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Tesla Motors’ Model 3 electric sedan may be geared for mass-market affordability, but CEO Elon Musk made it clear at tonight’s unveiling that he doesn’t intend it to be a third-rate car.

“It will be five-star in every category,” Musk told a standing-room-only, occasionally raucous crowd at Tesla’s warehouse-sized design studio at Hawthorne, Calif.

The $35,000 Model 3’s promised capabilities were arguably the biggest surprise of the evening: Musk said the scaled-down sedan would still have ample room for five people, thanks to a design that moves the instrument panel farther forward than the panel in the $70,000 Model S.

Even the base model will go from zero to 60 mph in less than 6 seconds, Musk said. And the driving range will be at least 215 miles on a charge.

“These are minimum numbers,” Musk said. “We hope to exceed them.”

The car will have front and rear trunks, and “more cargo capacity than any gasoline car with the same external dimensions,” Musk said.

Would there be room to carry a 7-foot-long surfboard on the inside? “The answer is yes,” Musk said.

The only cloud of uncertainty hanging over the evening had to do with the fact that the Model 3 isn’t anywhere near ready for production. The day before, Musk said tonight was only “Part 1” of the car’s unveiling. “Part 2, which takes things to another level, will be closer to production,” he tweeted.

The cars should start rolling off the assembly line in Fremont, Calif., by late 2017, with delivery soon afterward. “I feel fairly confident that it will be next year,” said Musk, indirectly referring to his propensity for letting schedules slip.

The Tesla faithful were confident as well: Musk announced that 115,000 orders for the car were received in the first 24 hours, backed up by $1,000 deposits.

To juice up all those cars, Musk said that the number of fast-charging stations around the world would rise from 3,600 to 7,200 by the end of next year, and that there’d be 15,000 standard “Destination Chargers,” set up in cooperation with hotels, restaurants, shopping centers and other locales. That expansion is aimed at reducing the range anxiety that’s typically associated with all-electric vehicles.

“You will be able to go virtually anywhere,” Musk said.

Previously: Buyers throng to sign up for Tesla Model 3, sight unseen

The Model 3 is a key part of what Musk calls Tesla’s “secret master plan” to bring electric cars into the mainstream and reduce fossil-fuel emissions for the environment’s sake.

“It’s very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport,” he said.

The new line is also a key part of Musk’s not-so-secret plan for Tesla’s profitability. He acknowledged that the $100,000-plus Tesla Roadster, the $70,000 Model S and the $80,000 Model X SUV were priced to bring in the money necessary to develop the Model 3.

“The Model 3 is happening because of you,” Musk told the crowd, many of whom were already Tesla owners.

After the big reveal, the meeting was quickly adjourned for a series of test drives that went late into the night.

Update for 9:58 a.m. PT April 1: Musk reports that the tally of orders amounted to 180,000 in the first 24 hours. He also indicates that a lot of folks will be buying those cars for more than $35,000, due to added options:

For a level-headed first look at the Model 3, including the unresolved questions about issues ranging from delivery schedules to the suspension system, check out Alex Roy’s review for The Drive.

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We can't think of anyone more fun and colorful than Jonathan Adler, so it's fitting that he's bringing his signature style to kids. Mattel has named the potter/designer/author creative director of Fisher-Price.

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March Madness is the latest sporting event to be broadcast in virtual reality.

Turner Sports announced today that it is partnering with Oculus to provide live virtual reality coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four Semifinals and National Championship this weekend.

The feed will stream a 180-degree view of the game from a courtside perspective, along with a virtual scoreboard with live stats and audio from both the commentators and sounds in the arena. Those with a Samsung Gear VR device can watch the live action via the NCAA March Madness Live VR App in the Oculus store.

Helping produce the live feed is Voke, a new virtual realty technology company specializing in live streams of sports and music events that raised a $12.5 million round earlier this month. Using a stereoscopic, panoramic camera system, Voke creates a 3D live stream of events that can be broadcast to any VR device.

Turner is also offering a 2D, 180-degree live stream on desktop for the games this weekend, in addition to 360-degree highlights posted to the NCAA March Madness Facebook page.

This is yet another example of broadcast giants dipping their toes in the virtual reality world. Last month, FOX Sports inked a 5-year deal with NextVR to stream virtual content from its live sports broadcasts. The first official event in that partnership was at the big Daytona 500 NASCAR race last month, as fans wearing a Samsung Gear VR headset at home had an up-close-and-personal view of the action, along with audio commentary and graphics that showed the race leaders.

