'Boxtrolls' Breaks Ground by Featuring Same-Sex Parents in Animated Movie Trailer

In the new trailer for The Boxtrolls, the latest 3D animated feature from Portland-based Laika Studios, a sweet-faced toddler stands alone on a street as various combinations of parents in Victorian garb appear and disappear beside him.

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Your MacBook Has a Force Field. This Is What It Looks Like

A recent project from two designers at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design have made the invisible visible. Luke Sturgeon and Shamik Ray have created light paintings from the EMFs emitting from our everyday electronics.

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How Silicon Valley Perfected Ice Cream

The ice cream business isn’t exactly the natural course for graduates of the West Coast’s most illustrious business school. Getting into venture capital, starting a tech company, maybe dabbling in Wall Street, those are all par for the Stanford MBA course, but starting a company by selling sweet treats from the back of a kid’s little red wagon – not so much.

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