A recent shopping experience that really surprised meI was captivated when Apple opened its first set of physical retail stores in 2001. I’ve never owned a retail business, but I worked a variety of retail jobs growing up. What Apple did with retail was different.I’ve always been endlessly fascinated by retail. Watching people browse, seeing how people choose what to buy, seeing how moving stuff around in a store can have significant effects on purchasing patterns, etc. Paco Underhill’sWhy We Buyis one of my favorite books of all time.When Apple finally opened one in the Chicago area over a de ...继续阅读 (14)

当你谈到游戏的时候你会想到什么？电子竞技迷或许能够举出一系列的网游平台，网游明星；单机小众游戏控可能会列出一堆小型的硬核游戏；而网络游戏玩家则会告诉你什么是最火的网游。不过，以后，这看上去三个列表背后都会出现一个词：腾讯。前天，腾讯电竞，正式成立。尽管此前腾讯在电竞领域的大动作已经不是新鲜事，但是这一次正式宣布把电竞纳入到腾讯泛娱乐体系下，与腾讯游戏、腾讯文学、腾讯动漫、腾讯电影获得了同等地位。（据称这张照片上的电竞选手总价值超过一亿）但如果这是这样，这仍然不是腾讯的风格 —— 毕竟这些年投资电竞平台，电竞战队的公司如过江之鲫 —— 但腾讯此次的打算已经不再是投资一只队伍或者一个赛事，其目的看上去似乎是：打造一条全行业的电竞产业链，甚至以电竞为核心，渗透入直播、IP、综艺等行业，整合出一套新的娱乐产业模式。腾讯集团副总裁、腾讯影业首席执行官程武表示，电子竞技与传统竞技体育有着天然的血缘关系，而电子竞技的出现，让竞技体育的魅力有了全新的延展。与很多传统体育产业类似，电竞产业在也逐步建立起涵盖赛事、直播、明星经纪、粉丝运营、内容制作等在内的上下游产业链，新兴的电竞行业，也将可以借鉴英超、NBA等传统竞技体育联盟的运作方法，探索以移动互联网为基础的产业新模式。为了这个愿望，在人才培养上，腾讯也在不遗余力，据程武介绍，腾讯正在积极筹备组建腾讯电竞学院，今后会通过整合NEXT IDEA、《英 ...继续阅读 (14)

为了纪念索尼创立 70 周年，索尼计划拆除位于东京银座的索尼大厦，并在原址建造银座索尼公园（Ginza Sony Park），力图打造一个号称东京的时代广场，扮演类似纽约时代广场中央阶梯的角色。旧建筑将在 2017 年3 月前完全封闭，同年春动工拆除，预计次年夏天完成一期工程。为此，自 2016 年 11 月 12 日起，索尼大厦开启了重建倒计时的活动“It’s a Sony展”。在这里，你除了能回顾索尼大厦走过的 50 年历程，还将跨时代看到索尼 70 年的诸多非凡产品。↑↑↑ 位于银座数寄屋桥路口的索尼大厦（Sony Building）由索尼创始人盛田昭夫先生指示兴建，作为索尼在东京的门户，向市民展示索尼的产品与文化，并于 1966 年 4 月 29 日落成启用，地上 8 层、地下 5 层。值得一提的是，索尼大厦对面的数寄屋桥次郎便是被评为米其林三星、“寿司之神”小野二郎的本店。受纽约古根海姆博物馆的启发，该大厦的设计师们采用当时独一无二的建筑风格——世界上第一个“花瓣式结构”。其简约的装饰和精确的建筑结构，让人觉得仿佛整体大厦也是一个巨大的索尼产品。↓↓↓“It’s a Sony”是索尼从 1970 年开始在美国使用的广告标语。在日本，从 1982 年至 2000 年“It’s a Sony”一直作为声音 LOGO 出现在索尼的电视广告中。这个简洁有力的标语勾勒出索尼产品的与 ...继续阅读 (11)