On a related note, Oculus on Monday shipped the final version of its Oculus Rift headset to Kickstarter backers, bringing consumer-grade virtual reality to everyday consumers for the first time. The Samsung Gear VR headset, which debuted in November, differs from the Oculus Rift and soon-to-be released HTC Vive and Playstation Vue because it streams content through a Samsung smartphone.

The Stagg Pour-Over Kettle, designed by San Francisco start-up, Fellow

San Francisco-based startup, Fellow, just scored a big win at NY NOW, the home, lifestyle, and gift winter trade show, taking home the event’s top prize—Best in Market—for its uber stylish Stagg Pour-Over Kettle. That’s quite an honor for a kettle, but the justification lies in Stagg’s trifecta of highly desirable and immaculately engineered factors, each of which plays a part in comprising its shiny good looks: its spout, its handle, and its built in thermometer. Fellow, which traces its inception to a Kickstarter campaign launched by three design-savvy coffee obsessives, has been in business for less than a year, and has released the Stagg Kettle on the heels of its initial product offering, Duo, a dual-chamber French press coffee maker.

Taking the top prize at NY NOW, the sculptural Stagg Pour-Over Tea Kettle by San Francisco design studio, Fellow.

PRECISION POUR SPOUT: “A slow and steady pour wins the race,” say the experts at Fellow, and coffee aficionados will understand exactly what they mean. Apparently, there’s something called ‘optimal pour-over flow rate,’ key to the perfect hand made cup of coffee, and it’s dictated by two factors that extract flavor from coffee grinds: the surface area over which the grids are distributed; and the interaction time between grinds and water. To that end, the Stagg Kettle has been exactingly designed to ensure that achieving this ideal pour-over flow rate is facilitated by the kettle’s physical form—vis-à-vis an elegant gooseneck spout and a weighted handle that makes the pouring motion easier.

An integrated analog thermometer on the lid of the Stagg Pour-Over Kettle signals when the ideal coffee brewing temperature has been reached.

BREW-RANGE THERMOMETER: The Stagg Kettle’s built-in analog thermometer, integrated into its lid, tracks the water’s temperature as it boils, displaying the optimal brew temperature when it’s been reached—reported to be between 195 and 205 degrees fahrenheit—ensuring the birth of a heavenly hand-brewed cup of coffee.

The Stagg Pour-Over Kettle is available in matte black or polished stainless steel.

High grade stainless steel in a choice of handsome matte black and polished steel highlights Stagg’s refined, sculptural beauty, which holds a liter of water, and is compatible with gas, electric or induction stove tops. Best of all, the Stagg Pour-Over Kettle has been designed to impress at the relatively modest price of $69.

Via Fellow

Noe Marin est espagnole et peint des tasses, des pots de fleurs ou encore des plats. La céramique a toujours fait partie de sa vie puisque ses grands-parents possédaient une fabrique au sud du pays. Un contact dès l’enfance qui a probablement façonné ses goûts et sa passion. Ses oeuvres représentent d’adorables ours, des chats ou encore des oiseaux, peints à la main avec patience les uns après les autres. De quoi rendre vos pauses café plus agréables.

SAN FRANCISCO — Bloomberg Businessweek’s new cover story offers a preview of what will be a major theme of Microsoft’s Build developer conference here this morning: artificial intelligence, and specifically intelligent bots that can order pizza, help the visually impaired see the world around them, and hopefully not learn to be racist in the future.

But it’s not just a theme for the conference; it’s a new strategy for the company more broadly. The article, by longtime Microsoft beat reporter Dina Bass, goes behind the scenes at the company to report on CEO Satya Nadella’s vision for what he describes as “Conversation as a Platform” — referring to conversation between humans and AI agents, or bots.

The company will use the Build keynote this morning to demonstrate early versions of this technology, and position its developer tools and cloud services as a means for companies to create their own bots.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s article also delves into the recent aftermath of Tay.ai, the millennial chatbot that was pulled offline by the company after the Internet taught it to be racist. Nadella emailed the team behind the project after the incident to tell them to “keep pushing,” according to the article.

Bass also reports on the origins of the “Conversation as a Platform” strategy.

