'personal carbon sequestration' device uses algae to capture CO2

Just plug it into your office’s HVAC system and start removing emissions from the air. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The Navy just confirmed the Blink 182 Guy leaked actual UFO footage

More like, “What’s my (space) age again?” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Descript App lets you fake your own voice

Descript’s “Overdub” can synthesize new words or phrases based on the sound of a user’s voice. The company says it’s practically impossible to abuse. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The “artisanal” toilet paper startups taking on Big Tissue

Would you pay $3 for a “farm to bathroom” toilet roll? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Jeff Bezos almost bought Netflix for about $15M

In this excerpt from “That Will Never Work,” Netflix co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph describes meeting with the Amazon chieftain about a possible acquisition. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Mozilla announces $100M grant program

The funds would support projects using a new “web monetization” protocol, including open source tools and individual creators | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

To understand AI in 2019, watch this 1960 TV show

Just four years into the AI era, an actor and an MIT professor explained the technology to a mass audience, in terms that are enduringly relevant. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

I create fake videos. Here’s why people even believe the obvious ones

People will accept anything as true if it confirms their beliefs—regardless of whether a video or image has obviously been manipulated. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Scientists are racing to reengineer the banana before they die

A deadly fungus is spreading through banana plantations, and the cloned bananas we eat are defenseless. In labs around the world, scientists are trying to find ways to genetically alter the fruit to make it resistant. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Amazon will let anyone answer your Alexa questions now

The Alexa Answers crowdsourcing platform is now open to everyone in the United States. Amazon says it has measures in place to prevent misuse. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Mailchimp launches new entertainment division

Mailchimp Presents is creating original series, films, and podcasts aimed at entrepreneurs and small-business owners and their shared struggles. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Astrology has officially infiltrated work culture

Peak Astrology means your millennial coworkers probably have a Slack channel for horoscopes. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Do Brain Supplements Work?

They might have short-term effects, but they don’t make you smarter in the long run. To boost your cognitive function, do these things instead. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

How to improve your communication skills and work remotely

Limited interaction with coworkers can make you a better communicator. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Is TikTok a Time Bomb?

In its meteoric rise and its approach to leveraging user data, TikTok may augur the AI-informed future of social media, for better and for worse. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Netflix may pull Bill Gates docuseries after news about ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The Netflix docuseries ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ purports to tell us how the Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks. Is it now tainted by new revelations about Gates’s ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Marc Andreessen shares the 4 realities facing every entrepreneur today

Building a successful company requires more than just a great idea. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Hurricane Dorian: These maps let you track power outages across North Carolina

As Hurricane Dorian lashes the North Carolina coast, interactive maps set up by state agencies let you track power outages in real time. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft-backed facial recognition firm rethinks its role in Hong Kong

Amid the mass demonstrations in the special administrative region, AnyVision is reconsidering business plans there. But the firm continues to defend the use of its technology by the Israeli army at West Bank checkpoints. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Vaping lung disease symptoms: Here’s what the CDC says to watch out for

E-cigarette users who experience symptoms similar to the ones associated to with the outbreak should seek prompt medical attention. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Plant-based patties would be the equivalent of taking 12M cars off the road

According to a new study, a 41-square-foot plot of land can produce just one beef burger for every 15 Beyond Burgers. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

SpaceX is playing a game of chicken with its Starlink satellites

In space, no one has to obey traffic rules. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Beautiful drawings reveal millions of Wi-Fi signals all around us

Artist Richard Vijgen has created an installation that visualizes the mess of Wi-Fi signals in cities. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

IKEA is sharing people’s best IKEA hacks, and they’re brilliant

After embracing “hacking” in its own design strategy this year, the furniture giant is celebrating customers who alter its designs in creative, unexpected ways. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Are fireproof, hurricane-proof geodesic domes the post-climate change future?

Geoship is touting the bioceramic geodesic dome as the home of the future—and getting help on the rollout from Zappos, which wants to build some near its headquarters to give to the homeless. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Zuckenberg's $10M Security Plan

Zuck’s rumored to also have a “panic chute” in his office so he can evacuate through the floor. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Ring’s smart home plans would sound great if Ring itself was less frightening

The Amazon-owned security company makes an excellent alarm system. But it creates an anxiety-inducing feedback loop. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Robots should have googly eyes

A little robot at a library in Helsinki went from reviled to beloved, all because it got a new pair of plastic eyes. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Tech worker transitioned from life in prison to tech

As more tech companies begin to pay lip service to the idea of hiring people with criminal records, one former inmate’s journey to a tech career shows how possible it is. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The first car painted with the world’s “blackest black” is deeply unsettling

Though this BMW paint job is a one-off, the company confirms that the experiment could have implications for its future designs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

How Walmart is making its robot army play nice with shoppers

The last machines to invade people’s space at scale were cars; now, it’s Walmart’s robots. How’s that going? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why Britain Has the Best Wall Sockets on Earth (2014)

The rest of the world has a lot to learn from the design of the U.K. wall plug. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

WeWork Founder's Pledge to Give Away $1B

If the goal isn’t reached, Adam and Rebekah Neumann will lose some of their voting shares in the company. But will they lose enough to make the structure matter? And who is measuring if the $1 billion is doing any actual good? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Unpaid Internships and Income Inequality

Unpaid internships have long been criticized for favoring privileged students while others who face down a record-high $1.6 trillion in student loan debt are expected to work for free, essentially setting up income inequality before their careers even begin. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why being nice isn't always good for your career

Being nice is great, but it can also have a real downside if you’re prioritizing niceness over honesty. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system

In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Cities Should Think About Trees as Public Health Infrastructure

Planting trees is an incredibly cheap and simple way to improve the well-being of people in a city. A novel idea: Public health institutions should be financing urban greenery to support well-being and air quality. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Doodling at work could help you be more productive

Scribbling in the margins of your notebook—which you probably perfected in 7th grade—can have surprising effects on your work. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Manufacture of a smartphone creates as much CO2 as ten years of use (2018)

Researchers are sounding the alarm after an analysis showed that buying a new smartphone consumes as much energy as using an existing phone for an entire decade. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The most effective way to implement a behavior change

Is it better to make our goals public, or keep them to ourselves? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The shockingly simple way to make packaging more sustainable

Your home cleaning products have a major carbon footprint. Several startups want to popularize a clever solution: remove the water. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Maybe WeWork should fix its insecure Wi-Fi before pursuing bigger dreams

The We Company sees itself as a world-changing tech platform. But it’s used the same easy-to-guess password and dated Wi-Fi security for years. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Apple just released a long-lost font from the original Mac–for free

It’s been 34 years since Susan Kare’s New York typeface first debuted. Now, anyone can download it for free. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

iOS 13’s new Bluetooth privacy feature is important–but confusing

A new permission alert in iOS 13 is supposed to protect you from snooping—if you can figure out what it’s trying to tell you. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

We need better, bigger data to help combat food waste

One-fifth of the trash in our landfills is wasted food. But better understanding of how our food system works is starting to make a dent in how much we throw away. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why do synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones?

It’s all about human’s poor capacity for risk assessment. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Welcome to housing Twitter, the shoutiest debate on the internet

Every day, there’s a vital (and vitriolic) debate happening in Twitter comment threads about how we solve the country’s housing crisis. Is the issue too complex to be grappled with on a platform that encourages single-sentence thoughts? Probably—but that isn’t stopping anyone fro … | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

AI generates fake news about anything you want

Can Donald Trump do 100 push-ups a day? Let this AI convince you. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago