There's a new contender for world's second-tallest skyscraper
New Atlas - Wed 9 Jan 19We've reported on a lot of Shenzhen skyscraper announcements lately, but this one may well prove to be the most important. Poised to become one of the world's tallest buildings, perhaps ...
Giving up gas: China's Shenzhen switches to electric taxis
Phys.org - Tue 8 Jan 19One of China's major cities has reached an environmental milestone: an almost entirely electric-powered taxi fleet.
Power From Commercial Perovskite Solar Cells Is Coming Soon
IEEE Spectrum - Fri 4 Jan 19Oxford PV’s tandem silicon-perovskite solar modules aim to beat the best panels on the market
Foster + Partners designs rainwater harvesting skyscraper for Shenzhen
New Atlas - Fri 4 Jan 19Recent RIBA Stirling Prize winner Foster + Partners has unveiled two new towers it has planned for Shenzhen, China. The China Merchants Bank HQ will primarily consist of office space ...
Kindergarten makes more space for play with rooftop terrace
New Atlas - Thu 3 Jan 19Polish firm Biuro Toprojekt's aptly-named Kindergarten makes good use of an awkward plot. Bringing to mind Vo Trong Nghia's Farming Kindergarten, the building offers additional space ...
Viasat expands Carlsbad headquarters, highlighting tech and beach vibe
Phys.org - Thu 3 Jan 19Painted on a prominent wall at Viasat's latest headquarters expansion is the phrase, "There is always a better way."
Black Mirror's Bandersnatch and the unbearable emptiness of interactive storytelling
New Atlas - Mon 31 Dec 18After months of teasing, rumors and accidental (or accidentally on purpose) leaks, the mysterious choose-your-own-adventured-styled Black Mirror episode, Bandersnatch suddenly appeared ...
Huis Ten Bosch Introduces Perovskite Solar Cells to Hotel
Nikkei Asia - Sun 30 Dec 18Huis Ten Bosch Co Ltd (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture) introduced perovskite solar cells, which are attracting attention as next-generation solar cells, at a hotel.
Impressive solar-powered island resort opens in the Maldives
New Atlas - Fri 28 Dec 18New York-based architectural firm Yuji Yamazaki Architecture (YYA) is behind the design of the Kudadoo Maldives Private Island that opened recently in Lhaviani Atoll, Maldives. With a ...
Captain Marvel: Samuel L. Jackson reveals a plot-changing detail - CNET
CNET - Thu 10 Jan 19Grab your pager and get ready to head back to the 1990s for a solo film about a Marvel heroine who just might save the universe. Here's what we know.
Captain Marvel: Tickets on sale now, new TV teaser expected soon - CNET, CNET - Tue 8 Jan 19New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Theory Highlights a Hidden Time Loop
Geek.com - Wed 9 Jan 19Fans are still trying to figure out what’s to come in Avengers: Endgame, and a new fan theory suggests that Marvel might have hidden a time loop from viewers in Avengers: Infinity War. ...
Lego Movie 2's Apocalypseburg set overflows with whopping 3,000 pieces - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Mon 7 Jan 19The massive Lego set is the largest one yet inspired by the Lego Movie.
Chinese scientist who gene-edited human embryos could face the DEATH PENALTY
Daily Mail - Mon 7 Jan 19The exiled and disgraced scientist, He Jiankui, is under house arrest as fears grow that he may face the death penalty for bribery and corruption.
Chinese scientist criticized for risking "gene-edited" babies' lives
Reuters - Mon 7 Jan 19A leading geneticist who ran the conference where a Chinese scientist said he had made the world's first "gene-edited" babies condemned him on Monday for potentially jeopardizing lives and having ...
Bandersnatch: The spoiler-filled, choose-your-own-opinion review
Ars Technica - Fri 4 Jan 19This review's structure was inspired by Netflix's solid rewind-and-try-again film.
First buses, now Shenzhen has turned its taxis electric in green push
TechCrunch - Fri 4 Jan 19Roads in a Chinese city have gotten much quieter in recent years. Shenzhen, widely called the Silicon Valley of hardware, has been pouring resources to phase out rattling diesel vehicles chugging ...
