The network, launching on October 20, will focus on shareable stories and integrated advertising.
Three miles south of CNN’s Manhattan headquarters, in an office marked not with the broadcast company’s familiar three-letter logo, but a red rocket ship, about 30 new employees have spent the last several weeks stealthily preparing to launch the broadcast network’s answer to publications like Vice and Buzzfeed: Great Big Story.
When the conversation turned to whether governments should be able to override encryption, things got a little tense.
There are few acts in the whole world of journalism that are as kabuki-like as interviewing Apple CEO Tim Cook at a conference. If you’re in the audience, you know that Cook will be asked about current products . . . and that he will praise them, and maybe reveal a stat or two, but won’t say anything utterly expected. He will also be pressed to say things about categories that the company is rumored to be entering . . . and will spill no beans other than maybe allowing that a field is interesting. Almost certainly, he will find time to mention the importance of the Chinese market.
Draw something once, and software can predict, guide, and adjust what you want to do next.
Microsoft Research, working with the University of Hong Kong and the University of Tokyo, has a remarkable new technology that it calls “Autocomplete hand drawn animations.”
For Dutch Design Week, the Eindhoven-based studio Ontwerpduo unveils a collection based on early 20th-century pieces.
Out with the old and in with the new is a rallying cry of modernism, but for the Dutch design studio Ontwerpduo, the past proved to be fertile ground for inspiration. For the Novecento collection of furniture and housewares, cofounders Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink traveled back a hundred years.
USC’s Virtual Care Clinic is a first-of-its-kind hospital using new technology to make health care both more personalized and more accessible.
To open the 9th annual USC Body Computing Conference held earlier this month, Dr. Leslie Saxon, a cardiologist and the conference’s founder, screened a short video for a mixed crowd of technologists and medical specialists. In the video, she stands front of a camera while her image is beamed in real time as a hologram to her patient in Dubai. Saxon asks her patient about her symptoms, diagnoses the problem, and walks her through her treatment options, face-to-face, without ever leaving her office.
It’s a tightrope walk between the personal and the professional for many, but here are some positions that strike the balance just right.
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is a challenge, even when you have a job you love and an understanding boss.
Commuting could be a joy with this design for a High Line-like bridge across the Hudson River.
If New Jersey is the new Brooklyn, then it’s going to need better transport to Manhattan, according to resident Kevin Shane. The PATH train, which goes underneath the river, is overcrowded as it is (it carries 240,000 people every business day). And the Hudson ferry is too expensive, at $8 a ride.
The New York Times is collaborating with Google for a virtual reality project called NYT VR.
If you subscribe to the print edition of the New York Times, keep an eye out in the coming weeks: The newspaper is distributing over a million of Google’s Cardboard virtual reality headsets to subscribers as part of NYT VR, a new virtual reality initiative launched in collaboration with Google.
All things analog: Why designer and heir to a New York furniture empire Eric Villency still finds inspiration in the old days.
Eric Villency—the grandson of furniture magnate Maurice Villency and son of the mixed-media artist Rowann Villency—turned the furniture empire his grandfather built in the depression era into a full-service design firm specializing in everything from interiors to product design. And while he’s designed things like SoulCycle’s signature custom bike and a dorm room concept intended to protect against technology theft, Villency continues to be inspired by relics of handmade mid-century design.
Money isn’t everything. Nations that have better work-life balance, health care, and education offer the best quality of life.
Our quality of life isn’t just about how much money we earn but also how much leisure time we have, the environment we live in, our access to health care and education, and a slew of other factors. In assessing where people are living best, we need to account for more than wages and gross domestic product, though these are obviously important.
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