Category Archive: computers

Feb 10

Drone VS Drone: Who You Got?

the friendly skies

Looks like this drone fad is catching on. From Singularity Hub: According to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service, nearly one in three US warplanes are drones…and those machines are changing the way the world wages war. US soldiers in Afghanistan rely more and more upon intelligence gathered from drones, and President Obama recently …

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Feb 09

Pocket Therapist: Smart Phone to Treat Depression

The virtual web therapist of the future.

“Are you depressed?” begins every article on this subject. I’m just going to go ahead and assume you are. But don’t kill yourself yet. Scientists from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have invented a smartphone that’s sure to annoy as well as depress you. A smart phone spots symptoms of depression by harnessing all the sensor …

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Feb 09

The Data Dandy

data dandy

Since m1k3y just declared flâneur to be the word of the week and thinking on that very subject helped inspire me to quit Facebook, I thought I’d share another old essay that, once upon a time, helped define some of the sensibility of this blog. Allow me to introduce, The Data Dandy. The data dandy collects …

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Feb 08

DARPA Working on Electronic Brain (SyNAPSE)

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Here’s something that’s pretty old –from April– but I haven’t seen much mention of it around. DARPA has announced that it is working to build electronic neural architectures that can learn, adapt and respond to situations on the battlefield. DARPA’s Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (aptly shortened to SyNAPSE) program aims to develop …

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Feb 07

Done With Facebook

facebook-murder

I quit Facebook. And when I quit, I stay quit. Not to protest anything. Not to make any sort of statement. I’m just sick of the platform. It doesn’t work for me. I want to get some value out of my time on the internet. That means, I want to get more out of it …

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Feb 02

Immaterials: the ghost in the field

This video is about exploring the spatial qualities of RFID, visualised through an RFID probe, long exposure photography and animation. It features Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG. More here nearfield.org/2009/10/immaterials-the-ghost-in-the-field berglondon.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-ghost-in-the-field/ One of the interesting things about modern tech is that it makes people deal with things they only previously imagined …

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Jan 30

Off Book: The Evolution of Music Online

As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto …

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Jan 27

Network

This is well worth a watch. Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.

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Jan 22

QR Code Tattoo Takes You to Random Site

This tattoo purports to be the first random tattoo in the world. Each time you scan the QR code tattoo you will see something different: Videos, pictures, phrases, weather forecast, tweets … every time something new. A lot of the thinking on this subject is about personal branding — tattoos that lead to your website, …

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Jan 20

Megaupload Down

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Megaupload has been taken down and its founder arrested on charges of piracy. You can read the indictment here. Just so we’re clear, Blackwater, a mercenary group that has committed war crimes is a private contractor. Megaupload, a website that allows people to store information online and others to download it, are criminals. Blackwater, though …

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