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Food Companies
This plant-based food startup targets seniors instead of millennials
Fast Company - Adele Peters
Perennial is gut, brain, and bone health for older consumers. While some plant-based food brands focus on younger consumers–Oatly, for example, talks about the “post-milk generation” that drinks its vegan
Technology
The 25 best new productivity apps for 2019
Fast Company - Jared Newman
These slick, capable tools will help you get motivated, stay focused, and improve the quality of your work. You might think that by now, people would have productivity software all figured out. Yet every
News
Apple’s Eddy Cue put the hard sell on NYT, WaPo to join News+
Fast Company - Mark Sullivan
Apple’s Eddy Cue wanted badly for The New York Times and the Washington Post to participate in its new News+ subscription news service. Vanity Fair‘s Joe Pompeo writes that Cue was in and out of The New
News
Google employees demand removal of ethics council member over comments on trans people
Fast Company - Rina Raphael
A growing percentage of Google employees aren’t too pleased with a new member of the company’s Advanced Technology Ethics Advisory Council. On Monday, 662 Googlers (at press time) signed a petition calling
News
Some victims of cyber crimes weren’t notified by the FBI for months, says DOJ watchdog
Fast Company - Steven Melendez
The FBI is sometimes delayed—by up to nine months—in notifying victims of cyber crimes, according to a new report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General. “Timely notification is
Los Angeles, CA
Let New York be the beginning of a congestion pricing revolution
Fast Company - Morgan Clendaniel
Now that one city has embraced the policy, hopefully other cities concerned about traffic will follow. Everyone complains about traffic. It takes too long to get where you need to go, and no one can provide
News
Report: Alphabet-backed has erased a whopping 46,594 day-care listings
Fast Company - Ainsley Harris
On the eve of a damaging Wall Street Journal investigation of its safety practices, childcare platform Care.com scrubbed 72% of the day-care listings on its site, the Journal said Monday in a follow-up
News
Facial recognition is coming to hotels to make check-in easier—and much creepier
Fast Company - Melissa Locker
Alibaba has created the hotel of the future and it’s wild, wonderful, and just a little creepy. FlyZoo, which is reportedly a Chinese pun for “must stay,” is a 290-room ultra-modern boutique hotel in China
Burger King
Not a joke: Burger King and Impossible Foods teaming up for Impossible Whopper
Fast Company - Melissa Locker
McDonald’s broke vegetarians’ hearts today with its April Fools prank, the McPickle burger, which is sadly not a real addition to their menu. Luckily, Burger King is there to pick up the pieces with its
April Fools' Day
Behold, the only good April Fools’ Day gag: the LA Times satire of New York food culture
Fast Company - Joe Berkowitz
Well done, Los Angeles Times food section. What: An impeccably written piece of satire timed to April Fools’ Day. Who: The Los Angeles Times’ Food section and writer Lucas Kwan Peterson. Why we care: 1
Leadership
How to know when fear is driving your procrastination
Fast Company - Anisa Purbasari Horton
Laziness isn’t the only thing that’s making you put things off Examining our failures isn’t an easy thing to do. Accepting reality means taking a hard look at your mistakes, owning them, and creating new
Fyre Festival
This bar is giving you the Fyre Festival experience you didn’t ask for
Fast Company - KC Ifeanyi
Like a trust-fund phoenix rising from the ashes, the Fyre Festival lives on. Sort of. Replay Lincoln Park, an arcade bar in Chicago, will host a “luxury” (their quotes, not ours) pop-up experience dedicated
El Chapo
El Chapo’s new clothing line will tunnel you out of fashion prison
Fast Company - Elizabeth Segran
El Chapo’s latest victims: Fashion victims. Most famous prisoners parlay their notoriety into memoirs. But that would be far too prosaic for El Chapo. Nope, the famous chief of the Sinaloa Cartel will
Politics
The way SNL mocked the liberal perception of Russiagate this week makes us wonder whether the writers have ever seen SNL
Fast Company - Joe Berkowitz
On the latest, Sandra Oh-hosted Saturday Night Live, a sketch about the Mueller report makes it seem as though SNL has forgotten how the show itself has portrayed Russiagate. A standout sketch on this
News
Gmail will soon let you schedule emails
Fast Company - Jared Newman
With Gmail, you’ll soon be able to write emails at 2 a.m. without weirding out your recipients. A forthcoming “schedule send” feature will let you compose an email ahead of time, then pick a future date
