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November 20, 2015
NYC's Meatpacking District Is Now A Brand
#Meatpacking
In a couple of decades, New York City's Meatpacking District has gone from industrial to illicit to fiercely fashionable. Today it is home to Google, Diane von Furstenberg's flagship store, the new Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum, the southern terminus of the High Line (arguably the most influential public park in recent years), and any number of exclusive nightclubs. And now, it has a brand to match.
How Modern Art And Design Influenced The Beloved Cartoon Tintin
The evolution of Hergé's work—from simple comic strips to sophisticated graphics—was influenced by a fascination with fine art and design.
Since its first appearance in a Belgian newspaper in 1929, The Adventures of Tintin—the beloved comic that follows the escapades of an intrepid boy reporter and his trusty dog Snowey—has been translated into more than 50 languages. Though considerably more popular in Europe than stateside, the comic was adapted in a 2011 Steven Spielberg film, and Tintin's creator Hergé could once count Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein among his many fans.
November 19, 2015
Spotify Jumps On The Paid Parental Leave Bandwagon Offering Up To Six Months Off
The benefit will allow full-time employees to take time off during the first three years and includes birth, adoption and surrogacy.
Chalk up another win for parents at tech companines. Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service, just announced a new, global paid parental leave policy that will apply to all its full-time employees worldwide.
Facebook Wants To Help You Avoid Updates About Your Ex Post-Breakup
With a set of new tools, Facebook is finally making it less weird to get dumped.
Like it or not, we live our lives on Facebook. Even if we're not glued to the social network day in and day out, it's where most people chronicle life's milestones: birthdays, new jobs, weddings, and new babies. (Lots and lots of babies.) But as we all know, life isn't just about job promotions and newborns. A lot of bad stuff happens too, and quite often, that's where things start to get weird on Facebook.
This AOL-Owned Product Can Track The Ads You Watch On TV--And Target Your Phone
Millennial Media says its technology can send follow-up ads to your phone by monitoring the commercials you watch on television.
An AOL-owned company says it can now send advertisements to users' smartphones based on the television commercials they watch. The new technology, offered by Millennial Media, extracts data from set-top boxes and anonymously matches it with the viewer's smartphone.
Today in Tabs: Bubble, Bubble, Tabs And Trouble
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Thursday aka Yung Friday
YouTube To Pay Legal Fees For Some Video Makers
YouTube will assist several video makers with legal fees associated with potential copyright violations.
YouTube is now giving financial support to some video creators accused of copyright violations, the New York Times reports. On Thursday, the Google-owned video service said that it will pay the legal fees of several video creators, all individuals or small organizations, that are accused of violating fair use.
Europe Is Cracking Down On Bitcoin To Impede Terrorist Financing
On Friday, European leaders will ask the European Commission to further regulate the use of anonymous, virtual currencies like bitcoin.
Following the brutal attacks in Paris last week, European officials are seeking new ways to prevent future acts of terrorism. One way to do this, they believe, is to make it more difficult to transfer money anonymously and to use virtual currencies like bitcoin, which can allow terrorists to operate under the radars of investigators.
Search Engine Relcy Aims To Be The Master Slackbot
Mobile search app expands into Slack universe, promising one-click access to info, services, and other apps without requiring bot commands.
Lots of people, especially in the tech and/or startup world, are in love with group-messaging app Slack. If you ask them what they love, a good number will name the integration of third-party apps and services through several means, including "bots" that allow you to type a simple command to access services outside of Slack. Using the Subcurrent bot, for example, I type "/poll Dogs vs. Cats," to set up a poll of pet favorites using the Subcurrent service. Subcurrent's bot then sends a message with the two choices to my Slack team, allowing them to click on one of the words in order to vote.
A Lethal Weapon Designed By A Computer
Designed by John Briscella using Autodesk software, the Optimal Bow would be perfect for a cybernetic Katniss Everdeen.
Humans have been building bows for thousands of years—there's some evidence that they go back 70,000 years—but can computers design one? That's the question amateur archer John Briscella of the Brooklyn-based Aminimal Studio recently asked. The result of his exploration is the Optimal Bow, an aluminum arrow shooter designed algorithmically.
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