Category Archives: Publications
3 things NASA learned after it put a supercomputer in space
The International Space Station has been hosting a system built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for the past 11 months. The initial findings, according to HPE: It works without major glitches. (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)
Why this robo-car startup does things differently from the big boys
Hungary-based AImotive believes self-driving cars can navigate with regular cameras. It’s building a custom chip and virtual simulator to prove it. (Read on Fast Company.)
Hulu Monthly Streaming Guide
The best new shows and movies this month on Hulu. See full story on Tom’s Guide.
Amazon Prime Monthly Streaming Guide
The best TV shows and movies coming to Amazon this month, on Tom’s Guide.
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.)
Mozilla’s Firefox aims to alert users if they’ve been hacked
The browser maker will combine a password manager with a database of breached sites and emails to automatically alert you if you’ve been compromised. (Read 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)