(as we know them) Uber isn’t just killing the taxi industry. Its’ relentless approach to distribution and scale is also putting a nail in the coffin of app stores. Smart companies like Uber are rewriting the app distribution rulebook. Instead of being a bland icon lost amongst millions of others,…

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According to research that has taken place in Japan , Finland and Texas , people who took walks or were shown images of nature were found to have a natural decline in heart rate. When stress becomes an overwhelming burden, it’s the exact opposite. If nature can reduce the stress levels riveting…

Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a handful of wealthy corporate titans – the ‘oligarchs’ – kept the masses at bay with a brutal combination of…

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If the goal of the economy is to provide decent-paying work for everyone, that economy clearly isn’t doing a good job at the moment. Real wages for most Americans haven’t increased in 40 years . Real unemployment–which includes the “under-employed”–is above 10% . Many jobs are now part-time,…

For six weeks Yegor Tsvetkov, a young St. Petersburg photographer, has been snapping random people and then identifying them on Russia’s biggest social network VKontakte with the help of the FindFace app (based on algorithms of self-learning neural networks). According to Tsvetkov, who has named his…

Illustration by Min Heo _This is the third piece in a three-part series on sleep. Read part one, on falling asleep, and part two , on sleeping and dreaming. _ Did you get enough sleep last night? Are you feeling fully awake, like your brightest, smartest, and most capable self? This, unfortunately,…

About The Author Chris Ashton is a Senior Software Engineer working for BBC News. When he’s not busy coding, he enjoys singing as a tenor in the BBC Symphony Chorus.More about Chris … February 17, 2016 High-Impact, Minimal-Effort Cross-Browser Testing Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks…

Quinn Brenner was living a nightmare. Her mother passed away. She was rejected from drama school. Then, as she was leaving an audition, she was hit by a car. After flat-lining, Quinn managed to survive, waking up in the hospital with two broken legs. Throughout this grueling recovery, her phone was…

On a cool spring evening, weeks before I was to receive my college diploma, I ran into two old friends at a pre-graduation party. While I was excited to catch up with them, our conversation quickly headed in an unexpected direction when one of them abruptly said: “Move to London with us.” The…

As our relationship with photography shifts, will desktop-based photo-editing programs like the Google Nik Collection go the way of the film camera? Photograph by Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP “Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1977 book “On…

You don't have to shop at Ikea to see that Sweden is obsessed with wood. Over 57% of the country is covered in upwards of 51 billion trees , and lumber and paper products are one of the country's biggest exports . So leave it to Swedish researchers to figure out a whole new use for all that wood:…

There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisions. Startup gets traction. Hiring takes off. Management is suddenly needed. Founder turns to his best engineer: “I’m drowning. Can you manage this team for me?" David Loftesness , Twitter’s…

Photo by Jake Darwen What Skateboarding Has Taught Me About Life The other day I saw a Nike commercial that was about skateboarding stereotype — it shows the perception of how people see skateboarders. They see us as adolescents who never grew up; like our sole purpose is to invade or destroy other…

I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost immediately after, I ran into another friend and asked him how he was. Again, same tone,…

It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life: YOU. I am endlessly fascinated by the link between the way we choose to live our lives and the happiness we enjoy on a daily basis. There are choices that you make every day, some of which seem completely unrelated to your happiness,…

Can you remember what you were doing, exactly 1,000 days ago? Take a look at the grid of little squares above. Yep, that’s 1,000 days. Doesn’t look all that long, right? It probably represents 1/30th of your life. *gulp* 1,000 days ago we were embarking on the first steps of our journey to build…

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Lanky and handsome at 47, Behar keeps fit with a regimen of surfing and yoga. In a crowd he is most easily spotted by his wild tangle of brown hair, now graying at the edges, which adds a dash of mad scientist to an otherwise manicured appearance. His style is Silicon Valley dressed for a date: a…

Remember you will die. Maybe even today. Don’t forget that. Don’t forget to be thankful for your health. For the ability to walk. For the time you get to spend with the person you love. For your siblings. For whatever it is that you have today. It’s not yours, it can be stolen away at any moment. So…

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While on the road in the Northern Scotland, Patagonia climbing ambassador, Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll reflects on the garments that have accompanied him on expeditions all around the world. "A piece that is full of patches and repairs has a spirit. It has a story attached to it!" says Sean. The…

The web is full of resources telling you to use the relative lengths “em” and “rem” over pixel, because they would make your design more accessible. Almost all Front-End Developers I know (including myself) were blindly following these instructions for years and it became a de facto standard in the…

There's something undeniably alluring about a road trip - the freedom of the open road, embracing the unknown round each bend, being awestruck by stunning landscapes and meeting amazing people along the way. But it's one thing to enjoy a fun weekend road trip and another entirely to commit to it as…

Noch vor fünf Jahren war es tabu, Pelz zu tragen. Heute ist Fell wieder angesagt - von Kojoten, Marderhund, Fuchs, Nerz oder Kaninchen. Nirgendwo profitiert die Wirtschaft so sehr von der Pelzmode wie in Europa und China. Dabei zeigen Meinungsumfragen, dass die Mehrheit der Deutschen Echtpelz immer…

If you’re not aware of the rapidly growing infrastructure of invisible apps, you should be. A comScore survey found that 65% of smartphone users download ZERO new apps per month, with 7% of users accounting for over half of all app downloading activity. With numbers like that, developers need to…

I think spatially, and so do you. Can you scratch your left ear without looking? Pick a booger out of your nose, without poking your brain? Remember where you left your keys? Can you type, without looking at your keyboard? Know which pocket your phone is in? Which way is up? Do you know where the…

I’m 32, and last week I retired. Maybe retirement isn’t the right word. If there’s a word that means, “I’m free to live the life of my dreams,” I’m that. Three years ago I helped with a tech startup and have been extremely busy with that ever since. The last year or two I’ve been struggling with a…

Many factors come into play when you want to win a horserace. Next to the fastest horse, there’s a need for the best team, perfect daily condition, an extraordinary rider and sometimes also a big bunch of luck. Passionate trademark analyst and L2 founder Scott Galloway calls out the rates of Amazon,…

“So there we were, staring at each other thru misty eyes as we watched our baby, our dream, our idea die before it even had a chance to live. But just before we pulled the plug…we decided to join the long procession of young kids, with crazy ideas who were told by some authority that they couldn’t…

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your desk but you’re doing something you genuinely care about? What the Experts Say Unfortunately, most of…

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short not to enjoy it. 4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. 5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need. 6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to…

By Margaret Atwood Animations by Carl Burton Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind. Back in 2009, as…