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The construction industry is wasteful and creates huge CO2 emissions. But what if new buildings had to be adapted and resused or built only with materials already available?

They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains.

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity. Student mage Laura Ferno has designs on the future: her mother died trying to reach space using m...

The Kingstons, the polygamists that Big Love toned down to make them believeable for TV. Also featuring Turkish and Russian costars. Terminology note: when I refer to the established Chu...

The online magazine deleted a glowing story about Facebook after questions were raised about whether it was an ad.

Casey Reas, Joshua Davis, Ben Fry, Helena Sarin, and Sougwen Chung have pioneered the use of new software programs in generative art.

Isaac Asimov loved large numbers. He was born a century ago this month, and when he died, in 1992, he was both the most famous science fiction writer in the ...

Reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities.

The Data Detox Kit: everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

New Adventures conference, 22–23 January 2020, Nottingham, UK. Our fifth adventure will explore speculative, strategic and critical design, inclusivity, climate and sustainability, and what happens next.

Come along as we try to file our taxes for free on TurboTax!

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

The US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani heaps substantial tension onto an already very tense US-Iranian relationship.

Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours

Tomorrow our studio’s recent AI Data Painting with Mars MRO photographic memories will be coming alive @TimeMachine_AI in Austin, Texas! 6 meters by 5 meters 3mm LED media wall. pic.twitter.com/C5ZXYAAkBS— Refik Anadol (@refikanadol) November 13, 2019

We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.

Zany, early creative communities like DeviantArt and conceptart.org have been steamrolled by homogenous social media platforms.

Laura Kalbag discusses the gift of personal data we give to Big Tech when we share information on its platforms, and how reviving ye olde personal website can be one way to stay in control of the content we share and the data we leak. Christmas is a time for giving, but know what you’re giving to whom.

What would social media look like if it served the public interest?

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The dark world of online murder markets

Twelve new workers have come forward to The Verge with more allegations.

There is a growing ‘minimalism movement’ that puts less emphasis on buying things, and more on people, places and happiness

GIF art avec Processing Par Etienne Jacob pour GROW 2.5

Across the country, architectural masterpieces are sitting on the market.