Square's New Tools Let You Sell Online, Not Just Off

Square, which invented a credit card reader that plugs into your iPhone, is now offering tools to pay online with no card reader at all. The post Square's New Tools Let You Sell Online, Not Just Off appeared first on WIRED.

Square's New Tools Let You Sell Online, Not Just Off

Square, which invented a credit card reader that plugs into your iPhone, is now offering tools to pay online with no card reader at all. The post Square's New Tools Let You Sell Online, Not Just Off appeared first on WIRED.

This week, researchers planned the "death of traffic lights" and Apple downsized its iPhone

This week on Dezeen: Apple's new iPhone came under fire this week, while MIT researchers proposed a system for driverless cars that could spell the end for traffic lights. (more…)

Using Web Fonts at All: Point/Counterpoint

Adam Morse makes the case against webfonts:

Typography is not about aesthetics, it’s about serving the text. If even a small percentage of people don’t consume your content due to a use of webfonts, your typography is failing.

All this being said I care deeply about aesthetics, and I’ve found the following two sentiments to be true: System fonts can be beautiful. Webfonts are not a requirement for great typography.

I’ve argued in their defense. Also, I reveal a lot of my own biases as a type geek:

I don’t believe that all of human experience can be elegantly communicated via Helvetica, Times, Georgia, or San Francisco. And when I read that “typography is not about aesthetics” then I sigh deeply, heavily and come to the conclusion that 1. yes it is and 2. aesthetics is a problem for the reader. The more ugliness that is pressed upon us, the more lazy we become. Beauty, legibility, subtlety, these are the qualities that are possible with the help of web fonts and without them we are left with a dismal landscape devoid of visual grace or wit.

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"Mythbusters was a miniature weekly Enlightenment for the modern material world"

Opinion: Mythbusters may not have been obviously about design, but its high-octane science experiments made viewers think more about the material world than any other TV show, says Will Wiles. (more…)

Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol Grabs Consolation Win Against Google’s AI

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol has won his first game in this week’s challenge match with AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system developed by researchers at Google. With AlphaGo winning the match’s first three games earlier in the week, the machine had already claimed victory in this historic test of artificial […] The post Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol Grabs Consolation Win Against Google's AI appeared first on WIRED.