December 2010
“IBM’s consultants were happy to help, although they had more than just software...”
– Building a Smarter Favela: IBM Signs Up Rio | Fast Company
“Assange sticks his head above this bland crowd of empty slogan-chanters and...”
– Wikilinks « zunguzungu
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“So it looks like Stuxnet achieved pretty much what an air strike would have...”
– The short path from cyber missiles to dirty digital bombs
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“Mega has over 100 million registered users,” Lam continued, “over 45 million...”
– Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff
“* 20 American politics is almost broken
Today’s US government is almost...”
– 20 things we learned in 2010 | World news | The Observer
“While Apptrakr has an absolutely huge database of cracked apps, by no means does...”
– Pirate Apple App Store Innovates With ‘Reverse BitTorrent’ | TorrentFreak
“It is time to think of resistance in a new way, something that is no longer...”
– Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
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“We’ve worked out that we don’t need shops when we can buy online and we’ve...”
– When it comes to online shopping, Australia’s consumers are 15 years ahead of our retailers - mUmBRELLA
First working invisibility cloak, in the microwave... →
The following is a video released by Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc explaining and demonstrating their prototype invisibility cloak. For the MICROWAVE spectrum. Which is outside our visual range,…
“Solidarity has gone hypertextual. The student movement that made its voice so...”
– New Statesman - How Twitter changed the face of dissent
“The US state today is a nexus of power for corporate interests. Since it must...”
– The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo against control | Richard Stallman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
mini. Quiet Babylon: Interrobang-ON‽ →
quietbabylon:
Friends!
Computers are PRETTY NEAT
Everyone uses a computer nowadays. I bet you are using one right now! Computers are great. They can solve hard math problems, calculate artillery firing tables, and show a picture of a cat. Amazing!
But there is a CATCH!
When he was inventing the computer,…
Word Lens →
How about an onboard, dynamic AR language translation app for your iPhone?
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(Insert obligatory: just needs Spex to be perfect cyberpunk future…
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“This is just the beginning,” Hunteman said. The advanced hackers who built...”
– Stuxnet? Bah, That’s Just the Beginning - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
“As Oscar Wilde said: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history,...”
– Johann Hari: Your right to protest is under threat - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Coming soon: liquid oxygen breathing suits →
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Remember that scene from The Abyss, well it’s coming soon to a reality near you.
Here’s The Independent, with more details:
Arnold Lande, a…
Acasa look to print new homes in the developed... →
Acasa have released this video showing their plans to use 3D printing technology to print out new homes for the “over one and a half billion people worldwide [who] reside in substandard housing”…
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“Put another way, thumbing your nose at an entire world’s population of crackers...”
– The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes
“But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on...”
– WikiLeaks founder’s eclectic influences _ from anarchist to Aeschylus - latimes.com
“These days, we’re living in the world of the imperial, very self-interested...”
– Hive-minds and Kleptocrats - NYTimes.com
— in response to Stross’s piece Invaders from Mars
“Desperate not to be kettled again, the young people who marched out of schools...”
– New Statesman - Inside the Parliament Square kettle
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“There’s..a fascinating class of new intellectuals who are completely dedicated...”
– Where My Forward-Looking Intellectuals At? » DIY U
“More than 60 people have signed up as regular visitors to Cyberdyne Studio, a...”
– Japan’s robot suit to bring hope to the disabled
“The Gulf Oasis would have been a shallow inland basin exposed from about 75,000...”
– Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf | Modern Humans & Anthropology | LiveScience
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“Imaginary futures soon become outdated in a fast-changing world. And the nearer...”
– WIRED 2.10: Consensual Hallucination Comes of Age (1996)
“..it’s not that corporations are somehow a different form of life from us....”
– Close encounters of the corporate kind « Snarkmarket