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October 23, 2015
Twitter Is Already Pumping Ads Into Moments
Just a few weeks after launching its Moments feature, Twitter is inviting advertisers to host their own channel for 24 hours.
Twitter is raring to monetize its new Moments feature, it seems: Starting this weekend, the company is introducing native advertising to the section, which curates tweets about newsworthy topics as they unfold. According to Bloomberg, Twitter will offer advertisers a dedicated Moments channel that will stay live for 24 hours.
Backyard Playhouses Inspired By Ito, Le Corbusier, Van der Rohe, And More
Barcelona architect David Lamolla designs the most beautiful backyard playhouses you've ever seen. What a time to be a kid!
What's a good way to nurture a life-long love of good design and architecture in your kids? Buy them a backyard playhouse inspired by the real-world buildings of Le Corbusier, Toyo Ito, Mies van der Rohe, and more.
An Easy, Intuitive Tool For Making Sense Of Your Data
Tableau's new Vizable app transforms spreadsheets into information you can actually use and understand.
Tableau, the Seattle-based software firm that helps major businesses make sense of their data, is now bringing its data visualization expertise to the everyday user. Their new app, Vizable, converts spreadsheets into easily manipulatable charts and graphs, making it dead simple for small businesses or individual users to parse through and understand large amounts of data.
Is Nuzzle The iPod Of Pet Insurance? Ammunition Thinks So.
This smart collar insures a pet's health in more ways than one.
In America, as much as 47% of all households have a dog, and up to 37% have a cat. Despite this, only 2% of all Americans have any form of pet insurance. Not because they don't love their pet. Not because their pet doesn't get sick. Not even because they can't afford it: on average, pet insurance costs $32 a month for a dog, and $22 a month for a cat. It's because most people don't even know pet insurance exists, and if they do, the options confuse them.
ESPN Pulls Videos From YouTube Due To Terms Of Upcoming Paid Tier
Following the announcement of YouTube Red, ESPN is citing a "rights conflict" and removing select video content from the site.
ESPN has started pulling some of its video content from YouTube, just days after the video-sharing site announced its paid, ad-free tier called YouTube Red. ESPN content that has already been uploaded to YouTube are now marked as private, and ESPN-owned properties like Grantland have switched over to the network's proprietary player.
American Egg Board CEO Steps Down Amid Vegan Mayo Controversy
The CEO of America's umbrella group for the egg industry suddenly stepped down, months earlier than expected.
The CEO of the American Egg Board, Joanne Ivy, has quit her position. Her departure comes almost two months after The Guardian published emails that showed Egg Board officials trying to stop Whole Foods from selling the eggless mayonnaise spread Just Mayo. Ivy unexpectedly stepped down today, even though she was supposed to remain CEO of the American Egg Board until the end of the year.
How Well Do You Know The News? Take The Fast Company Quiz
What happened this week? Here's our quiz for October 23, 2015.
Did you follow the news this week? Research says that one of the best ways to solidify new information is to be tested on it. Here's a chance to bolster your knowledge of current events—and earn a special emoji badge. 
Here's The Perfect Bicycle For Small Urban Apartments
The Corridor Bicycle was purpose-designed to be easily carried up stairways and stashed in the narrowest of spaces.
There are few things more daunting than ending a long bike ride only to find yourself faced with traversing several flights of stairs. And even after the climb, there's still the problem of figuring out where to store your bike in that tiny urban apartment you call home.
Security Company's Cryptography Play Aims At Tech Firms, Finance
A new suite of tools by startup Dyadic can stop a cybersecurity breach in progress.
Almost all companies use cryptography—the creation of secure communication techniques like codes and encryption—to protect sensitive information online, including customer passwords and credit card data. However, many organizations that depend on cryptography don't understand the specifics of how different forms work, which means they cannot respond effectively when their systems experience a breach by hackers or are compromised from the inside.
This Designer Turned A Year's Worth Of Emotions Into Colorful Spectrums
Portuguese designer Giestas has created a trilogy of books that visualize a year of his emotions as rainbows of feelings.
Even after years of therapy and mindfulness, many of us have difficulties mastering the full spectrum of our emotions. Portuguese designer Giestas decided to turn it into a data visualization problem, He recorded his emotions every hour for 300 days, then turned them into a trilogy of color-coded diaries, each page of which represents his emotional spectrum for a 24-hour period.
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