Choosing the right speakers for your computer can make all the difference in your work. Check out our list for the best computer speakers for designers!
From WhatsApp to Facebook Events to Instagram Stories, here are the best ways to finally kick your Facebook habit in 2020. Enough is enough is enough. If you’re anything like me, you’re sick of hearing about Facebook’s mistreatment of your data and our democracy, and you don’t want to use...
“Top 9” isn’t a tool made by Instagram–and using it can have major privacy implications if you aren’t careful. Social media apps love offering year-end tools that allow users to see their most popular posts of the past 12 months. It’s a fun way to look back on what...
Bookmark these essays and features as you head into your holiday break. How do you dismantle the structural inequality designed into cities? Is it time to reassess the role of designers within the business world? What does design at Apple look like without Jony Ive? This past year was one in which designers in...
The service now lets you follow subjects you love—from anime to archaeology—and is upgrading its long-dormant lists feature. It’s the dawn of a new era. “People would hear about all the great stuff that happened on Twitter all the time, and they just couldn’t find it. It’s...
In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, sharing is a core part of how we communicate. We almost feel as if something hasn’t really happened until we’ve captured that fleeting moment in digital form and show it to someone else – even if that someone else is a person we’ve never even met....
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai) say that warnings about sentient robots are overblown, but other harms are not getting enough attention. I agree. I am an AI researcher,...
As the search company’s ambitions expanded, so did its use of creative brand advertising to help it achieve its empire-building goals. It all started when hell froze over at the 2010 Super Bowl.Read Full Story
Designer Nina Montgomery offers up three innovation challenges for leaders who say they want to broaden the purpose of business. At the beginning of the month, leadership of the World Economic Forum declared that Milton Friedman was wrong. The purpose of business, they said, is no longer to maximize shareholder...
2019 brought us some nifty apps, websites and tools out there that make the dub dub dub a bit more enjoyable — and also saw us stick to a bunch of old favorites that are still going strong at the end of the decade. Here are our favorite things the TNW crew used online this year. Stoop Email newsletters are great for...
Twenty-one years old this year, no one can dispute the dominance Google has enjoyed in the world of search. After all, it has a massive 81.5 percent market share worldwide. But, new players are beginning to chip away at its position in Europe and North America — particularly when it comes to users researching...
Whether you’re interested in Google advertising, social media platform messaging via Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and more, or the best ways to amplify your voice through Amazon, it’s all here.
Something’s been missing in my life lately. Cash? No. I work in media, I’m rich. Power? Sure, I could always use more of that. But that’s not it. Beauty? Fuck no, I’m gorgeous. Yet I still feel like a loser. Because my house lacks a certain… Instagrammableness. (Disclaimer: this review is a piece of...
“With amputations being reported on a daily basis, India’s vast rural hinterland is comparable to a warzone,” says Abhit Kumar, who makes practical, affordable prosthetic devices designed to get amputees back into the workforce. More than two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion inhabitants live in low-income rural...
The 10 best video editing software options for every budget, by feature & channel. Whether novice or professional, find the right software to edit your videos.
Psychological havoc ensues when you don’t believe you deserve an expensive item. Do you rarely wear the nicest items in your closet? Or are you one of the many women who wears faux rings despite owning valuable ones? Now you know why: it turns out that luxury items can spur a psychological rabbit hole of...
The company is verifying business communications so you know they’re real—but there’s a catch. The twin plagues of text-message spam and robocalls have been teaching phone users a harsh lesson: Trust no one.Read Full Story
Google Glass Google Glass is the embodiment of a product ahead of its time. Few in the tech world doubt that augmented reality wearables will eventually be big, but if the world isn’t ready for them in 2019, it most definitely wasn’t back in 2014. Google Glass was an awesome concept, but the hardware was simply...
We asked Fast Company Impact Council members to name the most important companies of the year and the decade. Some answers may surprise you. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google are the most important companies of the decade, according to a survey of the Fast Company Impact Council, while We Work (as a cautionary tale)...
How to get organized in 2020: Ditch the phone and get yourself a paper planner. My phone is an absolute mess. Each workday hundreds of Slack messages stack up in my notifications center, next to push alerts from apps that I haven’t used in months (“Don’t you want to order lunch?”), nudges...
We spoke with eight leaders about how they’re setting themselves up for success in 2020. You’ve seen the memes circulating Instagram, but in case you need yet another reminder: 2020 isn’t just a new year. It’s a new decade. The end of one 10-year stretch and the start of a new one creates...
According to the App Store, lots of people got Amazon Echos, FitBits, and Disney+ subscriptions this year. The Amazon Echo must have been a popular gift this year, because downloads of the Alexa app are topping charts across iPhone and Android. The app is the number one downloaded app on iPhone and number two in...
Right now, there are more than 700,000 active podcasts and more than 29 million podcast episodes, as illustrated by Music Oomph. So it’s no wonder 2019 feels like ‘the year’ for podcasts as a Twitter user perfectly illustrated in a meme: Starting a podcast in 2019 pic.twitter.com/Lrx39rXNSp — Mike...
Here at TNW we do something most other large tech sites don’t: get our writers to create their own article images. If you take a quick glance at other big news outlets, you’ll see the majority of images have a very stock photo feel to them. But not at TNW. Here, we’re all about DIY article images. Why? Well, by...
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