You will hardly believe how many common household objects can be used to completely obliterate a zombie’s cranium. (NSFW, obviously.)
“Innovate or die” is a popular slogan in the tech sector, but it’s even more apt for describing the pursuit of longevity when facing off against zombies.
The acclaimed artist talks to Co.Create about his OBEY brand, Sex Pistols lyrics, and the magic of murals.
Shepard Fairey likes to describe his politically charged posters, paintings, and murals as “propaganda,” but propagation, by any means necessary, plays an equally important role in the Los Angeles artist’s operating philosophy. The approach dates to 1989, when Fairey, inspired by punk rock and skateboard DIY culture, reworked a randomly selected photograph of actor Andre the Giant. The image went viral the old-fashioned way, spread by Fairey and his fans via stickers, stencils, rubber stamps, and wheat-paste posters. Paired with the slogan “Obey,” lifted from 1988 horror film They Live, Fairey made his mark in cities all around the world with these cryptic signifiers of mindless authoritarian culture.
The grid is hopelessly antiquated and has to pull power from far away. What if your house was on its own microgrid?
When it needs extra power, this new experimental building can start pulling energy from the car parked in front. And if the solar panels on the roof start pumping out more energy than needed, the building sends it to the car.
On Wednesday, Google announced its Accelerated Mobile Pages project, for which it has partnered with dozens of prominent publishers.
In May, Facebook lifted the curtain on Instant Articles, a native publishing platform that hosts articles directly on the social network. For Facebook, which already serves as the largest source of referral traffic for many online publishers, Instant Articles is a way to keep Facebook users from leaving the social network—and for Facebook users, the fast-loading pages are an attractive option, especially on mobile.
The Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch the world’s first private moon rover.
An Israeli company competing for Google’s Lunar XPrize has made it one small step closer to landing a rover on the moon. SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country’s almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world’s first private mission to the moon in 2017.
A big rival to website builders like Squarespace and WordPress, Wix just revamped its web design platform.
Wix, the popular website building and hosting service, rolled out a new version of its web design platform on Wednesday—with a bit of borrowed DNA from Facebook. The new version of Wix’s editor is based on React, an open-source JavaScript library developed by Facebook that also powers much of Khan Academy and Flipboard. Wix’s update signals the exact market it is trying to attract: small businesses that want to build websites in-house and would otherwise look to competitors like Squarespace or WordPress.
Pandora’s acquisition of Ticketfly is part of a broader strategy: Diversify its revenue sources while keeping artists happy.
Pandora, the market leader in Internet radio, has been gobbling up companies left and right lately. But the 10-year-old music streaming service’s latest focus isn’t on snatching up machine learning tech and data scientist talent (it has plenty of that already). Instead, Pandora is ramping up its efforts to become an indispensable tool for artists themselves.
Less than three months after its launch, the upstart Jet.com has ditched its paid, members-only business model.
Jet.com, the e-commerce site positioned as an Amazon competitor, is overhauling its business model, barely three months after its debut. The company is doing away with its Amazon Prime-style membership fee, opening up its steep discounts to all shoppers. Jet was previously members-only and charged its clientele a yearly subscription fee of $50—half of what Amazon charges its Prime customers.
The L16 promises great optical zoom, high resolution, terrific low-light capabilities, and substantial depth-of-field controls.
When shooting photos on the go, 16 lenses are far better than one.
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