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May 30, 2015
Millennial Entrepreneurs Shocked To Learn Their Generation Isn't As Entrepreneurial As They Thought
On the Millennial Train Project, a car full of young social entrepreneurs receives some surprising information about their generation.
A few days ago, I posted a dispatch from the Millennial Train Project, a cross-country voyage carting young social entrepreneurs across the American South. Throughout the journey, an impressive array of social scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators jumped on and off the train, mentoring and dispensing knowledge to the project's participants.
May 29, 2015
At I/O, More Evidence of Google's Complicated Relationship With iOS
Google has the luxury of competing—fiercely—with Apple's mobile operating system while simultaneously catering to Apple fans.
A month ago at its Build conference, Microsoft announced plans to make it easy for developers to convert iOS and Android apps for Windows 10, with the goal of augumenting the app selection on its own operating system. At this week's I/O conference, it was Google's chance to portray the state of its relationship with Android and iOS. The company delivered, further evolving the complex and contrasting ways it runs both toward and against the operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad—and sometimes just runs around it.
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Keep Your Voice Down: Unofficial NSA "Agents" Are Recording You In Public Spaces
These volunteer intelligence operatives want to help the NSA do its job even better—unless you stop them.
"You'll find it taped under the third table on the right," the end of the email read.
How NSA And CIA Connections Helped Launch This Slack-y App For Better Agency Collaboration
BlueLine Grid is designed to help cops, firefighters, and EMTs work together. The VC firm behind it connects the Valley with the District.
In-Q-Tel isn't your typical venture capital firm.
Control Your Next Smartwatch With A Wave Of Your Hand
Meet Project Soli, Google's solution to Flavor Flav-sized watchfaces on wearables.
We don't want big screens on our wrist, but small screens are tough to interact with unless we use a precision tool like a stylus. If smartwatches are going to be a thing, they'll need to offer users something other than a touchscreen.
Soli predicts a day when controlling your devices by touch will look quaint.
Watch Live As Thousands Of Walruses Kill Time On An Alaskan Beach--It Will Make Your Day
They bark, they argue, they lounge. Now you can get a live show of walruses being their generally hilarious selves.
The walruses start coming onshore in April as Alaska's ocean ice begins to melt. They "haul out" to the beaches at Bristol Bay and Round Island and stay there until August, groaning, eating, and occasionally masturbating (yes, this is something walruses do, using either their flippers, or, more ingeniously, their mouths).
The Remarkable Origins Of The U.N.'s HeForShe Campaign
Elizabeth Nyamayaro on fleeing famine in Africa, her unlikely path to the U.N., and why getting men into gender equality is a must.
Before Emma Watson became the global face of U.N. Women's HeForShe campaign, giving an impassioned speech that took the Internet by storm, another woman was behind the scenes crafting the fine print of a movement that would invite men to participate in the struggle for gender equality. Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior advisor to the executive director of U.N. Women and the mastermind behind HeForShe, has a unique perspective about men's roles in the fight for women's rights.
Will Robots Take Your Job?
A librarian? Watch out. A substance abuse counselor? You're safe.
Paralegals and food service workers: the robots are coming.
The Recommender: Kim Last, Handy With A Blow Torch
The best things on and off the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company staff.
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Role at Fast Company: Senior editor for events. I handle the editorial curation and development for Fast Company's live events.
Twitter: @kimlast
Titillating Fact: I took part-time classes in jewelry design at Fashion Institute of Technology for a number of years. I came from a family in the jewelry business and was fascinated as a child about how pieces were fabricated. It's not as glamorous as you think—the FIT classrooms resemble a factory and my first thought when I started was "WHAT am I doing here?!" The instructors had you sign a waiver for all of these safety rules. It was pretty intimidating. I'll never forget my first day holding an enormous soldering torch on my first piece… I thought I was going to burn the entire school down. Needless to say I didn't and I'm pretty handy with a blow torch now. And I'm about eight credits shy of a second bachelor's degree.
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