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Wired

The Symmetry and Chaos of the World's Megacities

Architectural photographer Ryan Koopmans spent the past decade shooting hi-res photographs of the world's biggest cities. The results are mind-blowing.

10 hours ago

Wired

The Symmetry and Chaos of the World's Megacities

Wired

Knives Made of Frozen Feces Are Kinda Crappy

Anthropologists have disproved the urban legend once and for all.

10 hours ago

Wired

Knives Made of Frozen Feces Are Kinda Crappy

Wired

Trump's Emissions Fight, Amazon's EVs, and Other Car News This Week

Plus: A GM strike and a post-petroleum running shoe.

11 hours ago

Wired

Trump's Emissions Fight, Amazon's EVs, and Other Car News This Week

Wired

A Washington Whistle-Blower Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

Last week, a whistle-blower raised concerns about Trump's phone calls. Also, *Saturday Night Live*'s Shane Gillis saga took over Twitter.

11 hours ago

Wired

A Washington Whistle-Blower Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

Wired

Kodak Smile Classic Review: The Best Zink Instant Camera

Kodak's latest instant camera offers bigger, better prints with its eye-catching camera-printer combo.

11 hours ago

Wired

Kodak Smile Classic Review: The Best Zink Instant Camera

Wired

10 Best iPhone Accessories for 2019 (iPhone 11, 11 Pro)

Gear up with everything you"ll want for your iPhone"from wireless headphones to charging cables.

12 hours ago

Wired

10 Best iPhone Accessories for 2019 (iPhone 11, 11 Pro)

Techcrunch

How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO

It makes lazy people like me work out. That’s the genius of the Peloton bicycle. All you have to do is velcro on the shoes and you’re trapped. You’ve eliminated choice and you will exercise. Through a succession of savvy product design choice I’ll break down here, Peloton removes ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO

Techcrunch

100 Thieves? Nadeshot and Scooter Braun are coming to Disrupt

If you’re at all familiar with esports, chances are you’ve heard of 100 Thieves. The esports org, founded by Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag, has grown over the past couple years into an absolute powerhouse of esports and a household name for those who follow gaming. Which is why we’re ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

100 Thieves? Nadeshot and Scooter Braun are coming to Disrupt

Techcrunch

Original Content podcast: Netflix's "Terrace House" is still the most soothing reality show around

“Terrace House” (a co-production between Netflix and Fuji Television) is back, and it hasn’t changed much since we reviewed it last year. As with previous seasons,

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

Original Content podcast: Netflix's "Terrace House" is still the most soothing reality show around

Techcrunch

As Adam Neumann reportedly faces pressure to step down, it's looking like a fight for life between WeWork and SoftBank

According to a new WSJ report, certain members of WeWork’s seven-person board, which includes cofounder and CEO Adam Neumann, are planning to pressure Neumann to step down and instead become We’s non-executive chairman. The move, says the outlet, “would allow him to stay stay at the ...

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

As Adam Neumann reportedly faces pressure to step down, it's looking like a fight for life between WeWork and SoftBank

Techcrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise

We might have just completed a full-day program devoted completely to enterprise at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise last week, but it doesn’t mean we plan to sell that subject short at TechCrunch Disrupt next month in San Francisco. In fact, we have something for everyone from startups to established ...

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise

Techcrunch

iPhone 11 Pro teardown reveals smaller logic board, larger battery

iFixit has disassembled Apple's new iPhone models, which tells us more about the differences with last year's phones. iFixit shot a live-stream video of the iPhone 11 Pro teardown and wrote a guide for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The first major difference is that the batteries in the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone ...

8 hours ago

Techcrunch

iPhone 11 Pro teardown reveals smaller logic board, larger battery

Readwrite

How to Scale Your Content Marketing

Even for the most industrious marketing department, scaling content is a tall order. Anyone can publish a blog post, sure. But consistently publishing high-quality content on a regular basis over a long period of time would take too much effort for most teams to do well. — which is why so many ...

