Interactive map of fundamental physics: explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

Great detailed history of PayPal as it evolved and accelerated since spin-off from eBay.

A contemporary form of escapism: consuming other people’s personalities as if you know them

We shape our interfaces; thereafter, they shape us.

The self-contained nature of games means they are not only eroding mass culture but also making government regulation more difficult.

In this post I’d like to discuss why I believe video games will become a new battleground for the soul of a country. Before I start, I will need to cover some basics. However, I’m also going to have…

September 11th, 2021: It’s been three years since I first moved to Taiwan. I moved there in 2018 without any plans and not knowing what was going to happen. I’ve gotten married, committed to writing, started an online business that’s supporting my life, and still don’t quite know what comes next.

It’s hard for us to fathom exponential change – but our inability to do so could tear apart businesses, economies and the fabric of society

What is the great theory of change for Ethereum and the blockchain industry which will galvanize, inspire, and ultimately save us? This 3-part series presents a guiding narrative and vision for the…

When Amanda Gorman stepped forward to read ‘The Hill We Climb’ at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, her book sales rocketed overnight. Gorman’s poem expressed yearning, fatigue…

Working on numerous urban mobility-related initiatives here in Sweden, and running design workshops with stakeholders from municipalities, regional and national government, transport agencies, Volvo…

Likely futures are not necessarily imaginable

Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t know what happens next, we don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition.

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Frasers Property’s Mick Caddey and Watpac’s Ric Wang gives an insight to the significance of the milestone the construction team achieved on Friday 1 Februar…

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Technology has emerged as the primary disruptor and value creator across all sectors.

You think startups are hard? Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next…

Shot on the new iPhone 13 Pro, ‘Float’ is a short film about the journey that a father and daughter take together. #shotoniphone#iphone13 #cinematicmodeAundr…

“I finally cracked it.” Those were the words — sadly, some of his last — that Steve Jobs famously (sadly, becoming infamously) spoke to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. He was speaking, of course…

Apple’s patent, which was filed three years ago and was recently awarded, highlights an ambitious design for the MacBook, which is now undergoing design modifications. The US Patent and Trademark…

Working with Brian Eno on design principles for streets. Bringing a cultural voice into an urban planning conversation that has become narrowly technical, and diversifying the thinking around what….

Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?

The past few years have seen the field of synthetic biology (SynBio) mature and expand at a notable pace. The diverse backgrounds joining the field have contributed greatly to the advancements that…

We are not in a second industrial age. That may be the dream of those who really want to double down on the dehumanizing legacy of the past few hundred years of employment. But the emergence of…

A Portfolio of Work. Workers will increasingly have a constantly shifting landscape of traditional work, project-based work, and entrepreneurial activity. Parents ask me all the time, “Why won’t my kid get a real job?” A portfolio of work is a hedge strategy against an unpredictable future of exponential change. There have been major disruptions in […]

The Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has just published my editorial, “Competitive Compatibility: Let’s Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants,” explaining how…

Fluid multi-pseudonymity perfectly describes the way we live our lives and the reality that identity systems must realize if we are to live authentically in the digital sphere.

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Three huge forces are shaping game development in 2021: the solo-to-social trend, the technologists-to-artists trend, and the games-to-economy trend. Understanding these trends is critical to taking…

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JPMorgan Chase’s recently launched UK digital bank was built with 10x Banking, the cloud-native fintech set up by former Barclays chief Antony Jenkins.

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FinTech, it is widely acknowledged, is a force for good. Harnessing technology, it can improve services, empower competition, extend inclusion, combat fraud and much, much more besides. But the biggest promise routinely made by fintech champions is that of reducing cost – and nowhere do we hear that claim more than in the payments area. It is perhaps odd then that the payments tech du jour is Buy Now Pay Later. ‘BNPL’ may well be ramping up competition and reducing costs for those shoppers that

Should the regulators, the legislators and the commercial banks be working together to bring the number of unbanked down to zero? No. The goal of a modern and forward-looking strategy should be not to bank the unbanked but to unbank the banked.

JPMorgan (JPM) reached a deal with German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) to buy almost 75 percent of its financial services unit for undisclosed terms.

Africa now has five tech companies valued at over $1B, not including the “hidden unicorns.” Here’s a look at who they are and who’s next up.

+An Egyptian mega-round +Digitizing informal retail +Mobile money reads +Leapfrogging ‘leapfrogging’ +Gamification +Future of work & web 3.0

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OpenAI will release GPT-4 in the next few years. It will have around 100 trillion parameters.

OpenAI was born as a non-profit but later changed to “capped-profit.” Now, they seem to be chasing the money.

Stanford declared that there has been a “sweeping paradigm shift in AI” due to Transformer Models – we think otherwise.

Government agencies are attempting to measure people’s trust in AI without considering whether the AI is trustworthy

A former Walmart executive wants to start a city from scratch and turn it into a modern utopia.The city will be called “Telosa,” and billionaire Marc Lore ho…

We all want to do good. Well, a great many of us want to do good. We recognize that the climate is in peril, corporations are dangerously extractive, wealth disparity is at all-time highs, our kids…

An array of new actors beyond formal international relations are emerging to cope with pandemics, climate change and geopolitical pandemonium.

At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others are looking up to the vast potential of space exploitation. Quietly but surely, they are sharpening their tools to acquire strategic positions in this…

The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.

Go deep on the design process behind this public hub, makerspace and presentation hall

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Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present Into the Deepest by Bosco Sodi, an exhibition featuring a series of dense and deeply black paintings, alongside …

A new exhibition is being launched to show you exactly what you spend your money on - including the stuff you don’t want to see. Lloyds Bank has teamed up with artist and ethnographer Paula Zuccotti to visualise your monthly bank statements as works of art. The idea is to…

Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent - Punkfilmpje - Hilda Raspoet - afdeling Digitale Beeldende Kunst - #www.academiegent.be/inschrijven

BalenciagaSummer 22Red Carpet PremiereOctober 2, from 8PM CET

Der Silbersee van Kurt Weill is een uitbundige jazzy opera. De wervelende productie transporteert je naar een akelig 2033 . Deze opener van ons operaseizoen …

The Matrix Resurrections in cinemas December #TheMatrixMovie—————–https://www.facebook.com/TheMatrixMovie/https://twitter.com/TheMatrixMovie https…

Fendi | Fall Winter 2021/2022 by Silvia Venturini Fendi | Full Fashion Show in High Definition. (Widescreen - Exclusive Video - MFW/Milan Fashion Week Men’s)

Film directed by Albert MoyaPhotographs by Rafael PavarottiStyling Nancy RohdeMake-up Lucy Bridge Hair Sam McKnightNail Artist Sylvie Mac MillanCasting Model…

Manon Bouquet is a French stage artist and choreographer whose work has community and exchange as central themes. In her latest project, Le Groupe, she explo…

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Dana Pajarillaga and Daniel Asamoah from FMKF collective by Franka Marlene Foth. The dancers control nature-like ambient sounds by their movements via our SO…

When train doors close, these jingles warn riders to stand clear.

Tom Sachs Rocket Factory is a trans-dimensional manufacturing plant. Our Rocket Factory uses NFTs to build new NFTs. The Genesis NFT Collection from Tom Sachs