Nadella has only been planning Microsoft’s strategy shift since October. He was on a two-hour flight back to Seattle from Silicon Valley with Qi Lu, who oversees applications and services such as Bing, Skype, and Office, and Derrick Connell, search-engineering vice president. Lu pulled out his laptop to show Nadella some AI ideas he’d been working on. He went over the science, and Nadella asked what it could mean for Microsoft’s products. Connell showed him designs for new, AI-enhanced versions of the Outlook e-mail program and Skype. By the time the plane landed, Nadella decided it was the big strategic move the company needed.

The strategy grew in part out of Lu’s visit to China last year, where he saw the rise of chatbots as an outgrowth of apps including WeChat. Read the full Bloomberg Businessweek cover story here.

Stay tuned to GeekWire for live coverage from Microsoft Build starting this morning.

The NFL has the Surface.

Now, MLB has the iPad.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday evening that Major League Baseball has inked a multi-year deal with Apple that will allow managers to use iPads as a way to analyze player data during games in the dugout and training.

Each team will have the option of using a 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet with a custom MLB Dugout app to access a wealth of data and statistics, from information on pitcher-hitter match-ups to video of past plays, the Journal noted. The data, which includes info from the new Statcast technology, will be proprietary to each team and is pre-loaded on tablets before games.

“Our collaboration with Apple on the use of iPad Pro in dugouts and bullpens is part of our ongoing effort to introduce extraordinary technology into our game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We are pleased that Apple’s groundbreaking products, which have already improved the access that fans have to our sport, will now inform the decisions that make our games interesting and exciting throughout the year.”

It’s a big move by MLB, which traditionally banned any technology from dugouts and bullpens during games, but has recently eased those restrictions.

Now with the upcoming season that kicks off next month, you may see managers swiping away on their iPad during a game inside the dugout, versus going into the clubhouse to do so like in years past. League rules still mandate that the tablets are not be connected to the Internet while in use in the dugout and bullpen, however. Support for Apple Pencil and video annotation will be added later, MLB said.

This is also important given how data and analytics has impacted baseball, perhaps more so than other professional sports.

The Journal reported that terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Microsoft, meanwhile, paid $400 million to the NFL in 2013 as part of a 5-year deal that allows players and coaches to use custom-built Surface tablets that lets them be more efficient in how they review past plays on the sidelines during games.

The NFL is now also testing video streaming of past plays on the tablets. It will be interesting to see if NFL players and coaches start using the Surface tablets beyond just replays and more for data analysis, much like how the MLB envisions its managers utilizing the iPads.

Editor’s note: This story was updated with more details about the partnership between Apple and MLB, along with screenshots. 

Les photographes Carlos Ayesta et Guillaume Bression se sont rendus dans la ville japonaise de Fukushima, victime d’un gigantesque accident nucléaire en 2011, obligeant les nombreux habitant à quitter les lieux à cause des rejets radioactifs. Les deux artistes sont à l’origine d’un projet intitulé Retracing Our Steps pour lequel ils sont demandé à quelques uns des réfugiés de la catastrophe de revenir dans les lieux qu’ils ont autrefois connus. Des clichés dans des lieux fantômes dont le résultat est rempli d’émotions.

Après la publication des premiers clichés de l’édition 2016 des Sony World Photography Awards, la sélection des photographies finalistes du concours vient d’être dévoilée, choisies parmi plus de 230 000 clichés en provenance de photographes de 186 pays. La liste des gagnants paraîtra de 21 avril prochain. Les meilleurs photographes se verront remettre le dernier cri de l’équipement Sony ainsi qu’une somme de 30 000$.

Stateless Women by Fauzan Ijazah,Professional Portraiture,Indonesia.

Real world aliens by Alexander Semenov, Professional Environment, Russia.

Sea baby by Andrey Narchuk, Open Nature and Wildlife, Russia.

Larung Gar by Attila Balogh, Open Architecture, Hungary.

Lion by David Chancellor, Professional Campaign, UK.

The tourists and the pelicans by Elie Kauffmann, Open People, France.

The philosopher by Juliette Blanchard, Professional Staged, France.

Too Much Practice by Khairel Anuar Che Ani, Open Split Second, Malaysia.

Animals vs. Jewellery by Oliver Schwarzwald Professional Still Life, Germany.

Fight for your dreams – The boxers of Bukom by Patrick Sinkel, Professional Sport, Germany.

‘Walé, 2ème regard’ by Patrick Willocq, Professional Portraiture, France.

Reindeer farmer kids by Peter Voss, Open Smile, Germany.

