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Burning Man Founder Is Cool With Capitalism, And Silicon Valley Billionaires

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN “We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s multi-million-dollar balance sheet and its buddy-buddy relationship with Silicon Valley billionaires. More seriously, he says, “you can make a lot of money and do good with it. Elon Musk has made a lot of money.” Musk and his elite brethren have become part of the changing face of the week-long…

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Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a rumor circulating that dinosaurs have returned from the dead after some failed experiment. This is the world that exists in artist Simon Stålenhag’s mind, and…

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A Rare Glimpse Inside a Magnificent, Abandoned Shrine to Electricity

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As reported on Gizmodo. by ATTILA NAGY At the dawn of the electrical age, power plants were more than just utilitarian buildings. They were grand, soaring temples to a near-magical substance that was changing the world. Most of these buildings are now abandoned or demolished. But I recently visited one of the few that remain: the 99-year-old Kelenföld Power Plant, one of most ethereal and electrifyingly beautiful places on earth. I’ve been a longtime fan…

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How Tennessee moonshine is becoming big business

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster Moonshine may be closely associated with prohibition and the illegal booze trade, but thanks to some new laws in states like Tennessee, it’s slowly becoming a big (and legal) business. As Time reports, moonshine — or unaged white whiskey — only represents one percent of all whiskey sales, but numbers are on the rise. Last year around 130,000 cases of moonshine were sold in the US, compared to just 50,000 in…

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Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now

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As reported on The Verge. By Paul Miller We test every Google Glass app so you don’t have to Google Glass isn’t ready for prime time. Even Google knows this, which is why it hasn’t shipped to the masses yet. Instead, Google floated a few units to “Explorers,” glorified guinea pigs who can enjoy the joys and trials of this cuttingest edge of cutting edge technologies. But nascent or not, Glass exists, and it works. Or at…

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The New “Handmade”

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technology tend to focus on the extreme possibilities in being able to print objects on demand – from the terrors of things like a homemade 3D-printed gun to heartwarming tales ofprinted robotic hands for children born without fingers. But the…

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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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Pomplamoose’s Jack Conte Creates A Subscription-Based Funding Site For Artists

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Jack Conte is an Internet musician who became an Internet sensation and now, thanks toPatreon, he’s an Internet entrepreneur. Patreon is a fundraising site that is a bit different than your run of the mill Kickstarters orTrumpstarters. Instead of collecting one lump sum for, say, and album or song, fans can subscribe to the artists and receive “patrons-only” streams of their work. Conte made his latest song “Pedals” available as the…

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50 Years of Inspired Insanity From Lamborghini

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC   The first Lamborghini was not a low-slung, overpowered sports car that looked like sex on wheels. It was a tractor, and a damn fine one at that. The man who built it, Ferruccio Lamborghini, was a perpetual malcontent who was never quite happy with anything, including the fleet of Ferraris he amassed as his wealth grew. He considered them loud and unrefined, brutish racecars haphazardly adapted for the…

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The Art of Physics: Winning Photos of Giant Particle Colliders

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM MANN View as gallery The KLOE detector at Frascati National Laboratory in Italy looks for a special asymmetry in the behavior of strange particles called kaons. The experiment could help explain why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter. This was the Jury’s Choice first place image. Credit: Joseph Paul Boccio Looking like something from the set of Transformers, the Canadian TIGRESS detector photographs the gamma rays coming from exotic isotopes of…

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