Here’s footage ofShigeru Miyamotoplaying theSuper Mario Bros.theme song with The Roots. It’s probably the most famous song in video games being played by the most famous video game designer and producer — he’s also the most adorable.It’s a big day for Nintendo with Miyamoto doing the press rounds ahead of the launch ofSuper Mario Runnext week. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé was also on Late Night with Jimmy Fallonto show offthe new Nintendo Switch console.Continue reading…Source:http://ift.tt/2gdJVrE ...继续阅读 (12)

Nintendo’s Super Mario Run will debut one week from today, an iOS exclusive at least through the end of the year.Interested in the gameplay? The video embedded in the main Loop post will take you through the highlights. To me, this feels like a Nintendo game worth of Super Mario. The fit and finish is just what you’d expect, the sound effects spot on.Source:http://ift.tt/2gZLOr4 ...继续阅读 (13)

With constant news updates, changing schedules, and traffic delays, staying on top of everything can be challenging. The Google app has useful cards ready to help you keep track of everything you care about — from sports scores to that package you ordered — and we’ve been thinking up ways to make the experience even more helpful. That’s why we’re rolling out an update to help you stay organized and in the know about the things that matter to you. Starting today, in the Google app on Android (and coming soon to iOS), your cards will be organized into two sections: a feed that keeps you current ...继续阅读 (9)

You’re a media company now, Facebook. Behave like one.Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary andreviews column on The VergeandRecodeby veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large ofRecode.Totally false news isn’t a new thing in the United States. In our fourth presidential election, in 1800, two of our most brilliant founders — John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — faced off in a vicious campaign that involved newspaper editors on the take and numerous false, often personal attacks. Some historians even claim that partisans for Adams spread the rumor ...继续阅读 (13)

I’ve had this conversation many times. A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.”I usually slip into counsel mode and tell them it’s a lost cause unless they’re truly committed to living in that city and if they are they should move there first and job search second.If you really are committed to moving to a new city you simply won’t find the best or right job without feet on the street — no matter what any ...继续阅读 (15)

Since 2013, Google Play Newsstand has provided a single destination on your phone or tablet for browsing thousands of the world’s leading news sources and magazines. More than 100 million users trust Newsstand every month to follow the stories, topics, and interests they care about.Today, we are announcing a complete redesign of Newsstand that focuses on three big improvements: personalization, rich media, and the extension of our platform to the web.A fully personalized news and magazine reader for youWe are applying the power of Google machine learning to Newsstand’s rich catalog in order to ...继续阅读 (10)

We’re building Asana to be a place where everyone can work together effortlessly, no matter what role they’re in, how they organize their work, or what goal they are trying to reach. To that end, today we’re starting to roll out our first version of Boards in Asana, giving you another way to plan, prioritize, and track anything you’re working on, any way you want.Teams have been visualizing their work in columns on a board for decades. From the giant whiteboard covered with sticky notes, to digital tools like Trello, the board layout is an intuitive, visual way to manage work that is moving th ...继续阅读 (11)

Photos from the past, meet scanner from the futureGoogle Photos is a home for all your photos and videos, but what about those old prints that are some of your most treasured memories? Such as photos of grandma when she was young, your childhood pet, and that hairstyle you wish you could forget.We all have those old albums and boxes of photos, but we don’t take the time to digitize them because it’s just too hard to get it right. We don’t want to mail away our original copy, buying a scanner is costly and time consuming, and if you try to take a photo of a photo, you end up with crooked edges ...继续阅读 (13)

During the election, The New York Times showed alive gaugeto show the current forecast for Clinton and Trump. It moved to show a 25th to 75th percentile band of uncertainty:A lot of people didn’t get it, and it seemed to upset plenty of people too. Gregor Aisch, an NYT graphics editor,explains what they tried to accomplish with the gauges.[W]e thought (and still think!) this movement actually helped demonstrate the uncertainty around our forecast, conveying the relative precision of our estimates. In our opinion, having the dial fluctuate a small amount – bound by the 25th and 75 percentile of ...继续阅读 (14)