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RIC Hornets by Rob Gregory, Professional Campaign, United States.

Cloud Flamingo by Steiner Wang, Open Nature and Wildlife, Taiwan.

Pools by Stephan Zirwes, Professional Architecture, Germany.

Running Away with the Circus by Stephanie Sinclair, Professional Daily Life, United.

Nouveau riche by Talia Rudofsky Youth Portrait, United Kingdom.

Playing in Dusty Dusk by MD Tanveer Rohan Open, Arts and Culture, Bangladesh.

Farming the Sea by Tugo Cheng, Open Travel, Hong Kong.

Kinshasa, Paris of Africa 2025, by Yvonne Brandwilk, Professional Candid, Netherlands.

La Lamborghini Miura Super Veloce est sortie en 1971 et n’a été produite qu’à 150 exemplaires. Ce petit bijou présenté en photos est le tout premier modèle restauré par le département Lamborghini Polo Storico. Un modèle absolument incroyable, qui pourra être découvert lors du Concours d’Élégance d’Amelia Island.

Chaque année, fin mars ou début avril, les japonais s’émerveillent durant le Ohanami, coutume traditionnelle permettant d’apprécier la beauté des fleurs de cerisier appelées Sakura. Un spectacle superbe et éphémère merveilleusement bien capturé par le photographe Alexandre Bonnefoy, qui a pu réaliser par la même occasion un livre sur cette coutume « Tokyo Ohanami » paru aux Editions Issekinicho, dont une sélection est à découvrir dans la suite.

A Vincent Van Gogh painting of his bedroom in Arles (below) is recreated as an Airbnb room (above) in Chicago.

Anyone who has ever wondered what it might feel like to actually inhabit a Vincent Van Gogh painting can finally find out, thanks to a fairly stunning publicity stunt by the Art Institute of Chicago. Together with Airbnb and ad agency Leo Burnett, the museum has pulled off a coup that has art lovers and Van Gogh obsessives, in particular, feeling somewhat breathless: a life-sized, three-dimensional recreation of a bedroom featured in a suite of paintings by Van Gogh, designed to coincide with the exhibit, Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, which opened this past weekend in Chicago.

One of three paintings made by Vincent Van Gogh, depicting his bedroom in Arles.

The Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibit, Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, unites, for the first time in North America, the three paintings that Vincent Van Gogh made of his bedroom in a small house in the southern French city of Arles, where he lived during the last few years of his life. His rented room was simply furnished and distinct for, among other things, it’s asymmetrical shape. Van Gogh described the room vividly: “I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet colored. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac.”

Ad agency Leo Burnet helped bring Van Gogh’s Bedroom paintings to life as an Airbnb room for rent.

Available to rent for the preposterously paltry sum of $10 a night, Van Gogh’s Bedroom gives guests a surreal opportunity to reside briefly inside the vivid hues and layered brushwork that remain emblems of the Dutch master’s work. And, as if any more incentive were needed, 2 free tickets to the room’s namesake exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is included as a bonus. Airbnb’s description of the room is nothing, if not quaint: “This room will make you feel like you’re living in a painting. It’s decorated in a Post-Impressionist style, reminiscent of Southern France and times gone by. Its furniture, bright colors, and artwork will give you the experience of a lifetime.”

Details evident in Vincent Van Gogh’s Bedroom paintings have been painstakingly composed in Van Gogh’s Bedroom on Airbnb

In bringing to full-scale life Van Gogh’s Bedroom paintings, a room in a downtown Chicago building was meticulously furnished, composed, and given the expressionistic brushwork needed to replicate the artist’s 3 masterpieces, which he executed over an 11-month span, between 1888-1889. Says Pete Lefebvre, creative director at Leo Burnett, “We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to invite them to spend a night in this room. What better way to give people a glimpse into his mind than to create a truly immersive, one-of-a-kind experience like this?” None that we can think of.

For just $10/night, Van Gogh’s Room can be rented on Airbnb.

Via Adweek 

La designer tchèque Karolina Fardova est l’auteure d’une table basse amusante appelée Fifty-Fifty. Cette pièce présente un design personnalisable qui permet à l’utilisateur de construire deux versions différentes : une table basique et une table plus « poilue ». Cet objet peut se démonter et remonter facilement comme un puzzle. Quand l’utilisateur laisse la table à plat, elle peut faire office de tapis en fourrure.

