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April 7 · Issue #118 · View online
Articles/posts that for some reason created a spark in my memory.
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John Maeda says there are three kinds of design—but one is most important
About the difference of three kinds of designers out there today: classical designers, design thinkers, and computational designers.
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The New Organs
About “The New Organs”, a project to gather, archive and investigate the theories and realities of corporate surveillance.
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Feel Like Your Phone's Spying On You? You're Not Alone
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Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again)
Andreessen Horowitz is taking the unusual step of renouncing its venture capital status—and making even bigger, riskier bets.
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Corporate Gaslighting
Corporate Gaslighting [available at TheyTriedToKillMeButI.Live] is Rob Campbell’s attempt to try and stop the slow, systematic abuse from a management style where the goal appears to be to systematically destroy the confidence and self-worth of their employees.
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow – RollingStone – Medium
“Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow” is published by Rolling Stone in RollingStone
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Exposing the invisible - the kit
We’re excited to launch a collaborative self-teaching resource to investigations from Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible project.
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Zuckerberg’s Regulatory About-Face - Techonomy
Mark Zuckerberg took a major new step over the weekend, issuing a blunt call for government intervention to set rules for the internet – and Facebook. This is a sea change, and historic, even if far too late. Yet, Facebook’s CEO deserves credit for finally and clearly acknowledging that the respective roles of government and net platforms has to change.
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The Ideal Vs Reality – Robert Fritz Inc.
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Lego Spike Prime Lets Kids Build Robots—and Confidence | WIRED
Lego’s newest STEM set uses bright colors, friendly shapes, and a simple coding environment to get 11- to 14-year olds into robotics.
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Sidewalk Labs launches app to automate public life studies
Sidewalk Labs built an app to automate the tedious data collection involved in public life studies–while still keeping humans in the loop.
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BBC - Capital - Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
Why bother with degrees like History or English? Here’s why the liberal arts could leave you better prepared for employment than you think.
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Rise and shrine: Japan's 1,300-year-old ritual – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Every 60 years, one of Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrines, Izumo Oyashiro, is reconstructed in an ancient ritual that dates back 1,300 years. Photographer Yukihito Masuura documented the 12-year process
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A Skeptic’s Guide to Thinking About AI – Fast Company – Medium
This week, at the research institute AI Now‘s annual symposium, experts debated some of the most critical issues in society through the lens of AI. The event brought together law and politics…
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Technology in Deep Time — Blog of the Long Now
In a new essay for BBC’s Deep Civilisation series, British philosopher Tom Chatfield explores how technology has co-evolved alongside humans. While humans have only existed as a brief interval on the cosmic timescale, the process of “recursive iteration” that defines our relationsh
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'Underwear dates well': how fashion forensics are helping solve crimes | Global | The Guardian
Police officers aren’t known for their sense of style, but now a former vintage clothing buyer is using her forensic knowledge of garments to help solve crimes. It’s time to call the fashion police…
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Team Human: Douglas Rushkoff on how technology destroys freedom - Vox
A media theorist explains how digital technology undermines our ability to connect
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Silicon Valley keeps trying to "cure" death. It should fix its own ageism instead, says activist Ashton Applewhite.
“Aging is not a disease, otherwise living would be a disease, but you can’t make money off satisfaction,” Applewhite says.
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Technology and the Inadequacy of Values Talk | L.M. Sacasas
March was a quiet month on the blog front. My apologies for that; other projects and deadlines were consuming the time I’d ordinarily devote to writing on here. The two posts that did make it up, as I noted then, were both surplus thoughts stemming from one of those other projects. Looking ahead, most of…
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It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet – ITSinsider
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Researchers trick Tesla Autopilot into steering into oncoming traffic | Ars Technica
Stickers that are invisible to drivers and fool autopilot.
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Ideo CEO Tim Brown, who helped popularize design thinking, steps down
Brown will leave his role as CEO after 19 years, with longtime Ideo exec Sandy Speicher stepping into the role.
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Countries Want to Ban ‘Weaponized’ Social Media. What Would That Look Like? - The New York Times
No established democracies have ever come as close to applying such sweeping restrictions as Australia and New Zealand are considering in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
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American Dystopia: The State, Surveillance, and Illusion of Choice
Intercept’s Alice Speri, author Cory Doctorow, and musician Katie Alice Greer are this week’s guests.
