Pocket Points Rewards Phone-Stashing Students

A new app called Pocket Points is encouraging students to shelve their smartphones while in class by offering up rewards. The way it works is simple: before beginning class, students will open the app, lock their phone, and as long as the phone stays locked, they’ll rack up points. These points can be redeemed at partner businesses and restaurants for discounts or free food. So …

Help Update Wikipedia with Art+Feminism

With less than 13% of its contributors identifying as female, Wikipedia has had difficulty keeping its content equal between the genders and has been known to be missing articles on many notable women. To help bring balance to the online database, Art+Feminism is holding an international edit-a-thon to update Wikipedia with art- and feminism-related entries. The weekend-long event will begin on 7 March 2015 and …

The Future Googleplex Unveiled

Google’s most innovative product yet just might be their own headquarters. They’ve called upon architecture aces Bjarke Ingels of BIG and Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studios to design the next generation of their Googelplex in Mountain View, California. Combining open community spaces with seamless, nature-focused design, the collaboration has led to modular workspaces blanketed by a translucent glass canopy that transforms the new “buildings” into …