Technology
Fast Company
TBPN: FOR CREATING SILICON VALLEY'S GO-TO TECH NEWS NETWORK
PRODUCERS AT CNBC WAKE UP IN the morning and look at the public markets in order to plan the day's lineup.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
CADENCE OTC: FOR MAKING EMERGENCY FAMILY PLANNING CONVENIENT
IN 2024, CADENCE OTC LAUNCHED a low-priced morning-after pill and placed it somewhere no one else had: convenience stores, where people need it the most.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
TOMORROW.IO: FOR PREDICTING HYPERLOCAL WEATHER BEFORE IT'S A PROBLEM
MANY PARTS OF the world that are most vulnerable to extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and flash flooding, are also the ones that legacy weather-forecasting systems overlook.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
DOORDASH: FOR DELIVERING A CUTE LAST-MILE ROBOT NAMED DOT AND REWARDS FOR DINING OUT
DOORDASH DElivers millions of orders every day, and its newest couriers are ready to roll.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
SUBLIME SECURITY, CYERA, CHAINGUARD, HORIZON3.AI - FOR TRANSFORMING CYBERSECURITY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM INTO ITS MOST PROMISING SOLUTION
IT'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO BE A HACKER. A STAGGERING NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE such easy digital targets that the costs of all the scams, malware, ransomware, and nation-state attacks could top $10 trillion worldwide in 2026—and then there's incalculable political and reputational fallout that comes from high-profile hacks.
5 min |
Spring 2026
Fast Company
TUBI: FOR REIMAGINING FREE, FAN-FOCUSED TV
IT'S ONE OF THE TRICKIEST QUESTIONS FOR ANY LEADER, ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE: WHEN TO FOLLOW THE HERD AND WHEN TO GO IT ALONE.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
REDDIT: FOR REMAINING AUTHENTICALLY HUMAN IN THE AGE OF AI
LAST FALL, CHIVES TOOK OVER REDDIT. IT STARTED WHEN A COOK WHO BELONGED TO THE MASSIVE SOCIAL SITE'S R/KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNITY PLEDGED TO PRACTICE his chive-cutting skills every day and post photos so that others could rate his technique.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
THE ONION: FOR PROVING THAT PRINT ISN'T DEAD - ESPECIALLY IF IT'S FUNNY
TODAY, THE GRIM MANTRA THAT “print is dead” seems all but a given.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
ROW 7: FOR INVENTING ENTIRELY NEW VEGETABLES AND RESHAPING THE FOOD SYSTEM IN THE PROCESS
ONE NIGHT IN JANUARY, CHEF DAN BARBER AND HIS TEAM ARE GATHERED IN THE KITCHEN, PLATING COURSE AFTER COURSE OF VEGETABLES.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
RIMAS ENTERTAINMENT: FOR PUTTING AN ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
PUERTO RICAN-BORN BENITO Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny, has long grounded his music in the island's culture.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
DIPLO'S RUN CLUB: FOR TURNING 5K RACES INTO THE HOTTEST PARTIES OF THE YEAR
DIPLO DIDN'T invent running events. He just gave them a new vibe—one so good that there are now Diplo's Run Club events in 10 U.S. cities.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
GAP: FOR REVIVING AN AMERICAN STAPLE BY ELECTRIFYING POP CULTURE
WHEN MARK BREITBARD WAS named president and CEO of the Gap brand in 2020, “the business was broken,” he says.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
ABRIDGE: FOR RELIEVING DOCTORS OF CHART-WORK DRUDGERY
ABRIDGE HAS CHANGED THE way thousands of doctors practice medicine.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
FOR FUNDING AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES UNDER ATTACK
SINCE BEGINNING HIS SECOND term as president, Donald Trump has conducted an assault on higher education, from inundating universities with civil rights investigations to eliminating billions of dollars in research grants.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
