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March 27, 2015
Right Now, the Internet Of Things Is Like The Internet Of The 1990s
A world of connected devices are starting to come online. Don't mistake what they do now for what they'll accomplish in the future.
Unless you think of technology as a geeky hobby unto itself, giving an Internet connection to everyday objects might seem like a waste of energy. Who needs really needs an online toaster, anyway?
Do Gun Owners Need An App To Tell Them Where Anti-Gun-Violence Activists Live?
It's just the latest in a disturbing trend: Your address and phone numbers are now weapons.
On Thursday morning, a handful of anti-gun-violence activists realized there is an app in the Google Play Store with their names on it—literally. The app, Gunfree Geo Marker, features a map pinpointing the home and work addresses of politicians, gun control organization employees, and "random anti-gun trolls" who "push the anti-gun agenda in any way, shape or form."
Apple CEO Tim Cook To Donate His Fortune To Charity
Aside from paying for his nephew's college education, Cook has pledged to give away what is believed to be close to a billion dollars.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is donating his entire fortune to charity. Well, minus his nephew's college education, that is. Cook joins an ever-growing list of wealthy philanthropists who have pledged nearly all their fortunes to charitable causes.
Global Crises And Economic Growth Drive Rising U.S. Weapons Sales
In a race to sell the world its weapons, especially in new markets like Africa, Russia isn't far behind the U.S., and China is surging.
One of the features of the 21st century, particularly since the 2008 financial crisis, has been the increasing number of rankings in which the United States is no longer number one. Title of top arms exporter, however, is not one of them—at least not yet—with the U.S. maintaining its number one spot almost every year since the Cold War ended.
Take The Fast Company News Quiz
Apple's new streaming service, a major food merger, and more. Here's our quiz for March 27, 2015.
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The Internet's Most-Read Stories, All In One Chart
What does the Internet think about? This graphic visualizes its most-shared articles as the contents of a human mind.
What does the Internet think about? More than just cats and Kim Kardashian, according to this interactive visualization. Funders and Founders crunched data from Ahrefs Content Explorer, which finds shared content on any topic, to unearth the most-shared articles from each top English-language media website in the world. Then, it visualized these articles as sections and thought bubbles in a cartoon man's mind.
Facebook's 10-Year Plan To Become The Matrix
Facebook doesn't want to live in your analog world. It wants you to move farther into its digital one.
In 10 years, Facebook would like anyone, anywhere, to be able to strap on a virtual reality headset and share moments with friends and family across the world. It's the vision of a digital utopia that Facebook reps shared onstage during the annual F8 conference. Mark Zuckerberg himself pointed to a simple graph showing that we're sharing more and more complex experiences. The natural endpoint is virtual and augmented reality.
Why You Should Encourage Naysayers Of Your Best Ideas
When everyone agrees with each other, can creative ideas ever happen?
I like to collect examples of products that failed.
March 26, 2015
Northwestern Mutual Buys Finance Startup LearnVest For $250 Million
The site launched to help women manage their money. Now it's part of a financial giant.
Alexa von Tobel, whose startup LearnVest was featured on our list of the world's Most Innovative Companies, has sold her company to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million, according to Fortune. Not bad for a personal-finance startup.
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Salesforce CEO Boycotts Indiana's Anti-Gay Law, Urges Others To Follow Suit
The new "religious freedom" law would open up Salesforce employees and customers to discrimination, says CEO Marc Benioff.
Marc Benioff is pissed. It didn't take long after the passage of Indiana's new "religious freedom" law for the Salesforce CEO and founder to take a stand. "We are canceling all programs that require our customers/employees to travel to Indiana to face discrimination," he wrote today.
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