Technology

What does 10 years of industry-leading mobile innovation look like? For the Galaxy range, it takes the form of smartphone displays that redefine immersion, enabling users to see and do more than ever before; performance technologies that keep users connected longer, more securely, and that much more comfortably; and software …

Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level support for AR. On iOS, that means ARKit-compatible devices, and on Android, that means any smartphones that support …

It’s not about the perks. For Fast Company‘s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list, we set out to find companies that empower all employees—not just top executives, scientists, or coders—to create new products, improve operations, and take risks. We searched for businesses where innovation isn’t just a buzzword but a …

By Wunderland/Getty Images Algorithms have taken a lot of heat recently for producing biased decisions. People are outraged over a recruiting algorithm Amazon was developing that overlooked female job applicants. Likewise, they are outraged over predictive policing and predictive sentencing that disproportionately penalize people of color. Importantly, race and gender were not …

  Twitter in more recent months has been focused on making conversations on its platform easier to follow, participate in, and in some cases, block. The company’s latest test, announced via a tweet ahead of the weekend, will allow users to subscribe to replies to a particularly interesting tweet they …

  Product titles are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get. Sometimes you can figure out exactly what a product’s special features are just from the product’s name, and other times it takes a bit more research. Dell’s UltraSharp U3419W Curved USB-C display falls into …

  In the last few years, Google’s phones have gone from mediocre cameras to the absolute, undeniable kings of mobile photography. That is impressive enough, but Google also managed this without adding multiple camera sensors like most other manufacturers. The Pixel 4 will have two rear-facing camera sensors, and that …

  All the major US carriers are deploying 5G of some sort right now, and you can expect to be bombarded with ads touting 5G soon. Verizon was the first to roll out a 5G network with phones for consumers, and now it’s admitting that the 5G many people get …

  Throughout all of modern computing history, passwords have been the primary method of securing data. The problems with passwords are numerous, but things are slowly changing with biometrics, hardware security keys, and so on. Google is leveraging several new technologies to make one of its sites password-free, but only …

  Now that nearly every possible mobile device and appliance has either adopted or at least experimented with voice control, conversational AI is quickly becoming the new frontier. Instead of handling one query and providing one response or action, conversational AI aims to provide a realtime interactive system that can …