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November 17, 2014
Venmo Just Made Its Onboarding Process Way Easier
Starting today, iOS and Android users can sign up using their bank's login info.
The biggest roadblock of using an app? Signing up—that rote and extremely frustrating task of filling out your email, password, and other personal information in exchange for gaining access to a particular service. And nowhere is the experience worse than with digital banking services, where users are required to share an onslaught of hard-to-remember financial info.
Thomas Heathwick Is Designing A $170 Million Park Above The Hudson River
Billionaire Barry Diller and designer Diane von Furstenberg want to turn a sinking pier into a 2.7-acre park and performance space.
Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenburg—the billionaire couple and major funders of the High Line—are planning to bankroll another futuristic park forged from aging city infrastructure: a park built on a pier stretching out over the Hudson River.
It Looks Like Uber Drivers Are Already Dreading The New Spotify Partnership
"I can see these entitled pax... giving me a 1-3star rating just because I didn't let them 'turn-up'"
As rumored, Uber and Spotify are teaming up to allow riders to play their own music. Starting November 21, users in 10 cities—which so far include Los Angeles, New York, London, San Francisco, Mexico City, Nashville, Singapore, Stockholm, Toronto, and Sydney—will be able to fire up artists who are not named Taylor Swift on their phones.
Why Airbnb Is Launching A Print Magazine
The glossy new publication is part of Airbnb's grand strategy to bring its brand offline.
Later this week, Airbnb will release a glossy new print quarterly called Pineapple. At first glance, the publishing effort might seem a strange venture for the online accommodations marketplace, but it's actually the next logical step in Airbnb's master plan to make its brand as omnipresent in the real world as it is online.
Facebook May Release An Office Messaging App
"Facebook at Work," the company's internal productivity tool, could soon become a real product.
Most people use Facebook to waste time at work. Facebook employees, however, use it to get work done, reportedly using a special internal version of the social network to send messages, collaborate on documents, and upload files.
This Comic Book Makes Important, Boring Data Fun To Read
Terms of Service ingeniously harnesses the power of comics to keep readers engaged.
Terms of Service is a newly published digital graphic novel from Al Jazeera that explores the turbulent relationship technology users today have with services provided by big data companies.
Vibrating Watches, Tiny Chargers, Inverted Umbrellas: The Best Personal Accessories Of 2014
Your holiday gift guide starts here with goodies ranging from tiny laptop chargers to cozy blankets by a former Apple designer.
Personal accessories like watches, cameras, and jewelry can seem like unoriginal gifts to give over the holidays. But not if they come with a twist. Here are 15 products we came across in 2014 that offer unexpected spins on everyday objects: clocks that shift your perception of time, inverted umbrellas, cameras that fuse analog and digital photography, sneakers printed with surrealist paintings, and more.
This Office Has A Running Track
Get up, you sloth, and RUUUUUN.
Sitting at work all day is bad for your health. Plenty of research says so. But how many people can pick up during the day and trek to the gym? Enter Onefootball, which has a running track smack dab in the middle of the office.
November 14, 2014
FCC Gives AT&T A Week To Prove Its Fiber Investments Would Be Unprofitable Under Net Neutrality
Or was AT&T all talk?
Amid the uncertainty over net neutrality's future, AT&T said earlier this week that it was halting investments into its high-speed fiber network. Challenging the telecommunication company, the Federal Communications Commission shot back Friday with a letter demanding proof that fiber would be an unprofitable business for AT&T under net neutrality.
Can Bjarke Ingels's Ambitious, 20-Year Plan Revitalize The Smithsonian?
The Danish architect faces a big challenge in bringing his eclectic style to a stodgy site.
Bjarke Ingels, who, at 40, is the architecture world's wunderkind, has been tasked with the immense project of renovating and revitalizing the Smithsonian Institution on the south side of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The project, which could take up to 20 years and $2 billion of both public funding and private donations to complete, combines the necessary replacement of old infrastructure, such as earthquake-proofing the historic Castle, and aesthetic re-imaginings, making it easier to navigate and more accessible from the Mall. The project will be the first major renovation of the Smithsonian site in more than 100 years, and it is a serious undertaking.
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