1. The World’s Best Logo While there are many brands whose logos are burned into our minds—for better or worse—none of them were easy to create: “crafting such a deceptively simple symbol is a massive undertaking, so it’s no surprise that the majority of the world’s logos are so disposable,” journalist John Brownlee shares. With that in mind, Fast Co has explored (along with various …
When Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman passed away last year, it was the first time the CEO of Luka lost someone so close—and she was unaccustomed to experiencing such grief. Luka, which Kuyda founded, is an artificial intelligence company that builds conversational bots, chatbots, and was the first company to publicly launch an English-speaking chatbot based on an artificial neural network. Roman was a start-up …
Two years after the birth of Echo, Amazon’s voice-controlled speaker and smart home device, owners—especially parents—are starting to see its negative side effects. Children have quickly adopted the “Alexa” command, querying the device about anything and everything. More troubling, the kids abandon manners when speaking to Alexa and demand it to fulfill their wishes, and parents are becoming worried their children are learning that it’s …
