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September 9, 2014
Architecture Needs A Bigger Role In Conflict Zones
How design can help heal cities.
In conflict, cities become targets of destruction. Strategic bombing during World War II reduced cities in Europe and Asia to rubble. Modern conflicts are largely focused on urban centers, too. By one estimate, three out of every four terrorist attacks in the last four decades have been concentrated in cities.
Here's Your Worst Brand Tweet Of The Week
This week's winner: @DigiornoPizza.
It is only Tuesday. But does that mean it is too early to crown a new Worst Brand Tweet of the Week?
Denmark Designs A Better French Press
Muuto's Push coffee pot eliminates the biggest design flaw of your Bodum: all that glass.
Muuto's latest product has a decidedly Nordic take on the old-fashioned French coffee press. That might seem like cultural sacrilege, but considering the fact that it was actually the Italians who popularized the French press in the early 20th century, all's fair, especially as Muuto's Push coffee pot solves one of the problems of the Bodum in your cupboard by getting rid of all that glass.
September 8, 2014
Tinder Settles Its Ugly Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
That was fast.
Just over two months after former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the dating app company, the parties involved have settled the dispute for an undisclosed amount and "without admission of wrongdoing," Wolfe's lawyer told BuzzFeed.
ISIS-Affiliated Twitter Account Calls For Assassination Of Twitter Employees, Twitter Investigating
The account has been suspended as Twitter investigates the threat.
A now-suspended Twitter account seemingly affiliated with the extremist group ISIS has been calling for the assassination of employees who work at the social network.
Watch This Marching Band's Insane TV-Themed Halftime Show
The bar has been raised--your move, every other college marching band.
Ohio State University may have lost to Virginia Tech during this past Friday night's football game, but the Buckeyes' marching band more than made up for it with a halftime performance of TV show theme songs ranging from TV Land classics like Dragnet to modern favorites like Game of Thrones.
Instacart Strives For Speedier Online Grocery Shopping
The grocery service has partnered with Whole Foods to offer faster delivery and in-store pickup.
Grocery delivery service Instacart, which promises delivery of orders within one hour, has partnered with Whole Foods to make their service faster and more convenient. Instacart employees will now be stationed in Whole Foods Markets, and customers will have the option of picking up their grocery order from the store instead of having it delivered.
Let's Hope These 31 Questions About Apple's Wearable Device Get Answered On Tuesday
Rumors and speculation are fun. But cold, hard facts are even more satisfying.
Unless the expectations of Apple watchers turn out to be wildly off-base, we're about to learn about Apple's first wearable device--the first all-new product category the company has entered since it announced the first iPad more than four years ago. My colleague Alice Truong and I will be in Cupertino to live-blog the news on Tuesday, starting at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, with color commentary from some of our Fast Company compatriots. We hope you'll join us.
Ahead Of Apple's IPhone Reveal, Amazon Slashes Price Of Fire Phone To $1
It's all about selling services, not hardware.
One day before Apple's big product reveal, which is all but certain to debut new iPhones, Amazon cut the price of its Fire phone to 99 cents with a two-year contract. On Monday, the e-commerce giant also made its phone available for preorder in the U.K. and Germany.
PayPal Finally Embraces Bitcoin
This integration will allow Braintree customers to accept bitcoin as a payment method.
For PayPal, it was a question of when. The payments company has long hedged on its stance on bitcoin--just a couple of weeks ago, it told Fast Company: "We do believe that bitcoin will play an important role in payments in the future but we have nothing to announce"--but as the virtual currency soared in valuation and adoption, it became harder to ignore.
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