Later this year, Arizona-based Local Motors expects to deploy an autonomous minibus in Las Vegas through a partnership with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, state officials announced today.
Local Motors, a startup known for manufacturing 3D-printed vehicles, plans to demonstrate the safety and reliability of the new vehicle, known as Olli, at UNLV and eventually deploy a fleet in the city of Las Vegas.
Olli, an autonomous minibus that seats 12, could be used for public transportation or to take passengers on short rides.
Before the vehicles appear in Las Vegas, they will debut in Washington, D.C., through the summer. Miami-Dade County also will run a pilot program for the vehicles.
“Self-driving vehicles are part of a portfolio of new transportation options which are changing our approach to transit and travel,” Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said in a news release. “I’m proud to see so many local government partners share in this exciting announcement and look forward to the advancement of this partnership with Local Motors.”
The collaboration is the first project for the Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility, an economic development program formed in February through a grant to UNLV.
Groups involved with the pilot program have outlined several goals for the project. They range from demonstrating capabilities of the vehicles to determining whether they would be a suitable transit option for the city.
The groups behind the project include the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and the state’s transportation department.
While Local Motors is not headquartered here, it has strong Las Vegas ties, including a small factory in downtown Las Vegas and an existing partnership with UNLV.
It has also talked about working with MGM Resorts International to meet some of its transportation needs. The company has attracted broad interest in the past, with a venture arm for aerospace and defense giant Airbus Group investing in the company earlier this year.
IBM’s artificial intelligence technology, IBM Watson, is providing the computing framework for the Olli minibus, making it the first self-driving vehicle to use the IBM technology.
“Olli offers a smart, safe and sustainable transportation solution that is long overdue,” Local Motors CEO and co-founder John Rogers said in the news release. “I’m thrilled to see what our open community will do with the latest in advanced vehicle technology.”
State officials have long seen autonomous vehicle testing and development as an economic opportunity for the state.
In 2011, Nevada, at Google’s request, became the first state to legalize road testing for autonomous vehicles. Since then, several other jurisdictions have followed its lead.
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KLA Laboratories opening new Las Vegas office By ROCIO HERNANDEZ LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL KLA Laboratories, an information technology firm based in Michigan, is expanding west by establishing a new office in Las Vegas.
KLA Laboratories offers services such as video and sound system installation, event production and internet technology solutions. Their customers range from Verizon Wireless to Ohio State University.
“We pride ourselves on providing innovative, turn-key information technology solutions to our clients, and are enthusiastic about establishing successful new partnerships that benefit Nevada’s vibrant business community,” CEO and President Matt O’Bryan, said in a statement.
The 87-year-old company hopes to use their new location to tap into the casino, convention and hospitality markets.
There will be a ceremony at the new office at 6380 S. Valley View Blvd., Suite 408 on Friday at 11 a.m featuring O’Bryan along with state and local government representatives.
About 40-odd years ago, a bunch of young California misfits changed the world with new technology. Oh, you’ve heard this before? Well, it wasn’t a computer. It was bikes.
Mountain bikes, to be exact. Now, it’s true that people have been riding on rough roads and dusty paths from the earliest days of cycling. But a perfect mix of competition, rapid technology development, and marketing strategy propelled what mountain bike pioneer Charlie Kelly calls a “goofy hobby” into global phenomenon and a new Olympic sport.
Those athletes will roll up to the starting line in Rio astride the latest ultra-light carbon fiber machines with precision shifting, powerful disc brakes, and responsive suspension. And their bikes will look nothing like what the world’s first mountain bikers rode on Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California.
In the early 1970s, cyclists in and around Marin County started assembling “clunkers” using salvaged paper-boy bikes from the 1930s and ’40s and bombing down Tam’s paths and fire roads. In the video above, Kelly and fellow innovator Joe Breeze of Breezer Bikes describe those early days, and how the mountain bike evolved from junkyard dogs to purebred rock- and rut-eating rigs with full suspension and prices that can reach well into five figures.
Now, when it comes to mountain biking, it isn’t enough to ride. As Kelly explains, someone eventually claims to be the fastest, and there’s only one way to settle an assertion like that.
In the fall of 1976, Kelly organized the first of a series of downhill races he and his crew called “Repack,” named for the maintenance required after skidding through 52 turns on a coaster brake. “By the time you got to the bottom, the grease would have burnt into a contrail of smoke,” Breeze says. “You’d have to go home and re-pack the hub.”