音频是游戏非常重要的组成部分，但我们平常不太会谈到它。即便谈起，也是简单地提一句“这游戏音乐特别棒/特别烂/特别搭”，很少会深入讨论。这种“忽视”在全世界都很常见。我们似乎觉得对音乐的评价更加个人、主观，于是不值得另外谈起；而涉及到技术层面，外行可以谈论的内容不多，哪怕由内行来叙述，它的专业性和门槛也过高；同流行歌手相比，我们知道的著名游戏音乐制作人也少得可怜，而他们中的很多人也并不单纯以制作游戏音乐而出名，也很少有人能够和游戏的著名制作人、绘师、脚本家并列，被用在广告词中来吸引玩家。游戏的音乐和音频很重要，但我们对它的谈论和它的重要性显然不成正比，我们也并不太关心音频的来头、作用和音频设计师们的想法。实际上，在采访李佳骐之前，我也没有考虑过游戏音频的相关问题。认识李佳骐是因为我前段时间为国产游戏《节奏英雄》做了一篇报道。《节奏英雄》是个独立游戏，开发团队很穷，却投入“巨资”为游戏原创了所有音乐，并且在每一个关卡都设置了一首全新的歌曲，由北斗企鹅工作室的幽幽演唱。李佳骐和他的工作室，则是这些音乐的制作者。李佳骐是一位在资历很深的游戏音频设计师，他在Gameloft北京工作室和腾讯都呆过，曾经是Gameloft当时唯一一个国人音频设计师。现在他和他的老朋友徐梧桐一起创办了8082音频科技。他们给很多游戏和节目包括央视五套的里约奥运会主题等等写过歌，锤子T1手机系统的音频方案也是出自他 ...继续阅读 (8)

三星的日子不好过，尤其是在中国。毕竟眼看着一款集双曲面屏幕、虹膜识别、高精度手写笔等诸多技术于一身、志在引领潮流的产品淹没在突如其来的火光、烟雾中，这事儿谁摊上都不会好过。所以，它需要改变乃至变革，然后再次出发，尽管 Note 7 的事故原因仍然没有一个清晰明了的答案。调整的第一步便是改变宣传推广策略，把上半年的旗舰产品用备受好评的珊瑚蓝配色重新包装。而在大陆市场，三星还有第二计。它拿出了一款为这个市场定制的产品——C9 Pro。你可以简单的理解为，C 代表着 China。C9 Pro 并不是第一款 C 系列产品。今年 6 月份，三星便首先发布了 5.2 英寸的 C5 和 5.5 英寸的 C7 两款产品。C9 Pro 的屏幕达到了 6 英寸，它采用时下流行的全金属机身设计，新颖的微缝天线，紧凑超薄的机身，它还有相对亲民的售价，高通骁龙 653+6GB+64GB 配置，人民币 3199 元。说句题外话，这款产品虽然叫 C9 Pro，在三星官网的产品列表中并不存在 C9。和我们之前体验过的 C5 类似，C9 Pro 也拥有很多针对大陆用户的使用场景特别优化的功能。第一项是微信视频。微信朋友圈是一个很神奇的地方，它是一个万花筒。我们努力在其中呈现最好或者是幻想着达到的个人状态，比如去过的风景名胜，和名人的合影。视频就是一个快捷且方便表达的工具。通常要发一条朋友圈视频，你首先需要打开微信， ...继续阅读 (13)

November 11th is Origami Day in Japan. To celebrate, we have assembled a sampling of this whimsical and imaginative artistic expression that employs the simple medium of paper.Origami began as an ancient Japanese craft of folding paper into intricate and delicate art. Today the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin.Please allow yourself to be delighted by the full galleryhere.VisitOriland, a unique fairy-tale world, made completely from paper without using glue and scissors.Japanese legend says that the gods will heal those ...继续阅读 (12)

LinkDig on the simplicity and sharpness of each of Japan’s 47 Prefecture icons and then read about their meaning and see them in flag form at the link.Source:http://ift.tt/2fqAeC7 ...继续阅读 (10)

