Angelo Carusone of Media Matters spearheaded advertiser boycotts against Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly. Can he take down Hannity? (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Austin Russell’s startup, Luminar, is aiming to get high-res lidar laser scanners cheap enough to enable self-driving subcompacts. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Shocked by November’s election, some tech workers are discovering politics and engaging with social causes well outside their bubble. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Alarmed by Trump’s win, students at one predominantly black and Latino school are teaching adults a few things about social-media activism. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Patrick Soon-Shiong, who was tapped by Vice President Joe Biden to assist the National Cancer Moonshot, recently met with the President-elect. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
The industrial giant makes most of its money overseas, but the boss says it can survive protectionist moves, as well as new rivals like IBM. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan explore dark sides of AI and humanity in series that reboots the 1973 film about a robotic theme park gone haywire. (Read more about Westworld on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding over to Amazon.… Read the rest
[Wired] “If this is the revolution, this is our Valley Forge,” said a doughy, middle-aged man with frazzled long brown hair.
I was shivering when we spoke at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning — as I had been shivering for the seven previous hours.… Read the rest
[Fast Company] The best ground view of Occupy Wall Street comes from a former skateboard videographer and a one-time Realtor, aka Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of The Other 99. With little more than mobile phones they’ve offered a perspective that the mainstream media can’t match.… Read the rest
