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The Army is currently in the process of transitioning away from their pixelated Universal Camouflage Pattern uniforms to ones with the Operational Camouflage Pattern. Now, the US Navy is following suit by ditching their pixelated blue uniform in favor of a new pattern.

It will take three years to transition to the new uniform

It will take three years for the Navy to transition to the new Navy Working Uniform Type III, which is a digital woodland pattern with a mix of green, tan, and black. It will replace the pixelated blue Navy Working Uniform Type I, which has been widely ridiculed by sailors since it was introduced. The new design will be available for sailors on October 1st, 2016, who will receive an allowance to offset the cost…

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Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, so Schwarzmann often finds himself moving between poles of the global economy. While traveling, he turns to Foursquare for recommendations about where to eat and drink. “It knows what I like,” he says.

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Airbnb is starting up an experimental design group to work on odd new hospitality projects that could one day become major company initiatives. The group is called Samara, and its first project is to build “community centers” to draw tourists to small, little-traveled towns.

FastCo Design has a preview of Samara’s first community center, which is being built for Yoshino, Japan. Samara’s hope is that the center will draw new people to the town, serve as a meeting place for residents and visitors alike, and encourage residents to open up their spare rooms to Airbnb. It’s supposed to be a win-win for both the town it’s placed in, by boosting tourism, and Airbnb, by drawing more travelers.

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Bespoke typefaces have become all the rage in Silicon Valley. Google has its Roboto font family that’s become a cornerstone of the identity of many of their Material Design applications. Apple has its custom-made San Fransisco, which recently became the default typeface across the entire Apple family of devices. And while Microsoft can’t take credit for developing Segoe, the company has made the font its own, using it as a core part of the Microsoft, Windows, and Office branding.

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For only $269,000, you can buy a full-scale model of the Sputnik-1 satellite, made by the USSR to test the very first satellite humans launched into space. It’s still operational, with live transmitters, 59 years later. On the catalog of the Bonhams auction house in midtown Manhattan, where the Space History Sale took place on Wednesday, the estimated price is $10,000 to $15,000. But in no time, the price is flying higher than Sputnik did.

“13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19!” shouts auctioneer Tim McNab. He looks like the bouncer of a high-end nightclub in Miami Beach: suntanned, in a blue suit and sunglasses with orange-tinted lenses, even though we’re in an underground room. “Still bidding. On the books!”

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The matte-black circuit board that holds Tristan Perich’s Noise Patterns has a few things in common with your average smartphone. It’s small and sleek enough to fit into your pocket, and it comes with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack that gives you direct access to the music within. That’s just about where the similarities end. It won’t let you access Spotify or Apple Music’s immense libraries, and it won’t let you pull up YouTube videos. (You can forget about checking your email, too.) Noise Patterns contains six tracks, and you can’t rewind, skip, or pause them. The music also has more in common with the noises your microwave makes than the songs you can hear on the radio.

Noise Patterns is Perich’s latest experiment with 1-bit music,…

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Gasp! Mastercard has gone and messed with one of the most iconic logos in corporate history and, shockingly, the new one isn’t absolutely terrible. Far from it, in fact, as the old payments processing giant has done a fine job of modernizing its signature interlocking circles and integrating them into a modern, cohesive brand identity that keeps the logo looking great even at small sizes on mobile screens.

A less obvious difference is the dropping of the camel case, so from here on out it’s going to be Mastercard or, as above, mastercard, and not MasterCard. Basically, the company’s casting off many of its aging facets and looking to start afresh, which is why it’s tied this identity redesign to the re-announcement of…

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Olly Moss, a graphic designer and illustrator and one of the artists for indie game Firewatch, has made a name for himself doing stylized and cherubic renderings of pop culture characters. He has them Giclée printed on high-quality 5 x 5-inch watercolor paper and sells them in limited time windows for a voracious community of fans. Now, Moss has gone ahead and released a set of six prints for the hugely popular Blizzard shooter Overwatch. They’re available over at Moss’ web store for 24 hours, with the clock ticking presumably from when Moss tweeted his store link at approximately 12PM ET on Thursday, July 14th.

According to his store, the “set is printed to fulfill the number of orders received within these 24 hours.” So long as you…

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So you wanted to check out what all the fuss was about and downloaded Pokémon Go. The game is intuitive enough, but it doesn’t go out of its way to hold your hand and explain all of its features to you. But we will! Sorry for the sweaty palms.

We’re not kidding around. You think this is some kind of game? Well, yes. Yes it is. But it’s a game that we here at The Verge take very seriously.

Whether you’re just starting out in Pokémon Go or you’ve been playing obsessively to the point that it hinders your life productivity, this video tutorial will have something for everyone. In it, we’ll answer questions like:

• What’s stardust? And what the heck are all these candies?
• What do the different colored rings mean?
• How do I use items?
• H…

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Amazon is building a greenhouse in downtown Seattle that’s meant to be a refuge for office employees. The greenhouse, constructed as a trio of spheres, will house more than 3,000 species of plants, many of which are endangered, The New York Times reports.

In addition to the plants, the spheres will contain tree houses joined by a series of suspension bridges. Amazon hopes its employees will host meetings in the tree houses, but the greenhouse will also be kept at 72 degrees and 60 percent humidity — not ideal conditions for cranial stimulation. The greenhouse will only be open to Amazon employees, but may open to the public at a later date.

Amazon’s green thumb

While there have been studies to suggest greenery in an office can improve…

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