Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The climate tech sector is at a crossroads. This lack of traditional expertise freed us from being tied down by how things were “supposed” to work, allowing us to find fresh solutions to persistent problems. My path to climate tech was anything but linear. This is where climate-curious outsiders play a crucial role.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

In effect, this means that D-Wave has achieved quantum supremacy on a useful problem, something it says nobody else has yet been able to accomplish, and which is detailed in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science. Its what everybody aspired to achieve, and were quite excited about it.”

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2025

It didnt take long for me to understand what the problem was. Lets agree to keep it small, manageable, focused on relationship-building, and well help your team build some tech and data skills. If youre already in a robust system, meet with your software vendor and ask how you could be using the system more effectively.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. “These problems have been discussed for decades, often with very little progress. So the approach was really to give people no excuses.

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

For instance, the company hasn't gone into specifics about the CPU and GPU that are powering the Switch 2, other than to touch on the performance enhancements that they offer over the Switch (NVIDIA separately confirmed that the Switch 2 uses its Deep Learning Super Sampling tech). The company is referring to them as "smooth-gliding sticks."

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Customers can become emotional when you solve a problem that’s causing stress. Some groups aren’t ready to take the leap to automation, but others already understand how these systems can help them to work more strategically.” CertLink is a perfect example of technology with a heart, or systems where the pulse is customer satisfaction.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If the Department of Defense approves the deal, the company will expand its existing partnership with Anduril Industries, Palmer Luckeys defense startup , for the next stages of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. Microsoft, which spearheaded the program , would transition into supplying AI and cloud infrastructure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Think of tools like spam filters, donor segmentation algorithms, or predictive analytics that forecast campaign performance systems that excel at recognizing patterns in existing data. Thats the problem. Non-generative AI doesnt create new content; it analyzes data to make predictions, automate tasks, or surface insights.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

An avenue to test this presented itself to the team because the gig economy platform they were collaborating with, which matches North American homeowners with small business entrepreneurs for domestic repairs, decided to simplify its customer ratings from the common five-star system to a straightforward up versus down vote scale.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But last month, the school installed a new system that harvests rainwater, filters it, and then automatically supplies it to drinking fountains, the kitchen, and bathrooms. What we’re really trying to do is modernize rainwater harvestingto take this ancient technology to solve a modern-day problem, says founder Danny Wright.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

For example, a global tech company I worked with set out to become a leader in AI innovation but maintained a rigid, hierarchical structure optimized for minimizing operational expenses. For instance, if the incentive system rewards short-term gains at the expense of collaboration, leaders will struggle to inspire teamwork.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

They're annoying autodialers at best and illegal scams at worst, and they're part of an ongoing problem the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been trying to crack down on for years. The FCC has extended its efforts to robotexts in recent years, calling them a "growing problem" and one of the "latest scamming trends."

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Over the weekend, Samsung purged the One UI 7 update from its servers, which indicates that a serious problem has occurred. Samsung promises seven years of update support like Google, but it takes longer for it to release new operating system versions.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 21, 2025

A feature limited to Copilot+ PCs a label that just a fraction of a fraction of Windows 11 systems even qualify forRecall has been controversial in part because it builds an extensive database of text and screenshots that records almost everything you do on your PC.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

From Sonnet to Llama, AI companies have a branding problem of their own creation. The history of bad AI model names OpenAI chose a numeric naming system for their models. Anthropic was founded by OpenAI alumsand they have the same problem with model naming. But AI companies are just as bad, if not worse.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 8, 2025

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Smarter Tech for Nonprofits Theres a common myth in the nonprofit world that doing more with less means accepting outdated tools, patching together free versions of software, and settling for clunky systems. Its time to rethink what nonprofit tech should look like.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Focused on the intersection of tech and domestic violence advocacy, the law is an attempt to ensure that abusers can no longer use tracking technology installed in vehicles. Of course, theres the added issue of possibly false or misguided information when it comes to using tech interventions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Throne Bathrooms (@thronebathrooms) Built on accountability Throne says its smart bathrooms use accountability to solve the age-old problem of unwanted bathroom activity. Throne bathrooms are cheaper to clean and maintain because problem users can be banned from the system.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

