fastcompany

2024-12-31

AI vaporware: 7 products that didn’t materialize in 2024

GPT-5, an Alexa overhaul, Google’s Project Astra, and more. [...]

fastcompany

2024-12-31

LinkedIn is doubling down on AI features, but do they help job seekers?

The new tools can help you compose everything from a résumé and cover letter to ‘original’ posts for your feed. We spoke to job seekers and recruiters to find out how it’s going so far. [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Squid Game's second season is officially Netflix's biggest TV debut

Squid Game has set a new high for Netflix's television programming. Variety reported that the second season of the Korean show drew in 68 million views over its first four days. That's the biggest debut for a TV show on the streaming platform, besting the 50.1 million s [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

The best SSDs in 2025

When it comes to boosting your system’s performance, upgrading to one of the fastest SSDs is a no-brainer. Whether you’re building a gaming PC, speeding up an older laptop or simply craving lightning-fast load times, an SSD is the way to go. Unlike traditional hard drives, SS [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future

There’s no longer any question that Threads and Bluesky have created the most viable alternatives to the platform once known as Twitter. But while the two services may share some of the same goals, they’ve shown very different visions for how text-based social networks should [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans

When it comes to new horror games, there are times of feast and famine, and this past year we gorged until our bellies bulged and our mouths dripped with gruesome grease. In 2024, we received a rich spread of dark experiences from solo creators, indie teams, AA developers and AAA [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Russia is trying to make its own game consoles in a bid for technological independence

It’s no secret that Russia has been slowly working towards eschewing as much Western technology as it can and developing its own, and its latest effort seems to be related to video games. On December 25, Anton Gorelkin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will face securities fraud charges in the US

Terraforms Labs CEO Do Kwon spent the last day of 2024 getting extradited to the US, Reuters reports. Kwon faces charges in the US for "orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud involving an algorithmic stablecoin and other crypto asset securities.&q [...]

Destination

2024-12-31

Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance of banning TikTok in the US and the neverending edited and deepfaked cont [...]