Amazon has built its brand around consistency—it rarely follows popular user interface trends, and its design mission has always been ruthless pragmatism. But now, for the first time in many, many years, it’s given its login page an overhaul. It’s the end of an era, and it could signal broader, site-wide changes. Read more…
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Amazon Redesigns Its Login Page For the First Time In Decades
The largest companies consume a shockingly huge amount of the world’s natural resources. Ikea, for instance, uses 17.8 million cubic yards of wood a year. When it comes to cotton, there’s VF Corp., a relatively unknown corporation that owns some of the best-known clothing brands in the world. Read more…
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A single clothing company consumes 1% of the world’s cotton
Since the demise of DreamScene with Windows Vista, users have been denied the option of having moving pictures as their desktop backdrop, but the hugely useful VLC Media Player provides something of a workaround. Open up a movie then choose Video and Set as Wallpaper to place it behind your program windows, audio and all. Read more…
Google claims to have made 890 improvements to search over the past year. Still can’t find my keys though, can it, hmm? Read more…
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Google claims to have made 890 improvements to search over the past year.
This beetle looks like it’s been given a lick with a paintbrush—but in fact, it’s covered in paper-thin scales that are brilliant white, and reflect more light than anything of a similar thickness that can be made by humans. Read more…
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This Beetle Has a Thin Coating Whiter Than Anything Humans Can Make
The new Star Wars hardware keeps trickling out. This is the new stormtrooper helmet, an updated model that looks way more modern but also less menacing than the original one. The left one is an actual unit in a warehouse. The right one is a render. They look nice but I have a question for all of you: Read more…
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Why did JJ Abrams make these new stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars?
Way back in 1931, Albert Einstein visited the U.S. for three months. Inspired by meetings with Edwin Hubble, he began thinking about the Universe differently, writing a paper in four days to get down his thoughts—and now, those first scribblings have been translated into English for the first time . Read more…
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A Forgotten Einstein Model of the Universe Describes the Big Crunch
I don’t know why you would use the official Facebook app on the iPhone — Paper’s fabulous — but just in case you do, you’ll be happy to know that Facebook has squashed a pretty major bug that reduces crash rates by 50%. Read more…
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Facebook Will Now Crash 50% Less On iOS
I’m still holding out hope for light sabers in the future but with our world’s technological limitations and silly allocation of resources, the most beautiful deadly sword-type weapon we can create without lasers might be this mashup of a lightsaber and katana made by Man At Arms: Reforged. Read more…
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A lightsaber katana is the closest we’ll get to Star Wars in real life
In 1994, there were just a few thousand websites on the internet. HTML was still new, and the concept of web publishing was still embryonic. It was the year that Microsoft launched its own website—and today, to celebrate its 20th anniversary on the web, it dug it up and put it back online . Read more…
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Microsoft’s First Website From 1994 Looks Delightfully Ancient Today