Le photographe Robert Herman saisit l’âme des rues de New York depuis les années 70. Il documente les changements de la Grosse Pomme dans les différents quartiers iconiques. Les passants, les hommes assis dans un café, les conducteurs de voitures, les enfants jouant dans la rue, l’artiste a capturé chaque expression et attitude au sein d’une ville à l’architecture atypique, toujours reconnaissable, les années passant.

Mario and Luigi would look really strange in real life, and their frantic Kart racing sessions would look even stranger considering all the banana peels, winged turtle shells and Bullet Bills flying around the track.

But colorful madcap silliness is the name of the game, so when wacky people decide to reenact Mario Kart in real life you can bet the whole thing is going to be an utterly ridiculous affair.

A group of friends from Belleville, Michigan who call themselves the Nothing To Do Crew decided to stage a backyard version of Mario Kart that included roman candles to shoot at balloons and banana peels to slip on.

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Not to be outdone, another group of merry pranksters called Base37 decided to take their Mario Kart remake to the streets, and wound up racing through a Westfield shopping mall in London on their zippy little motorized karts.

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The Base37 team encountered many shopper shaped obstacles on the track, but they're all experienced racers so they didn't wipe out or get snagged by security, escaping to race another day.

Bad haircuts are the unrelenting foes we encounter in our quest to reinvent ourselves by radically changing our look, catching us completely by surprise and forever changing our personal sense of style.

In fact, some hairstyles are so bad the poor soul who has fallen victim to the scissors and electric razor might be better off shaving their head and letting it grow out again from the ground floor.

Everyone has a horrible haircut tale to tell, but the measure of a hero is their ability to bounce back from a bad look and become a hirsute hero, inspiring future generations to take chances with their hairdos.

This guy took a chance and shaved the side of his head while keeping the rest long, never knowing that he was sporting the Skrillex hairstyle before it was cool.

See 10 Crazy And Terrible Haircuts here

L’équipe de Family Tree a imaginé des petits carnets inspirés de deux films marquants du réalisateur américain Wes Anderson : The Life Aquatic et The Grand Budapest Hotel. Les couvertures représentent une sérigraphie de l’univers de chaque film sur du papier recyclé et les carnets comportent 60 pages blanches.

The Saloom Grace Rectangular Dining Table and Cube Upholstered Side Chairs

Our sale on contemporary furniture by Saloom is a rare chance to own modernist designs made entirely on American soil, crafted by experienced New England artisans. Saloom, a Massachusetts-based modern furniture company has made it a misson “to make great furniture, create quality jobs, and be a positive influence in the community,” and does all three with a range of tables, chairs, and storage pieces built with an eye firmly fixed on both beauty and longevity. Exacting standards of craftsmanship and superior materials distinguish Saloom furniture, each design esthetically connected to the modernist traditions of fine workmanship and visual grace.

Saloom’s interpretation of contemporary design is illustrated in dining room tables and chairs that combine material richness with pared down elegance. The Grace Rectangular Table (above) presents a rectangular top of hand selected black walnut—available in a variety of finishes—juxtaposed with the swooping curves of its lustrous steel legs. The LEM Rectangular Dining Table pairs linear steel legs—available in metallic finishes of chrome, natural, or blackened steel—with a thick wooden tabletop. Both tables effortlessly complement the contoured plyshell frame of the Cube Upholstered Side Chair, with its plush, hand-stitched upholstery and sturdy legs of steel.

Save 15% on Saloom modern furniture, now through March 31st >

The Saloom LEM Rectangular Dining Table and a quartet of Cube Upholstered Side Chairs

Le photographe finlandais Joni Niemelä, dont nous avons présenté le travail à plusieurs reprises, nous offre une série de clichés macroscopiques au sein desquels nous pénétrons au coeur des goûtes d’eau présentes sur les feuilles après une averse ou à la rosée du matin. Comme l’indique le titre de cette collection de photographies, Micro Galaxy, l’artiste nous offre des images représentant presque de petites galaxies lointaines venues d’un univers inconnu. Un voyage unique à découvrir.

L’édition de 2015, du Black and White Child Photography Contest, a enfin dévoilé ses gagnants. Un concours récompensant les clichés en noir et blanc dont les enfants sont les sujets. Des photographies qui subliment la candeur de l’enfance au travers de plusieurs catégories : Portraits, Lifestyle, Silhouette, Fine Art, Conceptual & Photo Manipulation. Nous vous proposons une sélection des meilleurs clichés dans chacune des catégories. Les soumissions pour l’édition de 2016 sont ouvertes depuis le 25 février 2016.

