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Did you know Facebook is planning to rebrand with a whole new name for the social media platform being announced next week? Looks like they might be trying to revamp their image in the face of some horrendous PR.
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Frank Gehry: The man who created the Dancing Building 🏢
This year marks architect Frank Gehry’s 92nd birthday. What better excuse to take a look back on the seven-decade-long career of one of the boldest and the most influential American designers since Frank Lloyd Wright.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency 🔮
Worldcoin is perhaps one of the most audacious efforts to bribe the world to embrace their currency. That being said, it still requires scanning a billion people’s eyeballs with a five-pound chromatic sphere called “The Orb”.
Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs' 👁️
Privacy advocate Edward Snowden, the man famous for leaking government documents, has a lot of issues with the concept. Snowden took to Twitter to tell his 5 million followers his issues with Worldcoin: the use of the human body for crypto.
Technology (alone) can’t save Indian agriculture 🌾
Have you started farming yet? Or made a kitchen garden? Do I hear you say you’re thinking about it? Okay, good. That’s a start.
How Hackers Hijacked Thousands of High-Profile YouTube Accounts 💰
Google has shed light on a spate of attacks that turned creator channels into cryptocurrency scam livestreams.
The Facebook Papers may be the biggest crisis in the company's history 🤦♂️
Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once.
One of the great myths of interface design is that all interfaces must be simple, and that everything should be immediately intuitive.
Life is too short not to have a well-designed product 📱
At one time, MVP was a smart move to develop a product, especially for small businesses considering lack of resources. However, MVP is not sufficient in a market that stresses on good design.
Amazon’s “Delivery Premier League” gamifies gig work in India 🛍️
From Indonesia to India, platforms have harnessed game mechanics to drive participation and competitiveness of part-time workers. Leaderboards, customer ratings, level-up badges, and engagement rewards are now becoming a mainstay in the gig economy.
The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design 💻
Just about every 10 years or so, there’s a fundamental shift in how we do things that are paramount to leapfrogging what we’ve done before… and we are about to leap in to the next phase once again.
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations 😈
Major companies in India are using Rephrase.ai to create avatars of celebrities and executives, and commercial use is coming soon.
Honorary mentions
This carbon-negative perfume is made from captured CO2 ✨
[The Sea We Breathe [Interactive Experience] 🌊](https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/the-sea-we-breathe/journeys/)
Take the 2021 Design Tools Survey 📝
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