News
These NASA and MIT researchers created a shape-shifting airplane wing that could change air travel
Fast Company - Melissa Locker
A clever new wing design could make both air travel, plane maintenance, and plane production more efficient—and that could be good news for everyone. Researchers from NASA and MIT teamed up to re-think
Leadership
How to write a resume that will impress a bot
Fast Company - Stephanie Vozza
Crafting a resume that will impress artificial intelligence takes a totally different approach than writing for a human hiring manager. Getting hired used to mean writing a resume that stood out to the
Technology
127 new movies, TV shows, albums, and books you must check out this April
Fast Company - Joe Berkowitz
Get ready to play “Endgame” with the Avengers, shop at the “Unicorn Store,” and soak in the sultry sounds of Lizzo–it’s our Creative Calendar for April. You know what they say about March: It’s always
Technology
The glorious freedom of disabling read receipts
Fast Company - Michael Grothaus
It’s time to reclaim your privacy–and your time–from your friends and coworkers. Last year a good friend sent me a WhatsApp message asking where I wanted to meet for coffee. I sent her a message back the
Online Privacy
New Fast Company event to feature Michelle Pfeiffer, Jim Coulter, Abigail Disney
Fast Company - Stephanie Mehta
The first meeting of the Fast Company Impact Council will bring together leaders in business, the arts, entrepreneurship, and social impact for a day of high-impact panels, interviews, and interactive
Long-form Journalism
On its 10th anniversary, Grammarly looks way beyond grammar
Fast Company - Harry McCracken
The service that began by checking prose for glaring mistakes increasingly wants to help its nearly 20 million daily users do more than simply avoid errors. “We write to taste life twice.” —Anaïs Nin overuse
Leadership
How these millennials are planning (and living) their early retirement
Fast Company - Pavithra Mohan
For some professionals, it’s a salve for burnout; for others, simply a means to gain financial security. Often, the goal isn’t to stop working altogether, but to work on their own terms. For six years,
Georgia Tech
Researchers develop earrings that double as contraceptives
Fast Company - Katharine Schwab
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype for birth control that masquerades as jewelry. There are many forms of contraception: Some make you remember to take a pill at
Leadership
Multitasking is usually a bad idea, but here are 5 times when it’s okay
Fast Company - Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Multitasking is always a bad choice, here are a few times where if you multitask, you’re likely to be more effective. Sometimes multitasking is about the worst thing you can do: For example answering in
News
United, Southwest, and Delta are experiencing systemwide outages
Fast Company - Michael Grothaus
The three airlines have confirmed that they are experiencing systemwide outages that are disrupting flights, reports CNBC. Word of delayed flights quickly spread on Twitter in the early hours of Monday
Design
This free AI reads X-rays as well as doctors
Fast Company - Mark Wilson
What happens when free, open-source software can diagnose us as well as doctors? I’ve never read a chest X-ray before. I couldn’t spot pneumonia, an edema, nodules, atelectasis–nor do I know what most
News
Facebook finally answers the perennial question about News Feed: “Why am I seeing this?”
Fast Company - Michael Grothaus
Facebook has made no secret over the years that it uses complex algorithms to determine what you are shown in your News Feed with the intent of getting you to use Facebook more and click on more links.
Design
How Disney grew its $3 billion Mickey Mouse business–by selling to adults
Fast Company - Elizabeth Segran
Apple, Gucci, Kate Spade, Uniqlo, L’Oréal, and Maybelline are just a few of the companies that sell Mickey-branded products for grown-ups. Here’s how Disney made adults fall in love with a cartoon character.
Technology
This coders’ retreat is rewriting all the rules to boost diversity
Fast Company - Ciara Byrne
Recurse Center’s social rules and financial support make it a magnet for “non-standard” programmers–and have lessons for everyone. Recurse Center (RC) is a three-month, self-directed educational retreat
Homelessness
These mobile homeless shelters fit in a backpack
Fast Company - Adele Peters
The Sheltersuit has been distributed to refugees and homeless people across Europe. Now the organization is producing a warm-weather version in the U.S. Five years ago, Dutch designer Bas Timmer heard