Robots in movies may be evil more often than good, but they're becoming part of our lives. And their tech is evolving so that they "feel" more like we do. This happened recently, and we had to show it to you
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Feed SubscriptionHow To Get From A Great Idea To Actual Innovation
There's a tendency for all of us to glorify the ideation process when in fact it's the reduction to practice that's perhaps more important, says Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company. What's the formula for moving from a great idea to actual implementation?
Read More »Fast Company Is Hiring A Digital Project Manager – Is It You?
Digital Project Manager, Fast Company Fast Company's growing Marketing team is looking for an experienced Digital Project Manager to oversee strategic planning as well as day-to-day implementations of custom advertising opportunities with the site. The ideal candidate will be a creative digital thinker with experience in online ad operations and ad sales, along with a deep familiarity with the breadth of technologies and processes used in online advertising.
Read More »FDA rejects petition to ban BPA in food packaging
Despite earlier research finding health risks, "There remain serious questions about these studies, particularly as they relate to humans," FDA said
Read More »With autism rates up, experts renew call for early intervention
Recent CDC report found one in 88 children has autism, nearly doubling 2002 estimates
Read More »Don’t Wish for Obedient Employees
Instead, like the military, nurture an environment of moral courage, one in which team members break stupid rules, and suggest smarter solutions. When Fred Krawchuk was a lieutenant colonel, the U.S. Army sent him to business school
Read More »Mattel to manufacture bald Barbie doll
Mattel will make a bald friend of Barbie with interchangeable wigs, scarves and other accessories thanks to an online campaign started by two women affected by cancer
Read More »Google’s Online Tablet Store, RIM’s Cofounder Leaves As Company Misses Financial Results, Living Social Founder Exits
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Drive Leaks Continue . It now looks that when Google's cloud storage app Google drive arrives it'll come with a capacity bigger than an earlier rumored 2GB storage capacity, instead offering 5GB for your documents
Read More »Apple’s Chinese Democracy: Foxconn Gets The iTreatment
In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.
Read More »50 Cent Remixes Beats By Dre With SMS Headphones
Emerging headphones purveyor 50 Cent studied a predecessor closely before pressing play on his own venture. When Beats by Dre headphones debuted in 2008, the size of the $100-plus headphone market was a faint $92 million. Four years later, the good doctor's b-emblazoned earpieces have achieved near ubiquity, and the $100-plus segment has been cranked up to $512 million.
Read More »Your Best Employees Always Ask ‘Why’
Conventional wisdom says they're a pain. In reality, they are doing you a huge favor.
Read More »Is sugar toxic?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new scientific research that suggests sugar could be a contributing factor to cancer and heart disease
Read More »Preview: Is sugar toxic?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new scientific research that suggests sugar could be a contributing factor to cancer and heart disease. Watch Gupta's report on Sunday, April 1 at 7 p.m.
Read More »Of a Kind Founders Decide Fast, Iterate Later
Soon after Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo launched Of a Kind, a fashion website, in 2010, they realized their initial web site ideas would always be wrong, and require changes.
Read More »17 Game-Changing Health Start-ups
Unfit citizens. Underinformed doctors
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