David Lidsky's Blog, page 2739
April 22, 2016
Cheap Technology—And a Bit of Good Will—Are Bringing Hearing Aids To The World's Poor
World Wide Hearing is using cheap tech, market incentives, and crash-course training to help restore hearing in impoverished communities.
"It's amazing what you can find in a kid's ear...think bugs and cockroaches and little tiny kids with a tremendous amount of mold coming out of their ears."
That's Audra Renyi, executive director and cofounder of a 5-year-old Montreal-based nonprofit called "World Wide Hearing Foundation International" that wants to help the world's other 99 percent: The hearing-impaired people in poor countries who can't afford a hearing aid, debilitated by a condition that usually has a simple tech fix in wealthier societies.
Sources Doubt Anonymous Gray Hats Cracked San Bernardino Shooter's Phone. So Who Did?
The FBI has contracted with the SunCorp subsidiary for $338,581 in gear and services since the December 2 San Bernardino attack.
The identity of the group that helped the FBI access the encrypted data from San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone is still a mystery.
How To Make Coachella Even Trippier: Augmented Reality Earbuds
Doppler Labs's new Here earbuds let you selectively tune in—and out—the world around you. Here's what that's like.
Sia is on, and I am in hallway.
Richard Linklater On How The Story Is Always In the Details
Everybody Wants Some!! picks up not long after where Dazed and Confused leaves off. Here's how the era determines what lands onscreen.
Richard Linklater is often a man out of time. Whether it's returning to suburban 1976 in his resin-caked breakthrough, Dazed and Confused, riding around in Model Ts for the 1920s-set Newton Boys, or visiting the near future in the rotoscoped paranoid fantasy, A Scanner Darkly, he's at home in any era. Clearly, something about bringing a time period to life helps him bring a story to life.
Bot Wars: Why Big Tech Companies Want Apps To Talk Back To You
Can a new wave of chatbots from Facebook and Microsoft upend apps as we know them, or is that just wishful thinking?
The rise of conversational "chatbots" begins with a claim you might initially dismiss as preposterous. "Bots are the new apps," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared during the company's Build developers conference last month. "People-to-people conversations, people-to-digital assistants, people-to-bots, and even digital assistants-to-bots. That's the world you're going to get to see in the years to come."
"Veep" Star Tony Hale On His Neverending Quest To Be Present
It was during his run on Arrested Development that the actor first realized he was missing out by not being in the moment.
It's normal for any creative person—especially actors, musicians, writers, editors, directors, and other types who freelance—to sometimes wonder, "What's next?" But if worrying about future gigs gnaws at you and keeps you from living in the moment and appreciating creative undertakings as they unfold, that's no way to live and work—Tony Hale knows that all too well.
The Most Sustainable Restaurant In The World Might Be This School Cafeteria
At the Los Angeles Muse School, kids eat a plant-based diet from a kitchen run on solar power.
The greenest restaurant in the world—at least according to one ranking—is a school cafeteria. The Muse School kitchen, in a private school just outside Los Angeles, currently holds the highest ranking with the Green Restaurant Association.
The Real Reason Women Are Leaving STEM Jobs
A new report finds that women believe their companies' practices are unfair, and that they don't value their contributions.
A recent report revealed a surprising gender gap: women job hop more than men and it's getting more pronounced. While the analysts at LinkedIn who did the study said that further research was needed to determine why (it's not about balancing family and work, as most of the job hoppers weren't parents yet) the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) may have a clue.
8 Common Networking Disasters (And How To Avoid Them)
Many people set aggressive networking goals, forgetting that it takes time and patience to build a business relationship.
Most people engage in networking in the hopes of landing a new job or business opportunity but, experts say, many approach it the wrong way.
My Company's Unlimited Vacation Policy Growing Pains
"Many of our early challenges around flex vacation stemmed from communication issues," one CEO recounts. Here's how he's remedied that.
Unlimited vacation is more widely discussed than it is implemented. At any rate, there was no shortage of opinions when it came time to decide whether to put an unlimited vacation policy in place after starting my company, Magoosh.
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