The most creative people combine old ideas in new ways. Here’s how to get better at mixing things up.
In Charles Duhigg’s new book on productivity, Smarter Faster Better, he devotes a chapter to how innovation happens. The answer? Generally not as lightning out of the blue.
Funding doesn’t always guarantee success. These five startups failed after raising close to $100 million and more each from investors.
In the startup world, failure is a given. Fail fast is the founder’s mantra. Make a mistake, learn from it, move on, say the experts. When startups are well funded—and have a growing number of staff members and stakeholders, it’s not quite so simple.
From the financier to the cast to the distributor, you need a lot of people on the same page to make a film this mysterious work.
The Invitation is one of the creepier slow-burn thrillers you’re liable to see this year, and probably any other. It’s full of the sort of Hitchcockian buildup of tension that few contemporary thrillers have the patience for, taking a creepy scenario—an invitation from the protagonist’s ex-wife to a dinner party at the house they lived in together before the death of their child—and wringing every ounce of drama out of the discomfort that would come up in that situation. The entire film is about letting the viewer know that something is wrong, but delaying the reveal of exactly what that is for as long as possible—and getting into a position to tell that story in that way is something it took director Karyn Kusama a long time to do.
Braving the freezing temperatures, these refugees would go anywhere to make a safe life outside of Syria. But they might not be able to stay.
The tiny village of Neiden, Norway, isn’t usually a place that people visit in January. Far north of the Arctic Circle, it might be 25 degrees below 0 on a cold day. Apart from a handful of homes, and a lot of snow, there’s nothing there. But this winter, the Hotel Neiden was full.
A leading creator of VR web standards gives a no-nonsense interview on what’s standing in the way of the future.
What if you could browse the web in virtual reality? Just imagine the potential. Hyperlinks could take you not to Wikipedia pages about history, but right to the landscapes of ancient cultures, immersing you in plagues and art and war. Recipe sites could give you smell-o-vision cooking simulations. Message boards could become face-to-face chats. The web as we know it could become tangible, interactive, and more immersive than ever.
Just a week after the Oculus Rift launched, the nascent high-end VR market has its second entrant.
When I bring my Samsung Gear VR to parties, I like to show people Wevr‘s theBlu, a lovely virtual reality experience that puts you underwater where you can look around in 360 degrees at all kinds of marine life, including a massive blue whale that appears out of the deep and slowly but surely dominates your vision.
Read past the headline, people.
Anand Sanwal, the CEO of CB Insights—a research firm that tracks investment in startups—had an idea for an April Fools’ Day joke that made fun of Silicon Valley’s unicorns and the venture capitalists who fund them.
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