Day: May 16, 2014

Design Military Mobile

The absurd military infographics you can find on Google

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As reported on The Verge. By Cassandra Khaw Paul Ford has an offbeat fascination with military infographics. “No matter how abstract they are, these pictures describe systems that the U.S. military uses to make optimal, efficient decisions about killing other humans,” he writes on Medium. The diagrams showcased in the article are complex and esoteric, proving comical by their complete lack of context with phrases like “Publish Subscribe Broker” and “COCOM ‘Living Plans.’” He even discovers a…

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Government Legal

Here’s The FCC’s Language Asking For Comment On Banning “Pay-For-Priority Service”

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm After much sturm und drang, the Federal Communications Commission this morning voted to proceed on a set of controversial net neutrality rules. The proposed regulations now enter a four month comment period. Expect there to be shouting. This morning the FCC voted to move forward with a set of proposed rules to collect public response. Most controversial in the proposals is the potential for the legal codification of paid prioritization agreements…

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Google

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is A World’s Fair Fantasy Turned City Street Reality

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Google cites the 1939 World’s Fair ‘Futurama’ ride for GM as the inception point of the passion for self-driving vehicles, but the self-driving car project kicked off at Google in 2009 under Sebastian Thrun, with an initial focus on the relatively uncomplicated (but still monumental) task of negotiating freeways. The past year or so has been focused on tackling city street driving, with improvements including pedestrian and cyclist detection,…

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History

Cuba’s first independent digital news will be sent via cellphones and flash drives

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Cubans haven’t had an above-ground, independent digital news outlet in their country so far — not surprising when their government only allowed personal cellphone andcomputer sales six years ago. However, all that’s set to change when blogger Yoani Sanchez launches her digital newspaper 14ymedio on May 21st. Rather than simply publish news on the web, the team will get the word out through whatever technology Cubans can use: cellphones, email, CDs and even USB…

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Design Google

Google puts Mattel and Disney designer Ivy Ross in charge of Glass

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Google has just made a creative choice for its new head of Glass, picking one-time Mattel design lead and noted jewelery artist Ivy Ross. That signals a big shift away from Glass’ geeky developer base while it transitions to a full-fledged consumer product. She would fill the position previously held by Babak Parviz as Google’s Glass lead and work underGoogle X for Astro Teller and co-founder Sergei Brin. On the Google Glass G+ page, Ross said that…

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