February 2016

Preview: Cyber Survival for Startups and Entrepreneurs

Many of us have recently used Uber, Venmo and have even shopped online. We give startups our card and bank information without thinking twice about their cyber security. A startup has so much information about customers so keeping their information safe through Cyber Security is extremely vital. That’s 1-10 people maximum in a typical startup that […]

Preview: Policies Impacting Drones and the Future of Flight

It’ a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s a drone. You may have been hearing a lot more about drones in the past year, and about the development of rules and regulations for their use. Brendan Schulman, VP of Policy and Legal Affairs for DJI (drones) will be speaking at SXSW Interactive to educate us on […]

Preview: Queer style and breaking the binary

Queer fashion is on the rise. It has garnered substantial media coverage, made waves at New York Fashion Week, and now it is, for the first time, the subject of a SXSW Interactive panel. One of the panel’s speakers is Anita Dolce Vita, the owner, creative director, and editor-in-chief of DapperQ, a queer, highly-trafficked style website […]

Preview: Why men of color matter in tech

The tech industry will soon be looking to fill 1.4 million jobs with only enough graduates to fill 70 percent of those jobs.  Currently, men of color only fill approximately three to four percent of tech jobs, a disparity that Christina Lewis Halpern says she and her company All Star Code hope to address. Halpern […]

Weekly News Roundup Feb. 22-26

Apple Making it Even Harder to Hack iPhones After last week’s recent events with Apple and the FBI, Apple engineers have started developing new security measures that will make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone. “What’s at stake here is, can the government compel Apple to write software that we believe […]

Preview: Trans Athletes - The New Frontier of Sports

Chris Mosier is an incredible athlete. A three-time Ironman competitor, he qualified for the USA Triathlon National Championships in 2014. In 2015 he joined the Men’s US National duathlon team, and he was the first athlete to do so as an openly transgender man. Growing up Mosier had trouble finding his place in the sports world. […]

Preview: The Next Step - At Home Healing

Amy Li was at a conference with NASA when she received the news she’d been diagnosed with cancer. It was unexpected, and terrifying. Li didn’t know how to tell her friends or family, and thought she was going to die. “One of the things the doctor said that really resonated with me, he said, ‘Rely […]