Elon Musk is in another fight — this time with Apple.Earlier this week, Musk tweeted that Apple had “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store”, unleashing a tirade of tweets criticizing the company for inconsistent “censorship” and building on previous complaints about Apple’s App Store fees, which he has called “a 30% tax on the internet”.Screenshots seen by Platformer show th...

Descript, the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies. Descript is the second startup to receive a cash infusion from the fund after AI note-taking app Mem, and Mason s...

A print campaign to show what The North Face is really made of. Art Directior : Lauren Dykes[laurendykes]

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Take an In-Depth Look At Gen Z’s Avatar Style Preferences.Long before the vast potential of digital fashion captured the attention of media and brands, our community members were designing, sharing, and wearing their own avatar fashion creations. For over a decade they’ve been redefining digital identity and their personal style, but in the past few years we’ve seen incredible leaps in the e...

Philips is a dual winner in the 2022 Innovation by Design awards for its efforts to make MRIs less scary for young patients and to help emergency departments accommodate young people in crisis.Hospitals are intimidating even for adults, but they’re particularly overwhelming for pediatric patients, millions of whom are hospitalized every year. Multinational company Philips is known in healthcar...

Our global population is getting older. By 2050, the OECD predicts that 30% of people worldwide will be aged 65 or over.While some countries are relatively prepared to handle this increase in the elderly demographic, others are already feeling the squeeze and struggling with the challenges that come with a rapidly aging population.Which countries are the best equipped to support their senior ci...

Two former Shopify employees think they have cracked the code — through no-code actually — for small e-commerce merchants to go beyond the one-size-fits-all marketplace tools and provide personalized customer experiences.Corey Holmes and Matteo Grassi started Popup in 2021 after watching merchants selling through marketplaces (e.g., Shopify and BigCommerce) use the homepage and few product pa...

Economic and political turbulence have prompted speculation that the world is already deglobalizing. But the evidence suggests that global integration is here to stay, albeit with nuance.Ours is an interdependent world, connected by global flows of goods, services, capital, people, data, and ideas. Global value chains have been built on these flows, creating a more prosperous world. However, in...