The global pandemic has upended traditional High Holiday services this year, closing synagogues or severely limiting attendance for the most-attended services of the year on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It’s also given rise to countless online services, collaborations and innovations that will allow Jews around the world to have diverse, robust holiday experiences online. […]
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Facebook gives sneak peek into sci-fi future
November 17th, 2015 Awake Goy
Mike Schroepfer is sitting in a conference room inside Facebook’s Frank Gehry-designed headquarters. His ultra-modern surroundings—22-foot ceilings, raw steel beams, polished concrete pathways that flow through acres of open desks—suit his responsibilities. Schroepfer, the company’s chief technology officer known around Facebook as “Schrep,” works on the stuff of science fiction. High-altitude drones that blanket swaths […]