[ad_1] Dan Harris spent the day prior to our conversation with his meditation teacher, Joseph Goldstein. It was ideal timing, given our intention to explore how Harris utilizes the principles he’s learned as cofounder and CEO of Ten Percent—A platform to learn to meditate from world-renowned mindfulness teachers—to lead a collaborative and compassionate team. I … Read more
[ad_1] When the tag on your shirt says, “Made in India,” or “Made In Indonesia,” it’s hard to visualize the human beings who made it. The world’s 94 million garment workers are largely invisible; most are women who labor long hours under unsafe conditions and exploitative pay. But when you put on a Cleobella, founder … Read more
[ad_1] Drew Wilkinson never expected to work at Microsoft. For a decade, he’d played in a punk band and worked at small, scrappy environmental nonprofits when he wasn’t touring. But in 2016, when he needed to find a new way to pay bills, a friend told him about an opening on the tech giant’s paralegal … Read more
[ad_1] Polyester clothing is made in a process that uses ethanol—and that ethanol is normally made from petroleum or gas. But a new line of T-shirts, tanks, and shorts from On, the Swiss sportswear brand, is made, in part, from carbon emissions instead. On partnered with LanzaTech, a biotech company that uses bacteria to transform … Read more
[ad_1] Fast Company is looking for the best products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that pursue innovation for good for its World Changing Ideas Awards, now in their eighth year. We want to honor clean technology, innovative corporate initiatives, thoughtful new designs for cities and buildings, creative works that help drive change, the ways organizations … Read more
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is seeping into our lives like the rising groundwater of climate change, yet it seems like it also must be heralded by a new generation of gadgets for it to have arrived in the fullest sense. But does every new computing paradigm require sleek new hardware? That seems to be the conclusion … Read more
[ad_1] However, as cars grow “smarter,” the right to repair them is under siege. As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy, and consumer rights. Policymakers are forced to navigate this … Read more
[ad_1] If you’d like to see for yourself how Marques Brownlee mastered the art of explaining consumer technology in YouTube videos, it’s easy. Just head to his MKBHD channel, click the “Oldest” button, and check out his first tech video, which the high school sophomore uploaded on January 1, 2009. And then just keep traveling … Read more
[ad_1] It’s been almost a decade since the dating app Bumble—where women always make the first move—launched online. But according to founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, the company’s core mission hasn’t changed much. “I wanted to give women control over their relationships, create a safer experience for them on the internet, and change the paradigm of … Read more
[ad_1] Despite mounting pressure on corporations to deploy some kind of AI strategy within the next year, a new survey conducted by Cisco finds that the vast majority of business leaders lack either the infrastructure, policies, talent, culture, or data to do it. The survey, called Cisco’s AI Readiness Index, includes responses from more than … Read more