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By David Zax Meet Joe Nelson, a former Goldman Sachs trader who believes custom-fitted condoms are the key to making safe sex more pleasurable.

Olga Vidisheva, founder of newly launched Shoptiques, an online boutique aggregator, explains how her start-up plans to disrupt the world of fashion. Gilt Group may have redefined the discount shopping experience for shoppers seeking high-fashion labels such as Marni and Prada, but Olga Vidisheva, the 26-year-old founder of Shoptiques, thinks her start-up can disrupt the $20 billion boutique shopping industry. The site, which officially launches today (it has operated in beta for several months), is essentially a retail aggregator—boutiques from around the world apply for "shelf space" on the site, and revenue is shared among the the two parties.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advanced imaging technology from the Brookhaven Labs and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble has revealed an authentic Rembrandt self-portrait in an art authenticity effort involving leading art historians and scientists at the two labs. The hunt for authenticity all began when a private collector showed art historians in Amsterdam a small panel “Old Man with a Beard” from about 1630.

Amsterdam’s former Sweelinck Conservatorium is now home to a 129-room hotel. Fittingly named the Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam, the property opened earlier this month

By Duncan Graham-Rowe of Nature magazine The first drug to show signs of not just halting multiple sclerosis (MS), but actually reversing the nerve damage caused by the condition, has taken a significant step towards clinical approval.

Old-master paintings are finally getting their own dedicated international art fair. Ten Parisian dealers of old masters have joined forces to launch Paris Tableau in the French capital. It takes place from November 4 to 8 and features 20 galleries, including Noortman Master Paintings of Amsterdam, Galeria Caylus from Madrid, ...

People need to move around, but we can do it in a less impactful way with these five innovations. Some are new and some are old, but together they could remake transportation.

Idling delivery trucks are a huge congestion causer in tight downtown areas. In Utrecht, they've eliminated the trucks and replaced them with a solar-powered golf-cart-sized delivery train. How do you sustain the commercial heart of a city without clogging its arteries?

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Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it

Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to stop. The hottest wave in technology today is not about the individual consumer, but the “smart city.”

Get ready for the newest way to grab some wheels when you need them. The service, launching in November in San Diego, is gunning for Zipcar by making it easier to pay for and drop off your borrowed car. Zipcar has long dominated the city car-sharing space.

Wieden + Kennedy epic "connected emotionally," edges out Puma To the surprise of no one, Nike’s Write the Future , a cinematic tour de force from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won the Grand Prix in the Film category at Cannes. It may surprise some to know how close a call it was, though. There was, according to jury chair Tony Granger, global chief creative officer at Y&R, “a lot of deliberation and re-voting” among film jurors around two top contenders for the big prize--Write the Future and After Hours Athlete, a gorgeous dark horse from agency Droga5 for Puma.

And so would trading beef for chicken. According to a new study, cultured meat production generates up to 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional meat production, though it's still second to poultry in terms of energy efficiency. Lab-grown meat is going to be on your table someday.