble CEO's vision to build the female internet

The serial dating entrepreneur wants nothing less than to “change thousands of years of behavior” between men and women. But first, she has to get a lot more women (and men) to see things her way. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The Ted Talk that argues gaming is more profound than AI

In a newly released TED Talk, entrepreneur Herman Narula argues that video games will drive the next big societal and technological shift. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa

Rwanda is becoming an innovation and tech hub. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Tesla owners in CA get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out

Power outages happen. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

PG&E may cut power in 30 counties in a dramatic step to prevent wildfires

The move will hopefully prevent fires. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Trump’s old lawyers love Comic Sans

Their continued use of the font in official business is the typographical equivalent of making balloon animals at an impeachment hearing. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

This new blockchain chocolate bar is brought to you by the UN

When you buy The Other Bar, you can donate back to cocoa farmers, supporting them planting more trees and earning a living wage. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why having too many choices makes us miserable

Having a lot of choices at our fingertips creates the feeling of FOMO, and that makes us miserable. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

In Rome, you can swap 30 plastic bottles for a subway ride

It’s only a test for now, but the Eternal City could have a novel solution for plastic pollution. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Cheap smartphones have a disturbing secret

Billions of people worldwide access the internet only through their phones. But using a cheap smartphone comes with some serious trade-offs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

PETase–an enzyme that eats plastic–gets closer to reality

Scientists are closing in on synthesizing a way to naturally break plastic down to its component parts. But huge questions remain—like what happens if plastic we still need starts to be consumed. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

At least 40 executives from U.S. companies, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup, will attend the kingdom’s Future Investment Initiative event in Riyadh later this month. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

I hate living in my tiny house

Small backyard houses get a lot of attention as a solution to the housing crisis, but it’s a different idea in theory than it is when you try to put it into practice. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

What Google’s AI ambitions mean for humanity

Google has more computing power, data, and talent to pursue artificial intelligence than any other company on Earth—and it’s not slowing down. That’s why humans can’t, either. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

You’re a Bad Listener: Here’s How to Remember What People Say (2018)

We come into conversations with our own agendas and low attention spans, but if you want to build better relationships you need to master active listening. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The MIT Dropouts Who Created Ms. Pac-Man

The amazing, little-known backstory of the most popular arcade game in U.S. history. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property

“Data generated by each individual needs to be owned by them, with certain rights conveyed that will allow them to know how it’s used and protect it.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram

Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The Fall of WeWork’s Adam Neumann

The inside story of how the CEO went from the top of the world to out of his company. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Ancient baby bottle is a 3k-year-old lesson for today’s designers

Our ancestors designed beautiful, useful products out of natural materials that eventually returned to the earth. We should look to them for guidance. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Phoenix offers free net zero home plan after architectural contest

Anyone can download the plans for this elegant three-bedroom home, which won Phoenix, Arizona’s competition aimed at jumpstarting energy-efficient construction. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Social media posts help me break into your company

Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers, the chief people hacker at IBM X-Force Red, shows exactly how easily your innocent shares can give hackers the keys to your company’s kingdom of data. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Sometimes people crying at work is a good sign

Occasionally crying at work is normal—and can sometimes indicate an honest work culture. But there are some best practices to follow when dealing with a coworker’s tears. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why 'do the best you can' is terrible advice

You set the stage for the people you manage. When you instruct them to perform at “just OK” levels, you’ll get “just OK” results. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Apple is working to restore African grasslands to curb climate change (and save the elephants)

It’s the company’s latest push to help conservation organizations use nature itself to fight climate change. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Google releases trove of deepfake videos so researchers can help fight

We’ll soon live in a world where you might now be able to tell if the video you are watching actually happened. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Before Trump, Cambridge Analytica’s parent built weapons for war

How the parent company of Trump’s campaign firm plied its skills on the battlefield and in elections, while working for the U.S., the U.K., and NATO. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Apple Patents AR Glasses with Foveated Imaging

By beaming an image directly onto the retina, Apple could build AR glasses with stylish design and marathon battery life. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The biggest hurdle in IKEA’s quest to become a tech company might be IKEA itself

The company’s augmented reality app is getting new features, but you still can’t buy furniture from it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

I Gave Up Gluten, Sugar, Dairy, and Coffee

I went on a complete detox for a month, and it changed my life so much that I decided to stick with it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

How Bitcoin Ends

Is the cryptocurrency just going to end up reenforcing the financial system it was supposed to disrupt? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Note to self: No more emailing at 6am; spend less time checking email overall

Boomerang’s email insights will coach you on everything from your level of politeness to whether you’re checking your inbox a tad too often. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The Mac Portable–an Apple flop that led to great things–turns 30

Few Apple fans wanted the first portable Mac. But by failing, it showed the company how to build exactly the laptops that its customers craved. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Facebook’s endgame: Getting inside your wallet

You can exchange likes by the thousands on Facebook—with anyone on earth, in any country, instantly—but you can’t get them “out” and exchange them for food. What if you could? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Typeface hides a secret in plain sight

Not everyone who is vision impaired needs braille. Some just need a clearer typeface. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago