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Which Apps and Companies Occupy Your Phone’s Home Screen?

A new survey finds that the default apps stay at home and social networks might not matter so much.

Meet The Chemical Scanner That Could Change The Way You Shop

An Israeli inventor has made a spectrometer that can tell consumers the chemical makeup of almost any item it’s pointed at.

Inside the U.K.’s Plan To Make Robots Part of Everyday Life

Brits may be getting their pizza delivered by robots in the not-too-distant future.

Viral App Yo Has Already Been Hacked

Meanwhile, some top VCs were convinced that Elon Musk yo’ed them.

Two Designers’ Quest To Create The Magazine “The Beautiful Game” Deserves

D’Wayne Edwards

Founder, Pensole Footwear Design Academy

Gorden Wagener

Head of design, Mercedes-Benz

Andy Dunn

Founder, CEO, Bonobos

Bob Richards

Cofounder, CEO, Moon Express

Raj Talluri

SVP of product management, Qualcomm

The New Reality of R&D

Big companies used to pour huge money into long-term research, looking to create products that might pay off a decade down the road. No longer.

These 3 Startups Are Ready To Take On Google Maps

Google pushed the ancient art of map-making into new, more user-friendly territory. These startups are among those driving ever further into the uncharted future:

Nike

For setting a sustainable example.

Levi Strauss

For reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Stats

For turning jocks into nerds.

How Huge NYC Development Hudson Yards Is Solving Its Infrastructure Issues

New York’s Hudson Yards will shoot garbage through tubes and stay lit in a blackout. How does it all work?

Power to the People

Enthusiastic coders and hackers are starting to pay it forward, by ­building kits to help ­beginners achieve computing ­literacy. These three sets mark a growing DIY movement that has ­nothing to do with crafts stores.

Be The Best, Not The First

This month marks the death of MyOpenID, a universal log-in service that started just before Facebook and Google launched similar things. Experts consider: Was this a case of bad timing?

Dynamic Duos: Airbnb’s Brian Chesky And Joe Gebbia On Design Running The Boardroom