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The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?
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Legendary Bristol-based outfit Massive Attack is turning over data from various tours and recording stints to Manchester University in the name of research. The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research will use the volunteered information to assess the primary sources of carbon emissions within the industry, from “band travel and production, audience transport and venue.”…
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Designers want to create fully branded experiences, which often results in customized highlighting colors or pixel-perfect typography. While these design touches can enhance the experience for some…
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The Bauhaus had a huge impact on British architecture. Beyond Bauhaus curator, Pete Collard, picks four buildings that demonstrate the school's influence.
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Graphic design studio and type foundry Edition Studio deliver slick, type-driven projects from their New York base, inspired by their new home after growing up in France.
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Scientists say ultra-slippery toilet coating could save a huge amount of water across the planet.
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From the tight medieval alleys of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter to Eixample’s carefully planned, uniquely shaped octangular blocks (the cut-off corners transform every intersection into more open plazas), Barcelona bursts with history, spirit, and inspiration—it’s a city that renders even the most fervent minimalist design lovers speechless and transforms them into romantics, with a little help from Gaudí and friends. In between the voluptuous, biomorphic, elaborate, and ornate Catalan takes on Art Nouveau (aka Modernisme), below are recommendations for where to stop and take a breath. For additional Barcelona take a look at our Word of Mouth: Barcelona guide from earlier this year and our personal notes on visiting the city.
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The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts by Norman Foster marked the style's transition from industrial to cultural buildings.
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a group of scientists have discovered 143 previously unknown 'geoglyphs' in peru using artificial intelligence and satellites to uncover ancient drawings.
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An absurdly powerful laser can trap an air bubble in a layer of metal, so that it’ll float no matter what.
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Taste and smell receptors in unexpected organs monitor the state of the body’s natural microbial health and raise an alarm over invading parasites.
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Sheppard Robson has unveiled the mixed-use Citicape House in London that will have the “largest living wall in Europe” to help improve local air quality.
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The dense, interconnected network charts decades of collaboration and research.
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The Tokyo-based illustrator and artist turns to the web rather than the outdoors for inspiration. She’s fascinated by the impartial gaze that Google’s location tool offers, and transforms this neutrality into subjectivity through silky-smooth, painterly interpretations.
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New York's The Cooper Union has created a database The Student Work Collection to collate over 80 years of work produced by former architecture students.
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Scientists say we are close to making fusion power a reality – but will it arrive in time to combat climate change?
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The long read: Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?
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Electric cars could make a huge dent in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But they still make a tiny 2 percent of cars on the road today. A big speed bump they face is the hour or so it takes to charge.
That could change, thanks to a new discovery by Pennsylvania State University researchers. They have come up with a technique to charge lithium battery in just 10 minutes for 200 to 300 miles of driving.
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Beijing wants people to use only real identities online but there is concern over data collection.
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US chemists have turned plastic into motor oil, but the scientific battle to break down the tide of plastic waste continues.
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