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June 24, 2014
Tutus, Sparkly Nail Polish, And Half-Pipes: These 6-Year-Olds Will Make You Want To Raise Skateboarding Girls
World, meet the Pink Helmet Posse.
The three 6-year-old girls who make up the Pink Helmet Posse, profiled in a short Op-Doc in The New York Times that also screened at Tribeca, are equal parts adorable and badass. The film opens with the three friends, Relz, Bella, and Sierra, painting their nails in the middle of a skate park. Next, we see them dropping into a half-pipe and maneuvering around a pile of leaves.
Why Upworthy Wants To Kill The Pageview
The social do-gooder just released its "attention minutes" source code. You paying attention?
Clicks and pageviews are still the standard metric most online publishers use in valiant attempts to convince advertisers to write them checks so that they can keep the lights on. When pageviews are plentiful, selling ads is easy, or so the thinking goes.
Cannes Rolls Out The Red Carpet For New York Trash
Waste And Recycling Bins Inspired By Central Park's Classic Benches Win The Festival's Product Design Award.
Since the Central Park Conservancy installed 700 new trash cans in New York's 843-acre "backyard" last fall, only one group of long-standing residents has protested the change: the rodents.
June 23, 2014
Google Explores Offering Glass Outside the U.S.
The company's futuristic specs will be available for £1,000 in the U.K.
Google Glass is hopping the pond.
Chicago's Futuristic Lamp Posts Will Track Pedestrians, Air Quality, Sound Levels
The Windy City will install metal fixtures concealing a sensor system on lamp posts, but some privacy advocates are nervous.
Just how windy is the Windy City? We're about to find out.
The Infographics Of Terror: ISIS's Illustrated Propaganda War
The terror group in Syria and Iraq publishes an annual report, operates "like an army that has state-building ambitions."
Not only do jihadists appear to be doing dishearteningly well in the war on terror, capturing major swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria--they are increasingly using Western-style tools against the West. Case in point: the disturbing infographics and "annual report" recently published by the fearsome Al Qaeda splinter group ISIS, which has all but established a large terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, showcasing the number of suicide bombings, executions, and other atrocities perpetrated by it in the past years.
The United States's Crushing World Cup Match, Visualized By Twitter And Google
Ouch.
American soccer fans felt feelings in the waning minutes of Saturday's World Cup game against Portugal. After Team USA's Clint Dempsey scored a goal with less than 10 minutes left in regulation, Portugal's Silvestra Varela slipped a shiv under the the ribs of breathless Americans around the globe with a last-second goal in stoppage time to secure a 2-2 tie.
The Winners Of The Knight News Challenge Will Keep The Internet Safe And Secure
What if there were a simple tool for citizens to view a website blocked by the government? That's just one cool idea that came from the winners of this $3.4 million prize competition.
The Internet is a constantly evolving organism, always shifting to deal with the threats placed in front of it: malicious hackers, spying governments, censors, and challenges that don't yet exist.
Yo, Hacked on Friday, Just Hired One Of Its Hackers And Topped 1 Million Users
After an embarrassing dustup on Friday, the stupid-simple messaging service is beefing up security by hiring one of its hackers.
Yo, an awful but interesting messaging app that doesn't actually let you send messages, just crossed the million-user threshold since launching last Wednesday. Part of its enormous popularity is its aggressive approach to simplicity: All Yo does is send friends a push notification that says, plainly, "Yo."
MegaFaces Pavilion Lands Russia Its First-Ever Grand Prix At Cannes
Jury says it was looking for "ideas to invest in" with second-ever Innovation Lions award.
A Russian architecture firm scored a couple of firsts at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity when it was awarded the Innovation Grand Prix for MegaFaces Pavilion for telecom company MegaFon. The award marked the first Grand Prix won by Russia and the first won by an architecture firm.
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