Brakes weren’t the only thing that took a beating. Kelly broke so many frames that he eventually asked Breeze to build him something stronger. “I wanted a secret weapon,” he says. In 1977, Breeze built the first of 10 frames inspired by his 1941 Schwinn’s dimensions. He used steel alloy tubing, and strengthened them with distinctive twin lateral tubes running diagonally across the frames. Then he outfitted them with new parts, creating the world’s first new, purpose-built mountain bikes.
Breezer No. 2 on display at the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Fairfax, California.
The museum is a shrine to the days before Lycra, helmets, and sick GoPro edits. “It was team Levi’s” says Breeze, pointing to a photo of him at the museum dressed head to toe in denim. The bikes were heavy, too—Kelly’s first rides weighed 38 pounds, nearly twice the weight of a modern cross-country racer.
Mountain biking really spawned a lot more interest in city riding and the utility of bicycling.Joe Breeze
The museum features beautiful examples of steel-framed machines from early craftsmen like Tom Ritchey, Mert Lawwill and the Koskis as well as early aluminum frames built by Charlie Cunningham, who also designed many early off-road-specific parts.
By the early 1980s, Specialized Bicycles was mass-producing its Stumpjumper mountain bike. Others responded with MTB-specific components and tires. By the end of the decade, many offered bikes with motorcycle-like suspension; disc brakes weren’t far behind. In 1996, 20 years after the first Repack, mountain biking debuted at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Racing still pushes technology and design. Earlier this year, Sea Otter 2016 hosted the first electric mountain bike race. But the lasting impact of the mountain bike, with its cushy tires, upright handlebars and sturdy frame, Breeze says, may be the millions who took to them, not for hopping rocks, but for commuting and running errands around town.
“It really spawned a lot more interest in city riding and the utility of bicycling for everyday,” he says.
For Kelly it was all about Repack, which is hallowed ground, as far as he’s concerned. “The racing started us on this journey that we’re still on,” he says. This fall, on the 40th anniversary of the first Repack, a group of cyclists will gather at the top to celebrate just how far their goofy hobby has come.
This article originally appeared at: http://www.wired.com/2016/06/history-mountain-bike-unsurprisingly-badass/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
Your credit score can be a baffling thing. Your score goes up, and it goes down, and it’s not always clear what is responsible for the movement.
If you have a FICO credit score that is too low, there are some ways to improve your score by tackling your debts head on. But it helps to have a plan, as not all debt payoffs will help you. In fact, credit bureaus like to see people who have some revolving debt but are still capable of paying their bills.
So how can you give your credit score a boost? Here are the kinds of payoffs that will be helpful.
1. Anything That’s on Time
Nothing helps your credit score more than your ability to make payments on time. If you can pay off your credit card balance in full each month, that helps. If you make your monthly mortgage payment every month without delay, that’s huge. In fact, these types of payments are viewed more positively by credit bureaus than any other factor.
2. Debt With the Highest Interest Rates
Cards with the highest interest rates are the ones that place you at the most risk of racking up more debt, thus hurting your credit score. By paying these cards off first, you are reducing your debt risk and ultimately will see your score rise. (See also on WiseBread.com: Credit Cards with the Best APRs).
3. Credit Cards With the Lowest Credit Limits
Credit card bureaus will not only analyze your total debt, but the amount of debt relative to your total limit. If your debt is low relative to what you are allowed to borrow, that’s good. But if you’re close to maxing out a credit card with a low limit, pay that one off first. This way, if you choose to close the credit card, your debt load is reduced but your limit doesn’t shrink as much.
4. Anything That Gets Your Credit Utilization Under 30%
Just because credit card companies let you borrow up to a certain amount doesn’t mean you should always charge up to the limit. Even if you pay credit cards on time, your credit score can be negatively impacted if you have high revolving balance. Generally speaking, if you are using more than 30% of your available credit, that’s a problem. So even if you can’t get your balance down to zero, work to make sure you’re borrowing less than athird of what you are allowed. You will continue to see improvement until your credit utilization is down to 10% or less.
5. Your Student Loans (But Not Always)
Paying off your student loans is usually a good thing, because you’re reducing your debt-to-income ratio. And because student debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, your wages could be garnished if you don’t pay up. The fact that you have a long history of making your loan payments on time will continue to help your score, even after the debt is paid. But it’s worth noting a debt payoff in this case could result in a change to your debt mix, thus impacting your score negatively. Student loans are considered installment loans, because you pay a fixed amount each month, while credit cards are a vehicle for revolving debt. Credit bureaus like to see both types in your file.
6. Small Balances on Numerous Credit Cards
You may think your credit score should be fine if you have only small debts. But if those small debts are on multiple credit cards, your score may be suffering. One of the things that FICO looks at when evaluating credit is how many credit cards have balances. So if you have debt on more than one card — even if it’s a small amount — it’s best to get those card balances down to zero.
