“The Boxing Cats” (1894) and “Kitten Fight in a Ring” (2013) via Giphy The summer’s hottest destination for video entertainment is a U.K.-based social media brand called LADbible. In July alone, the viral clips that churn out of its Facebook page were viewed more than 3 billion times. Though the…

iPhoneX: 4.3 billion transistors in the A-11 https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/#a11 2,199,023,255,552 bits in the 256 GB memory—each of which needs a transistor (and a capacitor) Let's say 2.5 trillion transistors... And you can buy 256 GB of memory for $100—of which, say, 1/4 is the cost of a…

Colorado Film Commission When Eric Gray was 17, he took a picture of his penis and texted it to a 22-year-old woman he fancied, asking, "Do u like it babe?" Gray, whose lack of social skills had led to a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, may have thought he was courting the woman. She thought he was…

From a three-part talk series on graphic design. Articles are made of articles. I invite you to read Typography is Impossible and The Punctuation Guide . Update: Thanks for the tremendous support! Some of you requested to use the guide for their students/teams. Here’s the PDF:…

THE FIRST THING that must be said about the ancient town of Civita di Bagnoregio, just two hours away from Rome and Florence, is that it is beautiful. From a distance, it looks literally otherworldly: The town sits so high atop a perilously steep pinnacle of eroding volcanic rock that it seems as if…

Photo: Getty The last place you should have to worry about being hacked is laid out in a hospital bed. But as wireless devices continue to fill patient rooms, those fears can’t help but grow. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory warning about a vulnerability…

“Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” That was only one in a string a tweets on Sept. 11 by ESPN host Jemele Hill in which Hill goes on to say that Trump is “the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime,” that he hired and…

The Campaign For North Africa, in all its glory. Photo by board game owner Charles Picard. The thick, black-and-white rulebook packaged with every copy of the 1979 war-game The Campaign For North Africa is full of obtuse decrees, but the tabletop community always had a special appreciation for entry…

Hillary Clinton has devoted an entire chapter to her comment about coal communities in her new book What Happened . Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Back in March 2016, at a Democratic town hall in Ohio , Hillary Clinton made what was probably the best-known “gaffe” of her campaign. As part of an…

Perhaps Donald Trump is too "emotional" to be president. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended Donald Trump’s reckless tweeting about the subway bombing in London, saying it was a result of the president’s emotions. Just after…

When I was 21, I went into the office of a producer of the television show I was starring in to discuss a big problem. By this point I had been acting for more than a decade, and the show was very successful and beloved. Still, I was nervous about facing the firing squad of Emmys that sat behind him…

The latest unwanted tech “innovation” aims to make the bodega obsolete, and Twitter is not having it. A startup, boldly called Bodega, has invented a vending machine that would house non-perishable convenience items, which sounds fine . But, the two ex-Google employees behind the concept are…

Daniella Zalcman, a photojournalist based in London who has created a database of female photographers. To promote a new camera, Nikon enlisted 32 photographers from Asia, Africa and the Middle East to try it out and tell their stories on the company’s website . But Nikon couldn’t — or didn’t — find…

“You know what this place needs,” I said to myself this morning, as I went into the little store around the corner where I buy my daily coffee, my breakfast sandwiches, my late-night potato chips, and my emergency tampons. “What it needs is less stuff, and to be inside my apartment building, and…

"The internet is shit today. It's broken. It was probably always broken, but it's worse than ever." My conversation with Peter Sunde , one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. There's good reason for that: In the last couple of months, the…

This past May in New York City, YouTube held a summit for its top 100 or so video personalities, individuals and networks. It was a chance for these creators to get face time with senior YouTube executives and discuss what was happening on the video platform. One issue that some attendees felt…

Daily Tedium The Great Platform Problem In an era when every content platform wants to sell you the moon, going your own way is a valid option. For one thing, there’s no risk of “demonetization.” Featured 06 Sep 2017 about tedium, youtube, monetization, platforms, independent, medium, tumblr, inside…

The first time Alex Acero saw Her , he watched it like a normal person. The second time, he didn't watch the movie at all. Acero, the Apple executive in charge of the tech behind Siri , sat there with his eyes closed, listening to how Scarlett Johansson voiced her artificially intelligent character…