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The Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings. Why? - The New York Times
The surveillance economy is coming, and it’s no coincidence that its first stop is in marginalized communities.
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WISeKey Launches SensorsID, a Strong Digital Identity Solution - DATAVERSITY
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What Happens When You Track Your Boyfriend on Strava | WIRED
A tale of romance, performance, surveillance, and loss.
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‘Worse than doing time’: life on the wrong side of China’s social credit system - Inkstone
David Kong felt shattered after a recent business trip to Chongqing.
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Are We Sleepwalking Into A Control Society? – The Startup – Medium
Urban data is used to trace issues even before they occur. Sounds comforting perhaps — unless we’re going to be judged on predicted behavior. There’s a long history of data being generated from…
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Chinese browsers block protest against China’s 996 overtime work culture | Abacus
Tencent, Xiaomi and others are censoring the GitHub page over “illegal information”
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Reflections on the NIIMS Judgement – Positive Returns – Medium
This week, the High Court of Kenya suspended core aspects of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS), popularly referred to as Huduma Namba, meaning “government service number,”…
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MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech giants Huawei, ZTE - Inkstone
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending its funding ties with Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE, citing the risks of such arrangements in the light of US federal investigations of the two companies.
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How Political Campaigns Use Personal Data - Schneier on Security
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How Reliable Are Amazon Reviews? – Towards Data Science
As a self-proclaimed tech-enthusiast, I’ve been following the tech review community, especially on YouTube, for quite a while. During that time, I recognized a certain pattern emerge after every new…
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Reminder: Airbnb lets hosts put cameras inside your rental
The cameras are disclosed, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you know where they are.
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How Google Is Cramming More Data Into Its New Atlantic Cable | WIRED
Google says its planned Dunant cable from Virginia to France will transmit 250 terabits per second, enough to zap the Library of Congress through it three times a second.
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Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
Amazon is joining the race to provide affordable broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit.
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The future of city innovation – Bloomberg Cities – Medium
This is a critical time for city leaders across the United States and around the world. Cities are increasingly understood as the places where humanity’s greatest challenges, from climate change to…
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Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war
Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war. Douglas Adams’ in-ear translator from Hitchhiker’s Guide is becoming a reality. But knowing what people are really saying could be…
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The Rise of Genetic Testing Companies and DNA Data Race
With the rise of direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies, and an explosion of genomic data emerging from individual DNA, genome companies are racing to build a search engine for our DNA.
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Tech Startups Build Tools for Wellness - Techonomy
Technology now allows us to monitor, promote, augment, and manage our well-being. Analyst Owyang pioneers here a new chart that outlines the entire industry, which is of impressive size already. Digitized low-cost technologies will make wellness accessible to anyone.
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UPS will use drones to deliver medical supplies in North Carolina - The Verge
UPS is teaming up with autonomous delivery drone startup Matternet to experiment with using drones to deliver medical supplies. The supplies will be delivered via Matternet’s M2 quadcopters to WakeMed hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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New technology marks a key step toward shrinking a medical lab to fit on fingertip
Identifying a patient’s viral infection or diagnosing a blood disorder usually requires a lab and skilled technicians. In an important step toward performing medical diagnoses using handheld devices, researchers at Princeton have adapted silicon chip technology similar to that found in personal computers and mobile phones to function as a biosensor.
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Walmart Unveils Voice-Activated, Google-Powered Grocery Shopping - Bloomberg
Walmart Inc. will let customers order groceries by voice through Google’s smart-home assistant, an attempt to counter Amazon.com Inc.’s growing clout in e-commerce.
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How the data mining of failure could teach us the secrets of success - MIT Technology Review
These data researchers found that for startups, scientists, and terrorists alike, learning too little from experience spells doom.
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Urban Driving with End-to-End Deep Learning
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The 2019 Midas Brink List: Meet Venture Capital's Up-And-Comers
The “Brink List” includes investors who are poised to join the Midas ranks and have been making a name for themselves in the venture capital industry. After receiving dozens of nominations, TrueBridge collaborated with Forbes to select the finalists.
