The Gi FlyBike is a collapsible electronic bike that friends can borrow just by opening an app.
The bicycle is one of our best hopes when it comes to alleviating many of the world’s transportation issues. But even though they are cleaner, healthier, and more efficient to own and ride than an automobile, bikes simply don’t get the love they deserve.
At 12 p.m. ET today, Google will introduce its new round of Nexus phones, and possibly more. Join Fast Company‘s live coverage here.
Google is hosting a live event in San Francisco today at 12 p.m. ET during which it is expected to unveil the newest members of its Nexus smartphone family. There is also talk that Google will use its stage time to announce a substantial update to the Chromecast streaming device as well.
Chromecast has been redesigned to fit your TV, and your viewing habits, in a way Apple TV never will.
Today, Google has revealed two new Chromecasts. One is for your TV. One is for your speakers. Both cost $35. And a new app can suck in all of your streaming subscriptions, search them, and get you watching them in seconds.
After delving into games and books, Product Hunt just launched a new vertical aimed at letting people nerd out about podcasts.
If there’s one thing nerds adore in 2015, it’s podcasts. And if there’s one place tech-obsessed geeks love to congregate online, it’s Product Hunt, a site that offers daily recommendations for new apps, websites, and tech. It’s fitting, then, that Product Hunt’s newest vertical is all about podcasts.
Marketers can tailor ads to your interests if you use Google search, Gmail, or YouTube while signed into your email.
Google may soon start showing you ads that you actually want to click on, just in time for Advertising Week. The tech giant has introduced a new addition to its arsenal of tools for advertisers: Customer Match will let marketers—only those to whom you have already provided your email address—show you relevant ads if you are signed into your email while browsing Google search, Gmail, or YouTube.
Google’s newest gadgets include the Nexus 5X smartphone, the Pixel C tablet, and an upgraded Chromecast.
Not to be outdone by its competitor down the road in Cupertino, [url=http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/google]Google unveiled its latest gadgets today in San Francisco[/url], with meaty upgrades to its smartphones, a new tablet, and a leap forward for its Chromecast streaming technology.
It passes the test if two named MacArthur geniuses have a conversation about something other than puppetry.
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It’s cool that there’s water on Mars but Apple Music still sucks.
A new global coalition will work to advance workplace equality for LGBT employees.
The Human Rights Campaign announced a new global coalition of companies at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday committed to making workplaces around the world fair and equal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. The founding members of the coalition include Google, IBM, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and AT&T.
At the company’s Minds + Machines event in San Francisco today, GE unveiled a range of new Industrial Internet offerings.
In a video touting General Electric’s new initiative to get more than 20,000 people building for Predix.io, the company’s new dedicated cloud environment for app developers, we see a young engineer telling his friends he’s going to work for GE. His friends are utterly flummoxed.
In an economy that values STEM skills, is it possible to study philosophy and still get a job when you graduate?
To hear policymakers and higher-education wonks tell it, there’s a now chasm separating what high-tech industries need in order to stay competitive and the skills current students can offer once they’re old enough to work for them. It’s called the STEM gap, shorthand for all the science, technology, engineering, and medical knowledge that not enough of the next generation of American workers are picking up. And not only is it widening, it’s opening fissures in non-STEM fields as well, as technology transforms industries that didn’t used to need data scientists or programmers but now do.
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