An incubator for women directors called Fuse is instigated by Powderkeg, Paul Feig’s digital media & production company, pairing filmmakers with top producers & casting directors to develop short films
The internet is about as clean as a public toilet, and election season is like the end of the night in a busy bar. Web pages are littered with misleading election ads and deceptive social media screeds. Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the privacy-focused Firefox web browser, is offering a free packet of tools—called the Firefox Election Bundle—to help users navigate the coming mayhem.
Investor Aileen Lee: “Pay attention not just to the numbers of who you’re hiring, but the culture — the quality of conversations, who’s going to lunch with whom.”
Actress Priyanka Chopra is now a tech investor with plans for building a portfolio. There’s no shortage of celebrities investing in tech start-ups. So far, deals from male actors, athletes and musical artists have garnered much more attention. Ashton Kutcher is a regular at tech conferences; Carmelo Anthony and Nas have their own funds; Leonardo DiCaprio has been an adviser to at least three venture firms.
Joining Madame Curie and her daughter, Frances Arnold at Caltech is recognized with a Nobel prize for having conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes, leading to more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemicals, including drugs, and in the production of renewable fuels. Frances is the fifth woman to win the Nobel prize in chemistry.
Donna Strickland is only the third woman in history to win the award in physics—and her research probably deserved attention a lot sooner.
Dr. Donna Strickland is only the third woman winner of the award, along with Marie Curie, who won in 1903, and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who was awarded the prize in 1963. She shares this year’s prize with Arthur Ashkin, from the US, and Gerard Mourou, from France, for their discoveries in the field of laser physics.
According to a new paper at USC’s Center for the Digital Future, a large majority of the social media comments about the film were “deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments.” By analyzing tweets about the movie, they found a coordinated effort, similar to the one used in the lead-up to the 2016 election, to weaponize the debate about the movie to further the notion of chaos in American society.
Tthe number one school for salary potential is a small liberal arts college with a total undergraduate enrollment of just 844. Congrats to Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe for these successful outcomes of Harvey Mudd graduates.
Farmgirl Flowers CEO and founder Christina Stembel says that her “goal is to be a billion dollar company” and that they are on their way there. Growing at 50 percent year over year, projecting $21.5 million in revenue in 2018, Farmgirl Flowers is a seven-year-old bootstrapped company in San Francisco.
