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May 9, 2014
San Francisco, A City Of Inequality, Is Building A New National Model For Public Housing
The Hope SF project is remaking five of the city's worst public-housing sites into mixed-income communities--without kicking out former residents.
San Francisco is one of a handful of U.S. cities that's rapidly losing its middle class. For low-income residents, the situation isn't much better: Even if they've managed to secure housing, rising costs of living threaten to squeeze them out of the city.
Talk About Range Anxiety: This All-Electric Plane Flies An Hour Per Charge
The tiny new E-Fan, an all-electric plane from Airbus, won't be flying cross-country anytime soon, but it's a major leap forward.
If you live in the U.S., the biggest part of your carbon footprint probably comes from air travel--a single round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco can add up to about two or three tons of carbon emissions per passenger. But airlines are slowly inching their way closer to truly green options.
Watch What Happens When You Ask Models To Make Malaria Sexy
It's the oldest trick in the book: Use sex and humor to sell something. But in this case, it gets a sobering--and hilarious--twist.
The typical PSA takes a "sadvertising" approach and tells a tragic story, hoping audiences will be moved enough to actually do something to help.
Ellen DeGeneres Launching Design Reality Show
Think Monster Garage meets Modernica.
We all live vicariously through our televisions when we watch the travails of teenage mothers, experience life in hellish New York kitchens, and prance around as the world's greatest drag queen. Now we can pretend to be designers, too.
May 7, 2014
Why Redditors Are Revolting Against Lazy Bourgeois Moderators
A systematic attempt to strangle one of Reddit's largest communities shows how its current moderation system leads to abuses of power.
Absentee and ineffective moderators are dragging down Reddit, and it's causing some of the site's 114 million monthly users to revolt.
Rough Day? This Gorgeous HD Livestream Of Earth From The International Space Station Will Help
Prepare for awe.
Maybe you're just having one of those days. You spilled coffee on your keyboard, your boss is clearly annoyed, the lunch line at Chipotle wrapped around the block, and your inbox never ends, like an ouroboros gnawing at your soul. What to do?
Shakespeare vs. Aesop Rock: A Vocabulary Smackdown
Matt Daniels' interactive chart pits the bard against 85 hip-hop artists in a quest to find out: Who's the most verbose of them all?
Shakespeare used 28,829 unique words in his plays. This fact intrigued designer Matt Daniels, known for his smart, graphical take on the etymology of the word shorty. Now Daniels compares the great playwright's vocabulary to that of today's rap artists.
Almost 70% Of People Would Put Themselves In Danger To Get A Stolen Phone Back
1 in 3 people say they'd be willing to pay $1,000 for the photos, videos, and text messages on their stolen devices.
If you're anything like me, your phone is the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you check at night. Which is fine. Phones are important.
How Security Researchers Foiled An Internet Explorer Nightmare
In late April, researchers at security firm FireEye found a massive security flaw in Internet Explorer exposing millions to having their private data stolen. Here's the story of how they sprung into action with Microsoft.
Late in the afternoon on Friday, April 25, a Microsoft response team received some very unwelcome news. Staffers at FireEye, a large enterprise security firm, called and emailed them to say they were witnessing a highly unusual attack. Unknown perpetrators were using a security hole in nearly every version of Internet Explorer to hack carefully selected computers. The attack was deliberate, smart, and caused a media uproar. And, as of press time, the security hole that allowed the attack still hasn't been fully patched.
The Future Of Driving: Cameras All Over Your Car
Cameras instead of side mirrors would cut loose car designers, and less drag would mean more fuel efficiency.
The side of your car may be up for a major redesign. Smart rearview mirrors are gaining traction, and now the semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments (TI) is working on electronics that could enable tiny, innocuous cameras to replace all of your car's mirrors.
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