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24 distinct story signals across recent editions
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
KAIST Develops a Way to Detect Hidden Cameras Using Your Smartphone
As a society, we've accepted that security cameras are everywhere in public. But inside hotel rooms or AirBNBs, we still have an expectation of privacy.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
What an Anodized Aluminum Baseball Cap Holder Says About Our Product Landscape
You have to wonder what the pioneers of industrial design would make of this day and age. The original promise of ID was to harness the power of mass production to create useful objects for the masses.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Industrial Designer Alberto Essesi's Pen for Precision Sketching
This beautiful Exclamation Pen is by industrial designer Alberto Essesi . Both the pen and the rest are made of aluminum with a satin finish. With the pieces paired, it's easy to see where the name came from.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans
Remember these ridiculous jeans created by Werther's Originals? They had 30 coin pockets up and down the legs, intended to provide stash space for the candy company's treats.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
While the traditional form of a pizza cutter is this… …Japanese manufacturer Fireside has a different take, offering a much more compact form factor: It's no surprise this Easy Roller came from Japan, where storage space is limited.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 45
CNN left off Air Force One for Trump's upcoming trip, White House signals in new media restriction
The White House has signaled that CNN will be left off Air Force One for President Donald Trump's Saturday trip in the latest media restriction in an ongoing dispute with First Amendment implications.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook
These Blank Note sketchbooks by MUCU, a Japanese stationery brand, almost look like some kind of military surplus. But in fact they're just as minimal a sketchbook as possible: Two pieces of recycled paperboard for the covers, a canvas strip for the spine, and 60 pages of…
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses
Art collective MSCHF is at it again, this time with Lexus . For their Motomorphosis exhibit, which opens tomorrow at NYC's Armory Week art fair, they've stretched two real cars into unlikely forms.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 43
The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions
The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 41
Mississippi police say Tasia Fortune's hanging was 'staged' after her death in a drug dispute
Authorities haven't disclosed the exact cause of Fortune's death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men, both of them Black, on murder charges. They also issued an arrest warrant for a third, unnamed, person.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 56
Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for third time
The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the Republican-friendly map for the November elections, which will determine control of Congress. There were no noted dissents.