Fast Company

Google’s honor is dubious. A new study shows the world’s largest tech and telecommunications firms are not protecting users enough.

No one enjoys reading the long, dense, and legalese-filled terms of services of large tech companies. However, research initiative Ranking Digital Rights did—and found that the world’s biggest tech companies are falling short when it comes to user privacy and freedom of speech. The nonprofit initiative surveyed companies including Google, Yahoo, Vodafone, and AT&T for the project.

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My fav will go on.

Slack’s new and improved slash commands make it easy to integrate third-party apps like Foursquare and Lyft.

Over the last several months, team messaging app Slack has focused more and more on becoming a platform. Rather than building a million standalone features, the company has aimed to make it simpler for developers to build bots and third-party integrations within the Slack interface. Today, Slack announced the latest update to serve that purpose: easy-to-install slash commands.

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An Internet-connected lamp, now on Kickstarter, automatically changes brightness and light color depending on the time of day.

Ario, a company founded by a former Microsoft employee and a Large Hadron Collider engineer, is launching its first product, a smart lamp, on Kickstarter today. While it looks like any other sleek industrial lamp, the smart lamp connects to the Internet, so its LED bulbs can mimic the sunlight exactly as it should be shining at your time of day, in your location. Exposure to this natural hue and time-appropriate serving of sunlight will, Ario alleges, make you healthier and more energetic.

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The giant tech capital fund is investing in a free 4G service, Braille printers, GPS alternatives, and more.

Intel Capital just announced they are investing $22 million in 11 different startups, and that the venture capital arm of the tech company is on track to invest $500 million in startups this year.

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Shoot with style, edit with ease, and convert like crazy.

Photos are sooooo 2014. It’s time to get serious about video. While the rest of your hooplehead friends are busy shooting shaky, blurry, non-edited clips, you could be crafting true stories—all for the low, low price of nothing.

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Keep your audience’s attention with these strategies that are more campfire and less PowerPoint.

There are few things more boring than sitting in a conference room listening to someone read bullet points off a slide. This is communication, perhaps, but a pale shade of what communication can be.

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Fewer than one in five employees are on track to retire. Here’s why that’s a problem—and what employers can do about it.

When it comes to retirement, U.S. employees have a problem. According to the State of U.S. Employee Retirement Readiness 2015, a new report by El Segundo, California, financial literacy consulting firm Financial Finesse, fewer than one in five U.S. employees are confident they’re on track to retire. Of those that are not on track, more than three-quarters have never checked a retirement calculator about their needs, and only 47% have taken a risk tolerance assessment to determine how they should invest for retirement.

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Kanvas, AOL’s teen-oriented photo-editing app, is repositioning itself as a live-streaming app that can be edited in real time.

AOL is jumping into the live-streaming fray with the latest version of the Kanvas app, whose parent company it acquired in August. Previously marketed as a photo-editing service for teens and children, Kanvas just got a facelift that infused the app with live-streaming capabilities, positioning it against the likes of Periscope and Meerkat.

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Lawsuits, drained finances, and death threats: Inside the real terrors of Russ McKamey’s notorious McKamey Manor.

Russ McKamey just got back from McLeansboro, Illinois and things did not go well.

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