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Experience Genetic Select from Lexus and 23andMe—The world’s first service that uses human genetics to match you with the car of your genes.

lexus & 23andme:<br>the future of car buying starts here<p>Introducing Genetic Select by Lexus. The world's first service that uses human genetics to match …

Facebook’s latest ad is heartwarming, but may confuse the difference between privacy and security

Facebook continues to fight back against bad press from the Cambridge Analytica revelations. This time using television commercials.<p>In a new TV spot …

Snapchat plans to test unskippable six-second ads

The test ads will appear in some Snapchat shows<p>In its quest to turn a profit, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. is looking for more ways to generate revenue while preventing users from defecting to other platforms. But Snapchat users may have to endure more ads in the process — and soon those ads …

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Artist Designs Universal Typeface That Combines Braille With English Alphabet

<i>Braille Neue</i> is a universal typeface that combines braille with existing characters. Designed by Kosuke Takahashi, this typeface communicates to both …

Postmates Is Trying to Impress Picky New Yorkers With Its Minimalist Out-of-Home Campaign

Postmates has declared its delivery abilities to New Yorkers with a new minimalist out-of-home campaign tailored for the city. Want rosé at 4 a.m. or …

Snapchat’s First TV Commercial Calls It ‘a New Kind of Camera’

Snapchat ran its first TV commercial this past weekend. As you can see in the 60-second video above, the company is trying to sell itself to a wider …

This conductive paint transforms regular walls into giant touchpads

The late Mark Weiser, former chief scientist at Xerox PARC, once stated, “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave …

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The Royal Wedding: Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the royal wedding? Can you attend? How much will it cost? What name will be on Meghan Markle's driver's license? And dozens of your other really important royal wedding questions answered.

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Instagram Stories get a cool feature that Snapchat doesn't have

Instagram really wants you to use its Snapchat clone.<p>Not Stories, but its <i>other</i> Snapchat clone: Direct (that's the name for Instagram's disappearing …

Best New Apps: Overcast for iPhone

Instapaper's creator returns with your new favorite podcast app<p>If you have an iPhone, you should download Overcast, the new podcast app from Instapaper creator and Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment. Podcast clients are a crowded category, of course, and it's harder than ever to stand out now that …

Chiquita banana branding to adorn London’s taxis and buses

Chiquita-branded bananas will be everywhere from July 14 as a summer promotional campaign kicks off in the capital.<p>For four weeks, 300 cabs and five …

GE Healthcare Is Releasing a 30-Minute Documentary on Instagram, a Minute at a Time

While traveling through India, Africa and Southeast Asia, GE Healthcare’s president of sustainable healthcare solutions, Terri Bresenham, wanted to …

How Marketers Can Use Real-Time Ads to Get More Out of Existing Investments

Making new ad technology work for your brand doesn't have to mean making new content. Alexis Cox shares how Google's Art, Copy & Code project applied …

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KFC Made a Weird Animatronic Harland Sanders Robot to Take Your Drive-Thru Order

Wieden + Kennedy is back with another bot.<p>Six weeks after unveiling an animatronic sea creature for Old Spice’s S.Q.U.I.D. campaign, W+K wants you to …

Oreo Is Sending Experimental Flavors, From Kettle Corn to Avocado, to Individual Fans

Oreo has been producing strange spin-off cookie flavors for a while from its “Wonder Vault.” (Remember Firework Oreos?) But the experimentation is …

Missed the WWDC 2017 Keynote? Here Are Apple's 9 Biggest Announcements | WIRED

• Author: Arielle Pardes. Arielle Pardes Gear<br>• Date of Publication: 06.05.17. 06.05.17<br>• Time of Publication: 5:07 pm. 5:07 pm<p>Everything Apple Announced …

Why KFC Paid to Put Colonel Sanders in an Obscure California High School Yearbook

It’s hard to reach young people with advertising, especially in print. But one publication you know they consume obsessively is their high school …

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Automakers Race to Get Ahead of Silicon Valley on Car-Sharing

SEATTLE — On a recent overcast afternoon in this city’s Belltown neighborhood, a driver pulled up in a gleaming new BMW X1 sport utility vehicle just a few minutes after a few swipes of a smartphone app had summoned it.<p>This was not a car dispatched by Uber or Lyft, the two tech companies that are …

Walmart is testing its own AmazonFresh grocery pickup competitor

Just a few weeks after Amazon opened its drive-up grocery pickup service in Seattle, it looks like Walmart is trialling its own version of the concept with a new automated kiosk at a store in Oklahoma City. The service, which doesn’t seem to have any special name as of yet, lets Walmart customers …

MIT's $10,000 robotic furniture is making its way to small homes

You can control the transforming cabinet with an app or your voice.<p>A few years ago, MIT designed a piece of furniture worth $10,000 -- not because it's made of luxury materials, but because it can transform at the press of a button. Now, that piece of robotic furniture called "Ori Systems" is …

LeBron James talks about being a first-generation money maker and betting on himself

<i>Chase and UNINTERRUPTED have partnered to create "Kneading Dough," a series of intimate and honest conversations with professional athletes about how</i> …

McDonald's pulls 'shameful' dead dad TV advert after social media backlash

McDonald’s has pulled its latest TV advert following a social media outcry.<p>Dozens of people criticised McDonald’s for being “cynical and …