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June 5, 2015
Exclusive: New York City To Name New Chief Digital Officer
NYC mayor Bill De Blasio taps the city's digital director Jessica Singleton for the expanded role.
Former New York City digital director Jessica Singleton is taking the reins of mayor Bill de Blasio's NYC Digital as chief digital officer today, Fast Company has learned. The appointment will be confirmed by an official announcement from the mayor's office today.
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Take A Look At The World's Best Tiny Houses
Don't you wish you lived here?
With rising rents, a short supply of housing, and more people flocking to cities, it's no wonder that micro-dwellings have become a zeitgeisty solution for modern living.
Try Reading This Font And You'll Better Understand What Dyslexia Is Like
By subtracting significant chunks from Helvetica, Daniel Britton's font aims to raise awareness.
Good font design can't cure dyslexia. But it can raise awareness.
See The Famous Shots That Quentin Tarantino Stole From Other Movies
Tarantino is a master of filmic allusion. Here's proof.
You might like Pulp Fiction, but can you spot when it references Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Psycho (1960), The Flintstones (1960), or The Warriors (1979)? If you're a relatively normal movie lover like me, you probably can't. This is why you should watch this video by Jacob T. Swinney, which breaks down Tarantino's cinematic allusions—the shots he referentially reproduced—from the biggest movies of his career.
App Bribes You Into Airing Your Digital Dirty Laundry
Nice to Hack You extracts the most embarrassing items from your browsing history, then offers you swag to air it to the rest of the world.
How often do you clear your web browser history? Have you ever gone "Incognito" (Google's cutesy term for "private browsing" in its Chrome app)? If you're like me, the answers are "hardly ever" and "nope." Why would I? I have nothing to hide. So why did I install Nice 2 Hack You, a Chrome browser extension that slurps up your browsing history and extracts the most embarrassing items, with a vague feeling of dread?
3-D Printing's Napster Moment
The technology promises a new legal battleground for rights holders, printer developers, and hobbyist figurine makers.
It didn't take long for the email from Katy Perry's lawyers to arrive.
Can Wearable Tech Measure Our Stress And Calm Us Down?
A growing number of devices are trying to gauge when we're freaking out. But as the latest entry into the market shows, that's a harder task than we think.
Part of the premise behind a new wearable called WellBe is pretty depressing: Many of us are so continuously stressed out—or so disconnected from our feelings—that we can't actually tell which parts of our day are making us most anxious.
June 4, 2015
What We're Excited About at Apple's WWDC 2015
We really want to see Apple's Spotify Killer.
It's that time of the year again—Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, and we're anticipating being blown away by the shiny new software and OS upgrades the company's been cooking up for the past year.
Tumblr Launching GIF Search Engine
The new tool relies on the hashtags users add to images.
Tumblr, which has become one of the Internet's go-to GIF distribution mechanisms, is unveiling a GIF search engine. The new product launched today on Tumblr's homepage, and builds upon the massive library of images the microblogging platform has compiled over the years.
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