NPR

How to build a happier, more fulfilling life using "design thinking"

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode What can you control in this chaotic world? What do you want out of life? Instead of ignoring daunting questions like this, designer Bill Burnett says we should ...
Indiatimes

What is ELITE app? ICE using Palantir's 'mapping tool' to track immigrants for deportation with IDs, locations, and photos

Federal immigration officers appear to be using a high‑tech mapping tool developed with data from Palantir to identify deportation targets across US. The tool is known as the 'Enhanced Leads ...
Express & Star

'I left my marketing job to become an interior designer in Stafford. I trained with a renowned London designer and help people across the Midlands to create their dream homes'

Michelle Gomes loved her career in marketing and communications but after her daughter was born her priorities started to shift. Realising she needed a job that would enable her to spend more time ...
Entrepreneur

Twitter and Pinterest Founders Join Forces on a New App Designed to Fix the ‘Terrible Devastation’ of Social Media

Twitter, now X, co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have already helped create mainstream social networks. Now the pair are teaming up to create a new app called Tangle, which ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
PBS

Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s use of Signal app put U.S. personnel at risk, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information ...
Android Authority

Here's a look at how Android 17 will make alternative app stores easier to use

As part of a settlement with Epic, Google is introducing support for “Registered App Stores” starting with Android 17. Certified third-party stores will utilize a “single store install screen” that ...
Android Authority

Liquid Glass proves that Android app design is still an afterthought

As a full-time Android user who keeps an iPad Mini and an old iPhone 13 Pro Max on my desk to check out the supposedly greener grass, I am very happy with my digital allegiances. And when Apple rolled ...
FIU News

Think like a costume designer to create the perfect Halloween look

For one night a year, everyone gets to think like a costume designer. Halloween is the people’s costume design festival, a celebration of imagination, storytelling, and transformation. You don’t need ...
ZDNet

This app will pay you $30/day to record your phone calls for AI - but is it worth it?

Neon will pay you to share your phone calls. The app sells recordings of your calls to AI companies for training. You can earn as much as $30 a day. A new app is promising to give you hundreds or even ...
News Medical

Engineers create designer biobots using human lung cells

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...
9to5Mac

PSA: The Starbucks app is broken, but here’s how to use it anyway

A slew of people are reporting that the Starbucks app is completely broken. With too-perfect irony, the thing that is breaking it is an app satisfaction survey … Multiple users are reporting that the ...