Can Google change a car-centric culture in its own backyard? Data to the rescue.
In theory, the heart of Silicon Valley—towns like Mountain View and Santa Clara—should be the ultimate place to bike. It’s usually 72 degrees and sunny; it’s mostly flat. But it’s also a classic example of suburbia designed for cars, bisected by 10-lane freeways and extra-wide streets filled with speeding cars.
As smartwatches begin to use outdoor-friendly displays, owners of other devices are still stuck squinting.
As summer wanes, many parts of the country will be still balmy enough to enjoy any number of outdoor leisure activities. But if you plan to enjoy some fresh air as you toil away on your laptop, you’ll likely be seeking the shade. This is because most LCDs—the displays on virtually all laptops and many tablets and smartphones—are notoriously prone to being washed out by the sun. Companies routinely make trade-offs between display size, brightness, and resolution, so it’s bizarre that nobody has solved this problem. But with wearables, the tide may be starting to turn.
Three years in the making, the new app dares to rethink how people have worked with words on screens for decades.
FiftyThree could have launched its new iPhone app three years ago and quickly amassed millions of users. But the New York-based company decided to take the scenic, more thoughtful route. Instead of shrinking down Paper—the sketching app chosen by Apple as its iPad App of the Year in 2012—and cramming it onto the iPhone, they reinvented it entirely. That process, as you might imagine, posed no shortage of challenges amidst what CEO and cofounder Georg Petschnigg says were the “thousands of decisions” that needed to be made. No wonder it took so damn long.
Samaschool trains low-income U.S. students to work on gig platforms like Upwork and TaskRabbit.
In 2013, Kristen Logan lost her job at the local hospital in Merced, California, where she had worked as a secretary for five years. She remembers the exact date—October 17—partly because it was her oldest son’s birthday, but also because it was a turning point in her life. “Jobs in Merced are hard to come by, especially jobs where you can support three kids by yourself,” she says. “Panic mode kicked in.”
The UN isn’t going to solve global poverty if no one understands what they’re talking about.
How do you turn dry UN-speak into something that ordinary people actually care about?
A new book from Phaidon chronicles the unconventional style of Japanese residential design.
There’s a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into Jutaku: Japanese Houses, a new tome from Phaidon.
An infographic from The Economist shows which countries have constructed fences along their borders over history and why.
This week, Hungary completed construction of a fence along its Serbian border to keep out refugees trying to enter the European Union, a move that has sparked controversy worldwide. Opponents argue the fence not only shows a lack of compassion for people fleeing war and persecution, but that it also violates E.U. laws. On Wednesday, Hungarian police unleashed tear gas and pepper spray against hundreds of asylum-seekers trying to break through the fence.
Designed by Studio Bourollec, the Serif is perfect for design nerds and small apartment dwellers.
Televisions were once built more like furniture than anything else, expected to fit into a home’s decor for decades. But in more recent times, the attention has shifted to the more gadgety aspects of a TV, with new models constantly being pushed as consumer upgrades based upon new tech “innovations”: HD Ready. HD Capable. Full HD. 3D. 4K. LED. Plasma. OLED. IGZO. As a consequence, television design has suffered.
Director Baltasar Kormákur talks to Co.Create about evacuating sick actors with helicopters and shooting for six weeks in -30 degree weather.
“I don’t like happy actors, I like actors that are struggling,” filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur says. Apparently, during the grueling production of Kormákur’s gripping mountain tragedy, Everest, he liked his actors plenty.
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