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September 2, 2015
How Ingenious Fake Elephant Tusks Helped Track The Illegal Ivory Trade
Implanted with GPS and given to unsuspecting poachers, the tusks tell the story of how poaching funds warlords in Africa.
When Bryan Christy, an investigative journalist for National Geographic, wanted to dive into the ivory trade—finding out what happens to the tusks from the 30,000 African elephants that are killed each year—he realized that he wouldn't be able to safely follow the tusks as they traveled from warload to warload in places like South Sudan. So he came up with an ingenious solution: a fake tusk implanted with custom GPS.
September 1, 2015
Amazon Now Lets You Download Shows To Watch On The Road
The e-commerce giant wants to lure away Netflix and Hulu customers by allowing you to watch Game of Thrones on an airplane.
One major downside to subscription streaming platforms like Netflix is that you can't continue your binge-watching streak while flying certain airlines or riding the subway underground. Amazon just solved that problem by introducing offline viewing—and in doing so, took a giant step forward in its ongoing war with Netflix and Hulu.
Today in Tabs: Lol Nothing Mathers
More Mather with less art.
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Uber As...Restaurant Guide?
In a new partnership with Hilton, Uber is using its data in an unexpected way.
You may have heard that Uber will take over the world. Is taking over the world. Has already taken over the world.
Google's New Logo Is Its Biggest Update In 16 Years
Google has a new logo that ditches the old serif look, and reacts to you in all contexts.
You will very soon notice that Google has a new logo that's sleeker, brighter, and for the first time, animated. And then, you probably won't notice it at all.
Klarna Arrives In The U.S. Via Overstock.com Partnership
The dominant online payments company in Europe, Klarna, takes on Stripe and PayPal for domination of the U.S. online payments market.
For the last few years, Sweden-based online payment provider Klarna has slowly and steadily become a bigger e-commerce presence than PayPal...in Europe. Its arrival in the U.S. seemed to be a matter of "when" rather than "if" (CNN Money speculated about Klarna's American intentions way back in June 2014)—and that when is today.
With LinkedIn's New Messaging Service, You Can Use GIFs To Network
The professional social network is moving away from its old-school, email-style messages.
Professional networking site LinkedIn gave its formerly clunky messaging service a sleek revamp—which means it is no longer modeled after your black hole of an email inbox.
3 Design Trends Hiding In The New Nest Thermostat
What might appear to be a minor product update hides trends in industrial and interactive design to come.
Nest has just announced its third-generation thermostat. And at first glance, it's tough to see how it's different from the last generation. After all, it's only about 1mm thinner, and it features the same rounded steel and glass design of its predecessors. Sure, its homescreen is 40% larger. But is that it?
Rihanna Is Going To Love PayPal's Newest Feature
PayPal.Me promises to make it less awkward than ever to ask someone to pay you back.
For whatever reason, I've owed money to a lot of friends lately. Part of it is probably the arrival of wedding season: A bachelor weekend mountain rental for one future groom, a funny group wedding gift for another couple. Then there's that time I turned up cashless at Dollar Taco Night and had to set a reminder on my phone to pay my buddy Evan back for spotting me (I ate a lot of tacos). Come to think of it, my roommate still owes me for his half of the gas bill last month.
Joseph Joseph Wants To Reinvent Microwave Cooking
Nuke your dinner better?
"Make the greatest cooking discovery since fire," touts a 1970s ad for an Amana microwave. When microwaves first burst onto the market, they spoke of new technology, innovation, and efficiency. In the decades since, they've mostly become a way to reheat leftovers and to whip up popcorn or dorm-room fare. The folks over at Joseph Joseph—the company known for its genius space-saving housewares—want to change the way you think about making full meals in a microwave with specially engineered cookware.
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