Microsoft Develops Set-Top Box Microsoft has been developing designs for a simple set-top device for streaming video and other entertainment options. More
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
Sam Ash Music closing all stores, 7 in Southern California Click to print (Opens in new window) Sam Ash Music, the 100-year-old retailer that stoked the musical aspirations of countless shoppers, announced Thursday, May 2 “with a heavy heart” that it was ... 05/3/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Link
U.S.C. Cancels Its Main Graduation Ceremony, Citing Security Concerns There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian. 04/25/2024 - 10:57 am | View Link
Pro-Palestinian encampment builds on UCLA campus The ‘Palestine Solidarity Encampment’ began with about a dozen protesters around 4 a.m. Thursday and swelled to some 1,000 activists and spectators by evening. 04/25/2024 - 6:23 am | View Link
What Are Error Fares And How Do You Find Them? Error fares are incredibly low-priced airfares that occur due to mistakes made by airlines or third-party websites. While there is no guarantee that they will be ... 12/19/2023 - 6:45 pm | View Link
University of Maine built a massive additive manufacturing device that can build houses, and a whole lot more.
In a warehouse at the University of Maine, there’s a gigantic new additive manufacturing machine named Factory of the Future 1.0. And if its developers are right, it could become the new way that many things get built.
Brunt is on a mission to design a better work boot for America’s 23.5 million tradespeople.
When we think of the shoe-obsessed consumer, our minds tend to go to women like Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, who opted for Manolo Blahniks over a mortgage. But there’s a large segment of men who also obsess over shoes: specifically, the 23.5 million tradespeople—80% of whom are male—who work in construction, manufacturing, and warehousing.
In ‘Designed For Life’ designers describe their creative process and what makes a great product.
A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best Product Designers, published by Phaidon Press.
One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion.
The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me.
Recent findings suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering. Scientists are begging us to listen.
Can animals suffer? It’s a question that has been floated around classrooms and dinner tables for centuries, at least since philosopher Jeremy Bentham posed it over 200 years ago.
Stress hormones spike in the weeks before a performance evaluation. This chief people officer says this doesn’t have to be the case.
These days, performance reviews are getting a bad rap. They’re described as “awful,” “harmful,” and getting “more stressful.” This is understandable. No one wants to feel that their entire body of achievement at work across a year can be summarized in a few paragraphs, or with a handful of adjectives that might not do justice to all the effort they put in.