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I didn’t think it was possible to win the ice bucket challenge, but Bill Gates did. First of all, he was nominated by Mark Zuckerberg, and nominated Elon Musk. Then, his video was outright cinematic (see below). Seriously, it was more of a short film than a video. Thirdly, he designed and built a custom rig to dump ice water on himself, and he...
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, accepted the challenge from Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing head, and took on the ice bucket challenge in front of thousands of employees at Apple’s bi-weekly Beer Bash – Yes I didn’t know that event existed either, but apparently it does. Cook took on the ALS-challenge while blasting the song “Ice-Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice – an apt choice of sound....
Celebrities around the globe have been joining in the viral “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” which aims to raise money, and awareness to fight ALS. Here are seven videos of celebrities (mostly tech CEOs) taking on the challenge. Enjoy, and give the challenge a try yourself. And don’t forget to vote for your favorite, via a tweet. Celebrity: Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO of...
Meaningful innovation is not Microsoft’s strong suit. Still, one of Microsoft’s latest research projects has done amazing things to improve one of my favorite types of video – the timelapse. The results of this little science project, are absolutely artful, and magnificent. How They Did It Microsoft engineers have created an algorithm for turning choppy, bumpy timelapse videos into smooth, beautiful, flowing timelapses. The...
At an Amazon all-hands, in front of thousands of employees, Jeff Bezos took on the ice bucket challenge. He was recently challenged by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He started off with a joke: “I was going to challenge Edward Snowden, but I was afraid [the bucket] would just leak”. He then followed it up with another joke about picking the queen, the pope, and Kim...
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