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Every Question on the Insane Ford G7 Buyer Application and Will Smell Ever Come to Smartphones?

Core77’s editors spend time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite stories from the World Wide Web.

Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019

The future of New York is currently under construction in the Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s west side—spanning a mere seven blocks yet proposing to create a “model for the 21st century urban experience.” In this illuminating look at the epic project, Shannon Mattern traces the people and powers who are now creating “the largest private real-estate development in United States history and the test ground for the world’s most ambitious experiment in "smart city” urbanism.“

—Alexandra Alexa, editorial assistant

Every Question Asked on the Ford GT Buyer Application

This week I’m reading the application to buy a new Ford GT. Not because I can afford to buy a $450,000 supercar, but because the questions asked during the vetting process to even make it onto the list are highly amusing.

—Rain Noe, senior editor

Will Smell Ever Come to Smartphones?

Do tailored ‘scent messages’ have the potential to be the emojis of the future or is this simply a wacky retrovision of what’s to come?

—Allison Fonder, community manager

On Being Non-Binary in Female-Centric Spaces

As a writer (and a human), I spend a lot of time thinking about the words I use and the weight they can carry. A friend recently introduced me to the writings of Sam Escobar, who identifies as non-binary and has been writing on their experiences and the impact of problematic, gendered language. This piece marks just one of the great articles coming from the Femsplain channel on Medium — a worthy subscribe.

—Carly Ayres, columnist, In the Details