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July 8, 2015
Facebook Creates New, Woman-First Icons
The female silhouette takes center stage.
Last week, Facebook made a subtle tweak to its 10-year-old logo: The biggest change was the new logo's use of a single-story "a". Now, the social network has made yet another modification to its visual aesthetic—and this one is distinctly feminist.
A Skyscraper Designed To Survive The Next 10,000 Years
RCA grad Alice Theodorou leverages classical architecture and the human form to design a building to survive London's post-apocalyptic future.
[image error]Nuclear war. Disappearing natural resources. Overpopulation, then underpopulation. Rising sea levels. These are just some of the challenges Londoners will have to face over the next 10,000 years. Royal College of Art graduate Alice Theodorou has designed a skyscraper concept she thinks can weather those ten millennia. How? By leveraging classical sculpture and the beauty of the human form to instill an innate desire in future Londoners to preserve it.
Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens
We've adapted our reading habits to fit our screens, but at a cost.
Thanks to technology, we're reading more than ever—our brains process thousands of words via text messages, email, games, social media, and web stories. According to one report, the amount people that read tripled from 1980 to the late 2000s, and it's probably safe to say that trend continues today. But as we jam more and more words into our heads, how we read those words has changed in a fundamental way: we've moved from paper to screens. It's left many wondering what we've lost (or gained) in the shift, and a handful of scientists are trying to figure out the answer.
When people read short nonfiction onscreen, their understanding of the text suffered. Why? Because they managed their time poorly.
Airbnb's Secret To Scaling In Cuba
Airbnb launched in Cuba with 1,000 listings, even though almost no Cubans have a private Internet connection. Here's how they pulled it off.
When Omar Fonseca got the call that Airbnb wanted to meet with him in Havana this winter, he could hardly believe it.
Logitech Rebrands To "Logi" To Sound More Like "Siri"
Like Federal Express and Apple Computer, Logitech has shortened its name for mainstream appeal—and the spoken UI of the future.
Logitech, the company most of us still know for selling that very nice computer mouse we bought around the first time we dialed in to AOL, is about to drop the "tech." As part of a new rebranding, the company will simply go by Logi (pronounced "lodge-ee").
July 7, 2015
Stalking Celebrities On Tinder Just Got Way Easier
The dating app is introducing verified profiles for celebrities, much like Twitter and Facebook.
Tinder is rolling out verified profiles, to help you figure out if that girl you've been eyeing is actually Hilary Duff.
Today in Tabs: Patterns in the Effluent
Your password must contain a letter, a number, and backdoor access to an international human rights violator.
Roses are red You light up my dreams But explain to me how Jet fuel could melt steel beams
Here's The Worst Brand Tweet Of The Week, Paula Deen Edition [Updated]
The celebrity chef still doesn't get it.
We're back with the Worst Brand Tweet of the Week, thanks to one deeply offensive Paula Deen.
Wondering If Drones Will Take Flight Near You? Check Out The Verge's New Database
More than 500 companies are now allowed to fly drones for profit in U.S. skies.
The Verge has just released a database detailing the first 500 companies approved to fly commercial drones in the U.S., in partnership with Bard College's Center for the Study of the Drone. The first wave of commercial, for-profit drone companies in the United States are working on everything from aerial photography for Hollywood movies, to monitoring soil content on farms and patrolling oil pipelines for leaks.
This Resume Angel Can Help You Get That Job
Unless, of course, the Resume Devil has her way. (By which we mean: Comic Sans!)
Have you ever felt like you were being pulled in two directions while working on your resume? Almost like you are getting two different opinions. As if, for instance, you had an Angel sitting on one side of your keyboard and a Devil on the other? Yeah, us too. Check out the video above for some great tips on what to put in your resume, what to definitely NOT put in your resume, and what might cause a heavenly creature to throw up.
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