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)
Across Silicon Valley, cities may tax big tech to help struggling renters
San Francisco, East Palo Alto, and Google’s home of Mountain View are each putting housing assistance proposals on the November ballot. (Fast Company)
Can emotional AI make Anki’s new robot into a lovable companion?
Known for its hyperactive toys, the company spent years developing technologies to tackle its greatest challenge yet–subtlety. (Read on Fast Company.)
Tech firms are offering to help secure the U.S. elections for free or at a discount
From titans like Google to specialist security firms, they are offering pro-bono and discount security help to US election authorities. (Read on Fast Company.)
Van Jones: AI jobs are a route out of poverty for urban youth
The green jobs advocate is also promoting coding and artificial intelligence careers, teaming up with Google’s AI boss Fei-Fei Li to reach minorities. (Fast Company)
Meet the Silicon Valley socialists who are pushing a tech worker uprising
Driving the current protests against ICE and military contracts is a larger movement to transfer power from billionaires to workers and communities. (Read on Fast Company)
Here are 5 key things to know about California’s new privacy law
The law–which applies to companies well beyond the tech sector–is groundbreaking but also laden with confusing language that frustrates both critics and backers. (Learn more at Fast Company.)
The U.S. is opening prime urban sky to commercial drones
An online system called LAANC is cutting FAA permitting time for commercial drone missions from months to seconds. (Read on Fast Company)
Meet the mad geniuses building personal flying machines
From billionaires to students, engineers around the world are racing to close the gap between humans and birds. A million-dollar prize adds incentive. (Read on Fast Company)
Four ways to survive the end of net neutrality today
Federal regulations mandating a free internet have formally expired, but there are still ways to protect your access and privacy. (Read full story on Fast Company)