Category Archives: Fast Company

The language-learning company’s new app lets users teach and learn anything from biology to Pokémon. A look at the most popular topics. (Read more about Tinycards on Fast Company.)

An AI scientist is creating personal assistant bots that stand in for human beings by analyzing everything a person has done online. (Read about augmented eternity in Fast Company.)  

Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size. (Read more about blood filtering on Fast Company.)

Researchers are testing mobile apps that analyze patients’ activity to measure mental health. (Read more on Fast Company.)

The government agency DARPA has launched a contest to develop tech that could boost wireless capacity 1,000-fold. (Read about the spectrum challenge on Fast Company.)  

Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer docs aim to change that. (Read about Orbis on Fast Company.)

 Companies promise that algorithms can not only consider more information about applicants, but also be more objective than human recruiters. (Read more about AI hiring on Fast Company.)

 Tech advances allow new companies to harness networks of computers and people to sift through legal information and help lawyers prep cases. (Read more on tech and law on Fast Company.)

 Working with Singapore researchers, IBM has engineered a chemical that blocks viruses like Zika, Ebola, dengue, influenza, herpes, and more. (Read more about IBM’s molecule on Fast Company.)