Will We Stop Talking and Just Text?
BBC - Say this out loud: zomg wtfffffff im going 2 pwn you!!!!1111 lololol
Well, OK, you can’t. And yet, in its loosely structured live interactivity, internet slang like that is closer to speech than text. ...
New Study Suggests a Link between Creativity and Brain Structure
Artsy - What does a creative brain look like? Over the past two decades, through neuroimaging—the process through which scientists make scans of the human brain—we’ve begun to find out. Researchers have discov...
Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing
BBC - A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer. If they are right, then Microsoft will leap to the front o...
How can architects design facades for the age of climate change?
The Architects Newspaper - Taking environmental stresses into account when designing a building is typical, but rising tides, heat waves, extreme winds and other climate change-driven conditions present new cha...
What I Learned By Testing My Stress Levels on Social Media
BBC- Our social media producer Sophia Smith Galer monitored her stress levels and social media usage for a week – here’s what she found out. - read more...
Blockchain explained: It builds trust when you need it most
CNET - Trust is an essential part of ordinary living, whether it's picking mechanics based on Yelp reviews, sliding credit cards into gas station fuel pumps or heeding our doctor's advice. But our trust has bee...
Miami Art Basel: where art reckons with technology
The Verge - The Moon glowed against tufts of eerie night clouds. A few hundred people joined Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, the Dutch founders of Studio Drift to wait in anticipation. If the winds kicked up, ...
UK’s first permanent Virtual Reality space in an arts institution to open in London
The Art Newspaper - This year saw Virtual Reality (VR) reach new heights and capabilities in the art world and now London is getting its first free and permanent public VR space. London’s Zabludowicz Collection...
Hudson Yards centerpiece “Vessel” tops out
The Architects Newspaper - The 150-foot tall, bronzed-steel and concrete Vessel is designed to react to its surroundings in both material and function. Containing over 2,400 steps, 80 landings and 154 flights o...
Lasers and water gel used to restore Medieval altarpiece from Rimini
The Art Newspaper - Conservators at Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum are restoring the Rimini Altar, one of the best-preserved, largest and most exquisite late Medieval sculptural ensembles made from fragile alab...