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Trump shattered American democracy. Designers can help bring it back
2020-11-13

Service designers, user researchers, product managers—the country needs you. Government needs you. Our democracy depends upon it. “Democracy will save itself with the average man and woman by proving itself worth saving.” — FDR Radio address, November 4, 1938Read Full Story

Social media promised to connect us, but made us isolated and tribal instead
2020-11-13

A psychologist who studies anxiety and stress explains how to cope during an increasingly divisive time. About a year ago I began to follow my interest in health and fitness on Instagram. Soon I began to see more and more fitness-related accounts, groups, posts, and ads. I kept clicking and following, and eventually...

Airbnb is canceling bookings by members of hate groups headed to the Million MAGA March
2020-11-13

Airbnb has canceled the booking of a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys hate group headed to a rally to protest the 2020 election results. Airbnb has said it will cancel the reservations of any guests associated with hate groups. The move comes after a user on Twitter pointed out to Airbnb that a self-proclaimed...

Why Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are all building AI notetakers for doctors
2020-11-13

Automated medical transcription that’s actually accurate could save doctors a huge amount of time, and the tech giants are getting in on the action. For doctors, taking notes and inputting them into electronic medical records is so cumbersome that they often have to use human medical scribes to do it for them....

Silent’ escooters forced to make artificial noise to warn UK pedestrians
2020-11-13

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today...

Twitter flagged 300,000 tweets for election misinformation
2020-11-13

A little over a week after the US election, Twitter has revealed it has labeled over 300,000 tweets as election misinformation so far. “Approximately 300,000 tweets have been labeled under our Civic Integrity Policy for content that was disputed and potentially misleading,” wrote policy lead Vijaya Gadde and...

It’s official: YouTube has canceled Rewind 2020
2020-11-13

YouTube doesn’t want you to remember 2020. The Google subsidiary has announced it’s canceling 2020’s instalment of Rewind, its annual look back at the year’s most memorable moments. The decision marks the first time the company has decided to skip this ritual since its inception in 2010. In a tweet, YouTube...

Messenger and Instagram’s ‘Vanish Mode’ makes chats self-destruct with a swipe
2020-11-13

It was just last week that Facebook introduced ephemeral messages in WhatsApp that disappear in seven days. Now the company is going a step further by introducing “Vanish Mode” for Messenger and Instagram, which will automatically delete text messages and media as soon as they are viewed and you leave the chat....

WandaVision is finally coming to Disney+ on January 15
2020-11-12

Disney+ is finally getting another big tentpole release, as WandaVision is set to arrive on the service next January — delaying its original December release, but not enough to really be angry about. Maybe now Baby Yoda can finally stop carrying everything on his tiny, green shoulders. A new era arrives....

Amazon sues TikTok and Instagram influencers for allegedly selling fake luxury goods
2020-11-12

Amazon says they used the social platforms to say which generic-looking Amazon listings were actually for counterfeit luxury goods. Amazon sued 13 people and businesses on Thursday, including social media influencers Kelly Fitzpatrick and Sabrina Kelly-Krejci, alleging that they were using Amazon’s marketplace...

Cloud engineers are making close to $150K a year, here’s how you can train to become one
2020-11-12

TLDR: The Essential Enterprise Cloud Computing Engineer Bundle offers all the background needed to get started working in the cloud with AWS, Azure, Google, Salesforce and more. It’s a tried and true story of the tech industry. Even while sectors like cloud computing explode in usage, requiring scores of new cloud...

This designer transformed cigarette butts into stunning works of art
2020-11-12

Cigarettes are the most littered item in the world. Designer Sachi Tungare wants to turn this waste into beautiful, useful objects. When we think of the trash that pollutes our planet, we tend to imagine things like plastic bags, food wrappers, and straws. But cigarette butts are actually the most littered item in the...

5 ways CMOs should start thinking like chief digital officers
2020-11-12

With businesses more digitally connected than ever before, technology is at the center of nearly every marketing function. It’s not something we typically realize until an eye-opening moment occurs. It could be your Wi-Fi going down for a couple of hours, or your computer needing to restart and install new...

What is Rumble? Meet the video platform Trump supporters are flocking to
2020-11-12

Rumble has seen an increasing number of conservative content creators jump ship from YouTube. Earlier this week you may have heard about Parler, the conservative social network Trump users are jumping ship from Facebook and Twitter to. Now there’s another app that’s seeing a traditional platform’s...

At just 2.2MB, Google’s new speech filtering tech is perfect for mobile apps
2020-11-12

Google has plenty of apps on your phone that use speech detection from Google Assistant to Google Translate and Pixel’s nifty recorder app. However, one of the challenges these apps face is separating your voice from other people or background noise. To overcome these challenges, Google’s AI team has built a new...

Google Photos is ending free unlimited storage in 2021 — so what’re your options?
2020-11-12

Google did it again. It is shutting down one of the most popular features across its product universe: Google Photo’s free unlimited storage. The company said that it’s ending this service from June 1, 2021. After that date, all photos uploaded will count against your free data limit of 15GB. However, all photos...

Google Photos’s promise of unlimited free storage is going away
2020-11-11

Starting in June of next year, new Google Photos uploads will count toward a storage limit, even at reduced resolution. When Google Photos launched in 2015 with the promise of free, unlimited photo storage, the pitch was that you’d never have again to worry about photo management. Because of that promise,...

As the right catches election-fraud fever, Facebook denies its role in spreading lies
2020-11-11

Data from its own analytics site, CrowdTangle, shows that posts sharing links from the likes of Breitbart and OAN are getting the most interactions on Facebook after the election. Analytics data from the company CrowdTangle shows that a lot of right-wing propaganda about the election is being passed around on Facebook...

Texas voters green light $7.1B plan to overhaul Austin’s public transport
2020-11-11

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today...

These Norwegian designers rethought how to treat an opioid overdose
2020-11-11

The Norwegian studio ANTI designed a naloxone nasal spray that is easier to use than existing devices—and could save more lives. In 2018, more than 46,000 people died of opioid overdoses in the United States. One of the most frustrating and heartbreaking tragedies of the opioid crisis is that many of those...

Top 20 Best Blinkist Book Summaries for Designers & Creatives
2020-11-11

The best designers develop multi-disciplinary skills, not just in the field of design but in many other areas such as marketing, sales, creativity, productivity, leadership, communication, money and do this through personal development and by always learning. One of the best ways to do this is through reading books...

Xbox Series X review: Give this beautiful cinderblock games
2020-11-11

The Xbox Series X is a stunning console that will only get more useful the longer you own it. Its hardware and software are solid, and it will no doubt show off 2021’s games in all their glory. But by the gods, it needs at least one game that properly shows it off, which it does not currently have. Today we...

Entrepreneur Nathalie Molina Niño shares her media diet
2020-11-10

From Instagram to Hamilton. Instagram @show_the_boardroom Many corporations have announced [diversity] programs. I check Show the Boardroom to see how their boards look.Read Full Story

How emotional intelligence can help you find your next job
2020-11-10

It’s all about knowing how to network, no matter what industry you work in. The way we look for jobs has changed drastically over the last few years. While many jobs have always been filled by networking, that number has shot up of late. According to joint research conducted by LinkedIn, up to 85% of jobs are...

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