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November 9, 2015
Adidas's Latest "Futurecraft" Shoes Are Made From One Seamless Piece Of Leather
By carefully shaving away layers of leather, Adidas can make one piece work like many.
At first glance, Adidas's new shoe looks like their iconic Superstar, just sewn up in leather. That is, until you look closer at the toe box, ankle, those three stripes. You see that's not stitching holding the shoe together. Actually, that's not anything holding the shoe together.
A Pour-Over Kettle Worthy Of Your Coffee Snobbery
Looks hot, and not just because there's boiling water inside.
Once you make pour-over coffee with a gooseneck kettle, you can never go back. Its finely paced water control is a surgeon's scalpel to the rusted machete that is your standard tea pot, allowing you to coax more subtlety out of your cup of coffee.
November 8, 2015
How to Build a Business that Matters
We spoke to people who have helped build successful, seemingly-enduring companies about what it takes to create a meaningful business.
It's now easier than ever to launch a company. But while 400,000 businesses flood the market in the United States every year, the vast majority of these will never get off the ground, much less be around in five years. By some estimates 80% percent of all startups will crash and burn.
The Way We Experience Art Is Changing--And Brands Can Capitalize On The Disruption
We talked to some of the most forward-thinking influencers we know to find out why art is changing, and how brands should change with it.
A conversation about the future is inseparable from a conversation about technology. The increasing role of and dependence on smart devices and the quickening march toward an absolute Internet of Things that simultaneously maps where we are and where we're going—the world of tomorrow has never seemed so close to today.
The Politics of Silicon Valley
In part 1 of this new series, Gregory Ferenstein explores the belief systems of Silicon Valley's elite, from immigration to education.
Over the course of my career as a technology journalist, I've found that Silicon Valley is home to a unique political and moral ideology: a pro-business liberalism that often gets mistaken as libertarianism. Philosophically, people who found Internet startups ("founders") are best described as idealists: They believe that there is always a better solution to problems, a solution that benefits most people and reduces conflict.
November 6, 2015
How Satellite Data And Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Understand Poverty Better
New technology lets computers understand what they see in an image—or a million images.
Data analytics firm Orbital Insight is partnering with the World Bank to test technology that could help measure global poverty using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence.
Instagram Testing 3D Touch Ads
Instagram appears to be testing using the iPhone's newest functionality to make better ads.
Instagram is experimenting with new advertisements that use the iPhone's 3D Touch functionality. The advertisements, which are believed to be still in the testing and development phase, let customers apply added force to their clicks in order to browse between multiple photos.
Toyota Launching $1 Billion AI Lab . . . And It's Not Just For Cars
The automaker is hiring robotics expert Gill Pratt—and investing $1 billion in R&D labs near Stanford and MIT.
Toyota has big plans for artificial intelligence—and not just in cars. The automaker is earmarking $1 billion in funds for a new subsidiary called the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). The R&D firm will focus on building artificial intelligence products for automobiles and the home.
Pratt's "Coded Couture" Goes Beyond Wearables And 3-D Printing In High-Tech Fashion
The exhibition is about how coding can take personalization to the extreme, curator Ginger Gregg Duggan says.
Innovation within the fashion world has yielded some wildly inventive things: generative textile prints, statuesque kicks, and wearables that give you superpowers. But what interests Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox—curators of Coded Couture, a forthcoming exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery—is how designers are using technology as an essential part of their regular creative process.
Twitter Engineering SVP Alex Roetter On Diversity: "We Have Blind Spots"
In a Medium post, Roetter apologized for his comments about diversity at Twitter, which were disclosed this week by a former employee.
Earlier this week, a former Twitter employee took to Medium to disclose that he left his job because he felt diversity was not being made a priority at the company. As Twitter's sole black engineer in a leadership role, Leslie Miley wrote that he wondered "how and why a company whose product has been used as an agent of revolutionary social change did not reflect the diversity of thought, conversation, and people in its ranks."
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