Hope you're having a splendid week thus far. If you're up to it, Elon Musk is offering up $100 million for creating the best carbon-capture technology.
We've got some good reads for you so let's gets right into it.
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Bjarke Ingels: The Architect, making it BIG 🏛️
From our Canvs Editorial Team: Bjarke Ingels, a towering personality in architecture (and design as a whole) has had a knack for breaking trends in a domain where subversion is akin to blasphemy.
Behind the redesign of Google Search on mobile 📱
A Google insider takes us through the redesign of Google's new mobile search. The redesign focuses on results, not frills.
Retail investors hit back at Wall Street via Reddit 💰
Hell hath no fury as a subreddit scorned. Specifically, r/wallstreetbets propelled the share price of Gamestop upwards, a company that was being heavily shorted by institutional investors. To a lot, this looked like retribution, to some it looked like a company seeing (potentially short-lived) hope from its long-standing customers through the years instead of despair from hedge funds. It all started with entrepreneur Ryan Cohen.
2021-The State of Design | By Abstract 🏆
The state of Design in 2021, based on various opinions by experts. The seriousness of product Design as a discipline, design's accountability towards business, cutting the clutter, and the next big thing in Design.
Spotify's Design Productivity Blueprint 🎧
A beautiful ensemble of masterful illustrations carrying the weight of a civilization going through unprecedented pain.
Why AI ethicist Timnit Gebru was asked to leave Google 🚪
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. Also, here's a scathing Twitter thread again from Karen Hao's article on the ethical problems with the growing dominance of Big Tech on everything new.
Bumble IPO goes forward with the youngest women CEO to take this feat forward 📈
The women first dating app filed paperwork on Friday for an initial public offering. Here's also a profile on Whitney Wolfe Herd the inspiring 31 y.o. CEO of Bumble.
What does a good design org actually look like? Designer extraordinaire Matthew Strom gives his two cents on how good design works only if it self-aware of the service it provides to its customers.
A beautiful ensemble of masterful illustrations carrying the weight of a civilization going through unprecedented pain.
Limiting Big Tech’s power by mimicking the design of Bitcoin 👥
Companies inspired by the cryptocurrency are creating social networks, storing online content, and hosting websites with completely decentralized authority, reminiscent of the Mastodon model.
SpaceX launches 143 satellites on one rocket in record-setting mission 🚀
The mission, dubbed Transporter-1, carried 10 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink internet network, and more than 130 satellites for a variety of customers including Planet, which operates a constellation of Earth-imaging satellites, and ICEYE, which develops small radar satellites for monitoring ice and tracking floods.
Honorary mentions
SOUL, a new language makes audio coding vastly more accessible 🎙️
How the Bernie Sanders meme shows signs of an "internet reset" 👴
CRED's open source UI Framework 🔓
Google says goodbye to giant internet balloons idea 🎈
Current and former employees are sounding the alarms about security issues in Signal's platform. 🕵️
And that's the lot! Thanks for checking out what we had to share with you this week, we shall catch up with you next Wednesday.
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