Bubble

a decade after the first hutong bubble was realized in beibingmasi hutong, MAD architects unveils the ‘hutong bubble 218’, emerging from the chinese capital’s old neighborhoods. the intervention is part of a restoration effort in 305 sqm traditional courtyard…

It’s finally happened. The Half-Life franchise is being revived. It isn’t the Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 players have been seeing in the stars for over a decade now, but it’s the first time Valve has released a title in the era-defining franchise since the laun…

The radio spectrum is carefully regulated and divided up by Governments worldwide. Some of it is shared across jurisdictions under the terms of international treaties, while other allocations exist only in individual countries. Often these can contain some su…

Source: Jeramy Johnson / Android Central Recently, Google announced that it was acquiring the fitness wearables brand Fitbit in a deal valued at just over two billion dollars. There has been a great deal of debate (at least in tech circles) on what this mean…

You simply can’t get around New York without GPS. I know this is not literally true because generations of people did it, but is true for me: I bought my first smartphone in 2014, my first summer in the city, solely for Google Maps. And a year ago, I convince…

Im not new to this Pokémon shit. When I was a knuckleheaded young master, high off Black Radberry Now & Laters and bedeviled by the vicious thrill of the Safari Zone, I decided that I would catch them all. Years before Katamari Damacy would turn my capita…

When youre pregnant, everyday activities take on an extra layer of difficulty. You cant sleep in a comfortable position or go from sitting to standing with anything resembling grace. Workingwhether youre on your feet all day or trapped at a desk for eight str…

UK studio seymourpowell has designed a wearable collar that delivers atomised beauty products via a pure vapour. placing users in what they have dubbed a ‘beauty bubble’, the ‘atmosphère’ concept explores the intersection of new beauty and advancing technolog…

Ron MacLean (left) sits beside Don Cherry as Rogers TV unveils their team for the station's NHL coverage in Toronto on Monday, March 10, 2014. Chris Young/The Canadian Press On the first edition of Hockey Night in Canada in almost four decades without Don …

Eli Pariser is the author of The Filter Bubble, a book which lent its name to a recent Congressional bill about social media transparency. Hes also one of the co-founders of Upworthy (and, full disclosure, my former boss).In other words, Pariser has spent mos…