When David Mesfin was producing his documentary on Black surfing culture, Wade in the Water , back in 2023, he had a problem. It was a clear sign that these systems werent built with us in mind. But the results were always the same: white surfers with darkened skin, says Mesfin, a creative director at ad agency Innocean.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

When users ask a question, RAG-powered AI typically uses a search-engine-style system to locate relevant information it has access to, whether that’s on the web or in a private database. Hebbia, says Sivulka, has approached the problem with a technique the company calls iterative source decomposition.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Acknowledge Change Isn’t it enough that you did your research and purchased a tech stack that fits your needs? In the tech world state-of-the-art doesn’t exist.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Woodrow Rosebaum Tech for nonprofits has been overlooked for decades, lagging while governments and businesses found ways to streamline, coordinate and scale. With outdated systems and siloed data, nonprofits are not keeping up with the basic demands of modern digital infrastructure. We just have to embrace that possibility.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Now, as the Houston-based company seeks to repeat the journey , its executives say they've made improvements to their new spacecraft, Athena, that should help it avoid the problems that impacted the mission in 2024. Furthermore, there are no GPS systems on the moon to help guide a craft to its landing spot.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Even as AI becomes more embedded in business systems and personal lives, researchers still lack a clear understanding of how AI models generate their output. As AI systems begin to surpass human intelligence, concerns are growing about their alignment with human values and interests.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. What is Web3? Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet. Create Empathy with Augmented Reality.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Digital tech has added to the endless cycles of busyness by being always on and creating constant fire alarms. But technology doesn’t have to be part of the problem; advanced digital technology like “smart tech” can be part of the solution. . Smart tech is about to become boring. . But this is just the beginning.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

The problem with modern stress for so many people is that the rattlesnake never leaves the path. The problem is that weve denuded life of most Paleolithic stressors, says Krasno. Leaning into discomfort We build our physiological immune system through low-grade exposure to pathogens and virus and bacteria, says Krasno.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Its about how data moves, power is managed, and how systems scale. Ethernets openness, flexibility, and multivendor support give tech giants like Meta and Google the freedom to innovate without being boxed in by a proprietary stack. In the real world, systems arent perfect, he said. AI is not just about GPUs or compute anymore.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

One problem with Gelsinger’s leadership, a semiconductor industry expert told Reuters, was that Gelsinger was “too nice” and did not want to “fire a bunch of middle management in the way they needed to.” Tan’s appointment comes amid ongoing reports that Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your organization should create data security policies to guide all your software systems, hardware, user devices, and storage devices. The more you know, the better you’ll be able to identify suspicious activity and transactions, which you can shut down before it becomes a problem. What is a data security strategy?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With multiple products from every major tech platform, nonprofits have many options available. In other words, compliance, accountability, and efficiency are mission-critical, and they are achieved through effective time management and employee expense reporting systems. 2) Online Document Sharing & Management. Recommendation ?

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Many big YouTube creators have expressed frustration with an increase in comment spam on their channels in recent weeks, including Linus Tech Tips, Jacksepticeye, and MKBHD. The problem has been particularly acute for these high-profile creators, who often see more malicious commenters impersonate them in an attempt to scam their viewers.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G In a broader context, Entropy is the tendency of things to become disordered over time and for general disorder and uncertainty to increase in a system or environment. Siloed Data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

SambaNova Systems takes another tack with its SambaNova Cloud, an AI inference service. Powered by the companys specialized RDU (reconfigurable dataflow unit) processor, the service makes running AI workloads (as opposed to AI model training) faster and more efficient than on GPU-powered systems.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

In the handful of years since generative AI became both a zeitgeist technology and common dinner table conversation topic, people across the design industriesranging from independent graphic designers to tech executiveshave landed on a curious mantra to justify its use: its just a tool. Or the environmental implications ?

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