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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.

Many strategy execution processes fail because “new strategies” are often not strategies at all. A real strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented because they do not represent such a set of clear choices. And many so-called strategies are in fact goals. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. It does not tell you what you are going to do; all it does is tell you what you hope the outcome will be. But you’ll still need a strategy to achieve it. Another reason why many implementation efforts fail is that executives see it as a pure top-down, two-step process: “The strategy is made; now we implement it.” That’s unlikely to work. A successful strategy execution process is seldom a one-way trickle-down cascade of decisions.

The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.

The “Harbinger Customers” Who Buy Unpopular Products & Back Losing Politicians

YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV).

Away promised a company culture of travel and inclusion, but former employees say CEO Steph Korey uses the company values to get people to work harder and longer.

Novelty is overrated.

🤖 NanoNeuron is 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can actually "learn" - nano-neuron/README.md at master · trekhleb/nano-neuron

Imagine an infinitely generated world that you could explore endlessly, continually finding entirely new content and adventures. What if you could also choose any action you can think of instead of…

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet. These are the untold accounts of the people who were there.

Min-Liang Tan was “officially pissed off,” he wrote in an email to members of Razer’s marketing team in February of 2014. The gaming hardware company hadn’t made the business website Fast Company’s 2014 list of “Most Innovative Companies,” and in his email, part of an exchange obtained by Kotaku, Tan asked of his…