Knight Foundation Sinks $1.2 Million Into PowerMoves For Miami Diversity Push
PowerMoves, a New Orleans-based group that seeks to foster diversity in tech, is expanding to Miami with help from the Knight Foundation.
Last week, the Knight Foundation gifted $1.2 million to Code2040, an organization committed to placing black and Latino students at top tech companies. The nonprofit group is now investing the same amount in PowerMoves, an initiative started in New Orleans with a similar mission to support entrepreneurs of color. The new funding will help PowerMoves raise its profile with another location in Miami, which already has a base of emerging entrepreneurs.
Restoration Of A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece Is An Exercise In Detective Work
For architect Gunny Harboe, preserving Taliesin West is about restoring Wright’s intent.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s living laboratory in the Arizona desert, Taliesin West is one of the most revered architectural projects of the 20th century. Nearly 80 years old and in continuous use since its construction in 1937, the complex is certainly showing its age. To restore the building to its former luster, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation hired Harboe Architects to forge a preservation strategy.
What Makes An Image Memorable? This MIT AI Might Hold The Key
MemNet is a neural network run by MIT that can accurately predict how memorable an image is to humans.
Not sure why some photographs just brand themselves deep into your memory, while others make no impact whatsoever? With the help of a new neural network that learns to think like humans, researchers at MIT hope to figure out what makes the best photographs so memorable. The results could not only help up your Instagram likes, they could help graphic designers apply science to their work to make it more memorable.
Designers: Stop Asking Copywriters To “Punch Up” Your Work
And let the word nerds do the word nerding. Here are practical tips for both writers and designers
Words shape design. Real words, not lorem ipsem, should form the ground-up basis for product design. This thought has been paraphrased on this site multiple times, by numerous contributors. Increasingly, the design community seemingly takes this truth to heart and has heartily paid lip service to the importance of “content” (words, the copy). I’ve read several articles written by designers who give sound advice on how to write good UI copy. Many of these pieces, like John Zeratsky’s piece on good interface writing, provide insightful tips on how to write better product copy.
This Sex Ed Startup’s Touchable Video Teaches You About Women’s Pleasure
OMGYes aims to remove a taboo on discussing female pleasure by creating “The Khan Academy Of The Clit”.
“It’s about women’s pleasure and how it’s not really spoken about,” explains one woman, in a video, about why she decided to demonstrate her masturbation technique for a new website called OMGYes.
Gillette Is Suing Dollar Shave Club For Patent Infringement
The razor industry’s dominant player claims Dollar Shave Club’s razors are in violation of a 2004 Gillette patent.
Gillette, a behemoth in the razor market, is putting the screws to popular e-commerce upstart Dollar Shave Club, in an attempt to curb its razor sales altogether. A suit filed by Gillette in federal court on Thursday alleges that Dollar Shave Club’s razors infringe on a patent it has held since 2004; Gillette has requested an injunction to bar Dollar Shave Club from selling the razors.
The NFL Is Funding Research Into Injury-Preventing Materials
Five research teams that developed new materials to repel impacts received $250,000 each from the NFL. But is this the best use of the money?
Keith Mitchell, a former NFL player, suffered from paralysis and near-constant pain for years after retiring from the sport.
Target Reportedly Plans To Match Walmart Pay With Its Own Mobile Wallet
A mobile wallet exclusively for Target could come as early as next year—and prove a formidable rival to both Walmart Pay and Apple Pay.
Target knows what it wants for Christmas: its very own mobile wallet. Reuters reports that the big-box retailer is developing its own mobile wallet, which could feasibly compete with offerings from Apple, Android, and Samsung—as well as the recently announced Walmart Pay. No time frame has been attached to the project, which is believed to still be in early stages.
Instagram Security Flaws Lead To War Of Words Between Facebook and Hacker
Allegations of a dust-up over Instagram leads to a rare public look at the tech industry’s use of “bug bounties” to identify security flaws.
A security researcher’s discovery and publicizing of Instagram security flaws has lead to a war of words with Facebook. As reported by industry publication Threatpost, the researcher accused Facebook of hinting at legal and criminal action after he posted on a blog about security vulnerabilities on the system—and that he cracked employee accounts and passwords in the process.
