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June 19, 2015
Travel App Spot Wants To Curate Your Next Vacation
Spot uses recommendations from experts and your friends to help you find "the best places in the world."
A slew of apps and services have attempted to cash in on the $4.5 trillion travel and tourism industry. Dissatisfied with the fare, Luke Groesbeck—cofounder of a Y Combinator-backed startup—decided to try his hand at creating a discovery and planning app. Groesbeck thinks he has finally cracked the code with Spot, an app that wants to be your go-to for finding the "best places in the world."
Twitter's Biggest UX Problem: Who The Hell Is It Designed For?
Project Lightning tries to split the difference between change-resistant power users and the new users Twitter desperately needs.
Yesterday, Buzzfeed broke news of Twitter's so-called Project Lightning, a long-running attempt to recast the service with a simpler, more engaging UX. Instead of the noise of a typical Twitter feed, the next version of Twitter's app will feature, front-and-center, a carefully curated collection of thematically grouped tweets. That's a surprising announcement for a couple reasons.
No, You Won't Be Listening To Taylor Swift's "1989" On Apple Music
The pop queen is standing her ground.
Taylor Swift may not have bad blood with Apple Music—but that doesn't mean she's releasing 1989 to the streaming service.
How Architect David Adjaye Explores Design At A Human Scale
The U.K.-based, Tanzania-born architect's new designs for Knoll are about "atmosphere as an emotional space for human beings."
Though architect David Adjaye earned his stripes designing masterful structures, he has turned his eye to a more intimate scale in recent years, creating furniture and now fabrics. In his first foray into textiles, Adjaye worked with the modern design firm Knoll and the Smithsonian on a line of upholstery, draperies, and wallcoverings that, like his structures, merge history and abstraction.
Can We Design Trust Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence?
The successful adaptation of AI requires empathy on the part of both people and computers, says Artefact's Patrick Mankins.
For many years, interacting with artificial intelligence has been the stuff of science fiction and academic projects, but as smart systems take over more and more responsibilities, replace jobs, and become involved with complex emotionally charged decisions, figuring out how to collaborate with these systems has become a pragmatic problem that needs pragmatic solutions.
Six Months Inside A Coliving House, Silicon Valley's Answer To Urban Housing Problems
The commune, the kibbutz, the college dorm: Group living has been done before, but can it make for a viable business?
"You live with eight people? Are you a flight attendant?"
These Are The 20 Best Cities For Biking In The World, And A U.S. City Actually Made The List
If Minneapolis—despite its sub-zero winters—can do it, so can the rest of America.
For bike commuters, Copenhagen is still the city to wish you lived in. A new ranking of over 100 global cities puts the famously bike-friendly Danish capital at the top of the 2015 Copenhagenize Index. But there are also a few newcomers to the top 20, including—for the first time since 2011—an American city.
June 18, 2015
Roku Is Introducing Personalized Interactive Video Ads
The ads are part of an ongoing strategy to monetize Roku's constant stream of viewer data.
For Roku, selling hardware isn't enough. The brains behind a series of popular streaming media players, Roku is rolling out interactive advertising content targeted at its viewers. The ads will be deployed in partnership with a startup called Innovid, as part of an ongoing strategy to monetize Roku's constant stream of viewer data.
Twitter Investor Chris Sacca Deems CEO Transition "Sloppy"
The vocal investor is publicly criticizing Twitter again.
One of Twitter's best known investors is criticizing the company for a "sloppy and confusing" CEO transition.
Why This Real Estate App Is Making New York Brokers Nervous
Compass, which merges data analytics with its in-house agents, just got a major nod from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Talk about disruptive. Since launching 18 months ago, Compass—a real estate listing app for iOS and Android formerly known as Urban Compass—has generated quite a bit of discomfort among its legacy competitors, some of which have filed lawsuits. And it's no wonder Compass has shaken things up: As anyone who's ever tried to rent or buy property in New York knows, the experience is loaded with pain points—exactly the type of stuff that turns mere ideas into thriving startups.
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