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WeChat aims to be everything to everyone but remain mostly in the background. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

China’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design

The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness” goes back to ancient Taoist philosophy.
Everything apps are designed to help you do, well, just about everything you do on a phone. Busakorn Pongparnit/Moment via Getty Images

Elon Musk aims to turn Twitter into an ‘everything app’ – a social media and marketing scholar explains what that is and why it’s not so easy to do

Everything apps offer a wide range of features, combining social media with personal finances. But creating the perfect everything app is no easy task.
Crows remember faces they associate with stressful situations for up to five years. And they tell their friends. Flickr/monkeyc.net

Never cross a crow - it will remember your face

Crows can remember human faces associated with stressful situations for up to five years and they’ll also warn their friends, a study has found. Crows are known for their extraordinary smarts and have…

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