Day: May 14, 2013

Automotive

‘The Egoist’ Is Proof Lamborghini Has Lost Its Mind

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC   The crew from Sant’Agata has lost its collective mind. There’s no other explanation for the Lamborghini Egoist concept. Only Lamborghini, a company that has no interest whatsoever in subtlety, could, and would, name a car “The Egoist.” This rolling compensator is a single-seat, four-wheeled birthday present to itself in honor of its 50th anniversary. Start racking up the decades and odd things can happen to your mental faculties. This…

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Culture Games

A VIDEO GAME ABOUT MASS SURVEILLANCE IN THE AGE OF BIG BROTHER AND LITTLE BROTHERS

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As reported on Polygon. By Brian Crecente We live in a hyperconnected, technologically turbo-charged world of mass surveillance and “digital shadows” that is so subtly controlling, that it makes the notion of Big Brother seem quaint. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the only person watching you was the government. In today’s society, the millions of digital eyes found in laptops, video game consoles, tablets and smartphones and a person’s growing trail of data and information left online,…

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Environmental

Climate change threatens to destroy Alaskan village within four years

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor   The Guardian this week published a fascinating in-depth report on the village of Newtok — a remote Alaskan community that, because of climate change, will likely be underwater within the next few years. Experts say it could be just four years beforerising sea levels swallow Newtok, and although the community has already agreed to relocate to higher ground, a shortage of money and resources has precluded them from taking action. Meanwhile,…

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Culture

Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Confinement For Tweeting From Prison

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of his ability to send Tweets to a third party who relayed them on his private account. Auernheimer has not sent electronic messages since April 8. In a letter acquired by the Daily Dot, Auernheimer writes: I am disgusted to have to…

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Application Games

Dots

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS I’m addicted to Dots. It’s betaworks‘ new game. 389. That’s my high score. No power-ups. I’m pretty proud of it. The game consumes my time. I no longer browse reddit during my “private times”; I play Dots. Dots is simple. It’s elegant. The game has restored my faith in mobile game development. But more importantly, it’s fucking addicting. I can’t put it down. Dots a simple game: just connect adjoining dots…

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Education

Obama’s CTO Gives Advice On How Learning Works In Kio Stark’s New Book, Don’t Go Back To School

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As reported by TechCrunch. KIO STARK The following is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Go Back to School: a handbook for learning anything. To someone who has never tried, it’s not obvious how to learn the things you want to learn outside of school. I’m on a mission to show you how. To do that, I became obsessed with how other people learn best, and how they do it without going to school. My…

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Google

Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options, Gives You 15GB To Share Between Drive, Gmail And Google+ Photos, 30GB For Apps Users

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Until now, you’ve had to track your free storage on Google products separately. It was just another thing that Google hadn’t brought together to make it easier on users. Today, the company announced that you’ll now have 15GB of free storage to share between Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Google Apps customers are getting a bump for Drive and Gmail to the tune of 30GB. This falls in line with what Google…

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Art Entertainment Tech

Klingons to invade Bing translator, BIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHegh!

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Though some may look down on Star Trek‘s fictional Klingon language and invoke the infamous phrase uttered by William Shatner — “Get a life!” — Microsoft’s Bing translation team doesn’t see it that way at all. As part of a marketing join-up with Paramount Pictures, the service will be offering translation of the fictional tongue to and from its other 41 languages to support the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. According to the LA Times,…

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