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March 31, 2015
This App Makes It Easy To Collaborate Across The Globe
Working with someone halfway around the world? Circa makes meetings a cinch.
It's a series of concentric circles and looks a bit like a broken bull's-eye. Circa, a free iOS app, is the clearest answer to "who can I call in what time zone?" I've ever seen.
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Neil Young's Insane 1982 Film "Human Highway" Takes On A New Life
The musician talks about the director's cut of his highly improvised cult classic, and how it still feeds his creative process.
Neil Young's 1982 film Human Highway is a comedy, a hallucination, an environmental statement, and a few hundred other things that don't have names. It received mainly poor, confused reviews when it was released, but has since become a cult favorite through shared copies of VHS copies. And now, a new, digitally remastered director's cut by Young is in the beginnings of a festival tour with plans for a DVD release.
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Forget Google And Microsoft—These Are the Startups That Should Scare Dropbox
The tech industry's titans don't think nearly as creatively as Dropbox when it comes to storage. But these startups do.
In Fast Company's April feature on Drew Houston, cofounder and CEO of Dropbox, the 32-year-old confesses that it's not Google, Amazon, or Microsoft––who compete by offering terabytes of cloud storage for next-to-nothing prices––that keep him up at night. Rather, it's smaller startups who might see an opening in Dropbox's very expansive, but very general service, and then create a utility that Houston has yet to fully productize.
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Is This Startup The Apple Of The Filtered-Water Market And Can It End Brita's Dominance?
The millennials behind the Soma water filter have created a less expensive model—and it debuts this week at Target.
There's a reason that food magazines never strategically place Brita or PUR water filters in their photo shoots: most people would agree that enormous plastic pitchers are not the most attractive additions to a table setting.
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How To Cope With New Mom Guilt At Work
Coming back to work after having your first child means redefining both what it means to be a good employee and a good mother.
Becoming a mother is a life-changing event. But just as you start getting used to being at home with your baby, you realize your maternity leave is coming to an end and you'll soon have to swap the spit-up blanket for a laptop.
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March 30, 2015
How Periscope Can Fix Its Creepiest Feature
Location tagging is one of Periscope's best features, but many people are unknowingly revealing their home addresses. Here's one solution.
While using the new live-streaming app Periscope this weekend to broadcast video of my pet rabbit to 30 strangers around the world, I realized something rather alarming: The location of my apartment was viewable on a map accompanying my stream. I knew that Periscope showed my general position—Brooklyn, New York—but I did not know until then that one could zoom in to see the exact location, with street names labeled. I imagine that other many Periscope users are not aware that their locations are pinpointed and viewable in this way.
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Today in Tabs: The (Eternal) Return of Tabs
Your contribution of $800 a month will help a needy intern, and score you a sweet Fast Company pen-and-lanyard set.
I ordered a menu item that had a little chili pepper next to it. It wasn't spicy but Anthony Kiedis brought it to my table.
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March 27, 2015
Jury Determines Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao
The conclusion of a years-long trial seems like a loss for women, but what does it mean in the bigger picture?
A verdict has been announced in the case of Ellen Pao vs. prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
Is It Wrong To Watch?
When a building exploded in Manhattan, witnesses, and those who wanted to witness, turned to a new class of live-video apps. Is that ethical?
Around 3:15 p.m. yesterday, a building in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood exploded and caught fire, injuring 19 people—three critically. As of this writing, at least two people are reported missing.
After A Hack, Slack Adds Two-Factor Authentication--Is That Good Enough?
The beloved corporate chat app is telling its users to enable two-factor authentication in response to a hack.
If your organization uses Slack, there's a chance a hacker got a peek at some sensitive info recently. The fast-growing enterprise chat startup confirmed today that its database was breached in February and that the intruder had access to the names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords of Slack users.
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