2 days ago

Readwrite

How to Scale Your Content Marketing

Readwrite

How to Meet the Demands of the Socially Conscious Consumer

Corporate social responsibility isn't a fad. Luckily, there are countless ways to improve the world while improving your business. The post How to Meet the Demands of the Socially Conscious Consumer appeared first on ReadWrite.

2 days ago

Readwrite

How to Meet the Demands of the Socially Conscious Consumer

Fast Company

Alex Borstein delivers powerful Emmys speech: “Step out of line, ladies”

During her acceptance speech for best supporting actress in a comedy series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein balanced comedy with a direct and poignant message. “I know a lot of people were upset last year ’cause I wasn’t wearing a bra, so I want to apologize because ...

4 hours ago

Fast Company

Alex Borstein delivers powerful Emmys speech: “Step out of line, ladies”

Fast Company

3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy

Even though the primary focus of climate action so far has been shifting to renewable energy, tackling climate change will also require completely rethinking how we make and use products. A new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an organization focused on the circular economy, found that if ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy

Fast Company

Reports: WeWork CEO Adam Neumann may not be CEO for much longer

Adam Neumann cofounded WeWork in 2010 and built it into a global chain of coworking spaces with 528 locations in 111 cities across 29 countries and more than 500,000 members, according to its recent IPO prospectus. But concerns about the company’s path to profitability, its corporate governance, ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

Reports: WeWork CEO Adam Neumann may not be CEO for much longer

Fast Company

How to watch the 2019 Emmy Awards and red carpet live on Fox without cable

Television’s big night is here, and with it comes the start of the 2019 awards season. If you love the idea of Hollywood power players handing out statuettes and singing each other’s praises, you’ll certainly get your fill of that with the 71st Emmy Awards, which take place ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

How to watch the 2019 Emmy Awards and red carpet live on Fox without cable

Fast Company

Architecture is an unexpectedly good metaphor for online privacy

As we move around in online spaces, it can be difficult to keep track of how visible our actions and our conversations are to other people—and to the corporations that mine our data for profit. Because all of your online interactions happen through the same set of devices, it can be hard to keep ...

17 hours ago

Fast Company

Architecture is an unexpectedly good metaphor for online privacy

Fast Company

What I learned about work when I adopted a puppy

I’ll be honest here: I’m a bit sleep-deprived, and I’ve been cleaning the floor more than usual. But I’m also completely enamored with our new puppy—a shih tzu named Truffle. A dark brindle, she looks a bit like a five-pound, cuddly version of Chewbacca. Puppies are ...

19 hours ago

Fast Company

What I learned about work when I adopted a puppy

Engadget

Facebook's Libra currency will get half its backing from the US dollar

Facebook was quick to promise that its Libra cryptocurrency would have the stability of real-world money behind it, but whose money will dominate? It's now particularly clear. Facebook sent a letter to German politician Fabio De Masi explaining tha...

14 minutes ago

Engadget

Facebook's Libra currency will get half its backing from the US dollar

Engadget

Amazon taps 'Undone' co-creator for show about an internet troll

The next project from an Undone creator may hit a little too close to home for social media mavens. Deadline understands Amazon has started work on Troll, a comedy series co-produced and written by Undone's Lee Sung Jin. It tells the tale of a woul...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Amazon taps 'Undone' co-creator for show about an internet troll

Engadget

AMD delays 16-core Ryzen 9 CPU to November

We hope you weren't determined to build an all-out AMD gaming rig in September. AMD has delayed the release of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor by two months to sometime in November. The company wants to meet "strong demand" for the highly paral...

