Innovation

This architect wants to build cities out of lava
Pálmadóttir today lives in Reykjavik, where she runs her own architecture studio, S.AP Arkitektar, and the Icelandic branch of the Danish architecture company Lendager, which specializes in reusing building...
Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani spills business tea with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex | TechCrunch
Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point.  “If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldn’t have...
5 under-the-radar Kindle tricks to elevate your e-reading
At first glance, your Kindle might seem like a no-frills reading device: straightforward, minimal, and focused on the basics. Kind of like an actual book, huh?But beneath its simple...
RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics | TechCrunch
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023,...
Eli Roth Says Pandemic Problems Hurt Borderlands
There's a lot of things that went wrong with the Borderlands movie, and Eli Roth counts covid's impact on Hollywood among them. Source link
AI+EQ is transforming healthcare, not just for doctors 
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access...
A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’
The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day the couple’s houses were searched by...
The Last of Us Co-Showrunner Explains Why He Wanted Joel to Go to Therapy
The Last of Us season two premiere had story elements fans expected—tension, trauma, a time jump, infected-adjacent horrors, etc.—but it also featured the surprising sight of Joel (Pedro Pascal)...
Microsoft’s Recall AI Tool Is Making an Unwelcome Return
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a...
Chinese marketplace DHgate becomes a top US app as trade war intensifies | TechCrunch
The Trump trade war has gone viral on TikTok, pushing a Chinese e-commerce app, DHgate, to the top of the Apple App Store in the U.S. After Trump increased...
How the McMurtry Spéirling became the first car to drive upside down
Motorheads have long theorised that the extreme downforce generated by high-performance cars could one day let them drive upside down. Now, British carmaker McMurtry has turned that wild idea...
OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding
OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff...