Every sign tells a story, according to the Cooper Union’s Alexander Tochilovsky.
When you walk down the streets of New York City, you aren’t walking just through the present. You are surrounded by the canyon walls of the past, and the signage around you—the building names, the business signs, the faded slogans—are actually fossils, peeking out from the strata of decades gone by into the present.
The parent company of television shopping network QVC is making a bet on Zulily, an online shopping site popular with moms.
Zulily, named one of Fast Company‘s most innovative companies in retail this year, is being purchased by the parent company of home shopping network QVC. The flash sale site has floundered in recent months, despite racking up $1 billion in sales during 2014.
Microsoft is encouraging makers to build security systems, automated lighting controls, and other “Internet of Things” gadgets on Windows 10.
Apple and Google won the first battle for the “post-PC” world, with Android and iOS powering virtually every handheld gadget. Microsoft Windows scarcely registers its presence on mobiles, at under 3% market share (according to comScore). But Microsoft is fighting hard for the next round, which will bring online factory machinery, security systems, climate controls, electronic door locks, and just about every other gadget into the Internet of Things (otherwise known as the IoT).
Now in its fourth year, the program helps the U.S. government approach problems like a lean startup.
Today, President Obama signed an executive order to make the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program a permanent facet of the federal government.
Is Medium in trouble? Facebook’s latest update makes it easier to create longform posts within the social network.
Facebook’s Notes feature is getting a major upgrade.
Partnering with select restaurants, the ride-sharing app can get meals to you in a matter of minutes.
Uber is making it a lot easier to get lunch delivered with just a few taps. In the ride-hailing app’s most recent update, UberEATS, the company’s food-delivery system, is being featured at the very top of the app.
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