GE hits back after scathing report calls it a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’

GE and a man working for an anonymous hedge fund face off. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Rolling Bridge Planned for London's Cody Dock

Inspired by the “rolling bridges” of the Industrial Revolution, the structure can be inverted—without help from motors or electricity—to accommodate ships. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Overstock stock tanks after CEO Patrick Byrne’s cryptic remarks

Overstock released a statement from CEO Patrick Byrne after he gave an interview alluding to a relationship with alleged Russian agent Maria Butina. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Plane can fly 500 miles, powered entirely by hydrogen

It’s the largest zero-emissions plane to ever fly without any fossil fuels. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Drink Keystone Light and you might get free rent for a year

MillerCoors wants 21- to 24-year-olds to get hooked on its Keystone Light beer. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

A first look inside Google's top-secret design lab

The special sauce behind Google’s breakout hardware products is its one-year-old Design Lab. We’re the first publication to go inside. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Is Working on Weekends the Secret to a Successful, Happy Work-Life Balance?

Seriously. Read on to find out how it could work for you. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Google is keeping an eye on what you buy, and it’s not alone

Google’s ambitions for transaction data are on display in the “Purchases” page, which even tracks what its enterprise and education users are buying. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Rent The Backyard (YC S19) wants to put a free tiny house in your backyard

Rent the Backyard will get a tiny house into your backyard in a matter of weeks—and hopes it can add some cheaper apartments in cities to help alleviate the housing crisis. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The race to design personalized, wearable air conditioning

Extreme heat around the world is pushing companies—and researchers—to find new ways to cool down the human body. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft may be listening to your Skype calls, like every other tech company

Machines: 1; Privacy: 0.  | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Google has a secret design library. Here are 35 of its best books

The company’s industrial design team shares a handful of titles from its studio library, which is curated by team members. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Disney blames Fox movies for earnings miss, will kill new ideas in response

CEO Bob Iger declared that Fox is going to be just like Disney now, which is not a good thing if you ever want to be surprised at the movies again. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The wild, neural network-powered future of knitting

Meet InverseKnit, a new tool developed by MIT that lets anybody design a pattern on a computer to 3D print a knitted garment. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

How Mozilla uses a global team to protect your privacy online

Here’s how Mozilla uses a global team to protect your privacy online. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

How to communicate your value without selling out

Personal branding is meaningless. (Plus it just sounds gross.) Here’s how to communicate your value without selling out. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Workplaces for Innovators

Most companies these days claim to embrace innovation. Fast Company collaborated with Accenture to identify 50 organizations that actually cultivate big ideas and encourage experimentation. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Two professors sent 80k fake emails to VCS to study gender and racial bias

Entrepreneurs with female and Asian-sounding names received more interested replies. But that doesn’t mean bias against women or POC isn’t happening. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Atlanta’s black tech founders are changing entrepreneurship in America

Tristan Walker, Jewel Burks Solomon, Paul Judge, and other founders are part of a startup revolution that’s bringing tech talent, VC money, and serious change to the black mecca of Atlanta. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Why Airbnb, Target, and Walmart are betting on the experience economy

The experience economy is redefining retail environments. Here’s a look at how, by the numbers. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Snap’s Secret Weapon Speaks

Bobby Murphy, Snap’s notoriously secretive CTO, shares his vision of the future of augmented reality in this exclusive Fast Company interview. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The %$ robot that swiped my job

How the day finally came when the bots fired the world’s most famous CEOs. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Senator was Big Tech’s friend–but is now its greatest threat

Senator Mark Warner, a former telecom investor and entrepreneur, explains why he’s sounding the alarm on China’s advancement—and Big Tech’s misconduct. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

No more cardboard boxes? 3M invents an ingenious new way to ship products

The company is launching a new material that could reduce the time, materials, and space required to ship products by 50%. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Richard Clarke is sounding the alarm about another kind of 9/11

The U.S.’s first counterterrorism czar says the country desperately needs a new approach to defending itself from—and waging—cyberattacks. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Apple was always going to build its own modem, and the Intel deal helps

The size and performance of Apple’s future products may depend on it. Analysts explain. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The mysterious afterlife of Cambridge Analytica and its trove of Facebook data

As the U.S. announces a lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica, the Mercer-controlled Emerdata discloses that it now owns the disgraced Trump data firm and its parent company. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Node's (YC S19) flatpack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months

Can Node’s homes make it easy enough to build apartments so that they make a dent in the housing crisis? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The Instagram trap: women build brands–as long as they follow the rules

Entrepreneurial women are finding that they have unprecedented influence, whether or not they want it. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

The psychology behind why people will eat anything at work

Those three stale bagel quarters left over from the meeting? Gone in seconds. Picked over Halloween candy someone’s kid didn’t want? Eaten in record time. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

AI-powered chatbot connects homeless people with help

Instead of navigating complicated city websites and bureaucracies, people in need of city services in Toronto can now use a simple chat interface called Chalmers to find to free meals, shelter, and other resources. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Google Photos joined the billion-user club

The surprising story of the Google gambit that stripped Google+ of some of its best features—and turned them into a photo app that’s become a blockbuster. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

HCaptcha is a popular alternative to Google's reCaptcha

hCaptcha helps machine learning companies get their data labeled, pays publishers for their trouble, and users don’t know the difference. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Blew It (2018)

Cambridge Analytica may have also accessed academic research data from Facebook to craft psychometric profiles—and keep certain voters at home on Election Day. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

FTC settlement could let Facebook off the hook

In agreeing to $5 billion, Facebook appears to be off the hook for any other FTC claims that it violated a 2012 settlement with the agency. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Redesigned Airplane Row Will Make You Want the Middle Seat

The staggered design means more space, and no more fighting over elbow room. But there’s a catch. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Starbucks wants to create the AWS for restaurants

Proprietary Starbucks software is going to facilitate rewards, ordering, payment, personalized information, and offers for other restaurants in the industry. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Advanced AI can’t tell what’s in these photos. Can you?

Researchers from UC Berkeley, the University of Washington, and the University of Chicago are building the ultimate archive of photos that confuse AI. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Patagonia Grows Every Time It Amplifies Its Social Mission

CEO Rose Marcario, who leads the apparel player, a 2018 World’s Most Innovative Company, has catalyzed the shifting political tides to Patagonia’s benefit. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

The FAA just approved a landmark seat design that you’ll want on your next flight. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Criminals are using deepfakes to impersonate CEOs

A well-timed deepfake audio clip that purports to show Tim Cook having a private conversation about iPhone sales tanking could sabotage the company and send its stock plummeting. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Can This Silicon Valley Startup Bioengineer a Less Addictive Opioid?

Christina Smolke’s Stanford team genetically altered yeast to produce opioids. Can her startup, Antheia, make them more efficient to produce and safer to use? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

FaceApp, which makes users look old, has privacy concerns

Your original photos are uploaded to FaceApps servers—and no one knows what the company does with them. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Giving Up TV for a Month Changed My Brain

Watching a couple hours of TV a day can have major effects on your brain. So what would happen if you quit cold turkey? | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Spotify and other popular apps trick you into doing free labor

Companies are putting you to work for them by encouraging you to feel ownership of their products—without actually giving you any ownership. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

That new productivity tool is stressing out your team

New technology isn’t always going to be the answer to your productivity issues at work. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Google Sheets: 27 things you didn't know it can do

There’s much more to Google Sheets than meets the eye. Unlock these advanced options–and watch your productivity soar. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Network Instead of Coding Is the Most Needed Skill When You Start New (2017)

Your technical chops may not give you the edge when you’re new to the workforce, but your network might. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago