A ballot initiative that would tax the city’s biggest companies to fund housing services has become an ethical litmus test for technology leaders. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Twitter wants to make it easier for users to talk to each other—and it’s investigating ways to do that, from color-coded tweets to custom status messages. (Read More)… Read the rest
Immigrant and privacy activists are detailing the involvement of big tech–especially Amazon–with the military, ICE, and local law enforcement. (Fast Company)… Read the rest
Leigh Honeywell, a security engineer who was working at Slack during the election in November 2016, felt a call to action. (Read at Fast Company)… Read the rest
Bjorn Westergard was working as a programmer at Lanetix, a CRM software maker, when concern about poor working conditions led him to start organizing his fellow employees. (Fast Company)… Read the rest
Employees at Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies are discovering their power to bend the trajectory of multibillion-dollar corporations. (Fast Company)… Read the rest
Unity’s AI boss Danny Lange explains how the Google sibling will use reinforcement learning and virtual worlds to “evolve” smarter algorithms. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Web companies and browser makers are rolling out encryption that can obscure the identity of many–though not yet all–of the websites you visit. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Fast Company-National Retail Federation panel series at Shop.org 2018.
Randi Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Zuckerberg Media; Talia Halperin, GM, Commerce, BuzzFeed Media BrandsCaroline Huber, VP, Product, GIPHY; Alexandra Weiss, SVP, Marketing, GlossierAmy Vener, Retail Vertical Strategy, Pinterest; Hui Zhou, Lead Scientist, Silicon Valley Research Center, JD.com;… Read the restIn launching its own online service, the Berkeley-based upstart Rigetti aspires to be the Amazon of cloud-based quantum computing. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
