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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Om Malik : ‘Why Great Design Is Timeless’
A lot of commentary has followed the launch of the iPhone 12, some of it praising Apple for going back to the old design and some complaining about Apple’s inability to do something different from a design perspective.
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service is priced at $99 per month, according to e-mail
SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, reaching out via email on Monday to people who expressed interest in signing up for the service.
The Incredible Story of the Great Cannonball Boom
When the country shut down and the highways thinned out, a stealthy group of amateur car obsessives glimpsed an opportunity to revive the fabled cannonball run—the highly daring, absurdly illegal cross-country endurance race.
Adobe tries using AI to fix blurry video footage
Between things like camera shake and poor lighting, the videos you take with your phone, DSLR or mirrorless camera can end up blurry for any numbers of reasons. Worse yet, it’s difficult to sharpen a photo or video after the fact, and more often than not, the results don’t look great.
Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Miracles
“History is the record of man’s steps and slips. It shows us that the steps have been slow and slight; the slips, quick and abounding.” – B.H. Hart An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly.
Ford will use its Escape SUV to power a self-driving car service
With the unveiling of its latest autonomous test vehicle, Ford believes it’s one step closer to offering a commercial self-driving car service (via NBC News).
The next economic crisis: Empty retail space
As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. Commercial real estate is in trouble, and turbulence in the $15 trillion market is threatening to bleed over into the broader financial system just as the U.S. struggles to emerge from a recession.
COVID-19 killed maximalism
We’re too fried to deal with fussy decor at home. All we really want are soft, simple things. Designers have responded with what one expert is calling ‘warm minimalism.’ 6 minute ReadCOVID-19 has killed maximalism.
Inventing Virtual Meetings of Tomorrow with NVIDIA AI Research
New AI breakthroughs in NVIDIA Maxine, cloud-native video streaming AI SDK, slash bandwidth use while make it possible to re-animate faces, correct gaze and animate characters for immersive and engaging meetings. Learn more: https://nvda.ws/3l9foIn
Watch the full GTC 2020 keynote: https://nvda.ws/3
Introducing Amazon’s first custom electric delivery vehicle
Just a year since announcing The Climate Pledge, Amazon is excited to reveal its first custom electric delivery vehicle, designed and built in partnership with Rivian.
AI will become Earth’s ‘dominant life-form’ and keep humans ‘like we keep plants’
Artificial intelligence (AI) will one day keep human beings around in the same way we keep plants, a scientist has claimed.
Car design is about to change forever. This video encapsulates how
The car of the future is a skateboard, and whatever you want goes on top. 4 minute ReadElectric vehicles are incredible.
Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
For over six years, one Wikipedia user—AmaryllisGardener—has written well over 23,000 articles on the Scots Wikipedia and done well over 200,000 edits. The only problem is that AmaryllisGardener isn’t Scottish, they don’t speak Scots, and none of their articles are written in Scots.
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
The Blokable Building System (BBS)
Each Blok in the system is a standardized, modular housing component assembled entirely in our manufacturing facility and designed to be stacked, combined, and connected to create prosperous communities.
The housing market is building snowflakes: How an industry of endless one-offs is holding our society back
By Aaron Holm and Nelson Del Rio, Co-CEOs, Blokable Inc. This post is part of a series exploring the root causes of the U.S. housing crisis and how private and public sector collaboration can chart a different course.
“Stevenage Challenge” by DAVID The Agency for Burger King | The One Show 2020
Brands pay millions to get soccer’s biggest players to endorse them. But Burger King realized that they didn’t need to do that. A year ago, they found Stevenage F.C. — a team at the bottom of English football’s lowest league — became their sponsors. Because they knew that if their logo wa