2 hours ago

Engadget

AMD delays 16-core Ryzen 9 CPU to November

Engadget

Erica's modular synth helps you make music with preset cards

Modular synths are incredibly flexible, but convenient? Not so much -- switching sounds frequently means wiring up patch cords, and that makes it harder to use for live gigs and other on-the-fly uses. Erica Synths has a straightforward solution to...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Erica's modular synth helps you make music with preset cards

Engadget

TiVo gave its unannounced Edge DVR to a customer

TiVo might be competing with Google's Pixel 4 for the worst-kept tech secret of 2019. When Community Forum member Coold8 complained about particularly thorny technical problems with his existing boxes, he received the Edge -- you know, the DVR it ha...

5 hours ago

Engadget

TiVo gave its unannounced Edge DVR to a customer

Engadget

Facebook will shut down Group Stories on September 26th

If you didn't find yourself using Facebook's Group Stories, you're not the only one. The social network has confirmed a report from commentator Matt Navarra that it's shutting down Group Stories on September 26th at 12PM Eastern. After that, Facebo...

6 hours ago

Engadget

Facebook will shut down Group Stories on September 26th

Venturebeat

How 5G will change the game industry and spur innovation

Of all the technologies that are coming to affect gaming, 5G is one of the biggest. But it's also in some ways unpredictable in terms of its impact.

11 hours ago

Venturebeat

How 5G will change the game industry and spur innovation

Venturebeat

Stormland interview: Diving into one of most anticipated VR games of 2019

Stormland is fast-approaching as one of the year's hottest VR titles, and UploadVR spoke to Insomniac Games about the VR adventure's story, gameplay, and inspiration.

14 hours ago

Venturebeat

Stormland interview: Diving into one of most anticipated VR games of 2019

Venturebeat

Batman: Arkham VR gets Index controller support – no joke(r)

Batman: Arkham VR just got a surprise update to support Valve's Index Controllers.

22 hours ago

Venturebeat

Batman: Arkham VR gets Index controller support – no joke(r)

Venturebeat

Hollywood and games 4.0 – how the love-hate relationship has evolved over time

Hollywood has gone through many cycles of understanding and failing to understand the video game business. Things don't look good now.

1 day ago

Venturebeat

Hollywood and games 4.0 – how the love-hate relationship has evolved over time

Venturebeat

Peex let me remix augmented reality sounds at Elton John's concert

Peex combines wearable and app tech to let concert fans remix the music from the stage so they can hear it with close to studio-quality sounds.

1 day ago

Venturebeat

Peex let me remix augmented reality sounds at Elton John's concert

Venturebeat

The AI arms race spawns new hardware architectures

New chip architectures give us an idea of the kinds of AI applications we could see emerging over the next couple of years.

1 day ago

Venturebeat

The AI arms race spawns new hardware architectures

Ars Technica

In How To: XKCD author offers absurd advice for ordinary tasks

Review: A book of deliberately, hilariously, wrong advice?with explainers and diagrams.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

In How To: XKCD author offers absurd advice for ordinary tasks

Ars Technica

iFixit's iPhone 11 Pro Max teardown finds higher-capacity battery, 4GB of RAM

iFixit gave the phone a 6/10 for repairability.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

iFixit's iPhone 11 Pro Max teardown finds higher-capacity battery, 4GB of RAM

Ars Technica

Horror film Jennifer's Body bombed 10 years ago; now it's a cult classic

Bad "sexy teen slasher" marketing buried this multi-layered tale of toxic female friendship.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Horror film Jennifer's Body bombed 10 years ago; now it's a cult classic

Ars Technica

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in ongoing privacy investigation

Apps improperly obtained user data, installed malware, and committed other offenses.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in ongoing privacy investigation

Ars Technica

Epic seems to have paid $10.5 million for Control's PC exclusivity

Money likely came as advance against earnings ahead of Epic Games Store sales.

2 days ago

Ars Technica

Epic seems to have paid $10.5 million for Control's PC exclusivity

Ars Technica

"Grassroots" anti-Amazon nonprofit turns out to be retailer astroturfing

Competitors are throwing everything at the wall to slow the Amazon juggernaut.

2 days ago

Ars Technica

"Grassroots" anti-Amazon nonprofit turns out to be retailer astroturfing