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formerinternetofthings: Originally launched on the market in 2005 under the name of Nabaztag, Karotz has been a pioneer in the field of connected and communicating devices.The very active community around this rabbit has widely contributed to make it so popular. Today, nearly 10 years after its first appearance, Karotz is facing a very strong technological…
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WG: We’ve lost the hierarchy of “official” news. We’ve lost the editor. But while we may justifiably have suspected the editor of unreliable narration, we’ve gained a great deal of random noise. So we begin to know to wait, before retweeting, for confirmation from something akin to the old hierarch. http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201410&id=49144 ArtForum interviews William Gibson.…
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One day as I was working on this story, I received an email from TaskRabbit’s vice-president of marketing, Jamie Viggiano. “We saw your recent posting on Craigslist to interview Taskers about their experiences using our service,” she wrote. Well, that was weird, because I didn’t post anything on Craigslist (although I had posted on a…
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NYPD Is Sick of “Techie Brat” Protesters Using Dang Twitter to Organize
NYPD Is Sick of “Techie Brat” Protesters Using Dang Twitter to Organize spacemagus: swanjolras-archive: “They wore me out,” said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. “Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven’t dealt with before to this degree.” While the NYPD actively monitors Twitter, Facebook and other social media for…
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More fundamentally, “The Imitation Game” is a parable of disruption. It not only provides an origin myth for the digital age, but it also projects the ideology of the present back into the past. Turing, an eccentric visionary stuck in an organization that is bureaucratic, hierarchical and wedded to tradition, is an apostle of innovation.…
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joshbyard: Princeton Researchers 3d Printing Bio-Electronic Parts Researchers at Princeton University have taken an important step toward expanding [3D Printing’s] potential by developing a way to print functioning electronic circuitry out of semiconductors and other materials. They are also refining ways to combine electronics with biocompatible materials and even living tissue, which could pave the…
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joshbyard: Princeton Researchers 3d Printing Bio-Electronic Parts Researchers at Princeton University have taken an important step toward expanding [3D Printing’s] potential by developing a way to print functioning electronic circuitry out of semiconductors and other materials. They are also refining ways to combine electronics with biocompatible materials and even living tissue, which could pave the…
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massconflict: A peaceful rally over the presumed massacre of 43 missing students ended with violence and destruction in Mexico City, with protesters calling for the president to stand down.Thousands marched along Mexico City’s main boulevard, chanting for Enrique Pena Nieto to resign and waving blackened flags of the country in anger over the case of…