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February 6, 2014
Rosetta Stone Will Now Teach You To Speak Business
The venerable software company expands its target market to include international business clients who would like to get ahead.
If your language mastery finds you undaunted by Szechuan restaurant menus and you find speaking Italian molto facile, Rosetta Stone is offering a new curriculum that targets truly elite global citizens: "Business English."
With New Content-Sharing Platform, Klout Wants To Be More Than A Score
The social metrics company wants you back.
If you're one of those casual Klout users who logged in once to check your score, the social metric company has a message for you: Wait! Come back!
No, The Olympics And Samsung Are Not Banning IPhones During The Opening Ceremony
*at least according to the International Olympic Committee and Samsung.
A rumor swirling yesterday suggested that Olympic sponsor Samsung was clamping down on Apple's presence in Sochi. Specifically, the company was reportedly asking athletes to cover up the Apple logos on their iPhones during the Opening Ceremony, effectively banning competitive products so that Samsung could push its Galaxy Note 3. The reports apparently can be traced back to Swiss site Bluewin, which you'll have to translate into English.
How An "Evil Router" Can Help You Build Wi-Fi Devices That Actually Work
The creators of the streaming music device Beep had to get devilish to test the reliability of their new product.
How do you transition people from physical music--CDs, radios, home theater--toward Internet listening? In the mind of Daniel Conrad, founder of Beep, you connect that existing stereo system to the cloud.
The Modern Job Seeker Is Always On the Hunt (Even In The Bathroom)
A survey from Jobvite says many job seekers are turning to social media to find jobs. Watch out, because recruiters are looking at your social profiles, too.
It seems every other day, you get an invitation to a colleague's going-away happy hour, or see on LinkedIn someone jumping over to a new company. But Jobvite CEO Dan Finnigan says this wasn't always the case. When companies had to cut costs, they used to target every budget they could slash before touching payroll.
An Ergonomic Baby Chair That Grows With Your Kid
Norwegian design group Permafrost has built the Transformers of baby products for Stokke.
They say parenthood changes you. It most certainly means you have to buy a lot of stuff--just leaving the hospital with the new bundle of joy requires having already purchased a car seat. Then there's the bouncer for the living room, the highchair for eating meals, and so on and so forth.
A Glimpse At Life In Sochi Before The Olympics Swept In
Photographs of Sochi and its people reveal how little sense it makes to turn this small seaside city into a world stage for a winter sporting event.
As winter Olympians, fans, media, and businesses descend onto Sochi, it's hard to focus attention away from the controversies (the protests over Russia's anti-gay laws and the #SochiProblems Twitter tag taken up by foreign journalists, to name a few). But what of the city itself? To explore the complexities of Sochi and its people, two Dutch journalists, who have covered Russia and its surrounding countries for years, created The Sochi Project.
How To Use Hacker News To Fine-Tune Your Project
A web developer tells us how he turned his two-week side project into a Hacker News discussion, where he could use feedback to decide whether his concept was actually valid and useful.
Learning to code is like learning a language: It helps to have a native explain things. For coders who are self-taught, an expert isn't always near at hand. So a 20-year-old programmer built a tool that would allow people to annotate one another's code a la Rap Genius, with far more flexibility than code-commenting usually allows.
How Do Fashion Trends Start?
Just in time for New York Fashion Week, a new exhibit examines the sources of fashion trends for the past two centuries, from the bustle to camouflage.
New York Fashion Week kicks off later this week, and as the world gawks over the couture coming down the catwalks, it's worth considering how we got here. From whalebone corsets to Spanx, tartan silk dresses to grunge-era flannels, and gold pocket watches to Baby-G watches, fashion trends throughout history have reflected social attitudes towards sex and identity, beauty and class status. Trend-ology, a new exhibit at the Museum of FIT, examines the sources of fashion trends over the last 250 years. A decade-by-decade chronology features 100 glorious ensembles from the likes of Christian Dior, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Rodarte, and Christian Lacroix. Here, a few highlights of the biggest fashion trends throughout the years:
February 5, 2014
Tower To Rise At MoMA PS1, With Self-Assembling Bricks
The winner of the 2014 Young Architects Program features self-assembling bricks made of corn husks and a kind of mushroom root.
MoMA PS1 has selected the winner of its annual Young Architects Program, a temporary outdoor installation that will open in late June. Hy-Fi, the winning project from David Benjamin of The Living, features self-assembling bricks made of organic material, and will be nearly carbon neutral in its construction.
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