Just plug it into your office’s HVAC system and start removing emissions from the air. | Continue reading
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Descript’s “Overdub” can synthesize new words or phrases based on the sound of a user’s voice. The company says it’s practically impossible to abuse. | Continue reading
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In this excerpt from “That Will Never Work,” Netflix co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph describes meeting with the Amazon chieftain about a possible acquisition. | Continue reading
The funds would support projects using a new “web monetization” protocol, including open source tools and individual creators | Continue reading
Just four years into the AI era, an actor and an MIT professor explained the technology to a mass audience, in terms that are enduringly relevant. | Continue reading
People will accept anything as true if it confirms their beliefs—regardless of whether a video or image has obviously been manipulated. | Continue reading
A deadly fungus is spreading through banana plantations, and the cloned bananas we eat are defenseless. In labs around the world, scientists are trying to find ways to genetically alter the fruit to make it resistant. | Continue reading
The Alexa Answers crowdsourcing platform is now open to everyone in the United States. Amazon says it has measures in place to prevent misuse. | Continue reading
Mailchimp Presents is creating original series, films, and podcasts aimed at entrepreneurs and small-business owners and their shared struggles. | Continue reading
Peak Astrology means your millennial coworkers probably have a Slack channel for horoscopes. | Continue reading
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Limited interaction with coworkers can make you a better communicator. | Continue reading
In its meteoric rise and its approach to leveraging user data, TikTok may augur the AI-informed future of social media, for better and for worse. | Continue reading
The Netflix docuseries ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ purports to tell us how the Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks. Is it now tainted by new revelations about Gates’s ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? | Continue reading
Building a successful company requires more than just a great idea. | Continue reading
As Hurricane Dorian lashes the North Carolina coast, interactive maps set up by state agencies let you track power outages in real time. | Continue reading
Amid the mass demonstrations in the special administrative region, AnyVision is reconsidering business plans there. But the firm continues to defend the use of its technology by the Israeli army at West Bank checkpoints. | Continue reading
E-cigarette users who experience symptoms similar to the ones associated to with the outbreak should seek prompt medical attention. | Continue reading
According to a new study, a 41-square-foot plot of land can produce just one beef burger for every 15 Beyond Burgers. | Continue reading
In space, no one has to obey traffic rules. | Continue reading
Artist Richard Vijgen has created an installation that visualizes the mess of Wi-Fi signals in cities. | Continue reading
After embracing “hacking” in its own design strategy this year, the furniture giant is celebrating customers who alter its designs in creative, unexpected ways. | Continue reading
Geoship is touting the bioceramic geodesic dome as the home of the future—and getting help on the rollout from Zappos, which wants to build some near its headquarters to give to the homeless. | Continue reading
Zuck’s rumored to also have a “panic chute” in his office so he can evacuate through the floor. | Continue reading
The Amazon-owned security company makes an excellent alarm system. But it creates an anxiety-inducing feedback loop. | Continue reading
A little robot at a library in Helsinki went from reviled to beloved, all because it got a new pair of plastic eyes. | Continue reading
As more tech companies begin to pay lip service to the idea of hiring people with criminal records, one former inmate’s journey to a tech career shows how possible it is. | Continue reading
Though this BMW paint job is a one-off, the company confirms that the experiment could have implications for its future designs. | Continue reading
The last machines to invade people’s space at scale were cars; now, it’s Walmart’s robots. How’s that going? | Continue reading
The rest of the world has a lot to learn from the design of the U.K. wall plug. | Continue reading
If the goal isn’t reached, Adam and Rebekah Neumann will lose some of their voting shares in the company. But will they lose enough to make the structure matter? And who is measuring if the $1 billion is doing any actual good? | Continue reading
Unpaid internships have long been criticized for favoring privileged students while others who face down a record-high $1.6 trillion in student loan debt are expected to work for free, essentially setting up income inequality before their careers even begin. | Continue reading
Being nice is great, but it can also have a real downside if you’re prioritizing niceness over honesty. | Continue reading
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. | Continue reading
Planting trees is an incredibly cheap and simple way to improve the well-being of people in a city. A novel idea: Public health institutions should be financing urban greenery to support well-being and air quality. | Continue reading
Scribbling in the margins of your notebook—which you probably perfected in 7th grade—can have surprising effects on your work. | Continue reading
Researchers are sounding the alarm after an analysis showed that buying a new smartphone consumes as much energy as using an existing phone for an entire decade. | Continue reading
Is it better to make our goals public, or keep them to ourselves? | Continue reading
Your home cleaning products have a major carbon footprint. Several startups want to popularize a clever solution: remove the water. | Continue reading
The We Company sees itself as a world-changing tech platform. But it’s used the same easy-to-guess password and dated Wi-Fi security for years. | Continue reading
It’s been 34 years since Susan Kare’s New York typeface first debuted. Now, anyone can download it for free. | Continue reading
A new permission alert in iOS 13 is supposed to protect you from snooping—if you can figure out what it’s trying to tell you. | Continue reading
One-fifth of the trash in our landfills is wasted food. But better understanding of how our food system works is starting to make a dent in how much we throw away. | Continue reading
It’s all about human’s poor capacity for risk assessment. | Continue reading
Every day, there’s a vital (and vitriolic) debate happening in Twitter comment threads about how we solve the country’s housing crisis. Is the issue too complex to be grappled with on a platform that encourages single-sentence thoughts? Probably—but that isn’t stopping anyone fro … | Continue reading
Can Donald Trump do 100 push-ups a day? Let this AI convince you. | Continue reading