Category Archives: Fast Company
CloudFlare’s Matthew Prince Challenges Amazon For Control Of The Net
Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding … Continue reading
Meet the Hackers Who Are Decrypting Your Brainwaves
Conor Russomanno, a self-described neurohacker, asks me to close my eyes and relax. After a few seconds, he tells me later, the screen showed a slight spike at around 10 Hz—a rise in the alpha waves that indicates a restful … Continue reading
Apple TV Just Ripped Off The Roku Player–Brilliantly
Apple just ripped off Roku as blatantly as Android ripped off iOS. But Apple has built by far the best Roku Player ever. Despite—or perhaps because of—being a copycat, Apple has a very good chance of winning the Internet-streaming box war. … Continue reading
IBM And Chip Designer ARM Want To Monitor Every Device They Can
Today IBM and ARM (which licenses the designs used in billions of mobile device chips) announced an alliance to stake their claim to this new tech territory. ARM-based chips will be equipped to collect data from the devices they live … Continue reading
Google News Lab Mashes Big Data With Old-School Reporting
[Fast Company] Google is no longer just a place to search for news stories; it’s a place to find raw news itself. Among the 432,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every day are user clips of important events—from police … Continue reading
My Retina Tracker Crowdsources Cures For Blindness
[Fast Company, Photo: Flickr user A Silly Person] My Retina Tracker hooks patients with a big, though long-shot, incentive: By uploading their medical records and answering questionnaires, patients may get the attention of researchers who may be doing clinical trials … Continue reading
BuyMeBy Saves Food From The Landfill By Offering Discounts As Expiration Dates Loom
[Fast Company] New Yorker Carlos de Santiago already has a plan to prevent food from going to waste. It doesn’t require a law, and it could even save you money. De Santiago and four colleagues are developing an online service, … Continue reading
Nothing Is Untraceable: How The Hacking Team Got Busted
[Fast Company] How did things go so wrong for a company that had the trust, and money, of some of the most powerful players in the world? The answer, in part, is that nothing is really untraceable on the web, … Continue reading
Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street’s Live Stream
[Fast Company] The best ground view of Occupy Wall Street comes from a former skateboard videographer and a one-time Realtor, aka Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of The Other 99. With little more than mobile phones they’ve offered a perspective … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street Moved Out Of Zuccotti A Long Time Ago
[Fast Company] The overwhelming sentiment expressed by the occupiers: This changes nothing. They said they may find another spot (although that was proving difficult after eviction from a backup location). Or they may be physically disbanded. But it was hard … Continue reading