Category Archives: Fast Company
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
One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier’s Quest For Something Concrete
[Fast Company] Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands–and little patience for general assembly dickering–to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large–but not unified–contingent of pragmatic policy wonks in the movement. [Read the rest … Continue reading
Infographic: Who Is Occupy Wall Street?
[Fast Company] A new study, shared exclusively with Fast Company, offers insight into participants. They span age and income groups, are largely apolitical, and are mostly white. They are also getting more active. [Read the rest of Infographic: Who Is Occupy … Continue reading
Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up?
[Fast Company] Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn’t stopped some people from trying to identify leaders. And some activists charge that organizations are trying to co-opt their message. How can a phenomenon with … Continue reading