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Tear up outdated processes and watch how startup and internet companies do it, McKinsey experts advise.

I like to speak at conferences. Crazy, right? Sharing a piece of bleeding-edge hardware and interacting with an enthusiastic audience is a lot of fun for me. With any luck, attendees are moved enough by my ramblings to challenge themselves to new projects and build awesome stuff. While playing around with the $9 CHIP computer,…

GoshawkDB is a distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant object store, which puts its semantics and guarantees front and center

Tear up outdated processes and watch how startup and internet companies do it, McKinsey experts advise.

佐藤卓デザイン事務所 「ロッテ・ミントガムシリーズ」 「ロッテ・キシリトールガム」 「明治おいしい牛乳」 「ドコモ P701iD」 等の商品デザイン、「BS朝日」 「金沢21世紀美術館」等のVIデザイン、 NHK教育 「にほんごであそぼ」 の企画メンバー及びアートディレクション、大量生産品をデザインの視点で解剖する「デザインの解剖」プロジェクト等の紹介。東京ADC、東京TDC、JAGDA、日本デザインコミッティー、AGI会員。Taku Satoh Design Office, Product design for Lotte Mint Gum series, Lotte Xylitol Gum, Meiji Oishi Gyunyu, Docomo P701iD etc. VI design for BS Asahi TV, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum etc. Art direction for NHK Educational, Let's Play in Japanese. An analysis of the design of mass-produced products, Anatomy of Design, project. Member of Tokyo ADC, Tokyo TDC, JAGDA, Japan Design Committee, AGI.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT holds an exhibition "Design Anatomy: A method for seeing the world through familiar objects" from Oc...

The electrical grid, water, roads and bridges—the infrastructure we take for granted—is seldom noticed until it’s unavailable. The burgeoning open source software movement is taking steps to help rebuild crumbling...

Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to

Machine learning means every image ever taken can be searched or analyzed and insight extracted, at massive scale. Every glossy magazine archive is now structured data, and so is every video feed. How does this change retail?

n DOBOHAKU, the earth we live in is regarded as a museum of civil engineering. With the catchphrase as "The landscape you usually see becomes a 'museum'", we use our own video work and the digital archive of the JSCE in order to provide a glimpse of the unknown world of civil engineering"

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'Stubby' aims to protect your metadata from snoopers

Challenges and opportunities, how VUIs differ from IVRs, and tools for creating great conversational designs.

It's important in this age of big data to return the original meaning of serendipity and talk about it as a skill.

via My Modern Met Many of us spend most of our time indoors, so it’s important to cultivate a space that’s a healthy one. A simple—and beautiful—way to do this is through houseplants; they add some…

Geoff takes a look at the DNS Root Servers and gives some scores on how well they can cope with large responses.

Dan Kaminsky explains why a strong focus on ease of use—for developers, operators, and users—is our only hope for migrating toward a more secure Internet.

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on what to (and what not to) do, using the auto industry as an example

An Android phone hardened for privacy and security that plays Google at its own game.

Nearly an hour into the phone call, the woman began to get suspicious.

MXNet will be the deep learning framework of choice at AWS. AWS will contribute code and improved documentation as well as invest in the ecosystem around MXNet. We will partner with other organizations to further advance MXNet

John Scott-Railton | Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Note: This is a slightly modified version of a paper of the same name submitted to IEEE Security & Privacy...