In the two weeks following the publication of "Look Who's Curing Cancer" (May), about IBM's campaign to recruit the public to volunteer their idle computers for medical research, World Community Grid added 11,000 computers, the ...READ»
Want to see how an innovative city of the future is created? Join us for our Fast Cities panel on June 22 at the Washington Inn in Oakland, California. A variety of speakers, including Fast Company's own Anya Kamenetz; Ian Kim, ...READ»
Ever wondered how to...well, anything? Welcome to Howcast, offering instructional videos on everything from tying a sailor's knot to decorating a cake. FastCompany.com spoke with Howcast cofounder Darlene Liebman.READ»
My grandmother turned 92 a couple of months ago. While her short-term memory isn't great, she can describe in detail growing up in the 1920s. It is amazing how much has changed in her lifetime. Commercial air travel. Computers. ...READ»
As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity -- and transform the role of the teacher.READ»
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Fast Company staff writer Anya Kamenetz did Power Lunch with CNBC yesterday and discussed her cover story, A Is for App, about the smartphone revolution and its effect on kids as young as 18 months. Read ...READ»
Elizabeth Stark is cofounder of Open Video Alliance, visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. FastCompany.com spoke to her about the need to keep online videos from becoming just like television.READ»
An illuminated wedding dress and RFID teacups that can control videos are just two of Alison Lewis's tech-infused DIY projects, which involve clothing, home accessories, and small electronics and can be found in her book and blog.READ»
The Future of All Media?
The language and energy of Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst are right, but the goals seem fuzzy ("Want a Piece of This?"). Perhaps the best news is that Pepsi's top guns see that less control of the brand means ...READ»
What would happen if you took the principles of a startup incubator like Y Combinator and applied it to improving education? A new philanthropic venture called Startl aims to find out. The non-profit startup accelerator is being ...READ»
Going Local
When Henry Kissinger quipped, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," he wasn't talking about electric utilities. But readers deluged us with email and online comments about staff writer Anya Kamenetz's July/August article ...READ»
Like many teenagers, my son spends a ton of time on his computer. His passion is designing icons to personalize a desktop or iPhone interface. He posts sets of these icons online for people to download. He doesn't get paid for any of ...READ»
When staff writer Anya Kamenetz and her husband, an engineer at Google, went on their honeymoon, they set aside a week to volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Pune, India. The hospice, it turned out, desperately wanted its own Web site. ...READ»
Dawn Danby pops upover a Skype connection on the screen of my computer, holding up her laptop to the camera mounted in another. The machine in her hands shows a screen shot of Ecotect, a building-design program that represents the ...READ»
This Month's Cover Story: Boy Wonder: How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign , by Ellen McGirt, page 58
The untold story of how Chris Hughes, at the tender age of 25, helped create two of the most ...READ»
Sirius XM [SIRI] is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as Tuesday, due to a $175 million debt maturing this weekend that the company can't pay. If satellite radio as we knew it disappeared, would it really matter?
Granted, ...READ»
Texan Trees"Carbon Boom" (July/August) addressed the idea of offsetting greenhouse- gas emissions by preserving forests, largely in tropical regions like Brazil and Indonesia. Now the so-called forest carbon trade has come ...READ»
When the founding fathers of the New York Stock Exchange (and, yes, they were all men) gathered under
a buttonwood tree on Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, 216 years ago, they could not have imagined that their efforts would help ...READ»
In a speech today at Fresno State University, John McCain proposed a $300 million government prize for the development of an alternative car battery. He called for a more efficient and affordable battery than those currently powering ...READ»