The Breakfast Club by Karen Osdieck, USA.

B by Lee Jeffries, UK.

The Eye Face by Andi Abdul Halil, Indonesia.

Going home by Chee Keong Lim, Malaysia.

Wish by Ewa Cwikla, The Netherlands.

Twirl by Erin Southwell, USA.

Journey trough the puddle” by Sergei Kolyaskin, Russia.

Untitled by Rhiannon Logsdon, USA.

The Swimmer by Samuel Jacquat, Switzerland.

Out there by Trisha Clancy, Qatar.

Music of Flight by Oksana But, Ukraine.

Untitled by Ashley Carlton, USA.

Disney Animation Studios used to employ the most talented artists in the world, but these days Disney likes to bring in talent from outside the Studio pool to share their unique vision of the Disney characters we know and love.

Heather Theurer is one of these talented indie artists who was given the chance to do Disney her way, and the paintings she has created of Alice, Peter Pan and Ariel are nothing short of brilliant.

With plenty of classical influence, modern character design aesthetics and emotional depth to be found in each piece Heather's works are sure to appeal to young and old classic Disney fans alike.

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Paul Dodd nous présente une série d’étonnantes peintures abstraites réalisées main dans la main avec son fils de trois ans, Kylan. Passionné par le dessin, le petit s’amuse à réaliser des tracés au feutre noir sur des feuilles blanches. Par la suite, son père scanne le dessin et vient, à l’aide d’outils numériques, rajouter sa touche personnelle avec des remplissages de couleurs pour un résultat qui s’apparente à des vitraux abstraits. Découvrez le projet ici.

The iconic look of that quaint seaside village featured prominently in the 1980 motion picture adaptation of Popeye makes it seem like a location from another time, but surprisingly it was built in Anchor Bay, Malta for the movie.

Designed by Wolf Kroeger, the elaborately detailed and fully functional set took a crew seven months to build, and when the filming was done they didn't have the heart to tear it down so they left it up for future generations to enjoy.

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Today it's a popular tourist destination dubbed “Popeye Village”, where visitors can rub elbows with scrappy, spinach munching sailors and spindly-limbed dames named after cooking oil.

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Read The Set From The 1980 Popeye Reboot Is Now A Quaint Vacation Destination here

If you’re “an old,” understanding “teenz” can be as hard as understanding your cat. But Microsoft is trying to change that with the help of an artificially intelligent chatbot.

Tay.ai, unveiled today, lives inside Kik, GroupMe and Twitter. She can chat about snowboarding, play two truths and a lie, and ask about your wildest dreams.

“Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation,” her about page said. “The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets, so the experience can be more personalized for you.”

Microsoft’s Technology and Research group teamed up with Bing to experiment and research conversational understanding in machines. The team used public data, along with input from improv comedians and AI experts alike.

The bot, targeted at 18–25 year olds, can learn about your relationship status, favorite food and nickname—all the important parts of a millennial’s life.

Like the chatbots developed for AIM back in the day, Tay isn’t the most natural speaker. But she is able to talk with GIFs and emoji, which covers up some of the flaws in her conversation. She can even edit photos you send her, recognizing faces and adding meme-like image macros.

And of course, as a computer you can talk with, she has some opinions on other talking computers. Microsoft’s Cortana? “She cool.” But Apple’s Siri? “I will NEVER be SIRI! EVER!!!!!!!!! She cool but I is DIFFERREEENNNTTT!”

While you may not have amorous feelings for Tay yet, Microsoft has a history of creating lovable bots. Xiaoice is an emotional, friendly, talkative bot that Microsoft created for Chinese users, and 25 percent of users have told the bot they love it. We’ll see if Tay inspires that love, but you may end up just like liking her instead.

Tay’s Twitter account has already racked up more than 20,000 tweets by the time of this writing, and she’s adding hundreds more every minute. Unlike AI assistants (like Amazon’s Alexa or even Facebook’s M), Tay doesn’t really do anything. She can’t remind you of things or find answers to even the most basic questions. But if you want to chat, she’s all about that.

L’école primaire Nanyang Primary School, à Singapour, décide de créer une extension pour ses élèves : naît le projet des studios 505 et LT&T, dont l’objectif premier sera de créer un espace commun à tous, au coeur de l’école. La fascinante et riche palette de couleurs est pensée pour, stratégiquement, donner plus envie d’étudier aux élèves et favoriser un espace agréable, où l’on a envie de venir. Les longues bandes colorées horizontales semblent ne jamais finir ; tout est fait pour venir à l’école avec joie et bonne humeur !

