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CEOsA broad group of civil rights organizations called on the CEOs and board members of major companies Thursday to maintain their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack online and in lawsuits. An open letter signed by 19 organizations and directed at the leaders of Fortune 1000 companies said companies that abandon their DEI programs are shirking their fiduciary responsibility to employees, consumers …See the Story
Civil rights groups urge Fortune 1000 companies to keep DEI programs
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Innovation · TroyCompanies and educators need to start preparing now for quantum computing’s place as a disruptor in the marketplace, or risk falling behind the rapid pace of innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Martin A. Schmidt said during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Schmidt was joined onstage by IonQ CMO Margaret Arakawa, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research Darío Gil, and Fast Company Global Technology Edi…See the Story
How to prepare for the coming quantum leap
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InfluencersAcross social media, influencers who have amassed large followings by sharing weight-related tips and promoting “skinny” lifestyles. One of the most controversial, Liv Schmidt, built a community of 670,000 working women by posting videos of her “skinny girl essentials.” Her content included weight loss tips, including “how to avoid the freshman 15” and “how to stop emotional eating at your 9-5 job,” often accompanied by emojis of pigs, whales, a…See the Story
‘Skinny girl’ videos are invading social media. Health experts are concerned
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Building better with sophisticated technologies and data
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New York City · New YorkAmid the curated electronic music, models’ cold stares and magazine editors lining the runway at New York Fashion Week this season, several designers felt a particular sense of urgency.In a little over a month, they will learn whether they have won of one of the most coveted competitions for emerging designers: The Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund.The fund, which has catapulted past participants including Proenza Schoul…See the Story
This 20-yr old fashion fund has launched American designers to stardom
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Drought · São PauloSilvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining moisture from rainfall and a nearby reservoir.Lately, though, water is scarce on Almeida’s modest farm in Caconde, a town in one of Sao Paulo state’s key growing regions. He can’t get his coffee to grow the way it should.In Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, Almeida and other farmers have started grappling w…See the Story
Coffee prices are set to soar due to drought in this country
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HezbollahThe small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device to keep in touch with her husband as he delivered medical supplies. He carried one, too. They had a code.“If I really needed something I would text ‘9-1-1.’ That meant anything from, ‘I’m going to labor right now’ to ‘I really need to get ahold of y…See the Story
Pagers were the original ‘always on’ device well before the deadly attack on Hezbollah. Here’s who still uses them
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Telegram · Tamil NaduStolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime. The purported creator of the chatbots told a security researcher, who alerted Reuters to the issue, that private details of millions of people were for sale and that samples could be viewed by asking the …See the Story
Telegram’s chatbots involved in massive medical data breach
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