Choose These Adventure Games After Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Geek.com - Thu 3 Jan 19A proper fifth season of Black Mirror may still be months away but Charlie Brooker’s only barely futuristic tech-horror anthology series still captured everyone’s attention this holiday ...
The biggest thing missing from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s horror story about a career in games
The Verge - Thu 3 Jan 19Warning: spoilers ahead for some of the endings of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Careers in game design are widely considered dream jobs — one of the ultimate versions of getting ...
Chinese Scientist Who Claimed to Edit Babies' Genes May Be Under House Arrest
Livescience - Thu 3 Jan 19This is the first reported sighting of Chinese researcher Jiankui He since his appearance at a conference in November.
Lightspeed announces new $560 million fund for China
TechCrunch - Thu 3 Jan 19Global investor Lightspeed is starting 2019 with its largest-ever fund for China, where it has backed a number of new internet challengers. The firm announced this week that its fourth China ...
Original Content podcast: ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ is a frustrating interactive experiment
TechCrunch - Wed 2 Jan 19“Bandersnatch” offers an unusual television experience — but not a very satisfying one. The new “Black Mirror” special follows Stefan Butler as he attempts to turn ...
Books are good for your brain. These techniques will help you read more.
Popular Science - Tue 1 Jan 19DIY Turn yourself into a bookworm. Want to kick off the New Year with a new habit? Reading is a great way to relax, strengthen your brain, and improve your health. Here’s ...
See what happens when Black Mirror: Bandersnatch meets the Avengers - CNET
CNET - Tue 1 Jan 19What if Avengers: Infinity War had a Bandersnatch option?
How Harry Potter Has Brought Magic To Classrooms For More Than 20 Years
KQED Science - Tue 1 Jan 19Whether you’re a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, a Ravenclaw, a Slytherin or a muggle still hoping your Hogwarts letter will arrive by owl, it is undeniable that the Harry Potter fandom has ...
Genome Editing on Board
The Scientist - Tue 1 Jan 192018 closed with hubbub surrounding the purported birth of babies whose genomes had been edited using CRISPR.
Black Mirror Season 5 now coming in 2019, with more optimistic stories
The Verge - Mon 31 Dec 18Are you enjoying Bandersnatch, the first choose-your-own-adventure interactive episode of the oft-delightfully dystopian Black Mirror? Good, because it may be the only new episode ...
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is loaded with Easter eggs and alternate endings
Techspot - Mon 31 Dec 18Netflix’s new interactive film, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, dropped last Friday. The choose-your-own-adventure flick is loaded with alternate endings and Easter eggs including the ability ...
Here’s how to play a game from Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode
TechCrunch - Mon 31 Dec 18If you’ve gone down the rabbit hole with Netflix’s latest Black Mirror release, there’s (at least) one more easter egg out there. As some intrepid Reddit users discovered, ...
Endings and Easter eggs in Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - CNET
CNET - Sat 29 Dec 18It's like a how-to guide for spoiling the very, very dark interactive movie.
Endings and Easter eggs in Netflix's Black Mirror Bandersnatch - CNET, CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 28 Dec 18The Reddit detectives are hard at work decoding Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
The Verge - Sat 29 Dec 18Early in the morning on Friday, December 28th, Netflix slipped its viewers a late Christmas present: a new episode of Charlie Brooker’s technological-dystopia anthology series ...
You can play one of the games from 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
Engadget - Fri 28 Dec 18Black Mirror: Bandersnatch dropped on Netflix earlier today and easter eggs from the choose-your-own-adventure film are already popping up. A gamed called Nohzdyve that is featured ...
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix’s new interactive special that won’t play on everything
The Verge - Fri 28 Dec 18Bandersnatch is Netflix’s new interactive, choose-your-own-adventure-style movie that ties into the Black Mirror universe. However, it won’t play on every Netflix-enabled device. ...
Interactive Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is here to add to a twisted 2018 - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 28 Dec 18Black Mirror makes an interactive Netflix movie before interactive movies become real-life Black Mirror episodes.
Choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror movie has one TRILLION different story combinations
Daily Mail - Fri 28 Dec 18The choose-your-own-adventure movie is the first of its kind for Netflix, which has only previously attempted the interactive style in kids’ programs, and comes with five possible endings.
