Fast Company

The American liberal magazine’s readership is skewing younger than ever. That’s why the new design is practically mobile-first.

One hundred and one years old this month, The New Republic is probably America’s oldest liberal political magazine. But its readers are younger than ever. While the vast majority of The New Republic’s print readers have been historically over 55, 60% of TNR‘s online audience is between the ages of 18 and 44, and more than half of them visit the site exclusively on smartphones.

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Pentagram partner Emily Oberman gets high (design) with Snoop.

Snoop Dogg, aka Snoop Lion, aka Snoop Doggy Dog, doesn’t make any bones about it. He loves pot. The rap icon has just launched Leafs by Snoop, a brand of cannabis-based products including custom flavors of buds, edibles, and concentrates, and he has tapped Pentagram’s Emily Oberman to craft its visual identity.

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The SuperLocal project is trying to prove it’s still possible to make high-quality goods in places that might seem impossible.

Andrea de Chirico’s SuperLocal Hairdryer is made entirely within a 2.8 mile stretch of road in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From the electric heater elements to the hand-blown glass nozzle to the cork handle, everything was created or assembled within a day, at a total cost of €100 ($110).

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The same things people love about the social media age when they’re young may be increasing a later-life malaise.

It’s not a great time to be a mid-career adult. While youngsters are thriving in the modern world and happier than ever before, people in their thirties are hitting a wall. This is the fault both of the Internet and of our own unrealistic expectations.

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The New Yorker editor on how he spends his (precious little) time off.

David Remnick is the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker magazine, as well as host of its newly launched radio show and podcast, The New Yorker Radio Hour. Remnick began his reporting career at the Washington Post in 1982, later becoming the paper’s Moscow bureau chief and penning the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Lenin’s Tomb.

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And guess what? It doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO or a minimum wage worker.

Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about how artificial intelligence could put large numbers of people out of work. An often-cited study from Oxford University found that 47% of jobs in America are at “high risk of computerization” in the next 20 years. And more recent research from Forrester predicts a net loss of 9.1 million jobs in the next decade.

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For 99 cents each, Snapchat users can now pay for additional photo effects.

Snapchat is monetizing their popular Lens feature and turning the picture add-ons into a new profit stream. The Lens add-on, which offers a variety of animations and effects that can be superimposed on photos, is one of the service’s most popular features.

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Huawei’s new quick-charging smartphone batteries could transform the way we use our devices.

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has a powerful new weapon in its competition for the global Android market: phone batteries that can recharge in less time than it takes to power down a latte. The company just unveiled quick-charging batteries at a Japanese trade show that charge to 50% capacity within what Huawei calls “mere minutes.”

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Sesame Street creative director Brown Johnson talks to Fast Company about what’s next for “the gold standard of children’s programming.”

Quite a bit has changed since Sesame Street first aired in 1969. Between evolving cultural norms and shifting demographics, the show’s audience is different than it was back then. Meanwhile, the show itself has become populated with more and more puppets. Too many puppets, in fact.

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Facebook users say they can now do key word searches within individual profiles.

Facebook appears to be quietly rolling out a new search feature: the ability to search within individual profiles. Although no official announcement has been made, Facebook users are reporting a new search box showing up on individual profiles they view.

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