Interviews with Amazon's health chief Neil Lindsay and others on the company's health care push, the PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, its future, and more
In November 2021, Neil Lindsay was named to head Amazon's health business. It wasn't because of his medical expertise. He didn't have any. X: @fastcompany and @amazonnews . Linke...
An interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the moderator rebellion, limiting free access to the company's API, AI's role in Reddit's future, and more
Rebellious moderators. Large language models' peril and promise. Maybe a long-awaited IPO. Amid it all, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the web megacommunity is on a roll.
At the center of Google's antitrust trial is a “remarkable” number of deleted employee chats, as chat backups reveal employees discussing going “off the record”
& the power of defaults https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Rebecca Allensworth / @hawallensworth : Internal documents (or deleted ones!) should play a starring role in these antitrus...
An interview with Google Jigsaw engineer Lucy Vasserman on how OpenAI, Anthropic, and others use Jigsaw's AI-based Perspective API to flag LLMs' toxic speech
AI for flagging toxic human speech—to detoxify their large language models But like all AI classifiers, it brings its own problems. Says Jigsaw: we “have to be a little bit careful...
An interview with Craig Federighi on the new privacy and safety enhancements across iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma, working with AI, and more
It used to be just technology journalists and privacy advocates who got excited about the new privacy features that Apple …
Apple unveils iOS 17 with redesigned contact cards, Live Voicemail, transcription, FaceTime messages, updates to Messages, autocorrect, and AirDrop, and more
Personalize your phone calls — Customize what people see when you call. Apple : iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive Shiona McCallum / BBC : ‘Ducking hell’ to disappea...
An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others
Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @jill_bernstein , ...
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel
It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel
It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
Osmind, which provides EHR software to chart and update mental health patient information and documents, raises a $40M Series B led by DFJ Growth
David Shultz / Fast Company : Tweets: @osmindhq , @fastcompany , @dfjgrowth , and @ycombinator Tweets: @osmindhq : We're grateful for our investors and board who understand the gr...
Inside the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, which felt confusing and disjointed, as the cultural spotlight on Ethereum leaves Bitcoin feeling a little stale
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Inside the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, which felt confusing and disjointed, as the cultural spotlight on Ethereum left Bitcoin feeling a little stale
What happens when you're no longer the hot young cryptocurrency? That's the question hanging over the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami this week.
Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan is departing at the end of March after three years, to spend more time with his family; COO Sean Leow will serve as interim CEO
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Niantic acquires 8th Wall, which helps developers make web-based AR apps, in what the company says is its “largest acquisition to date”
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Chinese Wikipedia volunteers are fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence, and exposing the threats to Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission
How Chinese Wikipedia volunteers fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence expose the challenges to the Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission
This past July, before he was banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at the free-knowledge movement's annual conference, Wikimania.
Profile of Jack Poulson, a former Google researcher who exposes tech company ties with the US military, as the head of the Tech Inquiry nonprofit
Jack Poulson has developed an encyclopedic knowledge of how tech companies are evolving into military contractors. Tweets: @fastcotech , @mattdrange , @fastcompany , and @seancapta...
Profile of Invisible Universe, which is developing animated franchises using characters born on social media with the help of influencers like Serena Williams
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Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about Niantic's vision for the metaverse and how the metaverse could become a dystopian nightmare
The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.