I’d be up there for days, mostly because I’d be paralyzed with fear. Cable got some great shots.∞ Read this on The LoopSource:http://ift.tt/2fME8Gm ...继续阅读 (3)

川普赢了。赢得非常爽利，甚至没有一点拖泥带水。不管是大洋那边的选民，还是大洋这边的网民，都在欢呼着。人们有理由欢呼，哪怕他们不认识这里面的任何一个人，也没有亲自投过任何一次票。但光是看看这其中的戏剧性就够了：一个从没被媒体看好的，甚至最糟糕的时候获胜几率不超过10%的候选人，获得了大胜。这本身就是一个足够励志（或者疯狂）故事。与这个励志故事同样令人瞩目的，是这次的选举令人惊异的撕裂：往年的选举往往是一种类似价值观的两种不同解决方案，但今年这实际上是两种不同的价值观，甚至两种不同的话语体系得鸡同鸭讲：它不再是比一个问题里面谁做的更好，而是截然两种不同的问题中要你选择哪一类更重要。是侮辱女性还是撒谎卖官更令人憎恨？全球化的普世精神，还是要工业复兴的挣扎求存？社会问题是来自于性别、种族、文化的不平等，还是关税，工作，收入的不平等？往年，这样的问题并不是最大的问题，因为还有媒介在，这种能力被称作是媒介的“议程设置”。它告诉我们什么样的话题是最重要的。哪怕红蓝媒介之间吵的再厉害，仍然能够在一些议题上达到平衡。好像规定了一个比赛项目，两个候选人在里面竞赛。然而，川普大胜给了媒介们一记耳光。这恐怕是历史上第一次红蓝媒介携起手来试图说服受众“什么最重要”，但是失败了。它设定的议题：性别政治，种族多元，个人修养还有政治经验，从结果上看，并没有成为大多数人所关心的东西。他们的态度不是辩护川普“没干过” ...继续阅读 (12)

Today, Japan saw the release of the most powerful gaming console in history alongside what may well be the least. For about a tenth of the price of the PlayStation 4 Pro and probably even less of the power consumption, you can pick up Nintendo’s Classic Mini Family Computer — Japan’s version of the NES Classic Edition.The Family Computer — commonly known as the Famicom — was released in 1983, two years before Nintendo released the NES in the US with a radical redesign. The two 8-bit consoles are basically identical in terms of hardware, but the Famicom’s red-and-white physica ...继续阅读 (12)

Apple CEO Tim Cook sought to reassure employees following Donald Trump’s shocking electoral victory this week, according to an internal memo obtained byBuzzfeed News. In the memo, sent Wednesday, Cook called on Apple employees to come together after the bitter presidential campaign, and reaffirmed the company’s commitment to diversity.“We have a very diverse team of employees, including supporters of each of the candidates,” Cooksaidin the memo. “Regardless of which candidate each of us supported as individuals, the only way to move forward is to move forward toge ...继续阅读 (13)

Living on the VergeR E V I E W E D M O D U L E S T A R T / / B E F O R E A N D A F T E R(Est. 2011) “The Vergeis an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media. It has offices in Manhattan, New York City. The network publishes news items, long-form feature stories, product reviews, podcasts, and an entertainment show. The website uses its own proprietary publishing platform with video content. The network’s content is financed through advertising and sponsorship and is managed by its editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and executive editor Dieter Bohn. The site lau ...继续阅读 (13)

Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. However, our ranking systems still typically look at the desktop version of a page’s content to evaluate its relevance to the user. This can cause issues when the mobile page has less content than the desktop page because our algorithms are not evaluating the actual page that is seen by a mobile searcher.To make our results more useful, we’ve begun experiments to make our index mobile-first. Although our search index will continue to be a single index of websites and apps, our algorithms will eventually primarily use the mobile ...继续阅读 (13)

