Its clever design is sturdy on the street but easy to lift. | Continue reading
An anonymous teenager writes about his brief infatuation with the alt-right, which made him critical of how big tech platforms influence the way we think. | Continue reading
Anil Dash, the CEO of the software company Glitch, writes about his decision to put out an open call for a new voting member of Glitch’s board who will have input on all major decisions. | Continue reading
This gadget from Amazon Web Services shows off the power of AI by helping developers compose everything from jazz to rock—with help from a neural network. | Continue reading
“I am a third-generation Brooklynite, I am from here, I can’t leave. I don’t want this technology in my home.” | Continue reading
Comparing Google’s computational achievement to past landmarks in human history might leave you with the wrong idea about why it mattered—and where it could lead us. | Continue reading
QFC supermarkets around Seattle now feature standing indoor farms that grow the produce in the store. | Continue reading
Think of the AeroSlider as a subway system for the planet. | Continue reading
After launching as a screenless alternative to cellphones for kids, Relay has become a walkie-talkie replacement at hotels, theme parks, and stadiums. | Continue reading
Apply it to your toilet, cut the water use in half. | Continue reading
The tech giant took a big step by developing an Xbox controller for people with disabilities. Now that work is leading to changes in the industry at large. | Continue reading
John Maeda reveals how companies such as Google have heightened what users expect from products in an excerpt from his new book, “How to Speak Machine.” | Continue reading
“We jokingly call ourselves the Ikea of microgrids.” | Continue reading
Generative design is the future of design. And it’s coming in fast. | Continue reading
For Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, Neumann was the prodigal son he never had, with a wild-eyed vision to rival Son’s own. The inside story of how it all went wrong. | Continue reading
The Knight Foundation is funding a new field of research, with the not-so-modest aim of addressing “one of the biggest issues that democracy is facing in our time.” | Continue reading
Caroline Crouchley’s design (a finalist at the 2019 3M Young Scientist Challenge) builds on Elon Musk’s idea but uses it to move existing trains—not move just a few people in a pod. | Continue reading
The eerily agile Spot is surveying progress at construction sites using AI-analyzed, 360-degree images. | Continue reading
Up to 6,000 WeWork employees could be told of the layoffs by Tuesday. | Continue reading
Will other brands follow suit and try to operate outside of Amazon’s enormous marketplace? | Continue reading
Author Anand Giridharadas is rebuking the idea that philanthropic billionaires are society’s heroes. Even some plutocrats are starting to agree with him. | Continue reading
Dean Foods, the largest U.S. milk producer, announced this morning that it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. | Continue reading
As construction costs soar in cities, more and more companies and governments are imagining a different model: building off-site and then trucking fully constructed apartments in from the suburbs. | Continue reading
The most unusual colors from Harvard’s storied pigment library include beetle extracts, poisonous metals, and human mummies. | Continue reading
Machine learning reveals that news coverage of people in creative industries such as design and art is shaped by gender. Can it guide us toward parity? | Continue reading
The time has come. | Continue reading
Mozilla’s browser debuted on November 9, 2004, and became a phenom before losing ground to Chrome. Now it’s doubling down on user privacy and autonomy. | Continue reading
As more and more cities think about congestion pricing, they can look to the Swedish capital for some simple lessons on how to do it right. | Continue reading
Modern phones can do just about anything, and that can be a problem. Here’s how to get back to the basics: phone calls and text messages. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s latest mixed reality headset is shipping today. Here’s the story behind making it. | Continue reading
For four weeks after returning from paid leave, new parents at Apple will now have the option of working part-time with full-time pay. | Continue reading
Spkr, an app launching on iOS today, bills itself as the “first audio platform centered on short-form content”—and wants to solve podcast discovery. | Continue reading
With 62 languages now supported, Airbnb says it will make the platform even more accessible to more than 4 billion native speakers. | Continue reading
The Baltimore farm is 3.5 times as large as Bowery’s formerly largest farm—and is the latest attempt to make indoor farming work as a way to disrupt the agricultural system. | Continue reading
A study by economists at Princeton and the Fed suggests turning big cities into hubs for “cognitive” workers. Critics immediately blasted it as elitist. | Continue reading
The social network’s latest financial report beat most expectations shared by analysts, and its stock is popping yet again. | Continue reading
This CEO thought that having a company-wide goal centered on revenue would bring his team together. He was wrong. | Continue reading
A new study shows that a widely used algorithm for predicting which patients get additional care is disproportionately counting out black patients—and could have left tens of thousands without adequate medical care. | Continue reading
Here’s the story of the creation of ARPANET, the groundbreaking precursor to the internet—as told by the people who were there. | Continue reading
An ambitious plan to fight misinformation and disinformation is moving slower than hoped, frustrating researchers and forcing funders to reconsider their commitment. | Continue reading
A lot of the trash in the ocean flows into it from rivers. If it can be stopped earlier, there’s less to clean up in the ocean. | Continue reading
A new machine learning algorithm is helping Google tell which words in queries matter most—and how they relate to each other. | Continue reading
All you need to go offline for a day is a printer. | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles, executives and government officials remained optimistic about the long-heralded technology, while hinting at the challenges that remain. | Continue reading
The browser has now blocked billions of trackers by default—and has launched a new feature explaining what exactly those trackers do and what that means for you. | Continue reading
Without people like Adam Neumann or Travis Kalanick or Elon Musk, startups that change entire industries would never exist. But with those visionaries come the same potential flaws that make us all human. | Continue reading
At least, that’s what happened to flies when they spent 12 hours a day under blue lights. | Continue reading