What do security experts do to keep their data safe? They know better than most the limits of the standard advice, and feel free to go beyond — and sometimes ignore — the rules as they see fit. Plus Troy Wolverton has tips to keep your devices and data secure.
Q&A: Ryan Popple, formerly of Tesla and an Iraq war vet and Harvard Business School grad, guides a leading electric bus maker into a growing market. Proterra, based in Burlingame, has nearly 300 all-electric transit buses on the road.
At Facebook’s headquarters, the walls, stairwells and floors are drenched with contemporary art. The social media giant invites artists to participate in a residency program, allowing them to create murals, sculptures and more to help foster the creative thinking and hacker spirit that keeps the tech firm thriving.
Michelle Quinn writes about how a new union contract ended up hurting Dell janitors in Silicon Valley: Of the many companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe and Genentech, where these janitors work, only one office switched janitorial service providers immediately after the new contract was approved: Dell.
The sudden acceleration in deployment of self-driving technology could confront Google with a choice: stick to its fundamental plan to develop fully autonomous vehicles or downshift to join rivals who are poised to put less-advanced semi-autonomous cars on the road first.
Larry Magid takes a look at tech products for the back-to-school crowd.