7. Any Past-Due Bills
If you have debts that are very late, it’s best to still pay back what you owe. This may not ultimately boost your credit score significantly right away, according to FICO, but new lenders will still want to see that you paid back what was owed. Prioritize the most recent past-due bills first.
This article originally appeared at: http://www.kiplinger.com/article/credit/T017-C000-S015-debt-payoffs-that-boost-your-credit-score-the-most.html?rid=SYN-yahoo&rpageid=14729&yptr=yahoo
Pharrell Williams hosts a masterclass for music students at The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as part of his 50TH ANNIVERSARY Artist-In-Residency. Joined by Dean Allyson Dean and Professors Bob Power and Jason King, Pharrell listens to students’ projects, offers constructive criticism, and discusses the nature of the creative process. Pharrell also invited high school kids from the Future Music Moguls, a free high school program at Clive Davis Institute, to observe the masterclass.
With the help of veterinarians, 3D designers, and a local artist, Freddy the tortoise was able to receive a hand-painted, 3D-printed hull after losing most of her shell in a devastating forest fire. Freddy was found after the fire left him with burned forelegs and a damaged hull. Freddy had lost 85 percent of her shell, and over the next months, it continued falling off. Cicero Moraes told Inside Edition that his team decided to create the world’s first 3D printed hull for the animal.
This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIiXqyoxZEA
Lyft, one of the leading ride-hailing services in the U.S., announced Monday that it is testing a new option to let customers pre-order rides up to 24 hours ahead of time. The test is currently under way in San Francisco.
The feature — common to traditional car services and a popular request for customers of on-demand startups like Uber and Lyft — will cost users a little extra. The minimum fare will be higher, according to a Lyft spokesperson, with different price points currently being tested.
“While on-demand rides remain core to our platform, we’re thrilled to offer even more options to passengers — as well as another opportunity for drivers to earn,” Lyft said in a statement about the new feature.
Demand for this feature is clearly there, as evidenced by the existence of third-party applications like TaxiLater which helps Uber customers schedule rides for later.
A spokesperson for Lyft said it was important to offer the option to provide “additional peace of mind” to customers planning important trips to the airport and other destinations.
For drivers, the option could prove to be more complicated.
“The biggest difficulty with pre-scheduled rides for drivers is that they have to clear out their schedule ahead of time in order to make sure that they’re available,” said Harry Campbell, a driver for Uber and Lyft and creator ofThe Rideshare Guy, a popular blog for drivers in the industry. “They will need to stay local on their regular on-demand rides leading up to the pre-scheduled ride.”
By requiring a higher price minimum on the scheduled rides, however, Lyft may be able to ensure drivers that it’s worth any extra aggravation.
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This article originally appeared at: http://mashable.com/2016/05/23/lyft-schedule-rides/#tSIjIw0cQgqT
Imagine if you could travel from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in 20 minutes. That’s the dream of a hyperloop, an idea conceived by Elon Musk. Today, in downtown Las Vegas at a press and investor event, Hyperloop Technologies shared some exciting updates which included the change of its brand to Hyperloop One, new strategic partners, and an $80 million dollar round of funding.
“This is the first step towards a major revolution in transportation,” said Rob Lloyd, CEO of Hyperloop One.
The name change makes sense as there are other competitors using a similar name, so the Hyperloop One brand will help them differentiate from the other efforts.
Investor and entrepreneur Shervin Pishevar shared the origin story of Hyperloop One which included taking Elon Musk’s idea and nudging him to turn it into a white paper so that others could push it forward. Pishevar ran with it and eventually pulled in former SpaceX employee Brogan BamBrogan as their CTO. BamBrogan shared the technical vision for building Hyperloop One and summed it up by saying:
“It’s a smooth, elevator like experience to get you directly to your destination.”
Pishevar wants Hyperloop to help level the playing field that geography plays in people’s destiny.
“Transportation is the new broadband,” said Shervin Pishevar.
Pishevar went on to say that while virtual reality is cool, it’s not real life and continued:
“You cannot hug a hologram. For those of you that know me, I’m a hugger, so that’s really important to me.”
Pishevar and his team know that this will not happen overnight, and require many enormous efforts by various groups referred to as the “global ecosystem”. This new global partner ecosystem includes leaders in transportation engineering, architecture, infrastructure strategy and financing, construction and operations. Companies including AECOM, AMBERG Group, ARCTURAN SUSTAINABLE CARGO, ARUP, Bjarke Ingels Group, Cargo Sous Terrain, Deutsche Bahn Engineering & Consulting, FS LINKS, GRID, KPMG and SYSTRA have all joined forces with Hyperloop One to develop the future of transportation. Some of the partners joined the Hyperloop One CEO on stage.
