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Can Urban Highways Solve Problems Instead Of Causing Them?

A vision of transportation infrastructure that adds to a city instead of filling it with noise and pollution.

Los Angeles is known for its freeways, and that’s not a good thing. But while some cities are starting to tear sections of highway down—reconnecting neighborhoods and rebuilding pedestrian culture—that tends to happen in places where the roads are underused. In L.A., where freeways aren’t likely to disappear anytime soon, one team of architects thinks that a redesign could change how highways serve the city.

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Which Font Should I Use On My Kindle?

We ask the experts: Which font is optimal for my Kindle?

Baskerville, Bookerly, Caecilia, Georgia, Helvetica, OpenDyslexic, Palatino, the mysterious “Publisher Font”: According to my iPhone’s Kindle app, all of these typefaces are available with a button press, and that’s the problem. If you’re anything like me, as soon as you try to switch fonts, everything looks wonky and borderline illegible. And you burn 10 minutes going back and forth, squinting at serifs, and forgetting that you were supposed to be reading leisurely in the first place.

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Halsey Minor’s Reality Lab Networks Unveils Streaming VR System, Live Planet

Reality Lab Networks wants to get people watching sports, concerts, and the Kardashians in 360 degrees.

Web publishing pioneer and serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor announced his move into the virtual reality field last year, and today he’s formally unveiled his company, Reality Lab Networks, and first product: A live streaming VR camera and video distribution service called Live Planet.

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The Activist Push To Force Silicon Valley To Move Faster On Diversity

A look inside the organizations advocating for the non-dominant voices in technology.

Silicon Valley is a world of mirrors and myths. Every company has a creation story; most have an eccentric leader; some have had entire books written about them. The most pervasive myth out there, however, is technology’s egalitarian ethos. If you are a smart coder, passionate worker, and innovative thinker, you will go far in the world of technology, or so they say.

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