Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full Sprint program here. Feedback is a popular topic in design. Feedback and critiques are an integral part of the design process. Looking back, I began wondering if there is a structure to facilitate time to be well-spent. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Constructive feedbackwill clarify how to move the design forward....
Check out the full Rebrand program here. I hope this helps others who are feeling the same way. Many of us are uniquely attuned to news and social media updates. During a crisis, this is heightened. We have awareness on steroids. Productivity > fear I cant stop consuming, feeding off every blog I find. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. I absorb all the content I can find. My brain wont stop, wont pause during a crisis of this scale....
E-bikes are really having a moment. But and Im just gonna put this straight out there the market has a new metallic daddy. So, like, everyone slap your rumps in honor of the just-launched VanMoof S3. Want to know exactly why the VanMoof S3 has become my favorite e-bike? Thatll tell you everything you’re gonna wanna know. But would you rathernotdo that? Do you prefer having things written down? Well, because were such lovely people, weve done that....
Wolframs a household name in the science community. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Now, of course, wacky is a relevant term when it comes to physics. So calling a physics theory wacky implies an entirely different level of weirdness. The post begins with the ominous phrase I never expected this. To be fair, at some level Ive been working towards this for nearly 50 years. But its just in the last few months that its finally come together....
Most of us will be infected with a coronavirus at least once in our life. There is much more to coronaviruses than SARS-CoV-2. Coronaviruses are actually a family of hundreds of viruses. Most of these infected animals such as bats, chickens, camels, and cats. This is called cross-species transmission or spillover. The first coronavirus wasdiscovered in chickensin the 1930s. It was a few decades until thefirst human coronaviruses were identifiedin the 1960s....
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world to the test. Never before have we been so aware of the many ways we come into contact with innumerable others. How we come out of lockdown is the next challenge. It is important to avoid a resurgence of the virus while minimizing the societal and economic damage. Proposals range from creatingherd immunityto keeping the lockdown intact until the development of a treatment orvaccination....
The project kickstarted the field that has become known as artificial intelligence (AI). More than six decades later, the dream of creating artificial intelligence still eludes us. What is the difference between general AI and narrow AI? It should be able to do reasoning and abstraction, and easily transfer knowledge from one domain to another. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Creating an AI system that satisfies all those requirements is very difficult, researchers have learned throughout the decades....
Since the year 1950, the world has seen the emergence of more than a few programming languages. Over time, people started to communicate with machines in these multiple languages. As a result, plenty of wonderful software applications were born and many existing complex problems were solved. But, as we moved into the future, the battle for the toughest and more robust language began. While some of these were able to make it to the world that we know today, others faded....
Over the last month, Ive embarked ona whirlwind internet romancewith Hilda, a woman I met on Hinge. That all changed last week when I found conclusive proof of Hildas existence. But before that could happen, we agreed on one more virtual date: Strip bowling. Here are the rules: Each player wears five items of clothing to start. With tennis balls in hand and laptops filming the lanes, we let the game commence....
The bacteria were found inside thin cracks in rocks recovered from under the ocean floor beneath the Pacific Ocean. I am now almost over-expecting that I can find life on Mars. I wanna rock! Lava erupts from underwater volcanoes at temperatures reaching 1,200 degrees Celsius (2,200 Fahrenheit). This material cools in the chilly water, forming rocks, filled with tiny cracks. Bacteria soon find their way into the clay, where they can multiply, blooming into large colonies....
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full Sprint programhere. A Sprintin designer jargonis a time-constrained, five-phase process that usesdesign thinkingto reduce risk when designing a new product. It can help companies make better strategic decisions and innovate more quickly. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A Sprint is run with a group of people and takes place over several days with many moving parts....
Many countries have introduced social distancing measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand if these recommendations are effective, we need to assess how far they are being followed. TheNewcastle University Urban Observatorywas established to better understand the dynamics of movement in a city. It also monitors energy consumption, air quality, climate and many other variables. These inform and update the dashboard in real time. People Movement Monitoring Dashboard....
A certain professional cyclist whoallegedly won the Tour de France seven timesfamously said: Its not about the bike. And well, theyre both kind of right. Let me explain, by means of a convoluted review. These are the bits that makes the bike go and stop. Alongside the frame and wheels, the groupset impacts the overall dynamic performance of how the bike rides. For one, its wireless. All the gear shifting components connect and pair using an encrypted protocol kind of like Bluetooth....
