Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Snackwave, re-inventing the phone call, JR on Ellis Island and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Pro Bono Don’t you hate it when house guests request listening to something other than everyone’s favorite band, U2? Fret no further, new smart speaker Pro-Bono exclusively plays the band’s new album Songs of Innocence—you know, the one Apple recently attempted to force on all iPhone users? Through Pro-Bono, even if someone selects a song from a different band, the speaker overrides it and …

Pro Bono

Snackwave, re-inventing the phone call, JR on Ellis Island and more in our weekly look at the web

Don’t you hate it when house guests request listening to something other than everyone’s favorite band, U2? Fret no further, new smart speaker Pro-Bono exclusively plays the band’s new album Songs of Innocence—you know, the one Apple recently attempted to force on all iPhone users? Through Pro-Bono, even if someone selects a song from a different band, the speaker overrides it and only plays U2. …

In Residence: Ricardo Bofill

Snackwave, re-inventing the phone call, JR on Ellis Island and more in our weekly look at the web

Iconic architect Ricardo Bofill tells the story of his monumental home in a Nowness video that’s strangely haunting and entirely fascinating. The house is a huge, converted former cement factory located outside Barcelona—a place Bofill says he wanted to transform from a polluting machine into a green space full of a team of thinkers. He says, “The beauty of this labyrinth is that people don’t …