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Is Global Healthcare Ready For Broad 5th Machine Age Technology Adoption?
Healthcare, growing to $10 Trillion US globally, lags behind nearly 80% of other industries in innovative technology adoption, and in fact is at the bottom five across industries. However this is about to change in the next three years. This SXSW session serves as a catalyst for a conversation..
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How to Lead in Permanent Whitewater – Gustavo Razzetti – Medium
In a relentlessly changing environment, the complexity of problems is increasing faster than our ability to solve them. Trying to play catch up breaks people down and burns them out. The dynamics in…
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Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management. - The New York Times
“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.
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The Importance Of Foresight: Why Intuition And Imagination Will Be Critical In The Future Of Work
Businesses of the 21st-century search for agility through advanced organizational interventions; but what if there is an inside-out way to agility through foresight leadership? Sharing more on our research findings on human-centered leadership attributes with Stanford University’s CCARE.
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AI tech, drone pilot and gamer are now official professions in China - Inkstone
China has officially recognized 13 new job titles – including drone pilot and eSports player – in order to keep up with the fast-changing face of the country’s workforce.
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Could We Blow Up the Internet? - Motherboard
Is it possible to take down the internet by physically attacking its infrastructure?
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How Mindless Phone Use Ruins Your Relationships – OneZero
Think back to the last time you met up with a friend for dinner. How many times did you look at your phone during the meal? Chances are, you checked it at least once, if not more often, without even…
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Alipay and Visa announce global QR code venture - Chris Skinner's blog
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The emergence of Blockchain Consortia – Data Driven Investor – Medium
Most of us are pretty well aware of the public blockchains like Ethereum with the built-in functionality of smart contracts apart from the well-known features of transparency, security & privacy. The…
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Kroner quits Fidor over culture clash
Matthias Kröner, founder and CEO of German digital bank Fidor, has parted ways with the company he founded in 2009, following a blow up over future…
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Fintech™ Trademark Legal Battle Finally Over – Brett King – Medium
In what has been described as a hard-fought legal battle the 13th District Court of New York issued a clear victory for the group known as the Fintech Mafia today over a multi-year legal dispute with…
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Revolut whistleblower had concerns over CEO conduct and compliance - BBC News
The BBC has spoken to a number of former employees about compliance at the currency transfer firm.
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Paypal’s First Blockchain Bet: Digital Identity
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Time for a global FinTech platform? - Chris Skinner's blog
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European Commission sets up fintech innovation forum
The European Commission has launched a European Forum for Innovation Facilitators (EFIF), to improve cooperation and coordination of national regulatory…
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Turning words into action on the journey to data rich payments with ISO 20022 | Payments Canada
Published: March 29, 2019 A conversation with Mike Sigal, Partner at 500 Startups Fintech Fund and Co-Founder of Upside Partners, about his latest venture, 20022 Labs ISO 20022 - the global messaging standard that allows rich data to travel with electronic payments - plays a foundational role in Canada’s payments Modernization initiative as well as similar initiatives around
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Belgian watchdog adds 7 new scams to its cryptocurrency blacklist
A Belgian regulator is warning citizens about the associated risks of dealing with cryptocurrencies after identifying seven new scam websites, bringing the total to 120.
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Coinbase, Paradigm Invest $15 Million in Startup Behind Disappearing Blockchain - CoinDesk
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World Bank Is Bullish On Ripple And xRapid; Says The Tech Could Revolutionize Cross-Border Payments | Oracle Times
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Blockchain Requires Industry Collaboration: The Launch of INATBA
With a new fundamental technology such as blockchain, industry collaboration is vital. Initiative such as INATBA can contribute to a better blockchain ecosystem.
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The World's Best Banks: ING And Citibank Lead The Way
More than 40,000 customers around the globe were surveyed for their opinions on their current and former banking relationships to determine the best banks in 23 different countries. ING rates highly in eight countries.
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ING comes out on top of Forbes’ inaugural World’s Best Banks list - Holland FinTech
Dutch banks ING, ASN, Moneyou, RegioBank, and Triodos best banks in world on Forbes’ first World’s Best Banks list.
