These 4 new Apple iOS 18 features will boost your iPhone’s privacy and security. Here’s how to use them

Apple’s iOS 18 is packed with new features for the iPhone including new ways to customize your home screen layout, a revamped Control Center, and numerous productivity features. But iOS 18 also includes sev

Political betting could soon be legal—and it’s the last thing this election needs

As if elections in the United States weren’t already poisoned by money, there may soon be yet another way for people to pour theirs into the process. Late last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Kalshi, a startup exchange dedicated to “trading on the outcome of future events,” to take bets on which political party will control the House and Senate after the November election. Shortly the

Qualcomm wants to buy Intel. Would that be enough to overtake Nvidia?

This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

Shares of Intel jumped 3% Friday as The Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper and Asa Fitch reported that Qualcomm has approached Intel about acquiring it for perh

American venture capitalists are more likely to invest in AI than VCs in other countries are

American venture capitalists are significantly more focused on artificial intelligence than investors in other regions are, according to our new Fast Company analysis.

Recently, we discovered an apparent disparity between the amount of public attention paid to AI and the amount of venture capital the sector actually attracts. Despite every news headline, pre

Telegram’s chatbots involved in massive medical data breach 

Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after

Pagers were the original ‘always on’ device well before the deadly attack on Hezbollah. Here’s who still uses them

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device to keep in touch with her husband as he delivered medical supplies. He carried one, too. They had a code.

“If I really needed something I would text ‘9-1-1.’ That meant anythin

‘Skinny girl’ videos are invading social media. Health experts are concerned

Across social media, influencers who have amassed large followings by sharing weight-related tips and promoting “skinny” lifestyles. One of the most controversial, Liv Schmidt, built a community of 670,000 working women by posting videos of her “skinny girl essentials.” Her content included weight loss tips, including “how to avoid the freshman 15” and “how to stop emotional eating at your 9-5 job,” often accompanied by emojis of pigs, whales, and cows. That is, until TikTok deleted her acco

How to prepare for the coming quantum leap

Companies and educators need to start preparing now for quantum computing’s place as a disruptor in the marketplace, or risk falling behind the rapid pace of innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Martin A. Schmidt said during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

Schmidt was joined onstage by IonQ CMO Margaret Arakawa, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research Darío Gil, and Fast Company Global Technology Editor Harry McCracken.

Why social media companies keep copying each other

Snapchat is combining its Stories and Spotlight functions into one vertical video feed. That feed just happens to look almost identical to TikTok. 

The new function, called Simple Snapchat, taps into the endless scroll of short-form video that’s flooding the social media industry, from TikTok to Instagram Reels. Snapchat has been burned before: Back in 2016, Instagram launched its own Stories function, whic

How ‘Minion Jesus’ was resurrected on TikTok

Remember those Minion memes floating around the internet a few months ago—the ones made to resemble Jesus on a cross or rising from the dead? Well, now we know who’s behind them.

Lost? Let’s catch you up. Earlier this year a number of eerily similar videos started cropping up on TikTok. “One day, an animator was messing around, and he created this picture of a little minion,”


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