As reported on Wired. BY THE STAFF OF DANGER ROOM There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend on you in the dead of night and kill you in your home. But that order has been upended. Cheap videos in…
As reported on The Verge. by Jacob Kastrenakes My first ever camera was a matte gray Panasonic Lumix point-and-shoot. It had eight or so megapixels, a dozen scene modes, and a way to style my shots in either sepia or black and white. I remember my first ever photograph: a row of novels lined up on a bookshelf, their orange and green spines lit by overhead fluorescents. I was always something of a wannabe film geek,…
As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)may have decided to ditch Google in favor of Microsoftfor its official Santa tracker, but the search giant is still keeping tabs on the fat man. On Christmas Eve, kids and anyone else with a vested interest in the whereabouts of the gluttonous gift giver from the North Pole can follow his progress usingGoogle’s Santa Tracker. Google announced today that it has also…
As reported on Engadget. By Mark Hearn Following through on its mission to help digitally preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls,Google announced today that it’s working with the Israel Antiquities Authority to bring more ancient text to the cloud. The latest archived entries include an early copy of the Book of Deuteronomy and part of the first chapter of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world. In addition, hundreds of other 2,000 year-old texts outlining the history of Judaism…
As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Cadillac still doesn’t have a proper footprint in the world of electric powertrains. We can at last say when it will, however: the automaker has confirmed that it’s unveiling the production, 2014 model year ELR coupe on January 15th at the Detroit Auto Show. Few details have surfaced in the teaser image and release, but a mention of “extended-range electric vehicle technology” supports beliefs that the ELR is still using a variant…
As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Sure, Facebook may have scored one billion active monthly users earlier this fall, but Twitter has some celebrating to do as well — albeit for a significantly smaller figure. Rather than commemorating the announcement with an awkward commercial comparing itself to furniture, Twitter sent out a solitary tweet stating that it now has more than 200 million monthly active users. We last checked in on the microblogging service’s traction when it had 175…