via Singularity Hub
The race is on. Last month China cut their driverless car loose for a fully automated, 177 mile (286 km) […] Read More >>
Pixel-Perfect Plywood Portraits
via Gadget Lab
Tomi of Finland (no, not that one) cuts these amazing pixelated pictures from plywood using nothing but an electric router. … Read More >>
Welcome To The Panopticon
via TechCrunch
And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and PittPatt’s facial recognition … Read More >>
YC-Funded Interview Street Streamlines The Search For Great Programmers
via TechCrunch
Talk to any tech company and they’ll tell you that hiring quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — the smaller … Read More >>
With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood
via TechCrunch
“I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed.”
I’m reminded of Daniel Plainview’s admission in There Will Be … Read More >>
$300 Million Button: making customers create logins to buy cost etailer $300M/year
via Boing Boing
“The $300 Million Button,” Jared Spool’s 2009 article on usability and ecommerce design, is remarkable in that it a) … Read More >>
HP TouchPad now $200 off at Staples — it’s like Christmas in August
via Engadget
If there’s still not enough change in your couch to snatch up a $399.99 16GB HP Touchpad, today could be your lucky day — … Read More >>
A Train ‘Parasite’ for a Glimpse into the Surreal
via TAXI Daily News
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An independent projection system, Parasite, was attached to trains with … Read More >>
Scientists Bag and Tag the Stem Cell That May Create An Endless Supply of Blood
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Rejoice ye vampires, the pursuit of an endless supply of blood took a major leap forward this month. Researchers at […] Read More >>
How A 21-Year-Old Design Student’s Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Break The Cycle Of Homelessness
via Fast Company
As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of the increasing numbers of homeless people suffering deeply … Read More >>