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September 26, 2014
The Recommender: Sandra Pasquariello, Who Was The Williams Sisters' Ball Girl For A Day (Kind Of)
The best things on the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees.
Sandra PasquarielloPhoto: Celine Grouard for Fast Company Name: Sandra Pasquariello
Role at Fast Company: Production Manager/Post Supervisor, Video
Twitter: I don't actually have a Twitter account…is that bad?
Titillating Fact: I was a production assistant for a PSA shoot starring Serena Williams and Venus Williams. I acted as their ball girl for the day.
Study: Google Glass Doesn't Make It Safe To Text And Drive
Whether using a smartphone or Google Glass, drivers react just as slowly to an unexpected obstacle.
Google Glass users are just as distracted as smartphone users when texting while driving, according to a new study.
Ideo Helps Develop New Designed-Minded Journalism Degree
The New School program wants to help improve journalism with a dose of design thinking.
Journalism + Design, the latest program at the The New School in New York City is teaching journalists how to think like designers, and designers how to think like journalists. With a curriculum co-developed by Ideo, the undergraduate program kicked off this semester teaching students how to harness design and design thinking in news.
Today in Tabs: Ello Darkness, My Old Friend
My bologna has a first name and it's E-L-L-O.
Ready for another day of internet adventure aboard the USS SMDH
Flights! Camera! Action! FAA Gives Hollywood Permission To Fly Drones
It's official: Drones are coming to Hollywood.
It's official: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given Hollywood the green light to use drone aircraft (properly known as unmanned autonomous vehicles, or UAVs) in the United States. On Thursday, the FAA granted exemptions to six different production companies that allow them to use drones for commercial purposes. Before this, the only for-profit use of drones legally permitted in the United States was for a handful of oil- and energy-industry projects in the Arctic.
Thom Yorke Hearts BitTorrent, Releases Spooky New Album
The Radiohead frontman's new album, "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes," is now available for $6 over BitTorrent.
In 2013, Radiohead's Thom Yorke called Spotify the "last desperate fart of a dying corpse." Translation: Spotify stinks for artists. Now the crotchety frontman who launched a thousand Coldplays has hatched a master plan for taking on the streaming-music industry and its razor-thin sharing margins--and it involves torrents.
The Case Of China's Missing Tesla Cars
One theory: Scalpers are flipping Model S cars in China.
A glaring discrepancy between the number of Tesla cars shipped to China and the actual number of license plates issued for these vehicles has some people scratching their heads.
BlackBerry Passport Pre-Orders Sold Out After Two Days
BlackBerry CEO John Chen says the phone maker moved 200,000 units of the new square phone in just two days.
Earlier this week, BlackBerry pulled a surprise rabbit out of its tattered hat: the Passport. It's a thin, square smartphone with amazing battery life and a physical keyboard that BlackBerry purists swear by. As my colleague Harry McCracken wrote, the Passport is "a productivity-centric machine rather than a would-be iPhone slayer."
Payments Company Stripe To Power Facebook's Buy Button
Twitter also partnered with Stripe earlier this month.
Facebook has tapped payments company Stripe to power a "buy" button that lets users make purchases directly from the social network, a Stripe representative told Fast Company.
September 24, 2014
This City Lost 1 Million Pounds--Now It's Redesigning Itself To Keep Them Off
A western city with a Republican mayor, Oklahoma City might seem like an unlikely candidate to become a beacon of weight-losing, pedestrian friendly urban design. But to attract millenials and keep citizens healthy, you have to take drastic measures.
As America's obesity problem has moved closer to crisis levels, public officials ranging from Michelle Obama to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have been alternately celebrated and mocked for their high-profile efforts to help citizens lose weight.
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