At Meetings, It’s Mind Your Blackberry Or Mind Your Manners

Poly Mono is like Wingdings, if Wingdings was colorful, geometric, and obsessed with Karel Martens. When is a font no longer a font? Poly Mono, a new font made of shapes instead of letters, blurs that line. Like Wingdings, the dingbat font made of primitive emoji-like characters, Poly Mono isn’t actually designed for spelling anything out.

Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.

Ocean heat in 2024 is a big reason why forecasters are warning of a busy hurricane season. The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are predicting an exceptionally active season.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) European car manufacturers are currently tripping over themselves to figure out how personal transport and "last mile" solutions will look in the years to come. The solutions are always electric, and they're also tiny. What most companies (bar Citroen, Renault, and Fiat) seem to have forgotten is that we've had an answer to this problem all along: the microcar. The microcar is a singular little thing—its job is to frugally take one person (or maybe two people) where they need to go while taking up as little space as possible.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $6 billion to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at OpenAI. The Series B round, announced in a blog post on May 26, comes less than a year after xAI’s debut and marks one of the bigger investments in the nascent field of developing AI tools.

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