Technology
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Serious business
A slavish addiction to your smartphone can bring you down. App developers and ‘happiness consultants’ think they can help. But are they really enough to keep you smiling?
Electric dreams
Japanese digital art collective TeamLab is using technology to remaster what it means to create and experience artworks. We took a stroll among the flowers in their brave new world.
Business
LinkedIn for Spanish seniors, a Greek start-up reviving dead leaves and a San Francisco neighbourhood gets a new brand.
Business
The future of libraries, a canny way to navigate busy streets and the Taipei thoroughfare that's turned an entire district around.
Time and tide
An app that tracks the status of ocean-going vessels worldwide, MarineTraffic uses a network of 3,000 ship spotters to gather its maritime data.
Mark my words
The world’s most popular language-learning tool uses our own innate competitiveness – and a passive-aggressive owl – to keep users motivated.
Cartoon networks: How Line turned stickers into an Asian messaging empire
Drawing on a quirky cast of animated characters, Line has become Asia’s dominant messaging app. CEO Takeshi Idezawa tells us how.
Business
A new emporium for Japanese crafts in Singapore, a Czech glassware company gets a brand revamp and which countries spend the most on Christmas.
Rock the house
Having restored the sheen to Sotheby’s rusty balance sheet, new CEO Tad Smith is reimagining the historic institution’s future by embracing digital.
Image conscious
Vienna’s city council is doing a Google and mobile-mapping its streets. The mission? Use public space and get rid of old sweet machines.