图片来源：凤凰网政见特约观察员：戴靖沄很多人都注意到：中国媒体存在地域差异。“南方系” 写出很多独具一格的批评性报道，“让无力者有力，让悲观者前行”，而另一些地方的媒体却显得很听话。哈佛大学助理教授雷雅雯发表在 《美国社会学杂志》 的研究指出，当地媒体市场竞争越激烈、党政机关越碎片化 （不同级别、部门的党政机关利益不一致），便更利于发表批评性报道。而新闻界和法律界的紧密联系也能帮助新闻界产生更多批评性的报道。研究者分析的是经济发达城市的本地市场化综合报纸：广州的南方都市报、羊城晚报；北京的京华时报、北京晚报；上海的新闻晨报、新民晚报。值得一提的是，这项研究基于的数据是 2003 年至 2006 年这六家纸媒的报道，和 2009 年至 2010 年及 2011 年至 2014 年的两轮与记者、学者、律师、和宣传部官员的采访，因此中国新闻界的最新变化并没有体现在研究中。但是在 2003 至 2006 年中，南方系也遭受了一系列变故，因此，该研究对我们理解长期以来新闻报道的地区差异很有价值。广州 > 北京 > 上海究竟什么样的报道才叫批评性报道？研究者问记者：如果不考虑外界因素，记者应该报道什么社会问题？从记者的回答中，研究者总结出批评性报道的对象的六个指标：违宪、侵权、司法独立、公民参与、弱势群体、权力资本——如果某报道的主题符合其中任何一个指标，那么就被认为是批评性报道 ...继续阅读 (12)

A couple of years ago internet companies moved from having a mobile team and a mobile strategy to what they called ‘mobile first’. Instead of building a product and deciding how and if it would work on mobile, new things are build for mobile by default, and don’t necessarily make their way back to the desktop.Now, though, I think we can see an evolution beyond ‘mobile first’. What happens if you just forget about the PC altogether? But also, what happens if you forget about featurephones? What happens if you presume all of the sophistication that a modern smartphone has and a PC does not, and ...继续阅读 (14)

The intelligent speaker isn’t always smart.Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary andreviews column on The VergeandRecodeby veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large ofRecode.Like many tech enthusiasts, I’ve been using a $180 Amazon Echo intelligent speaker at my home for a year or more. And while I love using it for some things — playing music and podcasts, setting timers and reordering items from Amazon — I’ve come to realize that, likeApple’s Siriand all other virtual assistants, its Alexa voice-driven artificial intelligence system disappoin ...继续阅读 (9)

Music as a loss leader is back.After months of rumors, Amazon finally announced the details of itsnew music streaming service, which joins an already crowded market. While the price for the standalone music service is $10 per month, in line with all the other services, there are two other offers that set it apart. For Prime subscribers, the price is an additional $8 per month, on top of existing yearly fees, and for users who own anAmazon Echo, the price drops even further, to $4 per month. That’s right: Music is back as a loss leader.The precedent for this goes all the way back to the physica ...继续阅读 (13)

史蒂夫·乔布斯特别爱用“重新定义”一词。在他领导下的苹果公司做到了——不止一次，两次，三次，iPod、iPhone、MacBook Air、iPad……五年前乔布斯去世了，现在在科技行业最配的上“重新定义”这个词的，是微软。如果不是因为 iMac 的话，一体机这个硬件种类恐怕早就已经灭绝了，生产难度最低，最适销对路的 PC 肯定是台式机和笔记本电脑。iMac 的存在是因为它外观精致到令人叹为观止，而且屏幕显示出色，硬件性能能够满足设计和其他内容创造者的使用。但今天一体机的市场上出现了一个新的挑战者：Surface Studio。它重新定义了一体机 PC，并且碾压了 iMac 三条街。它来势汹汹，显示屏厚度只有 12.5mm，28 吋、4500 x 3000 像素的 LCD 屏幕色域达到 DCI-P3（一种影像和设计工业级的显示标准）——更别提还是一块触屏。硬件性能上，只比 iMac 更澎湃：高配第六代 i7 处理器+GTX 980 显卡+32GB 内存+2TB混合硬盘。Surface Studio 是微软 Surface 触屏计算设备家族的新成员。在微软硬件负责人 Panos Panay 看来，比 Studio 早出生的 Surface Pro、Surface Book 创造了 2合1 这种新的设备形态，而 Studio 则重新定义了工作站级一体机。Panos Panay除了前面提 ...继续阅读 (12)

