Based in Geneva, Laura Couto Rosado is a co-founder and product/interaction designer at Digital Alchemy, a design school. She is also a teacher in the Master Media Design department at HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. Right now, she is spending three months at CERN exploring the relationship between technology and design. She […]
NASA is planning for the 2023 manned trip into deep space and around the moon. Then, what they hope to be a decade later, the trip to Mars. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Victor Glover, Lead Systems Engineer Yves Lamothe, Orion Mission Planner Nujoud Merancy and Spacecraft Integration and Evolution Manager Chris Crumbly all participated in […]
Andy Puddicombe, meditation teacher, former Buddhist monk and co-founder of Headspace led the closing keynote at SXSW Interactive 2016. The talk provided insight into Puddicombe’s philosophy behind the possibilities for finding inner peace in the modern world. At an event for young innovators, early adopters and all-around incredibly tech focused and busy people, Puddicombe joked […]
We probably see them and think they’re a real Twitter profile. Or spam. They’re those comments we see online that have little or nothing to do with the topic at hand and clearly want you to click on a link. Those are bots – computer programs created by humans to pretend to be humans and interact […]
What makes the beautiful photo? While there’s no such thing as a perfect photo, programmers are working on developing machines that can choose aesthetically pleasing photos. This is the topic of the panel “The Photographer’s Lens: How Do We Define Beauty?” On the panel were Danielle Strle, the director of culture and trends at Tumblr; […]
Amy Li was at a conference with NASA when she received the news she’d been diagnosed with cancer. It was unexpected, and terrifying. Li didn’t know how to tell her friends or family, and thought she was going to die. “One of the things the doctor said that really resonated with me, he said, ‘Rely […]
Are you related to your spouse? Your best friend? Your neighbor? The answer may be more surprising than you think. The scientists behind the website DNA.LAND hope to do more than just map a family tree of the world, but that’s a start. The SXSW Interactive panel “DNA.Land: Mapping the World’s Family Tree,” features the […]