“There is room for a breast. Or two.”
Annie Clark, a.k.a. the music star St. Vincent, has designed her own guitar, in collaboration with the Ernie Ball music company. And unlike most guitars, this one is designed to fit a woman’s body. “I wanted to design a tool that would be ergonomic, lightweight, and sleek,” Clark wrote on Instagram. “There is room for a breast. Or two.”
Why the fashion designer created new labels for Lifeway Foods’s fermented milk drink to coincide with her new line of athletic wear.
Sometimes good ideas happen not in the boardroom, but at the dinner table. Last summer, Julie Smolyansky, the CEO of kefir company Lifeway Foods, attended a dinner party with fashion designer Cynthia Rowley. During conversation, Rowley mentioned she was preparing to launch a new line of fashionable athletic wear, and Smolyansky’s ears perked up.
“Brain wallets” were designed to be so safe you could store them in plain sight on the Internet. Wrong!
It’s always a pain to memorize a password. This is why we so often choose weak ones. A technique used for protecting bitcoin wallets (called a “brain wallet”) seemed to offer a workaround. You use a strong form of cryptography to convert a password that you only keep in your mind—thus reducing vulnerability to malware and other attacks—into something that resists brute force. Brain wallets could thus be stored in the clear (effectively unencrypted) in the bitcoin blockchain, making them always available to an owner without weaknesses that would expose their value to others.
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk about working with Ryan Reynolds to make the long-gestating film uncompromisingly, definitively Deadpool.
It takes supreme humility to forego traditional writing credits for the film you wrote. Or it would, at least, if you didn’t instead bill yourself and your co-writer as The Real Heroes Here, which is exactly what Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick did on Deadpool.
Kevin Hart is petite for Foot Locker, young athletes inspire for Samsung, and Brooks jogs with the undead.
If we’re all being honest here, I’m going to come out and say I missed Newcastle this Super Bowl. The meta-ad attitude, frolicking in the ridiculousness of the big game hype, the millions spent, and the fact we’re all watching anyway. Everyone and their mother’s brother took some time to review the Super Bowl ads this year, but to follow up its game ad Shock Top and comedian TJ Miller did some ad criticism of their own for a brilliant focus group of two. Onward!
Footage was thought lost until researchers discovered it while making the “Steve Jobs” film.
Steve Jobs is remembered for accomplishing so many things: the creation of the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, and Apple itself. Yet the man who has an almost mythical stature in the tech industry had his fair share of failures, too—the most obvious of which was NeXT, the company he founded after being forced out of Apple in 1985.
Unfortunately, your cut will be less than a dollar.
Uber has offered to pay $28.5 million to settle two class action lawsuits brought against the company that alleges the ride-sharing company misled customers over safety statements it made, reports The Verge. If approved by the judge presiding over the case, the settlement will be divided among 25 million Uber passengers in the United States who used the service from January 1, 2013, to January 31, 2016. That means the average Uber customer’s take will be 87 cents, which would be refunded to their credit cards or added as a credit to their Uber accounts.
For Leendert Jan Vis, digital art isn’t about perfection—it’s about spontaneity.
You probably don’t recognize the name of Dutch artist Leendert Jan Vis, but an awful lot of people enjoy his work every day. Over the past three decades, his cheerful and quirky animals have appeared on over 250 million greeting cards as well as in picture books, as stuffed animals, and on a variety of products.
From the Homebrew Computer Club to the US Festival to his new project, Apple’s cofounder has been a community builder for decades.
If you were starting an event that sat at the intersection of technology and pop culture, you could scarcely imagine a better founding myth than one involving an encounter between Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Marvel impresario Stan Lee. As the designer of the Apple II’s hardware and software, Woz played a monumental role in the personalization of computers that ushered in the era that would bring us not just PCs but smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smart TVs, and much more. And the Marvel comics that Lee co-created and wrote in the 1960s are the stuff that modern myths are made of.
Uber and American Airlines are partnering for door-to-door travel.
American Airlines announced a new partnership with ride-hailing app Uber that will encourage travelers to book a ride home from the airport.
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