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Tim Cook: “If you’re looking at a phone more than someone’s eyes, you’re doing the wrong thing”
2019-04-24

Apple’s CEO says the company doesn’t want to maximize users’ time. Apple’s CEO attended the Time 100 Summit in New York yesterday where he addressed a number of topics, from tech’s effect on society to political action committees (PACs). In the wide-ranging interview, Cook...

How Google saved over 6 million pounds of food waste in its cafés
2019-04-24

Five years ago, Google starting measuring the quantity and value of food being tossed at its facilities. It’s still got a long way to go, but it’s an object lesson in how focusing on a problem can bring solutions. In a kitchen at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, as chefs work on...

What happens when a big business tries to rebrand a neighborhood
2019-04-23

There are many ways that neighborhoods get their names–and some are better for residents than others. What if Google tried to rename your neighborhood?Read Full Story

The whole Trump-Russia saga, summed up in a single Google search mistake
2019-04-23

How do you say oops in Russian? The various subplots of the Donald Trump-Russia saga often feel like they belong less in a Special Counsel investigation and more in the you-won’t-believe-this tabloid pages that made our president famous to begin with. Never a dull moment, at least.Read Full Story

See Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos as classical sculptures
2019-04-23

Yes, it’s meant to be ironic. But do you know for sure? Jeff Bezos’s steed rears up on two legs. But he is calm, showcasing an awkward smile, seemingly unaware of his own overwhelming show of force. Elon Musk hunches over under the weight of his angel wings, with a flamethrower at the ready on his hip....

The most important tech boom designers are ignoring
2019-04-23

There will be 8 billion voice assistants by 2023. Adobe’s director of product shares four tips for getting your foot in the door as a voice UI designer. Voice assistants are a part of everyday life, and they’re here to stay. Juniper Research recently released a report predicting that by 2023 there will...

Bitcoin hacker targets Meghan Markle’s friend’s fashion company
2019-04-23

Meghan Markle’s designer friend’s Misha Nonoo’s fashion company has been targeted by a Bitcoin hacker. Nonoo, who is rumoured to have introduced Markle to Prince Charles, said she was “mortified” after a hacker gained access to her eponymous label’s email list and began sending threatening messages. In an...

These street signs explain how you’re being watched by smart city tech
2019-04-22

Sidewalk Labs has created a new signage system to explain the invisible sensors that are tracking you when you’re in public areas. But there’s still no way to opt out–besides leaving. Last week, the Google sister company Sidewalk Labs unveiled a comprehensive system of urban signage designed to...

The end of Likes? Instagram follows Twitter in mulling downgrade to influencer mentality
2019-04-19

You’ll have to find a new way to judge your popularity. Instagram may no longer want you to like on Instagram. Screenshots uncovered by researcher Jane Manchun Wong show that Instagram may be considering shaking things up on its social media site so posts no longer show exactly how many people have liked your...

This MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world
2019-04-19

Using some clever physics, designers figured out how humans could move 1,000-pound concrete slabs on their own. Today, construction workers rely on cranes to lift the big slabs of concrete and other materials that go into many commercial building projects. But it hasn’t always been that way; for thousands of...

Why the new breed of entrepreneurs looks beyond making a profit
2019-04-17

Big tech is broken. From Uber’s sexual harassment scandal to Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony and Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown, tech disillusionment is definitely starting to set in for many people. It’s a shift that’s perceptible everywhere. Last month, at SXSW — normally an unabashed celebration...

Twitter users trolled Jack Dorsey so hard they had to shut off the screen during his TED Talk
2019-04-16

Ted Talk organizers today hosted a conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The conversation went mostly as planned. It centered on opportunities and challenges faced by the platform, and what it was doing to address them. But in one bit of poor planning, someone decided it’d be a good idea to feature a hashtag,...

Spoiler warning: “Avengers: Endgame” footage leaks on Twitter and Reddit
2019-04-16

You might want to avoid social media for the next two weeks if you don’t want Endgame to be spoiled. Avengers: Endgame is the most anticipated movie of the summer, and Disney and Marvel have gone to extreme lengths to avoid the movie’s secretive plot from being spoiled before fans have a chance to see...

India asks Google and Apple to ban TikTok — because ‘porn’
2019-04-16

A few weeks after an Indian High Court asked the country’s government to ban TikTok, the authorities have asked Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores. The high court had accused the 15-second video making app of allegedly ‘encouraging pornography.’ The Ministry of Electronics and Information...

Notre Dame fire sparks Twitter conspiracy theories
2019-04-16

Various commenters on Twitter are using the burning of the beautiful, historic Notre Dame cathedral to further a number of absurd conspiracy theories, ranging from an Anti-Christian arsonist to… actually, that’s the worst of them so far. Conspiracy theories and wild speculation about breaking news are common...

Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches
2019-04-15

There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable that you keep your privacy settings in check to avoid giving away any information unintentionally. Thankfully, this new iPhone app, Jumbo, will help you out with this. The app offers plenty...

See the first architectural arches grown in a lab
2019-04-15

The installation at this year’s Milan Design Week showcases the potential of mycelium, or the root structure of mushrooms, as a building material. Mushrooms have become many designers’ favorite food. But not because of how they taste: the root of mushrooms, called mycelium, can be used to make an...

Global outage plagues Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp for the second time in recent weeks
2019-04-14

Just a month ago, the company experienced what some described as its worst outage ever. A peaceful Sunday was interrupted for social media users across the world today as Facebook’s network of sites became unavailable in a number of areas. According to hundreds of complaints on Twitter—the go-to forum...

Silent mode: Why the stars of Silicon Valley are turning to silent meditation retreats
2019-04-13

It’s not just Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doing silent meditation in Burma; more tech execs and business leaders are signing up for vipassana retreats, and million-dollar compounds are going up in Silicon Valley. Our Burmese video guru, speaking from beyond the grave, emphasized that all...

I failed supporting my female co-founder — here’s how I try to do better
2019-04-13

I always thought of myself as an enlightened, progressive man. Maybe I didn’t exactly paste the word “feminist” on my forehead, but fundamentally I consider the designation correct. When it came to equality, I always thought: sure thing, of course. It’s 2019, people. What are we still talking about? Why...

Facebook taps Peggy Alford as its first black female board member
2019-04-13

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who has sat on the board since 2011, will not be nominated for re-election at the 2019 shareholder meeting in May. Facebook has nominated Peggy Alford as the third woman to sit on its board of directors.Read Full Story

Facebook taps Peggy Alford as first its black female board member
2019-04-12

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who has sat on the board since 2011, will not be nominated for re-election at the 2019 shareholder meeting in May. Facebook has nominated Peggy Alford as the third woman to sit on the advertising and social media giant’s board of directors.Read Full Story

What design tools get wrong
2019-04-12

Designers have more digital design tools than ever before. Yet some key problems remain. Modern design tools–both the vector and code kind–are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently...

Incognito mode won’t keep your browsing private. Do this instead
2019-04-12

Browser compartmentalization can help you escape the clutches of the data gathering machine. The big tech giants, online advertising companies, and data brokers use a ton of tricks to track you around the web. These include things like cookies, location and device logging, fingerprinting, and even share buttons, the...

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