Fast Company

Whatever your religious convictions might be, a job’s still a job.

Kim Davis is a clerk in Kentucky who refused to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples, based on her religious convictions. Fast Company Senior Editor Kim Last addresses this by pointing out that if we take out the moral implications, this is about an elected official not carrying out the duties of her position. In simple terms, this is an issue where an employee is not doing his or her job. Do you agree? Should Kim Davis resign her position? What do you think should be done? Tell us at #29thFloor!

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Get ready: Your emails are about to come with a lot more bells and whistles.

Like many tech-conference organizers, the people behind The Email Design Conference made sure to email attendees well ahead of time with the Twitter hashtag for the event.

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It might sound self-indulgent, but “me time” may be more critical to your success than you think.

Taking some “me time” may sound like a luxury reserved for self-indulgent celebrities. In today’s hyperbusy world, demands of work and family often supersede spending time doing the things you actually enjoy doing. Perhaps you even feel guilty about taking some time out for yourself, but taking time to rest and recharge are as critical to your success as responding to an urgent email from your boss.

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New iPads? What does Apple have up its sleeve?

The Apple rumor mill is hell-bent on ruining the surprise for all of us.

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Get an up-close look at the brand’s Fall 2015 runway show with a fashion-friendly spin on Google Cardboard.

Rebecca Minkoff, one of Fast Company‘s Most Innovative Companies in Fashion this year, has just introduced virtual reality (VR) headsets into its product line, along with clothes, bags, and accessories. The headset requires some assembly—it’s a fashion-friendly spin on Google’s VR platform, Cardboard—but allows consumers to pop their iOS or Android phones into the box and watch a stream of VR content.

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WeWork’s coliving initiative, WeLive, is betting entrepreneurs will want to play where they work—but it may not make a splash right away.

Last year, it was revealed that coworking company WeWork was making an ambitious jump into the coliving space. New documents obtained by The Information show that WeWork’s plans to offer combined live-work spaces for small startups and solo entrepreneurs are further along than expected, and that a seamless meeting of work and personal life could be a future profit generator for WeWork.

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Every ring holds as much smog as 1,000 cubic meters of city air.

On a trip to Beijing three years ago, artist Daan Roosegaarde looked at a sample of the city’s notorious air pollution and got inspired. The tiny black particles were mostly carbon; carbon, at high pressure, turns into diamonds. Why not suck up the city’s smog, he thought, and turn it into jewelry?

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Sometimes envisioning a life without cars is just as simple as doing it.

The narrow street in front of Steven Clays’s house in Ghent, Belgium, is usually lined with parked cars and full of traffic. But for most of this summer, it turned into a makeshift park.

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The new doc Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is in theaters and on-demand today. What does it mean for the Valley legend’s legacy?

There’s a moment at the end of director Alex Gibney’s new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine that presents the audience with a blank iPhone screen. The glossy, black surface reflects an image of Jobs that slowly morphs into an image of Gibney—a stylistic nod to Gibney’s thesis for the doc: We’ve all become the men and women in the machine.

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An open letter asks Twitter to restore API access to a service that automatically saved politician’s deleted tweets.

Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the deleted tweets of politicians.

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