Feb 08
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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 …
Feb 07
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 …
Feb 02
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 …
Jan 30
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 …
Jan 27
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.
Jan 22
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, …
Jan 20
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 …
Dec 28
Created by a group out of Indiana University in Sept 2010 Truthy tracks the spread of memes through twitter and reveals fake campaigns. Fast Company says: The Twitter sleuths behind “Truthy,” a meme-tracking website launched last month, [Sept. 2010] are succeeding in their quest of rooting out so-called “astroturfers.” These are the types who stage PR blitzes disguised as genuine …
Nov 18
Mapping the Republic of Letters is a Stanford University project to map the intellectual correspondence of the Enlightenment. Brain Pickings says: The project pulls data from the Electronic Enlightenment database, an archive of more than 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents, and maps the geographic origin and destination of the correspondence — something we’ve come to take …
Nov 17
University of Maryland geographer, Paul Torrens, has developed a riot simulation with an eye towards predicting the movement of crowds. The politics of the virtual world look a little different. Very rarely, in real life, do you see grey, cube-men rampaging through the streets. But it looks like their riot worked or they gained some good loot …