Hyperloop One announced a new $80 million series B round with follow on investments from Series A investors Sherpa Ventures, EightVC, ZhenFund and Caspian Venture Partners. New investors in the Series B round include 137 Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Fast Digital, Western Technology Investment (WTI), SNCF, the French National Rail Company, and GE Ventures.
Shervin Pishevar wants to change transportation and the world with Hyperloop One.
Tomorrow Hyperloop One will be showing off a test out in the northern Las Vegas desert.
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.
Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.
In other words, Facebook’s news section operates like a traditional newsroom, reflecting the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation. Imposing human editorial values onto the lists of topics an algorithm spits out is by no means a bad thing—but it is in stark contrast to the company’s claims that the trending module simply lists “topics that have recently become popular on Facebook.”
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These new allegations emerged after Gizmodo last weekrevealed details about the inner workings of Facebook’s trending news team—a small group of young journalists, primarily educated at Ivy League or private East Coast universities, who curate the “trending” module on the upper-right-hand corner of the site. As we reported last week, curators have access to a ranked list of trending topics surfaced by Facebook’s algorithm, which prioritizes the stories that should be shown to Facebook users in the trending section. The curators write headlines and summaries of each topic, and include links to news sites. The section, which launched in 2014, constitutes some of the most powerful real estate on the internet and helps dictate what news Facebook’s users—167 million in the US alone—are reading at any given moment.
“Depending on who was on shift, things would be blacklisted or trending,” said the former curator. This individual asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of retribution from the company. The former curator is politically conservative, one of a very small handful of curators with such views on the trending team. “I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC or Mitt Romney or Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn’t be trending because either the curator didn’t recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias against Ted Cruz.”
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The former curator was so troubled by the omissions that they kept a running log of them at the time; this individual provided the notes to Gizmodo. Among the deep-sixed or suppressed topics on the list: former IRS official Lois Lerner, who was accused by Republicans of inappropriately scrutinizing conservative groups; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; popular conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report; Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was murdered in 2013; and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. “I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,” the former curator said.
Another former curator agreed that the operation had an aversion to right-wing news sources. “It was absolutely bias. We were doing it subjectively. It just depends on who the curator is and what time of day it is,” said the former curator. “Every once in awhile a Red State or conservative news source would have a story. But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased.”
Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories.
Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed. The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work.
Managers on the trending news team did, however, explicitly instruct curators to artificially manipulate the trending module in a different way: When users weren’t reading stories that management viewed as important, several former workers said, curators were told to put them in the trending news feed anyway. Several former curators described using something called an “injection tool” to push topics into the trending module that weren’t organically being shared or discussed enough to warrant inclusion—putting the headlines in front of thousands of readers rather than allowing stories to surface on their own. In some cases, after a topic was injected, it actually became the number one trending news topic on Facebook.
“We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,” said one former curator. “If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t naturally trending.” Sometimes, breaking news would be injected because it wasn’t attaining critical mass on Facebook quickly enough to be deemed “trending” by the algorithm. Former curators cited the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris as two instances in which non-trending stories were forced into the module. Facebook has struggled to compete with Twitter when it comes to delivering real-time news to users; the injection tool may have been designed to artificially correct for that deficiency in the network. “We would get yelled at if it was all over Twitter and not on Facebook,” one former curator said.
In other instances, curators would inject a story—even if it wasn’t being widely discussed on Facebook—because it was deemed important for making the network look like a place where people talked about hard news. “People stopped caring about Syria,” one former curator said. “[And] if it wasn’t trending on Facebook, it would make Facebook look bad.” That same curator said the Black Lives Matter movement was also injected into Facebook’s trending news module. “Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for Black Lives Matter,” the individual said. “They realized it was a problem, and they boosted it in the ordering. They gave it preference over other topics. When we injected it, everyone started saying, ‘Yeah, now I’m seeing it as number one’.” This particular injection is especially noteworthy because the #BlackLivesMatter movement originated on Facebook, and the ensuing media coverage of the movement often noted its powerful social media presence.
(In February, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his support for the movement in an internal memo chastising Facebook employees for defacing Black Lives Matter slogans on the company’s internal “signature wall.”)
When stories about Facebook itself would trend organically on the network, news curators used less discretion—they were told not to include these stories at all. “When it was a story about the company, we were told not to touch it,” said one former curator. “It had to be cleared through several channels, even if it was being shared quite a bit. We were told that we should not be putting it on the trending tool.”