Not Bander-snatched: Black Mirror confirms fifth season plans
Ars Technica - Fri 28 Dec 18New episodes are coming, but it's unclear what series' "fifth season" order entails.
One of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s games is available to play right now
The Verge - Fri 28 Dec 18Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix’s new choose-your-own-adventure interactive special and, in traditional Black Mirror fashion, is full of fun Easter eggs — including giving ...
Black Mirror's interactive Netflix movie is here, in case 2018 wasn't twisted enough - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 28 Dec 18Black Mirror makes an interactive movie before interactive movies become real-life Black Mirror episodes.
Black Mirror's interactive Netflix movie is streaming now
Engadget - Fri 28 Dec 18As the rumors suggested, Black Mirror's one-off holiday special is a different kind of show: an interactive drama where you choose how you mess things up. Launching today on Netflix, ...
Bandersnatch: Netflix's interactive Black Mirror film puts viewers in control
BBC Technology - Fri 28 Dec 18Viewers can decide the characters' fates in Bandersnatch, the latest instalment of the Netflix drama.
Netflix's interactive Black Mirror movie is here, just in case 2018 wasn't dark and twisted enough for you - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 28 Dec 18Black Mirror made an interactive movie before interactive movies become real-life Black Mirror episodes.
In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch trailer, a video game warps reality - CNET
CNET - Fri 28 Dec 18The new feature-length movie debuts Friday on Netflix.
In Netflix trailer for Black Mirror film, a video game warps reality - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 27 Dec 18The new feature-length special Black Mirror: Bandersnatch debuts Friday on Netflix.
Netflix’s new Black Mirror trailer hints at choose-your-own-adventure twist
Ars Technica - Thu 27 Dec 18Trailer: "You're not in control." Actually, you might be, thanks to "multiple endings."
Urban farms could be incredibly efficient—but aren’t yet
Ars Technica - Thu 27 Dec 18Casual farmers overwork, buy fertilizer, and use municipal water.
Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Trailer Is a Creepy Mind Trip
Geek.com - Thu 27 Dec 18Netflix just dropped its first Black Mirror: Bandersnatch trailer and it’s an eerie perspective on retro gaming. On Thursday, Netflix posted the Black Mirror: Bandersnatch trailer on its ...
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Trailer Arrives Ahead Of Netflix Release
Ubergizmo - Thu 27 Dec 18It was rumored earlier this year that Netflix will release a new Black Mirror episode which would be a choose-your-own-adventure kind of experience. It has released a trailer today for a new ...
Netflix releases a trailer for ‘Bandersnatch,’ the mysterious new episode of ‘Black Mirror’
TechCrunch - Thu 27 Dec 18What the heck is “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”? It’s probably not just a regular episode of the critically acclaimed science fiction anthology series. Netflix has been pretty ...
Trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch arrives ahead of tomorrow's launch
Techspot - Thu 27 Dec 18Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is set in 1984 and tells the tale of "a young programmer who begins to question reality as he adapts a sprawling fantasy novel into a video game and soon faces a mind-mangling ...
Watch the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, releasing Friday 28th on Netflix
The Verge - Thu 27 Dec 18The trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the latest entry in the popular sci-fi anthology series, has dropped this morning. It confirms that the feature-length special will go ...
Netflix drops the first trailer for 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
Engadget - Thu 27 Dec 18Netflix is time-traveling back to the eighties in the first trailer for its upcoming Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch. Fans have been piecing together clues from a teaser and now we're ...
Black Mirror season five may be a feature-length, choose-your-own-adventure film
Techspot - Thu 20 Dec 18Word surfaced a couple of months ago that Netflix was working on a choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror episode. Details were scant but sources at the time said the episode could debut by ...
Netflix teases 'Black Mirror' movie release
Engadget - Thu 20 Dec 18The fifth season of Black Mirror is likely far off, but you're going to get something to tide you over quite soon. Weeks after Netflix posted (and promptly deleted) a mention of ...
Gorgeous new Apple store is powered entirely by renewable energy in Paris
Inhabitat - Thu 3 Jan 19The latest Apple store designed by Foster + Partners has opened in a beautifully renovated 19th-century building on Paris’s Champs-Élysées. Powered with 100 percent renewable energy, Apple ...
