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April 10, 2014
Facebook Is Killing In-App Messaging And Forcing Users Over To Messenger
The strong-arm approach on display here is emblematic of Facebook's new app strategy, and its most aggressive play for mobile yet.
Pretty soon, if you want to send or receive a Facebook message, you won't be able to do so from the standalone Facebook app on iOS or Android. Users are reportedly receiving alerts from the social network, warning that they won't be able to click over to the messaging tab to chat with their friends. They'll have to download the Messenger app separately.
Sonos Integrates With Google Play Music, Hints At Its Future
Sonos continues to shift its attention to software.
Sonos is betting its future on software. Having already wowed consumers with its wireless, high-fidelity speaker system, the company is sharpening its focus on the apps people use to stream music and other audio content. Today, Sonos breaks out of its own mobile apps for the first time in the U.S. by launching a tight integration with Google Play Music.
Born From A Tweet, Etsy's New Entrepreneurship Program Could Be Coming To A City Near You
Today at our Innovation Uncensored conference, Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson will announce plans to expand craft-selling classes for low-income people into three more cities. The goal is to host the pilot classes in 10 cities by the end of the year and to create an open-source curriculum.
In a beige-walled Harlem computer lab, 14 women sit at long, open tables. One has a fringe-draped leather bag that she designed. Another is wearing a handmade light-blue knit hat. Others carry their crafts in shopping bags that they leave by their feet. Brandi Harper, a peppy instructor, clicks through slides on a power presentation. She's already been over what to include in business expenses, how to calculate overhead costs, and a formula for factoring profit into pricing. Now it's time to check out the competition.
3 Things To Learn From Frank Gehry's Ill-Fated Eisenhower Memorial
The takeaway from the ongoing controversy: Nobody cares about Kansas and stay away from young boys.
Last week, a federal planning commission that oversees monuments in Washington, D.C., voted to reject Frank Gehry's design for the Eisenhower Memorial. What can we learn from this?
MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future
The Transform, from MIT's Tangible Media Group, changes shape depending upon how users interact with it. Imagine a chair that could transform from an upright rocker to a sumptuous lounge, just by detecting your mood.
More Co.Design coverage of Milan Design Week:
36 Ways To Reconsider The Weather
See The Everyday Objects That've Inspired 12 Leading Creative Minds
April 9, 2014
36 Ways To Reconsider The Weather
We generally understand seasons as the annual ebb and flow between hot and cold temperatures. The design think tank Fabrica understands it as a motorized sculpture with hand-painted feathers.
Guests at Milan Design Week 2014 can think abstractly about the weather at the "laboratory" known as Creative Climates. The 36 pieces on display at this conceptual art installation are the compelling result of a partnership between design think tank Fabrica (with Moleskine as a sponsor) and Daikin, a Japanese company that makes air conditioning systems.
Dropbox Launches Mailbox For Android, Standalone Photo App Carousel, And More
In a keynote address Wednesday, CEO Drew Houston announced the cloud-storage company now has 275 million users.
Touting 275 million users, Dropbox on Wednesday debuted a set of productivity tools to help users work more efficiently, including Mailbox for Android, a standalone photo app Carousel, and collaborative editing features.
All Your Most Pressing Heartbleed Questions Answered
A bug in OpenSSL encryption was said to affect about two-thirds of all the Internet's infrastructure. What does that mean, exactly?
"On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11," wrote security expert Bruce Schneier in a blog post this week. He was referring to Heartbleed, the devastating two-year-old bug that was only revealed Monday. It is quickly snowballing into the single biggest security vulnerability in Internet history. Here's what you need to know about it, what it's doing to companies, and what you can do to protect your data.
Op Art Legend Bridget Riley Gives Hospital A Candy-Colored Makeover
It's the painter's first mural in nearly three decades
A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural--Riley's first in 27 years--brightens the hallways of St Mary's hospital in London.
What Happens When A Drone Crashes?
The liability damage and personal injuries from small, fast-moving unmanned civilian vehicles can be huge--and more and more often will keep the Federal Aviation Administration, lawyers, and all of us on high alert.
When a regional triathlon in Australia hired a local drone operator, Warren Abrams, to take aerial photographs of their event, competition organizers of course never expected serious injuries from the UAV. But one of the event's triathletes is now in stable condition in the hospital after receiving head injuries from a drone collision last week--and the athlete, organizers, and the cinematographer are arguing over whether the athlete was hit by the drone or not. And while this case might seem strange, it raises an important question--who's responsible when commercial drones hurt people?
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