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August 10, 2015
Saudi Arabia's Princess Reema Is Giving New Meaning to the Word "Driven"
In a country where women can't legally take the wheel of a car, one leader is finding creative ways to offer them other means of control.
"She comes from a country where women can't drive, can't go outside, can't go to restaurants, can't socialize, can't, can't, can't..."
August 7, 2015
Vice Media Writers Vote To Unionize
Writers at Vice are reportedly unionizing.
In a surprise move on a summer Friday, writers at Vice Media have voted to unionize. The Wall Street Journal reports that Vice's writers will be joining the Writer's Guild of America, East (WGA), and that sources say Vice is prepared to recognize the union.
GE Wants to Give Industrial Machines Their Own Social Network With Predix Cloud
GE is selling a new service that promises to predict when a machine will break down...so technicians can preemptively fix it.
An airplane's "black box" flight data recorder helps investigators understand how a crash happened. But with ubiquitous sensors and the ability to analyze petabytes of data online, technology could some day predict how future crashes will happen, and how to prevent them. "I don't want to promise that we will build it…but it is definitely possible," says Harel Kodesh, manager of GE's Predix cloud-computing service.
The Way We Laugh: Floridians Love Emojis, The West Coast Says "Hehe"
New Facebook research shines a light on how we laugh online.
Facebook just conducted a deep data analysis of how Americans indicate when they are laughing online… and the company's researchers found something interesting. The way you laugh online is strongly connected to where you live.
Staff Recommender: Rich Bellis Is Your New Favorite Spambot Poet
The best things on the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees.
[image error]Rich BellisPhoto: Celine Grouard for Fast CompanyName: Rich Bellis
Role at Fast Company: Associate editor. I assign and edit stories by regular contributors for FastCompany.com's Leadership section and review submissions that are sent to us unsolicited.
Twitter: @mr_bellis
Titillating fact: One of my duties in an earlier publishing job was to moderate comments in a heavily spammed CMS. I combed through hundreds each week so I could approve the one or two that were written by actual humans. In the process I noticed the spambots were "writing" some pretty evocative things, so I started to copy and paste my favorite snippets into a Google doc. Eventually I made some cheeky little poems by piecing them together.
Hackers Who Stole U.S. Government Employee Data Reportedly Breached American Airlines
The China-linked hackers who allegedly stole security clearance applications cared a lot about travel itineraries, too.
The same hackers who stole the records of 22 million Americans, including security clearance applications, also reportedly hacked into American Airlines. According to Bloomberg, both the airline and travel reservation firm Sabre appear to have been the subject of recent breaches.
Virtual Reality Is Anyone's Game...For Now
Filmmaker Lexi Alexander talks to Fast Company about the need for a VR identity and that unfortunate Palmer Luckey Time cover.
Coming off the highs of the Oculus Rift's grand unveiling and the general coming-out party that was this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, it seemed like virtual reality (VR) was going to ride an unstoppable wave right into Q1 of 2016.
Amazon Competitor Jet.com Under Fire From Major Retailers Over Site Links
More than 100 brands have requested that Jet purge its site of links to their products.
Retail giants like Macy's and Walmart are not happy with e-commerce site Jet.com, the Amazon competitor that launched two weeks ago with "club price savings." More than 100 brands have had links to their site taken down from Jet's affiliate section, after alleging that the site did not have permission to list them.
Design Deconstructed: Sam Hecht On The Unassuming Beauty Of A Soccer Goal
Go for the goal.
There's unassuming greatness in a soccer goal according to Sam Hecht, a co-founder of Industrial Facility, the London-based design studio behind hundreds of Muji's products, office systems for Herman Miller, gorgeously restrained furniture, and much more. For the second installment in our Design Deconstructed series (the inaugural story featured Cooper Hewitt curator Ellen Lupton on a masterwork of poster design) he chose to unpack the merits of this humble, well-known piece of sports equipment.
Has This Man Unlocked The Secret To Internet Anonymity?
Jonathan Hirshon kept his photo off the Internet for 20 years. Now he's rallying the troops to hack Facebook and Google facial recognition.
I've met Jonathan Hirshon. I know what Jonathan Hirshon looks like. You probably don't, and neither does Google or Facebook. That's just how the PR professional wants it.
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