Peek inside the tallest cross-laminated timber building in the US
Inhabitat - Wed 2 Jan 19Portland, one of the leading cities for sustainability initiatives in the U.S., is now home to the nation’s tallest mass timber and cross-laminated timber (CLT) building. Designed by local ...
Eco-friendly guesthouse in Brazil sports a green roof and rammed earth walls
Inhabitat - Wed 2 Jan 19In continuation of its work on the eco-conscious Camburi community center, Sao Paulo-based architecture firm CRU! architects recently completed the Guesthouse Paraty, a sustainable social building ...
Solar-powered COAF SMART Center brightens the future of Armenias rural youth
Inhabitat - Wed 2 Jan 19The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) recently completed its flagship COAF SMART Center, a state-of-the-art facility that will empower Armenia’s rural communities through locally and globally ...
Nevada PUC Denies Apartment Dwellers Rooftop Solar Access
CleanTechnica - Tue 1 Jan 19Nevada has long had a love/hate relationship with the rooftop solar industry. Despite having one of the highest insolation rates in the nation, its rooftop solar segment experienced a near-death ...
Rooftop Solar Tax Relief Bills Vetoed By Michigan Governor
CleanTechnica - Tue 1 Jan 19Michigan governor Rick Snyder vetoed two bills passed by the state legislature exempting rooftop solar systems from local property taxes. The move stunned solar supporters.
UNStudios green-roofed TBC Forum breaks ground in Tbilisi
Inhabitat - Tue 1 Jan 19Construction has recently broken ground on the TBC Forum, a green-roofed complex in Tbilisi designed by UNStudio to champion openness, sustainability and creativity throughout. Located within ...
SELVAGEN designs a geodesic dome pavilion inspired by a tree
Inhabitat - Tue 1 Jan 19Nature meets computational algorithms in Brazilian design practice SELVAGEN’s Arena Arbor, a striking geodome pavilion created for the CasaCor Pernambuco 2018, a major conference that explores ...
MVRDV unveils a three-dimensional city skyscraper for Shenzhen
Inhabitat - Mon 31 Dec 18MVRDV is shaking up skyscraper design in its competition-winning proposal for Chinese real estate developer Vanke’s new headquarters building in Shenzhen. Envisioned as a “three-dimensional ...
COBEs Red Cross Volunteer House is an urban living room in Copenhagen
Inhabitat - Mon 31 Dec 18Copenhagen-based architecture firm COBE has unveiled images of the Red Cross Volunteer House, a new building in Copenhagen that not only celebrates the efforts of Red Cross volunteers, but also ...
You can play a game from Black Mirror's Bandersnatch episode on your laptop
Techradar - Mon 31 Dec 18The groundbreaking choose-your-own-adventure movie debuted on Netflix on December 28.
Solar screen brings beauty and heat relief to a Vietnam home
Inhabitat - Thu 27 Dec 18When a client approached Vietnamese architecture firm Duc Vien LE for the design of their house in Da Nang, Vietnam, the architects knew early on that the region’s intense summers would prove ...
Netflix previews new Black Mirror choose-your-own-adventure film
Fastcompany Tech - Thu 27 Dec 18Bandersnatch follows a young programmer who begins to question reality as he adapts a fantasy novel into a video game. A new trailer for the next episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror tech-dystopia ...
Modscape installs a prefab school building that stays comfortable year-round
Inhabitat - Thu 27 Dec 18Cheap trailers and portable classrooms can be a quick fix for schools strapped for space, but the trade-off often comes at the expense of student comfort. Aware of the “crazy hot in summer ...
The Black Mirror movie 'Bandersnatch' hits Netflix on December 28, 2018
Techradar - Thu 27 Dec 18The streaming release of the movie will come just 24 hours after its trailer.
Majority Of Americans Favor Editing Genes To Prevent Serious Disease But Oppose CRISPR Use For Controlling Intelligence, Athleticism
Kaiser Health News - Wed 2 Jan 19After news that a Chinese scientist altered the DNA of a baby, a new poll reveals the complicated thoughts Americans have about using the procedure in the future. Other news on innovation looks ...