Model Ashley Graham is turning her lingerie line into a cause. This is good news for Lena Dunham, Serena Williams, and women everywhere.
Walking triumphantly down the Tommy Hilfiger runway at the end of a show during New York Fashion Week in September while holding hands with her fellow models, Gigi Hadid looked happy and confident.
The fast-growing messaging and media app has seen star talent exit quickly. What’s behind those buzzy departures and what they really mean.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been able to recruit an impressive roster of top-tier talent to his Venice, California-based startup. And that’s why when some of those same high-profile hires have departed, often rather quickly, questions have been raised about the direction of the company as well as about Spiegel’s abilities as a manager. The list of notable Snapchat departures is growing fast. There’s Snapchat engineering VP Peter Magnusson, who left in 2014; COO Emily White, who decamped earlier this year; and sales head Mike Randall and HR chief Sara Sperling, who both left not long before White. Shannon Petranoff, a former Paramount VP who joined Snapchat in March, only to return to Paramount in September; The Information reported last month that Snapchat had fired its chief talent officer Simmi Singh; and original content leader Marcus Wiley, a former Fox executive, departed Snapchat just weeks ago when the company shut down its original content initiative, for now at least.
The Zillow Group family of apps and websites dominates real estate. Here’s how CEO Spencer Rascoff achieves his goals lightning-quick.
“Critical” is a favorite word of Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow Group.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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