Alex Pasternack

4 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Alex Pasternack

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic warfare—drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.

4 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic warfare—drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

The global energy transition has been on an extraordinary tear in recent years, one that even President Donald Trump, with his dismantling of U.S. climate policy, will struggle to reverse. Propelled by record levels of public and private investment, utility-scale solar and wind power accounted for close to 90% of all new energy build-outs in the first nine months of 2024, a nearly 30% surge over 2023. Still, the low carbon, electrified future can’t come quickly enough.

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

Why Abnormal Security, Nozomi Networks, Huntress, and Shift5 are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in security for 2025. Cybersecurity has always been a cat and mouse game, but lately the mice have been mutating in new and stunning ways. AI means they can hit our inboxes and phones with increasingly convincing phishing messages built on more precise personal details gleaned from ever mounting piles of stolen data.

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

Infinitum is No. 19 on the list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025. Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. The data centers powering the AI revolution require energy—lots of it. And up to 40% of that energy goes toward cooling equipment, especially the electric motors of industrial-grade fans.