Fast Company

Is an anonymous social network without hate speech, abuse, or power-wielding super-users possible?

Former Google engineer Bindu Reddy has spent years thinking about how people engage on the web. From 2005 to 2008, she worked on the early versions of Google+ as well as the web publishing network Blogger. In the years since, she’s launched a management system for helping social influencers monetize their big followings called Mylikes. Now Reddy has a bigger, more ambitious goal in sight: building an anonymous social network without hate speech, abuse, or power-wielding superusers. She’s enlisting the help of former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong to help her do it.

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A game-changing intern lawsuit against Fox Searchlight is finally ending, but don’t expect legal clarity anytime soon.

Eric Glatt just wanted to change careers. He ended up changing the national conversation on unpaid internships. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Glatt left a job at AIG on Wall Street to pursue his dream career in the film industry. At 40, he landed a coveted internship on the set of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, where he did administrative and clerical work for no pay.

“I decided to get trained up, suffer some of the blows to my ego, start at the bottom, and do what it takes,” Glatt tells Fast Company.

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Even after the deadliest car bombing in over a decade, Iraqi policemen were still using the ineffective device.

The Iraq car bombing that claimed almost 300 lives on July 3 was blamed by some on the ineffectiveness of a fake bomb detector. Originally developed as lost golf-ball finders, the so-called ADE-651 devices were fraudulently marketed to Iraq and other nations over the last decade as handheld bomb detectors by a British businessman now sitting in jail. But police in Baghdad are still deploying the widely condemned devices at security checkpoints across the city.

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There is a labor shortage looming over the next decade, and jobs in these sectors will be the most difficult to fill.

With low labor-force participation, declining immigration levels, and the looming retirement of baby boomers on the horizon, the U.S. labor market is tightening and driving up wages. Over the next decade, the country will experience a labor shortage that will disproportionately affect some industries and professions, predicts an April 2016 report from The Conference Board.

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Yelp has incorporated deep learning methods that reflect AI trends in major tech companies and change the user experience for the better.

That burrito in your hands—so warm, so gooey, the richness cut by cilantro and red-hot spice. Before you take a bite, you’d better take a picture.

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Perfectionism isn’t hard-wired, it’s learned. Which means we can unlearn it too, with these methods.

The fear of failure greatly impedes performance. That’s why most successful people are less likely to be perfectionists. After all, think about all of the quick, important decisions high-level people need to make every day. They can’t be plagued with the fear that every decision is a possible mistake. If surgeons waited until they felt absolutely sure that they were making the correct decision in life-threatening instances, they probably wouldn’t be saving many lives.

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This new app might make traditional flash cards obsolete (or at least fun).

While students have been using flash cards to memorize facts and vocabulary at least since the Victorian era, it’s no secret that the study tools can be deathly dull.

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Twitter and Facebook emerged as heroes after the attack in Nice. An alert app commissioned by the French government, not so much.

When terror attacks, natural disasters, or big accidents occur, people in the danger zone need information about what to do and where to go. Family and friends of those affected seek out information about the safety of loved ones. And the public needs some way to discern fact from rumor as emergencies unfold.

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With $30 million in new funding, the financial tech startup prepares to compete with SoFi through employer partnerships.

It’s been a dark and gloomy 12 months for online lending. OnDeck stumbled, Lending Club imploded, and regulators started circling. Capital has largely evaporated and layoffs are underway. Analysts expect to see a wave of consolidation in the year ahead.

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Even when both parents work, moms end up doing more of the household chores. Here’s how to make home life more equitable.

Whose job is it to sign the kids up for summer camp, fill out (and fax) the tedious forms, make sure that peanut-free lunches are packed every evening, and drive children to their fun-filled destinations each day?

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