President Barack Obama will appear as part of a Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11 and First Lady Michelle Obama will be the opening Keynote at SXSW Music on Wednesday, March 16. This marks the first time in the 30-year history of SXSW that a sitting President and the First Lady have […]
The road to this year’s SXSW conference has been paved with some particularly potent discussion of various underrepresented identities. The voices of women in tech are being heard, as are those of POC. We have, in fact, discussed each of these issues here and here. Queer voices are being raised as well and, as we’ve mentioned, SXSW […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]