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Mapping The Hillary Archipelago And Trump's Ocean
There's the America that voted for Hillary, and America that voted for Trump. Now, the New York Times has mapped—and named—both.If there's anything the 2016 Presidential Election taught us, it's that...
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The Old Masters' Best Emoji, Now Available On iOS
Rejoinders puts the old Dutch masters' most grotesque portraits in iMessage.It's hard not to love an emoji app with a change log like this: "Updated to incorporate a sobbing toddler emoji painted in...
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How Apple Helped Democratize Typography In The '90s
In 1989, Apple hired Thomas Rickner to do something revolutionary: put print-quality typefaces on every computer.When Thomas Rickner decided he wanted to be a type designer after a lecture on the...
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Here's What Websites Know About You, Just From The Way You Browse
It's more than you think.You probably know that the websites you visit—even this one—track your behaviors in some capacity. Maybe you think it knows your browser, your computer type, your connection...
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Why Modular Electronics Matter, Even After High-Profile Failures
Audio design company AIAIAI believes modularity has a place in electronics. Here's why.When Apple unveiled the iPhone 7 back in September, it also forced the obsolescence of a 50+ year standard: The...
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The Room Mate Hotel Is A Love Letter To Milan's Vibrant Design Heritage
The rooms were to designed to look as if they just sprang from the pages of Patricia Urquiola's own notebook.In part due to its annual design fair, designers have long had a love affair with the...
View ArticleThese Tinkertoys For Architects Simulate How Buildings Really Work
They're good for wannabe architects, too.To laymen, architectural principles are rather abstract. Buildings seem to stay up based upon nothing but sturdiness, when in actuality, even the simplest...
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The Design Industry's New Reality Under Trump: Fear And Isolationism
Design agencies are globalists. The Western world is increasingly isolationist. How will that tension play out?Donald Trump, who will become the 45th president of the United States on January 20, seems...
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This Neural Network Dreams In Cities
Inspired by Italo Calvino, a team of engineers teaches neural networks to imagine entirely new cities.From above, each city has its own distinct character: something beyond the sum of its parts, a...
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The Weird Ways Designers Play With Building Blocks
A new book, Let's Play, tasks 100 Swiss designers to play with toy blocks, then photographs the results, looking for trends.It's a well-documented fact that architects love playing with toy blocks as...
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MIT's Weird Snake Bot Is Now Modular And Expandable
The Tangible Media Group envisions a future where building any device is as simple as tying two strings together.Last year, we hailed LineFORM—MIT's bizarre, snake-like robot—as the possible future of...
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The U.S. Economy Voted Against Trump
This is what the greatest economic divide since the Great Depression looks like.Donald Trump, soon to be the 45th president of the United States, lost the popular vote by 2.5 million votes. He lost the...
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7 Tools To Help Designers Get More Done
Put these on your holiday wish list.Americans spend more time working than anyone in the industrial world. Yet amid all the platforms competing for our attention, we often feel like we aren't working...
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This Record-Playing Robot Lets You Spin Vinyl Anywhere
Designed by an Apple alum, the RokBlok is like a Roomba for record lovers.In an ever more mobile world, vinyl—the least mobile audio format this side of a symphonic orchestra—is making a surprise...
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The Jony Ive Computer Apple Didn't Include In Its Monograph
Steve Jobs hated it, but Ive's Twentieth Anniversary Mac set the stage for everything to come.Perhaps you heard. A few weeks ago, Apple released a book called Designed by Apple in California: a $300...
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6 Gifts For Serious Travelers
Because if you can't give the gift of travel this Christmas, at least you can give the gift of traveling well.Americans make over 405 million business trips per year—and that number is steadily...
View ArticleThere's No Checkout At Amazon's AI Grocery Because It Already Knows What...
Good luck shoplifting!Amazon created its empire by making online shopping easy. Now, it's trying to do the same thing in the real world. It has just opened a grocery store in Seattle with no checkout...
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The World's Least Efficient Type Machine Takes 30 Minutes To Write A Single "A"
The machine is designer Sooji Lee's attempt to bring craftsmanship back to the age of digital reproduction.Press down a letter on your keyboard, and your computer will fill your screen with it, in any...
View ArticleA Jigsaw Puzzle As Infinite As The Cosmos
The Infinite Galaxy Map can be added to forever, or at least until you run out of table space.The universe is infinite, at least on a human scale. Comparatively, most jigsaw puzzles only feel infinite,...
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Teaching AI To Play Video Games Could Make It Much Smarter
An Elon Musk-backed nonprofit is teaching AI to play Grand Theft Auto V and other titles. Here's why.Thanks to advanced new machine learning techniques, artificial intelligences are better at...
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