ADIDAS: FOR BOOSTING SHOE SALES BY TAPPING INTO NOSTALGIA, THEN TRANSCENDING IT
BEFORE NOEL AND LIAM GALLAGHER took the stage during their Oasis Live '25 world tour last year, fans were treated to a video that looked back on the band's legendary run: There were scenes of crowd-surfing at Knebworth in 1996, the band's wild Wembley shows in 2000, and fans in the present day.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
CRESILON: FOR STOPPING BLEEDING― QUICKLY
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS bleed to death each year after suffering injuries that could have been survivable.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
UNITREE ROBOTICS: FOR CATAPULTING HUMANOID ROBOTS INTO THE MAINSTREAM
STANDING AT 4 FEET TALL, Unitree's R1 Air can run, flip, walk on its hands, and jump-kick a watermelon into pulp.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
REDWOOD MATERIALS: FOR GIVING USED EV BATTERIES A SECOND LIFE POWERING DATA CENTERS
IN THE DESERT ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Sparks, Nevada, a first-of-its-kind solar microgrid is finding a novel application for used EV batteries: powering a data center.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S HOCKEY LEAGUE: FOR POWERING WOMEN'S HOCKEY INTO THE MAJOR LEAGUES
HILARY KNIGHT had seen this movie before.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
PROXIMITY MEDIA: FOR GENERATING BLOCKBUSTER REVENUES FROM INDIE STORYLINES
USUALLY, ALL-NIGHTERS ARE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THEIR JOBS IF THEY DON'T DELIVER.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
IMAX: FOR DEFYING THE BOX-OFFICE RETREAT BY GOING BIG
DOMESTIC BOX-OFFICE REVENUE may have flatlined, but IMAX ticket sales are booming.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
RHODE; FOR EXPANDING THE GLAZED-DONUT AESTHETIC INTO A LUSTROUS $1 BILLION BUSINESS
BLOCKBUSTER celebrity beauty brands aren't novelties. Kylie Jenner translated social reach into a billion-dollar valuation.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
GILEAD SCIENCES: FOR BRINGING THE END OF HIV/AIDS WITHIN REACH
GILEAD SCIENCES MADE HIV PREvention easier 13 years ago with a daily pill to prevent the virus from spreading.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
DATABRICKS: FOR SUPPLYING ORGANIZATIONS WITH READY-MADE AI AGENTS, MINUS THE HASSLE
AS THE AI INDUSTRY races toward bigger models—and louder claims—Databricks is quietly building the infrastructure to make these models actually work for business.
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Spring 2026
Fast Company
FOR SEEING INTO OUR AI-ASSISTED FUTURE
SOON AFTER BEING NAMED Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.
10+ min |
Spring 2026
Fast Company
EMAIL IS BACK! IT NEVER REALLY WENT AWAY.
FIFTY YEARS IN, EMAIL HAS BECOME MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER—AND THE KEY TO UNLOCKING PERSONALIZED AI.
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Winter 2025 - 2026
Fast Company
RED WHITE & DENIM
LEVI STRAUSS & CO., THE MOST QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN BRAND, IS SUDDENLY HOLDING THE TORCH FOR AMERICA ITSELF.
10+ min |
Winter 2025 - 2026
Fast Company
WHO'LL START THE RAIN?
RAINMAKER FOUNDER AND CEO AUGUSTUS DORICKO WANTS TO HELP DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS BY USING DRONES TO NUDGE CLOUDS INTO PRODUCING SNOW AND RAIN. HE'S GENERATING A STORM OF CONTROVERSY IN THE PROCESS.
10+ min |
Winter 2025 - 2026
Fast Company
DEATH TO BORING CORPORATE GATHERINGS!
WANT A STRONG RETURN ON YOUR EVENT BUDGET? START FOCUSING ON VIBES.
2 min |
Winter 2025 - 2026
Fast Company
HOW ONE BIG IDEA CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING
SANDISK'S INNOVATION CULTURE IS MAKING AI MORE COST AND ENERGY EFFICIENT
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