I ordered a bubble tea by drone in Shenzhen
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Meet the designers printing houses out of salt and clay
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello may have met as graduate students in architecture at Columbia University, but it quickly became
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Bright LEDs could spell the end of dark skies
Late one evening in June of 2016, John Barentine stood alone at Mather Point, an iconic and rarely empty overlook
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The Download: Yann LeCun’s AI vision, and smart cities’ unfulfilled promises
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
In 1959, in a short essay called “The Great Game to Come,” a little-known Dutch visual artist named Constant Nieuwenhuys
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