The Los Angeles Dodgers have negotiated a long-term television deal that would pay the team $7 billion to $8 billion, a move...
Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design
Label: Technology Simple doesn’t just sell, it sticks. Simple made hits of the Nest thermostat, Fitbit, and TiVo. Simple brought Apple back from the dead. It’s why you have Netflix. The Fisher Space Pen, the Swiss Army Knife, and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual are some of our most enduring products. All are marvels of simplicity.Yet while many mechanical marvels of simplicity remain true to their original form,...
“Cyborg Foundation” wins $100K Focus Forward prize
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Spanish director Rafel Duran Torrent has won the $ 100,000 cash prize in the Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. The awards, the most lucrative ever given to short documentaries, went to five different shorts, with the top one being Duran Torrent’s “Cyborg Foundation.”The director will also be invited to a Sundance Institute ShortsLab program...
The New Old Age Blog: Study Links Cognitive Deficits, Hearing Loss
Label: HealthThere’s another reason to be concerned about hearing loss — one of the most common health conditions in older adults and one of the most widely undertreated. A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that elderly people with compromised hearing are at risk of developing cognitive deficits — problems with memory and thinking — sooner than those whose hearing is intact.The study...
Bits Blog: Keeping the Internet Safe From Governments
Label: Business Even before the World Conference on International Telecommunications took place last month in Dubai, Internet activists anticipated trouble. So did Congress, which issued a resolution calling it “essential” that the Internet remain “stable, secure and free from governmental control.”The worries proved prescient. The conference, which supposedly was going to modernize some ancient regulations, instead...
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County official calls car leasing contract procedure 'embarrassing'
Label: World Auditors reviewing a $1.75-million car leasing contract given to a company with a politically connected lobbying firm found...
Strut Your Digital Design Skills in Wired's 3-D Print-Off
Label: Technology .ac-container div input {display:none !important;}.ac-container div ul {display: none !important;}.ac-container div label {display: none !important;}.ac-container div input {display:none !important;}.ac-container div ul {display: none !important;}.ac-container div label {display: none !important;}No need to buy a gift box when you can 3-D print one. Design: Alia Hasan3-D printing puts manufacturing...
Michelle Obama wears Wu to the balls again
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama made it a fashion tradition Monday night, wearing a custom-made Jason Wu gown to the inauguration balls. The ruby-colored dress was a follow-up to the white gown Wu made for her four years ago when she was new to Washington, the pomp and circumstance, and the fashion press.She now emerged in velvet and chiffon as a bona fide trendsetter.“I can’t believe it. It’s crazy,”...
The New Old Age Blog: The Brutal Truth of 'Amour'
Label: HealthIt has been a few days since I left the movie theater in a bit of a daze, and I’m still thinking about “Amour.”So much of this already much-honored film rings utterly true: the way a long-married Parisian couple’s daily routines, their elegant life of books and music and art, can be upended in a moment. The tender care that Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) provides for Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) as multiple...
DealBook: At Davos, Crisis Is the New Normal
Label: BusinessDAVOS, Switzerland — In certain ways, the very setting of the World Economic Forum reflects the restless, challenged state of human affairs. Our footing is uncertain, as on this ski resort’s slithery streets, and we have steep slopes to climb, as the Magic Mountain will remind the global elite this week.Barely into 2013, Mali and Algeria are new sites of hot war and chilling fear. Where the tumult...
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