Journal

The architecture firm’s “Walk the Line” concept subs in airport-esque people movers for Underground cars.

“Transportation in London is a bit of a minefield,” Christian Coop, design director at NBBJ’s outpost in the British capital, says. The global architecture firm is no stranger to wildly imaginative design proposals and when prompted to dream up a way to make the city better, NBBJ turned its attention to the Underground—a labyrinthine system that accommodates more than 1 billion passenger trips in a year and is notorious for congestion and overcrowding.

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But can pressure sensitivity really beat Google’s mind-reading AIs?

Let’s say you want to take a selfie, or hail an Uber, or send a new email. How many taps does it take you? How many screens do you have to visit? It depends on what you’re trying to do, but the answer’s going to be “more than one.” This is mobile’s shallow UI problem; everyone from Google to Apple is feeling the pinch.

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The chart-topping artist talks about those epic VMA ads, his relationship with Apple Music, and the art of being a brand.

On the song “Tell Your Friends,” The Weeknd sings, “Last year I did all the politicking/This year, I’m a focus on the vision.” And since his voice first mysteriously dropped online back in 2010, it’s been clear the 25-year-old Toronto native has had a shrewd strategy all along. From no pictures or interviews at the start, to building his name and spreading the word through key associations with artists like Drake and Ariana Grande, then appearing on soundtracks for blockbusters like The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey—all bricks in the foundation for becoming one of the biggest acts in music.

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What would a bike by Claude Monet, or Frank Stella look like? To celebrate a museum’s 100th birthday, Handsome Cycles tried to find out.

There’s no shortage of bike museums around the world, but there aren’t too many bikes that are displayed alongside paintings by Claude Monet and Frank Stella. But these bikes by Handsome Cycles are an exception: they are designed specifically to complement three showcase pieces in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA).

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Global warming will hurt some parts of the globe more than others.

As climate change gets worse, the tiny African country of Eritrea might be one of the worst places in the world to live. Droughts and floods will ruin crops on subsistence farms. Hotter weather will spread disease like malaria. Rising sea levels along the coast will make groundwater too salty to drink. And because the country is one of the poorest in the world, it’s also one of the least prepared for those changes.

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Angry cab drivers reportedly interrupted the Late Show interview—twice.

When Uber CEO Travis Kalanick appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, his company’s political problems followed.

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Periscoped premieres and meme-inspired Snapchat filters have played a hand in the studio’s record-breaking, gangbusters year at the box office.

If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last few weeks, you’re almost certainly now aware that this Friday, M. Night Shyamalan‘s latest horror film, The Visit, opens in theaters. The film, which is about two kids who visit their creepy grandparents in rural Pennsylvania, has been heavily promoted on Snapchat via 10-second ads in its Live Stories feature. The trailer has been showing up in the Twitter feeds of people who have been tweeting about the VMAs and The Walking Dead. YouTube and Vine influencers have hosted advanced screenings and then plugged it to their multitudes of followers. Filmmaker Eli Roth and producer Jason Blum created special Snapchat stories for the film on their CryptTV digital network. In addition to the now old-school techniques such as its own Facebook page, where it has over 650,000 likes. The Visit even has a presence on Wattpad, the storytelling app, where Wattpad writers have been posting original stories inspired by the movie.

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Judging by this footage, this crew vehicle shares a lot of DNA with products from Elon Musk’s other venture, Tesla.

SpaceX just lifted the curtain on its updated Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The interior shots reveal a design that is just what you might expect from CEO Elon Musk, who also serves as the head of luxury electric car brand Tesla—one of Fast Company‘s most innovative companies this year.

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New courses will study the origins of Bitcoin, and its surprisingly varied potential applications.

In recent years, there has been a lot of enthusiasm for how cryptocurrencies will create new platforms, markets, and economies. But what will the future of commerce and, indeed, the world look like? A vital question, and one that really hasn’t been answered.

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Live Photos turn your photos into mini videos—and will reportedly take up twice as much space as a regular photo.

If you have a 16 GB iPhone, odds are you do a fair amount of digital housekeeping every month. I know I do: My photos, videos, iMessages, and sometimes apps themselves wind up getting pared down as the spare room on my iPhone 5s dwindles from day-to-day use. If you find this constant duel annoying, brace yourself—it’s about to get worse.

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