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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.)
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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)
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This San Francisco mini-mart is the hottest Amazon Go rival yet
Grab-and-go convenience comes to a full-scale market in a challenging part of town. (Read more on Fast Company)
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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)
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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)
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Nikon’s new mirrorless cameras put another nail in the DSLR’s coffin
The venerable camera brand aims for a comeback by adopting rival Sony’s strategy. (Fast Company)
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Zippin is the first Amazon Go rival to open an automated checkout store
A Bay Area startup has launched a small public demo in San Francisco that will grow into a full-sized AI-driven convenience store in the coming months. (Read on Fast Company)
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