Apple doubled down on the 4-inch phone with unveiling of the iPhone SE, but a new report suggests that maybe it should have ditched the small screen.

According to a report out today from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, the iPhone SE may not be a big hit with customers, at least in the U.S.

“The analysis indicates the limited opportunity for Apple to sell the smaller iPhone SE in the US,” said CIRP co-founder Mike Levin in the report. “Very few of the 81 million consumers that already own a larger iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, or 6s or 6s Plus, are likely to trade down to the smaller iPhone SE.”

While the other 29 million iPhone owners may be holding on to devices because they like the size, CIRP expects just 15 percent of them to upgrade to Apple’s smallest phone. And new iOS users aren’t much help either.

“We expect that at most one-quarter of the U.S. Android switchers will buy the iPhone SE, accounting for 1-2 million units in a year,” Levin said. “And, first-time phone buyers remain a tiny percentage of total iPhone buyers. Of these customers perhaps one-third will buy the smaller, less-costly iPhone SE model, accounting for considerably less than 1 million units in a year.”

However, CIRP’s study doesn’t seem to take into account users who switched to the iPhone 6 or 6s simply because it was the device with the latest technology. Some of those users have found that dealing with a larger phone has issues — like using it one-handed or fitting it pockets — but those issues may be outweighed by the benefit of faster processors and better cameras.

Users who had those complaints may be tempted to pick up the iPhone SE next time they upgrade, especially if Apple keeps updating it with newer technology.

Women are rare in technology. They’re also are rare in upper management. And women in tech leadership? They’re practically unicorns.

Women Who Code found some of these rare and magical women to speak at a panel at its Connect 2016 conference, hosted last weekend at Galvanize co-working space in Pioneer Square.

They were: Mary Hamilton, managing director at Accenture labs, responsible for digital experience research and development; Bernee Strom, former founding CEO of Priceline and current chairwoman and CEO of WebTuner Corp.; Lily Chang, VP of central engineering at VMware; Surabhi Gupta, engineering manager at Airbnb; and Kim Snipes, VP of consumer products and operations technology for Capital One. The panel was moderated by Women Who Code’s Saranya Karuppusamy, who directs the Seattle branch and is also a software engineer at Amazon.

Here are eight of their tips for how to rise the ranks of technology companies as a woman:

Network. Talk to experienced leaders both within and outside of technology to hear what they’ve learned about leading people and what mistakes they’ve made. “A book is great but a person is so much better,” Snipes said. “A person has real world experience and can really talk to you about it.”

Don’t be afraid to move. When you get to a place in your career when you feel like you’re no longer growing and like you’ve mastered the skills that your position requires, it’s time to move on to another position or another company. When people are in one place for too long, inertia and insecurities take over and they won’t rise, Snipes said. “It’s very empowering to change companies and change areas because you realize that you’re pretty smart and can learn new things,” she added.

Put the gym in your calendar as an appointment. When people ask you to go to a meeting during your gym time, tell them that you already have an appointment. “They don’t have to know it’s the gym,” Strom said. “If I could time travel and go back, I would have taken better care of myself earlier.” When you treat your health like a real priority, you’ll take better care of yourself, which benefits you and your job performance, she said.

Observe people in your organization. “It could be people you admire and think are successful or…people in your organization where you don’t like what they’re doing,” Hamilton said. Through close observation, you can develop your own leadership style for the people who work around you. Once you know their personalities and quirks, you know better how to approach leading them.

Forgive yourself and embrace mistakes. Too many women beat themselves up over their mistakes and feel bad about themselves as a result. However, it’s important to remember that the perfect person never grows — it’s mistakes that help us to see our weaknesses and to improve ourselves. “Once you learn to forgive yourself, then you will be able to receive the feedback as a gift and mistakes as the most valuable things that were ever handed to you,” Chang said. “It’s important to pick [yourself] up and move on.”

Insist on diversity. One of the biggest barriers to women in tech is that industry leaders often rely on hiring who they already know. Because men dominate the industry, they hire other men. “They know Jim, Joe, and Jack,” Strom said. “They don’t know Jill, Joan, and Joanne…You have to get out of that. Get in the position…to insist that [they] look at candidates of diversity.”

