Day: December 17, 2013

Application Automotive

The Beautiful UI Design Behind Automatic, a Driving App That Saves You Gas

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As reported on Wired. BY JOSEPH FLAHERTY Automatic has developed a new quantified-self gizmo that promises to save drivers thousands of dollars per year and stall the greenhouse effect by reeducating drivers in real-time. Photo: Automatic   Do you know how much money it costs you to slam on your brakes? Or the annual cost you incur by speeding? Probably not, and even though the average American drives 13,476 miles per year, aside from a brief driver’s ed…

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Culture Education Film

The science of ‘Her’: we’re going to start falling in love with our computers

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Popper Why do humans become emotionally intimate with AI? In the new Spike Jonze film, Her, a man falls in love with his operating system. In some ways it’s a commentary on modern society and our increasingly intimate relationship to technology; it’s about the smartphones we bring to bed and the computers we wear to work. But there is also a lot of truth to the idea that people might fall…

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Science

Earth Wind Map turns raw weather data into neon art

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with numbers, isn’t the easiest to visualize without a degree in meteorology. That’s where the Earth Wind Map can come in handy. It takes the the Global Forecast System’s data — updated every three hours — and applies it to a zoomable map.…

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Article

My Long Road To Self-Publishing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by John Biggs After blindly supporting it for a number of years, I’ve decided to crowdfund my own project, a novel that I wrote for my son, and thenwrite about the experience for you guys. Today I’d like to talk about my own experiences in publishing and why I think crowdfunding is, at the very least, a viable alternative to the traditional models. Be warned: this is a little introspective and I’m…

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Business

WSJ: Facebook’s autoplaying video ads launch this week

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER  After months of rumors, the Wall Street Journal claims Facebook will finally include video ads in user’s feeds on the web and mobile devices later this week — a move we figured would happen soon now that it’s splashed other autoplaying videos all over the place. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Journal claims Facebook will announce the change later today, with the first ads rolling out on Thursday. Previous rumors have put the run…

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