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These Arctic Pics Show How Extreme Weather Shifts Our Perspective
2013-05-31

Eirik Johnson’s photographs capture the architecture of these beautifully ramshackle cabins at different times of year. (...)

The Bouroullec Brothers’ Drawings Fill A Tome
2013-05-31

This new book of abstract shapes reveals the brothers’ free-form thinking but also their strict discipline. Ronan and (...)

7 Social Media Tips for CEOs
2013-05-31

Businesses can no longer afford to have top leaders sit on the social media sidelines, a new study finds. More than three-quarters (...)

Updating Your Twitter Profile Is Now Much Easier
2013-05-31

Twitter has now made it even easier to upload a new profile picture, header image or background image to your profile. SEE ALSO: (...)

After 4 years, Twitter’s Platform director Ryan Sarver to leave the company on June 28
2013-05-31

Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver has announced that he will be leaving the company on June 28. He has not announced (...)

A Robot For Autistic Kids, Now In Schools
2013-05-31

The humanoid NAO Robot can interact with kids in a way that grownups sometimes can’t. For many autistic kids, social interaction (...)

6 Dioramas Depict Ai Weiwei’s Life In Captivity
2013-05-31

The artist and activist creates some of his most political work yet. In 2011, state police seized the artist and activist Ai (...)

Unleash Your Inner Baby With Evian’s Baby and Me App
2013-05-31

Baby yourself with Evian’s digital follow-up to its popular video. Remember those dancing babies from Evian? "Baby and (...)

Kickstarting: A Sharpie-Wielding Robot That Teaches Kids To Program
2013-05-31

Want to teach kids to program? Give them a robot buddy. His eyes are wide, like ET’s or Johnny Five’s. His skin (...)

Google Is Learning How Smartphones Impact In-Store Shopping
2013-05-31

Smartphones allow us to answer our own product questions about options, specs and, of course, price while we’re out shopping. (...)

Marin County’s Quest For A Soda-Free Summer
2013-05-31

The crunchy California county is trying to keep kids off soda, but with nothing so harsh as a ban. Instead, they’re going (...)

Watch: The History Of The Bauhaus, In 2 Minutes
2013-05-31

A new video short uses minimalist graphics and witty wordplay to describe what the Bauhaus was. “How Bauhaus is your house?” (...)

Watch: ToBe, An App That’s A Freeform Canvas For Creativity
2013-05-31

Cofounder Nick Dangerfield talks about how the app lets users compose with "all the senses of the Internet." The Internet is (...)

A Mesmerizing Attack Of The GIF Clones
2013-05-31

Artist Erdal Inci makes strange loops out of everyday activities. Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci has created mesmerizing armies (...)

4 Top Architecture Firms Reimagine Penn Station
2013-05-31

New York’s Municipal Art Society sponsored a design challenge for a Penn Station the City deserves. The results are both (...)

Coding Is Coming To Every Industry You Can Think Of, Time To Start Learning It Now
2013-05-31

No matter what you do, it’s going to be helpful to learn to code. So we should probably start teaching it in school. Not (...)

How GitHub Uses “Deprivation Testing” To Hone Product Design
2013-05-31

When Co.Labs visited GitHub in their San Francisco office, we found their designers and developers using a brand-new method of UX (...)

A Park The Size Of Connecticut Is Being Carved Out Of The Great Plains
2013-05-31

The 500,000-acre American Prairie Reserve is being cobbled together with public land and private donations. When it’s done, (...)

Linea scores $4 million to give people yet another way to tell stories through photos
2013-05-31

Seattle-based Linea claims it can “disrupt traditional photo technology”, whatever that means, but either way it has raised (...)

Download the new issue of The Next Web Magazine: MOVE
2013-05-31

The latest edition of The Next Web Magazine is now live. This month we’re looking at fitness, sports and how the latest technological (...)

Following Twitter and Evernote, LinkedIn beefs up security with optional two-step verification via SMS
2013-05-31

LinkedIn today announced it has added optional two-step verification to its user accounts. The feature is another layer of security (...)

LG’s white Nexus 4 is now available in the US Google Play store and at T-Mobile, starting from $299
2013-05-31

The white version of LG’s Nexus 4 smartphone is now being sold in the US version of the Google Play store and on the T-Mobile USA (...)

TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth leaves Twitter to start something new, The Guardian’s Bulusu now PM
2013-05-31

TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth announced today that he is leaving Twitter to start “something new”. In a Tweet, he shared (...)

Twitter now lets you edit your profile inline, including drag and drop for header and background photos
2013-05-31

Twitter today rolled out a revamp of its profile editing functionality: everything can now be done inline. This includes not only (...)

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