NASA astronauts will get to use this extraterrestrial supercomputer
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With three or four months before the system gets a ride back to Earth for more testing, NASA decided to put the system, an HPE Apollo 4000-series enterprise server, to work doing real science experiments on the ISS. (Fast Company)The dirty political fight to get tech’s richest companies to give less than 1% to the homeless
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)How a feminist security engineer helped kick off this wave of tech worker activism
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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)How a socialist coder became a voice for engineers standing up to management
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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)How tech workers became activists, leading a resistance movement that is shaking up Silicon Valley
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Employees at Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies are discovering their power to bend the trajectory of multibillion-dollar corporations. (Fast Company)How Google’s DeepMind will train its AI inside Unity’s video game worlds
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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)This new tech makes it harder for ISPs to spy on you
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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.)Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
In launching its own online service, the Berkeley-based upstart Rigetti aspires to be the Amazon of cloud-based quantum computing. (Read on Fast Company)How California’s super-strict net neutrality law reached the home stretch
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It’s been a tough fight, with one near-fatal stumble, but California’s assembly just passed what are undoubtedly the strictest protections for net neutrality in the country–if not the world. (Fast Company)This high-tech 911 helicopter could be the next step to flying cars
Starting with an emergency dispatch service, a new startup aims to gradually develop technologies required to become the Uber of autonomous flight. (Fast Company)
