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I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though, that by acknowledging it – by…
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designcube: Brutalist foam playground by Assemble
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With psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, economists, and all sorts of social scientists climbing aboard the bandwagon of information theory, some mathematicians and engineers were uncomfortable. Shannon himself called it a bandwagon. In 1956 he wrote a short warning notice—four paragraphs: “Our fellow scientists in many different fields, attracted by the fanfare and by the new avenues…
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“This bridge will show how 3D printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form. The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city, in a way that brings out the best of both worlds.”…
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The Telegraph describes Ive’s change of position as a ‘promotion’. Ive was already the most influential person at Apple aside from Cook and his personality doesn’t exactly prescribe the need for a better title: Ive doesn’t really seem like a guy wanting an ego boost. Dropping the PR spin, this is a reorganisation so Ive…
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Hatch estimates that 70-80% of the jobs being done on TechShop’s desktop 3-D printers are prototypes, not finished products. “You can iterate two or three times in a single day, and that’s incredibly powerful,” he says. “Sometimes it’s good enough. Sometimes it’s an interior component so it doesn’t really matter what it looks like.” But…
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The company rates each battery to last for 2,000 recharge cycles, but expects to lose 20 percent of the original capacity after a quarter of that usage. So, after 500 cycles, Gogoro batteries are taken out of circulation — in order to ensure reliability for users, who are told to expect a 60-mile range from…
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Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop
Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and historian, has taken to Instagram to disseminate short pieces. Here she makes note of the important contribution of Muriel Cooper.
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The Square – The New Yorker
The Square – The New Yorker An essay on Malevich’s painting, The Black Square. It’s worth your time.
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Sunset is that rare game endeavours to challenge players to be entertained by something other than action. It wants us to engage a higher level of our minds, the part reigned by curiosity, empathy, and analytical thought. Chad Sapieha http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/sunset-review-flawed-and-not-always-fun-but-also-smart-daring-and-worth-playing?__lsa=bbe2-a286 (via taleoftales)