Category Archives: Publications
This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click
Forgoing the default DNS server that your ISP provides and using an alternate one like Cloudflare’s (or others) makes it a lot harder for your ISP to log all the sites you go to. (Read on Fast Company)
Silicon Valley voters just demanded that tech companies be responsible for their communities
Three Bay Area cities approved new taxes to help even out the income divide. They may inspire a movement across the state and country. (Fast Company)
NASA astronauts will get to use this extraterrestrial supercomputer
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)
Here are Twitter’s new experiments in driving conversation
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)
Big Brother is being increasingly outsourced to Silicon Valley, says report
Immigrant and privacy activists are detailing the involvement of big tech–especially Amazon–with the military, ICE, and local law enforcement. (Fast Company)
How a feminist security engineer helped kick off this wave of tech worker activism
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
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
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
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)