This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands Recently, while standing on a rooftop bar in Lisbon – my face sunburned and sand in my hair after a day on the beach – I looked around to realise that everyone else in this bar was ridiculously beautiful. Every single person there was stunning and…

While it sometimes feels like we do all of our shopping on the internet, government data shows that actually less than 10% of all retail transactions happen online. In a world where we get our groceries delivered in just two hours through Instacart or Amazon Fresh, the humble corner store–or bodega…

Louis Johnson & Leo Fender If I asked you to remember the first time you heard about UX, you would probably tell me it was in the last decade, maybe earlier. But the truth is, UX has existed ever since humans started making things. It was just never called “UX” because humans didn’t realize its…

Credit Matt Chase 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Over lunch in a downtown restaurant, Beatrice, a New Yorker in her late 30s, told me about two decisions she and her husband were considering. They were thinking about where to buy a second home and whether their young children should go to private school. Then she…

“That’s how these little circles of community are marked—by what you share,” says Graeber. You might have heard about the Detroit comeback. It’s a popular narrative in media silos these days, a tale of investment and revitalization. Young people look romantically to the city as a “blank…

This story reflects the views of these authors, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company. These are fast-changing times. Old certainties are collapsing around us and people are scrambling for new ways of being in the world. As we pointed out in a recent article , 51% of young…

Television has always had a soft spot for nostalgia. From Happy Days to Mad Men to The Get Down , there is always some creative genius scribbling about a lost era that most of the target market experienced only in history books. While HBO brags that they’re “not television,” they too have had their…

I’m not a narcissist, but sometimes my copy is. One time, I nearly lost my mind while brainstorming copy for a holiday print ad. I was writing for Havenly , an interior design company, and we were advertising in a popular home decorating magazine. “Keep it simple,” I told myself, “this has been done…

Last week, Americans woke up to news of yet another mass breach of their personal data. The consumer credit reporting agency Equifax revealed that as many as 143 million Americans’ Social Security numbers , dates of birth, names and addresses may have been stolen from its files — just the kind of…

An illustrated depiction of facial analysis technology similar to that used in the experiment.Illustration: Alamy Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research that suggests machines can have significantly…

Off Exit 484A on 101 North through Rohnert Park, California, you’ll find the usual roadside offerings: There’s a Burger King and a Taco Bell, and marginally more exciting, there’s a Chick-fil-A and an In-N-Out Burger. But right off the road that bisects the interstate, you’ll find a fast-food…

Entrance to the theater at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin. Spring Green, WI. Don’t stare at your industry. Look in the opposite direction. Have you noticed that Instagram has been looking more and more like Snapchat lately (of course you have)? When companies compete, they tend to borrow from each…

Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I went ahead and removed the Facebook app from my phone. Now, I genuinely enjoy Facebook. I use it for keeping up with with my family and my IRL friends, who are spread out all over the world. (The questions I ask…

Hackers stole data from a casino by hacking into an Internet-connected fish tank, according to a new report. (iStock) Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to access people’s data . Most recently, the way was as simple as a fish tank. The hackers attempted to acquire data from a North American…

Story highlights "This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success," Obama wrote The words reveal a conciliatory outgoing commander in chief (CNN) During his final moments in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama folded into thirds a handwritten letter to Donald Trump, slid it into…

"You can't do much, alone." That's the tagline for Pikuniku , a game that looks like a platformer, sounds like a dystopian adventure, and plays a lot like a blobby physics experiment where people yell excitedly quite a lot. It's got the heart of Animal Crossing—friendship as its goal and perky…

As someone who identifies as polysexual, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to me. "You're just slutty," or "Your man is OK with that, really?" are things I've heard over and over…

The grim tale of America’s “ subprime mortgage crisis ” delivers one of those stinging moral slaps that Americans seem to favor in their histories. Poor people were reckless and stupid, banks got greedy. Layer in some Wall Street dark arts, and there you have it: a global financial crisis. Dark arts…

PAX West 2017: Devolver Digital At PAX West 2017, COGconnected was lucky enough to visit the Devolver Digital booth for a closer look at some highly anticipated and recently announced titles. Specifically, we saw High Hell , Reigns: Her Majesty , Pikuniku , and Swords of Ditto . For a closer look at…