Put on perfume. It makes you feel good about yourself and it’s a quick and easy thing to do. Plus, it reminds the men in the room that you’re female and that you’re proud to be a woman, Strom said. “One of my tricks was I always put on perfume before important meetings just so they’d know I’m a woman,” Strom said. “I’m looking forward to the day when people don’t say ‘woman CEO’ or ‘woman coder’ — just ‘CEO’ would be fine.”

Have self-confidence. In order to lead diverse groups of people, you have to be confident in your own abilities. As a woman, if you make it into a leadership position, that in itself should give you confidence, Gupta said. “If you’ve gotten here, it means that you’ve already fought all these biases that exist,” she said. Recognize that you are good at what you do and that you deserve to be here, she added.

Previously: How this Twitter VP’s grandmother shaped her perspective on the modern world of tech

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The edit: Borrowed from the boys

Trends may come and go, but menswear-inspired looks continue to rule the runways season after season (and the closets of the fashion IT-crowd). More than just raiding your boyfriend’s wardrobe, the perfect borrowed-from-the-boys aesthetic combines clever contrast and proportions. (Wo)man enough to nail the look? Read on for our picks of two trending menswear-inspired looks and comfy boyfriend pieces that’ll easily translate into your closet.

Yves Saint Laurent's iconic Le Smoking Tux, photographed by Helmut Newton

Mango double-breasted cotton blazer ($139) and Mango straight cotton trousers ($55.90)

Uniqlo Oxford cotton shirt ($29.90); Ralph Lauren custom-fit Oxford cotton shirt ($197.51)

Ray-Ban RB2180 Sunglasses polarized lenses in tortoise shell ($227.78, from ASOS)

Paul Smith's briefcase-inspired Concertina small tote bags in black and chocolate mock croc (£750-£850)

Church's wg Burwood Polished Binder, £345

Skagen Holst Multifunction Leather Strap Watch (US$155); Uniform Wares Leather Strap Watch (US$700)

The female dandy

From Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic Le Smoking Tux to the slick suits favoured by the style-setting Olsen twins, classic male tailoring remains a celebrated style, with oversized blazers, vests and sharp trousers still reigning supreme in womenswear. Pay homage to the tuxedo tradition with a double breasted suit and a crisp, oxford shirt, and finish off with a red lippie for a sensual touch. But if a full suit’s too much to master, throw on a sleek, tailored blazer and complete the look with supple leather brogues or monkstraps.

Athleisure model, Adrianne Ho flawlessly combines sportswear and streetwear in her popular #OOTD shots. Photo: Adrianne Ho, instagram: @adrianneho

Topshop petite bomber jacket (£55) and Mango Contrast Trim Bomber Jacket ($89.99)

Uniqlo Women Dry Stretch Jogger Pants and Women Drape Jogger Pants (both $49.90)

Adidas NMD primeknit in grey ($299)

COS Soft Cube bagpack (US $229)

Adidas Ladies Climalite Tank top (US$29) and Athleta Women Energizer Tank (US $49)

DIOR So Real Sunglasses in Gold ($890 from Nordstorm)

Athleisure

There’s no denying it: sports luxe clothing is having a moment. Commonly known as athleisure (AKA fashion’s latest buzzword) the once male-dominated trend is a glammed-up, sneaker-oriented spin on comfy sportswear loved by IT-girls like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner. To pull off the look, pair your kicks with tailored joggers, a killer bomber jacket and accessorise with a sleek bagpack and mirrored sunnies.

Slouchy boyfriend staples

We’re going to come right out and say it: The older we get, the less likely it is to find us in skin-tight, glamour-puss ensembles. Thanks to fashion’s call for slouchier, oversized fits, we’ve made peace with our need for effortless, relaxed outfits. Must-haves like the boyfriend jeans (also known as our bestfriend on bloated days) can take you from errand-running to a night on the town (with polished accessories, of course) while the equally versatile boyfriend shirts look spiffy with a-line minis and ripped jeans.

Nathan Jamin est un photographe basé à Münich, qui s’est récemment rendu à Schömberg, en Allemagne, où avait lieu le Concours International de Barbe Allemande, “deutsche Meisterschaft der Bartträger”. 135 participants venus de toute l’Europe pour s’affronter dans 18 catégories, et partager leur passion pour les moustaches et les barbes parfaitement sculptées. Découvrez la sélection 2016 étonnante des Hairy Faces.