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Love Vs. Tinder: Why Modern Matchmakers Thrive In The Age Of The Right Swipe

As dating apps make meeting people easier than ever, matchmakers focus on not widening the pool, but narrowing it.

The crowd gathered around the Gansevoort Park Hotel’s swanky rooftop bar has been invited to “Join Manhattan’s most beautiful young professionals for a one evening only art and jazz event,” but it’s clear that most attendees care more about the beautiful young professionals than the art or jazz. As they jockey for drink-ordering position, a few narrowly avoid stepping on the three-piece band. One literally backs into a painting as he starts a conversation with a pretty brunette.

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These Creative Kids Designed A Way To Measure All The Plastic In The Ocean

Not content with the usual beach cleanups, they came up with a sensor that scans the ocean for trash.

It’s hard to know exactly how much plastic trash is floating around in the ocean—one recent estimate was five trillion pieces, but most of the tiny scraps haven’t been measured yet. Researchers may soon have a better answer thanks in part to the creative work of kids as young as five.

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A New App Offers The Simplest Way To Track Your Instagram Growth

From the founders of Exposure, Statshot sends you a clean, clear breakdown of your instagram statistics right to your inbox.

Instagram is becoming an increasingly powerful marketing tool for brands, and there are already a slew of analytics tools out there to help them quantify the reach of their posts. But none do so quite as beautifully as the recently launched Statshot, a clean, intuitive breakdown of Instagram metrics sent in the form of a daily email.

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Casio’s Latest Calculator Is The Best-Looking Number Cruncher Since Dieter Rams

Too bad it costs as much as the iPhone that made it obsolete.

Along with every other gadget it has killed off (cameras, radios, GPS units, etc.), the smartphone hasn’t been very friendly to our good friend, the calculator. But Casio’s hoping that design will make you want to buy a calculator again: their new S100 flagship calculator puts a premium on materials and craftsmanship to try to get you to forget that your iPhone comes with a calculator app for free.

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These Memphis-Inspired House Goods Are A Nostalgic Nod To The ’80s

Camille Walala’s bold patterns and bright colors adorn everything from tableware to shelves in her collection for London store Aria.

Designer Camille Walala’s colorful, eye-popping graphic patterns can be found on the facades of buildings all over London, inside Urban Outfitters and even in a Katy Perry video. Now she’s adapting them to furniture and housewares for her latest collection for the London shop Aria.

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Skincare Brand Aesop Reveals Its 4 Secrets For Standout Retail Design

“Such a great thought from the beginning was to reject sameness,” Marsha Meredith, Aesop’s creative director, says.

Each one of Aesop’s meticulously designed shops is purpose-built to stop you in your tracks, but how the Australian skincare brand accomplishes that is different every time. Hundreds of Paris Review quarterlies are suspended from the ceiling of its storefront in Chelsea; shoppers traipse over emerald-green tile in the Covent Garden, London, location and the Saint-Honoré outpost in Paris boasts shelves that disappear into the jigsaw of wood planks cladding the walls.

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Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Customer Data, Steal 15 Million Records

Experian, a vendor T-Mobile used for credit checks, was hacked in a data breach that leaked the records of about 15 million people.

Hackers have targeted Experian, the credit agency that reviews T-Mobile’s credit applications, potentially compromising the personal information of 15 million people. While the data breach did not directly impact T-Mobile’s servers, anyone who applied for a credit check between September 2013 and September 16, 2015 could have had their records stolen, T-Mobile said Thursday.

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