Journal

Samaschool trains low-income U.S. students to work on gig platforms like Upwork and TaskRabbit.

In 2013, Kristen Logan lost her job at the local hospital in Merced, California, where she had worked as a secretary for five years. She remembers the exact date—October 17—partly because it was her oldest son’s birthday, but also because it was a turning point in her life. “Jobs in Merced are hard to come by, especially jobs where you can support three kids by yourself,” she says. “Panic mode kicked in.”

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The UN isn’t going to solve global poverty if no one understands what they’re talking about.

How do you turn dry UN-speak into something that ordinary people actually care about?

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A new book from Phaidon chronicles the unconventional style of Japanese residential design.

There’s a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into Jutaku: Japanese Houses, a new tome from Phaidon.

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An infographic from The Economist shows which countries have constructed fences along their borders over history and why.

This week, Hungary completed construction of a fence along its Serbian border to keep out refugees trying to enter the European Union, a move that has sparked controversy worldwide. Opponents argue the fence not only shows a lack of compassion for people fleeing war and persecution, but that it also violates E.U. laws. On Wednesday, Hungarian police unleashed tear gas and pepper spray against hundreds of asylum-seekers trying to break through the fence.

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Designed by Studio Bourollec, the Serif is perfect for design nerds and small apartment dwellers.

Televisions were once built more like furniture than anything else, expected to fit into a home’s decor for decades. But in more recent times, the attention has shifted to the more gadgety aspects of a TV, with new models constantly being pushed as consumer upgrades based upon new tech “innovations”: HD Ready. HD Capable. Full HD. 3D. 4K. LED. Plasma. OLED. IGZO. As a consequence, television design has suffered.

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Director Baltasar Kormákur talks to Co.Create about evacuating sick actors with helicopters and shooting for six weeks in -30 degree weather.

“I don’t like happy actors, I like actors that are struggling,” filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur says. Apparently, during the grueling production of Kormákur’s gripping mountain tragedy, Everest, he liked his actors plenty.

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Twitter CFO Anthony Noto said that, factoring in logged-out users and embedded tweets, Twitter’s reach is comparable to Facebook’s.

With nearly 1.5 billion users, Facebook’s audience appears to be about five times the size of Twitter’s, which was last reported as 304 million active users during the company’s Q2 earnings call earlier this year. But Twitter CFO Anthony Noto doesn’t think it’s quite that simple.

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Big Blue is the latest company to bet on an enterprise future on the blockchain.

In the latest sign that the technology behind bitcoin is being embraced by the corporate world, IBM says it’s exploring how the cryptocurrency’s shared ledger system can be used in fields from banking to the Internet of Things.

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Apple’s autonomous vehicle program may be further along than we thought.

Apple’s self-driving car program is getting very real. So real, in fact, that the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is now holding meetings with Apple about them. According to documents obtained by The Guardian‘s Mark Harris, Apple’s legal counsel held an hour-long meeting with DMV representatives last month.

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You’re my reason for reason, the tab in my groove.

It’s Friday, why would you even want to know what the Tabs are today? Look, do yourself a favor and just read this incredible short story by “Bojack Horseman” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg:

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