本文授权转载自梁其伟的知乎专栏《S杂谈》。最近跟不少朋友一样，都沉迷美剧西部世界。尤其游戏爱好者，对这部剧的众多设定基本都可以会心一笑。不过作为游戏行业的创业者，从这家公司的运营历史来解读一下福特和阿诺德的创业历程，倒也相当有趣。福特和阿诺德是最早期的乐园创始人，他们研发了机器人原型，并指导他们各种人类行为，可能这在早期创业时是一种非常纯粹的业务追求，两位创始人就如同很牛逼的游戏开发者一样，沉浸在创造世界的乐趣之中。根据福特说的，他们最开始制作的都是正能量故事线，不过也许在商业上显然并没有什么卵用。福特和阿诺德的分歧有可能出现在引入外部投资人的环节。福特和女主管的对话隐藏着巨大的信息，阿诺德极力阻止引入投资人，而福特显然支持引入了资本。若干年后，可以看到运营着乐园的其实是一个上市公司，董事会是其领导层，第四集还透露出威廉的家族是公司的股东之一，而福特虽然是创始人，员工叫他老板，但目前则应当只是首席产品官之类的职务。当然，乐园经过数十年的运营，拥有成熟而稳健的商业模式——栩栩如生的机器人技术被运用来满足人们的杀戮欲望和性欲，并收取高昂的费用（一天至少四万美金），故事线当然也早已经不是什么具有深度的，符合福特对机器人深度情感展现的故事线，而是变着法子的kill & fxxk。由于剧集并没有往后推进，我们并不能得知阿诺德是如何殒命的。但是，我们至少可以推测出，两位初创合伙人拥有同 ...继续阅读 (12)

前段时间，很多篇描述“中国式失败”的文章刷遍了朋友圈。这些文章描述了一间经过日本建筑师青山周平先生设计之后变得好看舒适的小四合院，却因为一家人的居住变得面目全非——精心设计的房屋里堆满了杂物。很多人表示心疼，觉得有些人即使给了他们好的设计也不会懂得珍惜，更不会因此改变他们的生活。“面目全非”的房子这座房子的设计师青山周平，其正式身份是 B.L.U.E. 建筑设计事务所的创始合伙人。他来自日本广岛，却在北京的胡同里生活了十余年。他真正走向大众视野正是因为在《梦想改造家》节目中改造了一户老四合院，给这座古旧的老式北京传统居所赋予了他本人独特的建筑设计美学。如果你想感受一下他的风格，可以去北京原麦山丘西单店、华贸店看看，这两家店的设计都是出自青山之手。无奈的是，青山周平又因为同一个节目“火”了一次，这次却是因为他的设计被“毁”了。青山本人对这件事的态度如何呢？10月24日美丽联合集团把陈琪和青山拉到了一起，聊了聊生活美学和设计，CEO 陈琪把这件事当面抛给了青山周平，询问他的意见。没想到，青山周平的回答是“我没有遗憾”。陈琪在创办蘑菇街之前也是一位设计师，如今的美丽联合集团更是在经历着一场时尚和设计的业务升级。这也是为什么这两个人会坐在一起的原因。如果你对蘑菇街和美丽说合并之后发生的变化有所了解，就一定知道我在说什么。当然，除了四合院改造的事儿，两人还聊了很多。我们整理了一下他们的对话， ...继续阅读 (11)

Bringing the right team together for a meeting or brainstorm can take an idea from being good to great. When we tap into ideas from teams across the globe, our work becomes more collaborative and productive. It doesn’t feel like…well, work.At Google, we’ve set out to redefine meetings. So today, we’re introducing Jamboard — a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas in real-time and create without boundaries. We’re moving the whiteboard to the cloud.Your team’s collaborative, cloud-first whiteboardJamboard raises the bar on collaborative creativi ...继续阅读 (13)