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Thinking Like the World's Greatest Designers & Confirming the Simulation Theory

A rather inspiring story from the otherwise violent backdrop - how a Ukrainian tech company has been keeping work going from bunkers and battlefields.

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Rise and fall of the house of Bitcoin

A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.

Who Is policing the location data industry?

Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect.

DeepMind’s New AI Helps Restore Damaged Ancient Texts

Many inscriptions are so decrepit that large chunks are illegible. The company’s Ithaca tool assists historians in filling in the blanks.

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility.

Is BlinkIt going to make it?

For the uninitiated, BlinkIt (erstwhile Groffers) delivers groceries online. The rebranding comes in the wake of a new entrant, Zepto, in the market. Now the question remains, will this new stint as BlinkIt yield results? Meanwhile, as per reports, Zomato is nearing an all-stock deal to take over Blinkit.

Beautifully Designed Assistive Products

The legendary design firm that made Target a star is introducing a new line of products for CVS.

5 tricks to help you think like the world’s greatest designers

In a new book, Maria Brito looks at how designers and innovators throughout history have unlocked their creativity and changed the world.

How Wordpress and Tumblr and are keeping the internet weird

CEO Matt Mullenweg on why he bets big on small companies.

Of course we’re living in a simulation

The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.

Honorary mentions

Stunning photo captures space station crossing the moon

Winners of the 2022 World Photography Awards

The State of User Research 2022 Report

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