What does UI design look like after screens go away? Fjord’s Andy Goodman explains. | Continue reading
Comparing yourself to others is natural, but it doesn’t always give you an accurate picture of other people’s lives. | Continue reading
Dwelling too much on the past can prevent you from moving forward. | Continue reading
And it plans to build nine fake islands to do it. | Continue reading
Employees don’t like them. Research proves they’re ineffective. Why is it taking so long for us to get rid of them? | Continue reading
It’s good that Apple is a vocal supporter of privacy. But that doesn’t mean that its own behavior isn’t subject to criticism. | Continue reading
The ACLU is taking seven federal agencies to court to obtain records whose existence the FBI says it can neither confirm nor deny. | Continue reading
Algorithms can be trained to recognize ape faces as well as human faces. Now ChimpFace is being deployed to help track down poachers who put the animals up for sale online. | Continue reading
A group of investors joined hundreds of employees in calling for Amazon to halt government sales of face recognition until it can ensure the technology is safe. | Continue reading
Just another day in bizarro Airbnb world. | Continue reading
Jean Case’s new book looks at how successful entrepreneurs have made their breakthroughs. | Continue reading
Anonymous survey app Blind polled tech workers and found that they think that Sandberg shouldn’t continue in her role as COO. | Continue reading
Travelers are all headed to the same places in pursuit of selfies. | Continue reading
Including 50 business class seats every single day from San Francisco to Shanghai. | Continue reading
Billionaire Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. And he’s spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World? | Continue reading
The two designers behind Project Alias compare it to a virus–or perhaps a parasitic fungus. In a good way. | Continue reading
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed. | Continue reading
In his proposed budget for the state, California’s new governor plans to dramatically increase funding for the state’s tax credit program for low-income workers, and change up the way it’s delivered so people can get support year-round. | Continue reading
Textivia, a marketing agency, was in the midst of a rebrand when it learned its soon-to-be name, 3VE, was also the code name of an alleged multinational fraud ring. | Continue reading
If you want to see how platforms can save humanity, don’t look at Facebook. Look at pizza. | Continue reading
Apple releases an official statement on reports that some iPad Pros have come bent right out of the box. | Continue reading
The technology that deserves our vigilance before creepy creeps into dangerous. | Continue reading
CEO Adam Neumann reveals the name change, goes into detail on his recent conversations with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, who invested $2 billion in the company at a $47 billion valuation, and discusses the company’s grand plans, alluding to a push into financial services. | Continue reading
CEO Adam Neumann reveals the name change, goes into detail on his recent conversations with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, who invested $2 billion in the company at a $47 billion valuation, and discusses the company’s grand plans, alluding to a push into financial services. | Continue reading
Here’s how. | Continue reading
Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security, and why you really need to change your passwords. | Continue reading
It’s hard to know when and why face recognition is being used in New York City. Ritchie Torres wants to change that. | Continue reading
This future looks… oddly familiar. | Continue reading
Waymo One is the world’s first self-driving taxi service. Just two rides in, and we’re already bored of the future. | Continue reading
I don’t want to trade in my smartphone for a dumb one, but I do want the benefits. | Continue reading
The Smithsonian is now closed, too. | Continue reading
You don’t need to wait for a capital-D designer to save you from bad UX. | Continue reading
The GPS tracking pairs with facial recognition software to ensure kids stay in school. | Continue reading
23andMe and other DNA testing companies make money by selling genetic data. LunaDNA wants to make you the one who benefits when your genes are worth something. | Continue reading
Our brains recognize them as a distinct, and complex, “visual language.” | Continue reading
Facebook and Google paid up after being accused of breaking state campaign finance violations, in what may be the first such challenge to either platform. | Continue reading
The airline hopes to be permanently single-use plastic free by the end of 2019. | Continue reading
The source of diplomats’ illnesses in Cuba and China—said to be connected to a high-pitched cricket-like sound—is still unknown, but the damage is real. | Continue reading
We associate participation with power, so here’s what to do before, during, and after meetings if regular interruptions are preventing you from being heard. | Continue reading
Want a change of scenery? Applications open on January 1 for a program to attract more workers to Vermont. | Continue reading
CAA and shift7 commissioned a study whose results fly in the face of everything marketers have been arguing about moviegoing habits for decades. | Continue reading
Google Allo is the latest casualty of Silicon Valley’s course correction on conversational interfaces. | Continue reading
The bipartisan bill has been hailed as a triumph, but its reliance on algorithms might only reinforce existing disparities. | Continue reading
Want to be a better you? Rid your smartphone of apps that bring you down, waste your time, and invade your privacy. | Continue reading
An overstuffed bookcase (or e-reader) says good things about your mind. | Continue reading
Tiny monitoring stations that alert farmers to every change in conditions on their farms could help them better understand the extreme weather shifts that are becoming more common due to climate change. | Continue reading
Trump’s EPA has made it easier for companies to begin using asbestos again—here’s what it could potentially mean for American consumers, architects, and builders. | Continue reading