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Solar panel windows In a recently built office building in Boulder, Colorado, there are solar panels on the roof. But the building also has one of the world’s first installations of solar-window technology—transparent panels that look like ordinary windows, but also invisibly generate energy. “When you think about the commercial market, you can imagine big skyscrapers becoming vertical...

Squarespace zendaya commercial As celebrities go, it’s tough to think of a more popular, more of-this-moment personality than Zendaya. The young artist starred in the biggest box-office movie of 2021 (Spider-Man: No Way Home), and one of the buzziest TV shows of the new year (HBO’s Euphoria). It’s also difficult to find a young, insanely popular celebrity whom fans...

Always pan The millennial kitchen aesthetic is all about smart, well-designed products that are ethically made and multi-use for tiny kitchens. No company embodies it quite as well as Our Place, the instantly Instagrammable startup that brought us the Always Pan, a self-proclaimed replacement for “8 traditional pieces of cookware.” The 10″ pan is deeper than your average fry...

Gay soccer porn While FIFA dominates the soccer and football video-game market, a rival has come up with a way to create a buzz by making the players even more realistic. The upcoming version of Football Manager, a football simulation game, will feature some players who come out as gay. Miles Jacobson, the game’s director, told BBC Sport that they they...

Taxeip3 deposit With the Internal Revenue Service scrambling to distribute various types of payments to millions of taxpayers, one result of its efforts is that money is showing up unexpectedly in millions of people’s bank accounts. As we reported last week, many people were surprised to wake up to an additional tax refund on Wednesday, after the IRS...

Youtube is again popular social media In 2005, just five years after the launch of YouTube, an average of 24 hours of footage was uploaded to the site every single minute–a shocking figure at the time. Ten years later, the site was receiving 400 hours of video per minute. Though YouTube has been cemented as the internet’s go-to video platform, its...

Tablet old If I allow myself a moment of harsh but truthful introspection, it turns out that I have too many tablets. Android tablets. iPads. Chromebook tablets. Amazon tablets. Tablets everywhere. And many of them are just old enough that it doesn’t make sense to use them for anything more than very limited tasks. Oh, and also: I keep...

The great resignation Changing economic conditions, evolving workplace flexibility policies, and an undervaluing of coworker relationships are leaving many of those who left jobs during the so-called Great Resignation with resigner’s remorse. Recent studies suggest that many of those who took part in the Great Resignation that began in 2021 (and remains ongoing) are unsatisfied in their new...

Interview ceo john fastcompany, John Riccitiello sits atop a company, Unity Technologies, that provides perhaps the world's most widely used game development engine. Unity is used to create games for mobile, consoles, PCs, and AR/VR—the latter of which, you may have heard, is a key component of the so-called metaverse. All of which is to say: Already Unity...

Thredup stock For 40 years, J.Crew has been producing classic American garments, from sharp blazers to crisp Oxford shirts to cozy cashmere sweaters. So, if you’re a sustainably minded person with a preppy style, it makes sense for you to buy your J.Crew second-hand. J.Crew agrees. If you stop by the brand’s Fifth Avenue and Bowery stores, you’ll...