Daily Archives: September 7, 2016

Inside The Design Of The World’s Most Beautiful Tiny House

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Tiny houses are basically everywhere these days, with at least a half-dozen cable shows devoted to the topic (yes, Tiny House Hunters and Tiny House Hunting are actually two different shows), and sites such as Curbed and Apartment Therapy offering catalogue-worthy glimpses at some of the more appealing designs.

Which is how I came across the Escape Vista: A new window-wrapped tiny home that looks less like a cramped trailer and more like a 160-square-foot version of Johnson’s Glass House or Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House (a site its creators cite as a direct inspiration). I spoke to Escape founder Dan Dobrowolski to ask him about how he made a tiny house that feels so inviting and expansive

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Orchard Platform Is Disrupting Financial Services From The Inside Out

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Just a few months ago, based on media headlines alone, it would have appeared that marketplace lending was dead. The founder of the world’s largest marketplace lender (LendingClub) and pioneer of the space itself, Renaud Laplanche, was abruptly fired over evidence of fulfilling faulty loans, sinking the share price of LC and prompting some to draw parallels to the financial crisis or question the durability of the entire industry.

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Samsung’s Note 7 Recall Process Has Been Great In the US, But Terrible In Asia

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It’s been nearly a week since Samsung announced the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7, and while Americans already have all the relevant information on just how they’re going to swap their potentially-explosive device for a new one, many in Asia are still completely left in the dark.

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Livestream: Watch Sony’s PS4 ‘Slim’ And ‘Neo’ Playstation Event Right Here

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Sony is hosting a big show in New York City as the company plans to unveil two new versions the PS4: both a slightly redesigned “slim” version as well as a more mysterious “Neo,” an upgraded version of the base console designed to play the same games with better graphics and possibly native 4K resolution. You can watch it all on the livestream right here.

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