(The curators interviewed for this story worked for Facebook across a timespan ranging from mid-2014 to December 2015.)
“We were always cautious about covering Facebook,” said another former curator. “We would always wait to get second level approval before trending something to Facebook. Usually we had the authority to trend anything on our own [but] if it was something involving Facebook, the copy editor would call their manager, and that manager might even call their manager before approving a topic involving Facebook.”
Gizmodo reached out to Facebook for comment about each of these specific claims via email and phone, but did not receive a response.
Several former curators said that as the trending news algorithm improved, there were fewer instances of stories being injected. They also said that the trending news process was constantly being changed, so there’s no way to know exactly how the module is run now. But the revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news, or the trending news module as an algorithmically-driven list of what people are actually talking about.
Rather, Facebook’s efforts to play the news game reveal the company to be much like the news outlets it is rapidly driving toward irrelevancy: a select group of professionals with vaguely center-left sensibilities. It just happens to be one that poses as a neutral reflection of the vox populi, has the power to influence what billions of users see, and openly discusses whether it should use that power to influence presidential elections.
“It wasn’t trending news at all,” said the former curator who logged conservative news omissions. “It was an opinion.”
[Disclosure: Facebook has launched a program that pays publishers, including theNew York Timesand Buzzfeed, to produce videos for its Facebook Live tool. Gawker Media, Gizmodo’s parent company, recently joined that program.]
Update:Several hours after this report was published, Gizmodo editors started seeing it as a topic in Facebook’s trending section. Gizmodo’s video was posted under the topic but the “Top Posts” were links to RedState.com and the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Update 4:10 p.m. EST: A Facebook spokesperson has issued the following statement to outlets including BuzzFeed and TechCrunch. Facebook has not responded to Gizmodo’s repeated requests for comment.
“We take allegations of bias very seriously. Facebook is a platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum. Trending Topics shows you the popular topics and hashtags that are being talked about on Facebook. There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or one news outlet over another. These guidelines do not prohibit any news outlet from appearing in Trending Topics.”
Update May 10, 8:50 a.m. EST:The following statement was posted by Vice President of Search at Facebook, Tom Stocky, late last night. It was liked by both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg:
My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today’s reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives. We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true.
Facebook is a platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum. There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or one news outlet over another. These guidelines do not prohibit any news outlet from appearing in Trending Topics.
Trending Topics is designed to showcase the current conversation happening on Facebook. Popular topics are first surfaced by an algorithm, then audited by review team members to confirm that the topics are in fact trending news in the real world and not, for example, similar-sounding topics or misnomers.
We are proud that, in 2015, the US election was the most talked-about subject on Facebook, and we want to encourage that robust political discussion from all sides. We have in place strict guidelines for our trending topic reviewers as they audit topics surfaced algorithmically: reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources. Facebook does not allow or advise our reviewers to systematically discriminate against sources of any ideological origin and we’ve designed our tools to make that technically not feasible. At the same time, our reviewers’ actions are logged and reviewed, and violating our guidelines is a fireable offense.
There have been other anonymous allegations — for instance that we artificially forced #BlackLivesMatter to trend. We looked into that charge and found that it is untrue. We do not insert stories artificially into trending topics, and do not instruct our reviewers to do so. Our guidelines do permit reviewers to take steps to make topics more coherent, such as combining related topics into a single event (such as #starwars and#maythefourthbewithyou), to deliver a more integrated experience.
Our review guidelines for Trending Topics are under constant review, and we will continue to look for improvements. We will also keep looking into any questions about Trending Topics to ensure that people are matched with the stories that are predicted to be the most interesting to them, and to be sure that our methods are as neutral and effective as possible.
This article originally appeared at: http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
On Wednesday night, Gwen Stefani became the latest guest to jump into James Corden‘s passenger seat in a new Carpool Karaoke segment on The Late Late Show. Between jokes about the singer’s apparent agelessness and the real meaning behind the eggplant emoji, the two managed to squeeze in a couple of Stefani’s No Doubt and solo hit songs. They encountered a little obstacle, though, when they learned they needed two additional passengers in order to continue driving in the carpool lane. Who does Corden call for help? George Clooney, of course. “This guy, he’s got nothing to do,” Corden said. Who knew Clooney was such a “Hollaback Girl” fan?
This article originally appeared at: http://www.vogue.com/13433853/carpool-karaoke-gwen-stefani-george-clooney-julia-roberts/?mbid=social_facebook