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How to secure benefits of AI for Government and Society? | Deloitte Saudi Arabia
Anticipating the impact of AI Ethics within the Public sector
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What Boston Dynamics' Rolling 'Handle' Robot Really Means | WIRED
It’s about the hardware, yes. But more and more it’s about the AI inside the scarycute dogs and humanoids.
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Focus on human witnesses lags behind our digital world - Futurity
Sometimes the “witness” is a process or a machine. “How we think about evidence hasn’t gotten with the times, and we need to grapple with these problems.”
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WHO, ITU establish benchmarking process for AI in medicine
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The FDA wants to regulate machine learning in health care - MIT Technology Review
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is preparing to regulate AI systems that can update and improve themselves as they gorge on more training data.
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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Teams of Robots Compete to Explore Underground Worlds - IEEE Spectrum
DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge will task teams of robots with autonomous exploration deep beneath the surface of the Earth
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Human error, not artificial intelligence, poses the greatest threat | Letter | Technology | The Guardian
Letter: The risk that humanity faces comes not from malevolent machines but from incompetent programmers, writes Martyn Thomas
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A.I. Experts Question Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Technology - The New York Times
At least 25 prominent researchers are calling on the company to stop selling the technology to law enforcement agencies, citing concerns that it has built-in biases.
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Google staff call out treatment of temp workers in 'historic' show of solidarity | Technology | The Guardian
More than 900 employees sign letter criticizing abrupt firing of contractors, who make up 54% of Google’s workforce
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Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council | Technology | The Guardian
Staffers criticized the appointment of Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James in a letter published on Monday
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Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender - Algorithmic prejudice
ON MARCH 28th the American government sued Facebook for allowing advertisers to exclude whole categories of people from seeing ads for housing—couples with children, non-Americans, non-Christians, disabled people, Hispanics, and so on.
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The One Word To Rule Them All…is Ethics – Bill Wilkie – Medium
Ethics. It’s a scary word. It can sure take the fun out of a room. It evokes finger pointing and finger waving. It sounds like rules and limits and thou-shalt-nots. It sounds like unwelcome…
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We’re losing control of tech’s future – here’s how we can reclaim it
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Continuations by Albert Wenger : AI Ethics Are Hard
AI Ethics Are Hard Google formed and then within a week dissolved an AI Ethics board, in the corporate equivalent of many celebrity weddings: ill conceived, but quickly ended. The calls for ethics in…
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The problem with AI ethics - The Verge
Big tech companies like Google and Microsoft have embraced AI ethics boards and charters, assuring the public that they’re essential to keeping the worst effects of machine learning in control. But are these projects actually helping anyone?
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Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart - Vox
One member resigned and two more are under fire. It’s only a week old.
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Google scraps AI ethics council after backlash: 'Back to the drawing board' | Technology | The Guardian
Decision comes after employees called for the removal of a rightwing thinktank leader from the council
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Are Bankers and Venture Capitalists Really Getting Fleeced by Patagonia? - The New York Times
They won’t be leaving “bros out in the cold,” says Patagonia. Here’s how the company is thinking about its famous banker fleeces.
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Artist JR Transforms the Louvre With a 2000-Piece Paper Optical Illusion | Colossal
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
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The Shed and the art of the flex
It’s nestled by Hudson Yards, a shiny and pricey new smart neighborhood on Manhattan’s once-blighted West Side, and this giant lurching structure is supposed to…
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The Shed – AVC
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Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture
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Christo Will Soon Wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Blue Fabric - Architectural Digest
Following last summer’s blockbuster installation in London, Christo has turned his attention to the City of Light by wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in recyclable fabric
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The Body Electric • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture
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Booooooom TV Best of the Week: Music Videos, Short Films & Animation
A selection of the best our favourite videos featured on Booooooom TV this week!
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Inside David Lynch’s scariest scene | The Outline
In a long, often terrifying career, The Mystery Man from ‘Lost Highway’ sticks out as the stuff of nightmares.
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Westeros World Title Sequence
A homage to the two iconic drama series Game of Thrones and Westworld and to title designers Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks. The project came to fruition over…
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Future Cities | Public Seminar
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NASA Captures First Air-to-Air Images of Supersonic Shockwaves Interacting in Flight | Open Culture
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