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What Doctor Who and Sherlock offer us right now is a chance to see what modern fan fiction would look like if it was written by well-paid, well-respected middle-aged men with a big fat budget. That sort of fanfiction is usually referred to simply as “fiction”. Interesting piece on fan fiction and who is allowed…
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Stepping inside DuckDuckGo’s headquarters in Paoli, Pennsylvania, it’s hard to imagine that its two modest, sparsely occupied floors could be used to launch an insurgency against one of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code community (via fred-wilson)
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Opt out of Dropbox’s arbitration clause
Opt out of Dropbox’s arbitration clause tedfromtheinternet: tbridge: tiffanyb: If you’re a Dropbox user, you probably got an email in the last few days about an update to their TOS that basically puts all disputes into arbitration rather than litigation. If you’re like me, you probably glossed over this update because gah, legalese. Allow me…
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Star Wars Modern: Who’s Afraid of the dark? Not Christian Marclay.
Star Wars Modern: Who’s Afraid of the dark? Not Christian Marclay. Christian Marclay’s 24 hour video, Clock is the most perfect gallery installation of video I’ve ever seen. In the same way that I am not a cat person, but I love particular cats, I am guardedly pessimistic when it comes to video installations. I…
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Project Tango by @Google ATAP – Machine vision eyes and spatially aware brains
Project Tango by @Google ATAP – Machine vision eyes and spatially aware brains Google’s got a new consumer hardware initiative. It’s a mobile phone with machine vision eyes, ultra-fast inner-ears and spatially aware brains. And around that 5″ Android reference hardware, they’re trying to coordinate the biggest party in Spatial Computing this side of the…
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DIGRA 2014 invites submissions for a showcase of games and related media to be displayed at the DIGRA conference in Snowbird Utah. Digital and analog play are both welcome. The games will be available for play by conference attendees and the visiting public. The Venue Selected works will be displayed during the DIGRA 2014 conference,…
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The Brick Theater is pleased to announce the sixth annual Game Play festival, taking place during July 2014 in Brooklyn, New York. This year’s festival will once again feature cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video gaming and performance. We are now accepting for consideration submissions from a variety of artists, including but…