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November 20, 2014
The Adobe Moleskine Can Beam Your Sketches To Photoshop
The catch? You'll need to take a photo with your phone to do it.
Let me guess. You've learned how to make a living wielding a mouse in Photoshop or Illustrator all day, but you still dream of sitting casually in a coffee shop, sipping lattes and sketching in Moleskines, like a beatnik with a dayjob.
This Device Creates A 3-D Soundscape To Help Blind People Navigate Through Cities
Pulling location data from streetlights, stores, and buses, it translates them into sound.
For someone who can't see, meeting a friend on the other side of town can mean step after step of stressful navigation: Finding a bus stop, figuring out what's going on if the bus is delayed, getting through the gates at the subway, and countless other obstacles along the way. A short trip might take hours of planning, and even familiar routes, like the path to the closest grocery store, can be so challenging that some visually impaired people rarely leave home.
Sony Pulls The Plug On Steve Jobs Movie
The biopic's fate is unclear.
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash… and now, we might not even have a second Steve Jobs movie.
This Map Of London's Surveillance Is Incomplete (Because They Wouldn't Let The Mapper Finish)
Are you even allowed to know who is watching you?
British artist James Bridle is fascinated by surveillance technology. Once, he photographed 140 CCTV cameras on the walk between his London flat and the tube. This past year, he installed a white surveillance balloon above an abandoned East London parking lot. So it made sense that when Bridle was asked to host an online artist's residency, he planned a 12-mile stroll around London's central district to take stock of all the cameras that analyze car license plates.
This New Restaurant Is A Lab To Help Find Ways The Food Industry Can Fight Climate Change
Anthony Myint's new San Francisco restaurant will find ways for a not-super-sustainable industry to change.
For most restaurants, "sustainable" food means some combination of organic and local and seasonal. And while that's not a bad thing, a new restaurant shows how much farther the food world can go in fighting issues like climate change. The Perennial, which will open in San Francisco early next year, calls itself a "laboratory of environmentalism."
November 19, 2014
Nielsen Can Now Track Netflix Viewership Data
The technology doesn't require the consent of streaming services.
So far, Netflix hasn't played the ratings game, preferring to stay tight-lipped about the number of people who have been binge-watching, say, Gilmore Girls for the past month. (We can say definitively, however, that the number is at least one.)
Apple Releases Its Most Important Typeface In 20 Years
It's called San Francisco, and you can download it now.
Yesterday, Apple released a new bundle of developer tools called WatchKit to help make third-party Apple Watch apps a reality. But for type lovers, WatchKit contained a nice little surprise: a folder containing 23 different variations of the Apple Watch system font, the first one Apple has designed in-house in almost 20 years. Even better, that typeface finally has a name: San Francisco.
Uber Says Its Business Depends On Trust--So Why is It Behaving Like This?
The company is dealing with some trust issues.
Near the end of BuzzFeed's report on Monday about Uber executive Emil Michael's caustic dinner rant was a small aside that proposed Uber has a problem keeping user data private.
The Backpage.com Paradox
The online classified site is famously awful. But thanks to data-scraping startup, it has found support from a most unusual group: police.
T.C. Hawkins, 14 years old, lived with her mother in Memphis, Tennessee. According to police, this past July, a female neighbor asked her to babysit, and while she was over, convinced her to work as a prostitute. The neighbor then allegedly took her shopping for a slutty outfit, photographed her with her legs open, and advertised her on Backpage.com, the online classifieds site.
Inside Pizza Hut's Saucy Rebranding
New logo, new branding, new menu items: Is this just a middle-aged pizza company trying desperately to adapt to the times?
Pizza Hut needs to appeal to the new generation of pizza-buying Millennials, and they have a new weapon to do so: It's a smear of sauce ladled onto a spinning pizza crust. This is Pizza Hut's new logo, and the fulcrum of the company's largest-ever branding and marketing campaign spearheaded by Deustch LA—the same agency behind the refresh of fellow Yum! Brands property Taco Bell.
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