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Artists Turn London Landmark Into World’s Largest Wanking Penis

2013-05-30

UK art collective to government: stop stroking the financial industry. To make a giant statement about the undue influence of (...)

Heineken’s Lost Plan To Build Houses Out Of Beer Bottles

2013-05-31

In the 1960s, Heineken proposed a novel idea: rectangular "World" bottles that could double as bricks for affordable housing. And (...)

Marketing So Good It’s Scary: 12 Experiential Horror Campaigns That Went Viral

2013-05-31

The horror genre has been an especially fertile ground for memorable, immersive marketing. Here are 12 examples of campaigns that (...)

Businesses With A Strong Sense Of Purpose Are More Successful

2013-05-31

Want to make more money? Make sure your employees feel like they’re working for something greater than just profit. You (...)

Breathtaking Pictures Of Hong Kong’s Urban Canyons

2013-05-31

In Vertical Horizon, photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze shows just how tiny humans are in the context of the Chinese city’s (...)

Warning: This Addictive Word Game Induces Clairvoyance

2013-05-31

OK Go--yes, the band--has released a free iPhone game that feels like magic. You say a word and I say a word at the same time. (...)

Find Positively 4th Street—and Everywhere Else Bob Dylan Sang About—On This Map

2013-05-31

An interactive map reveals all the locations Bob Dylan mentioned in songs over the years, and offers a bit of information about (...)

A Tablet So Simple, Even An Old Person Can Use It

2013-05-31

Technology can be scary, with its buttons and beeps and boops. But the Claris Companion tablet is like an iPad made simple, and (...)

This Cyborg Hears Colors With His Skull

2013-05-31

Neil Harbisson has a disorder that leads him to see the world in black and white. But with a little body modification, he can still (...)

Infographic: Over 300 Fruits On One Mouthwatering Map

2013-05-31

You know your plums and pears, sure. But what about pomelos, pawpaws, and gacs? I’ve never met a fruit I didn’t (...)

Tell Me The Truth: Oscar Winner Alex Gibney on WikiLeaks And Uncovering The Story Behind The Topic

2013-05-31

Acclaimed doc filmmaker Alex Gibney talks about his new film We Steal Secrets, the difference between a topic and a story and making (...)

Cage-Free, Free-Range, And Humanely Rased: Demystifying Your Meat

2013-05-31

BuyingPoultry hopes to be the place to cut through the confusing verbiage and where you can go and find out exactly what happened (...)

Live: Forbidding Helmets And Other Ways To Get People Biking

2013-05-31

MIT Media Lab visiting scientist Sandra Richter is racing to increase urban cycling participation. Join her live as she answers your (...)

Oh the irony: Hacking group Anonymous has Twitter account hacked by rival group

2013-05-31

YourAnonNews (YAN), a Tumblr blog and Twitter account that supports the hacktivist movement Anonymous and posts regular tweets about (...)

Social fundraising platform Believe.in teams up with Stripe to pay charities ‘up to one month’ faster

2013-05-31

Social fundraising platform Believe.in has partnered with online payments processor Stripe today to help cut down the time it takes (...)

Sky’s Android apps return to the Google Play store less than a week after being hacked

2013-05-31

British broadcaster Sky, synonymous for its wide-ranging sports coverage and news service, scored an own goal last week when it was (...)

Spanish social gaming startup Akamon closes $3.6 million round

2013-05-31

Looks like Barcelona is becoming something of a hotbed for social gaming companies, with the likes of King and Digital Chocolate setting (...)

Google’s Hollywood debut ‘The Internship’ is less of a blockbuster than amusing company promo

2013-05-31

Google is set to make its big screen debut as a supporting actor in the new comedy film The Internship and TNW got a chance to see (...)

This vending machine spits out free cans of Pepsi in exchange for Facebook likes

2013-05-31

Pretty cool idea from marketing and communications agency TBWA Belgium for its client, Pepsi: a ‘Like Machine’ that doesn’t (...)

Twitter Now Supports More and Longer Lists

2013-05-31

Twitter lists got a refresh on Thursday, giving users the ability to create more lists on the social network and include more people (...)

A Rare Behind-The-Scenes Look At Some Of Bowie’s Most Iconic Photographs

2013-05-30

New material from the archive of Brian Duffy, the fashion photographer responsible for Bowie’s most famous album cover. (...)

IMDB’s Top 50 Movies, Arranged By Genre

2013-05-30

The bigger winner: drama. Netflix has proven it’s possible to get incredibly granular when breaking down different types (...)

The Price Of Global Women’s Health: $12 Billion

2013-05-30

Women Deliver says that spending $12 billion more would bring the world healthy mothers and babies and--more importantly, a $3 (...)

Fast Food’s Latest Innovation: Hands-Free Whopper Consumption

2013-05-30

Suck it, cup holders. Did you ever wish that you could eat a whopper while playing the guitar, or rubbing suntan lotion on a (...)

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