fastcompany
1h ago
13°
The hidden privilege of uninterrupted time
The school calls in the middle of the workday. Your child is sick. That means you have to leave the meeting, cancel the rest of your afternoon, and rearrange appointments for tomorrow. Research shows that when this happens to a father, he has a childcare problem. But when it happens to a mother, she can become the childcare problem.
fastcompany
22h ago
13°
It’s time to reconsider these 3 retirement topics. Here’s why
As much as there are immutable truths in investing and money matters — costs matter and getting started earlier is best, for example — many of the precepts we hold true as investors depend on the data. When the data change, so should our thinking. Here are three retirement-related topics I’ve altered my thinking on, because I was off-base in the first place or gained new information.
fastcompany
42h ago
12°
As a domestic car sales slump continues, China’s automakers lean on exports
China’s passenger car exports surged 64% in September from the same month in 2025, an industry association reported Monday, as Chinese automakers increasingly focus on exports to drive growth amid sluggish domestic sales.
fastcompany
25h ago
11°
A livestreamed public execution would be psychologically damaging to kids. Experts weigh in on what parents can do
This is not an article about politics, capital punishment, or whether the Fort Hood shooter deserves to be executed in public for his crimes.Instead, it’s focused on the unprecedented parental challenge of handling the near-certain prospect that children will hear of or see footage of the Dec. 3 U.S. execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan if the Trump administration follows through with plans to livestream the event.The danger stretches beyond the broadcast...
fastcompany
28h ago
11°
This cool interactive visual argues that generative art began in a cave
Around 71,000 BCE, someone in a place now called Blombos Cave, on the southern coast of what is now South Africa, scratched crosshatched lines into a piece of ocher. No computer. No code. No prompt. But according to The Living Timeline, launched by digital art institution Le Random, the drawing is a work of generative art, just like your latest AI-styled photo on Instagram.
fastcompany
28h ago
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Flock is facing a surveillance backlash. Meanwhile, its drone business is booming
For much of the last year, security cameras sold by the tech firm Flock Safety have been blacked out, painted over, even wrapped in trash bags. Roundly criticized for ushering in high-tech surveillance, the company’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) have not only been broken, but banned by cities across the nation.
fastcompany
28h ago
10°
Graphic design isn’t dying. It’s expanding
It’s a liberating time to be a graphic designer. You would think so, anyway, after reading Jarrett Fuller’s new book, Graphic Designers After Graphic Design, published this fall by Princeton Architectural Press.
fastcompany
44h ago
9°
Why is Kelly Clarkson beefing with a Brooklyn toy shop?
Kelly Clarkson just thrust a small Brooklyn boutique into the limelight, and not in a good way.
fastcompany
20h ago
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CVS to pay $315 million settlement to resolve DOJ opioid lawsuit
CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday.
fastcompany
19h ago
9°
Why your software development lifecycle is slow
Traditional software development lifecycles (SDLC) were designed around how fast people could type and coordinate. Sprints, manual quality gates, and review handoffs made sense when writing code was the slowest part of the job. With AI, developers can write, refactor, and document code faster than they could two years ago. What has not moved nearly as much is how fast the same organizations actually ship.