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And the winner for best intro video for a freaky new robot goes to: Land Crawler eXtreme.
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For the lady wishing to know more about this club host – expect to QR barcodes to be supplanted by facial recognition – still through the mobile phone of course. (via Future Perfect » Shortening the Path)
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“This was probably the world’s first portable compact-disk player. Introduced in 1967 by Philco-Ford, “Hip-Pocket” records were less than 4 inches in diameter and flexible enough to carry in your pocket without damage. Despite available titles from a number of major artists including the Beatles, the idea was an instant flop.”
– Professor Oleson’s Museum of Obsolete Technology
(via “The world’s first portable compact-disk player” « How to be a Retronaut)
Read moreRead moreHe currently travels internationally between one and three times a month in connection with his company, Whisper Systems, which recently released two free encryption applications for Android phones that protect SMS messages and voice calls.
“They’re beginning to destroy my ability to run a business with international customers, ” he says. “I can’t travel internationally without assurances that I’m not going to spend 5 hours in a detention room and am not going to lose whatever electronic devices I have with me at the time.”
Read moreThe Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid online ad networks from working with the site. This morning, COICA unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“We are disappointed that the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning chose to disregard the concerns of public-interest groups, Internet engineers, Internet companies, human-rights groups and law professors in approving a bill that could do great harm to the public and to the Internet,” said Public Knowledge president Gigi Sohn, who pledged to craft a “more narrowly tailored bill” next year to deal with “rogue websites.”
Buzludzha Monument
Pix from Atlas Obscura via Richard Kadrey.
Moar awesome Bulgarian monuments over on io9.
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Dead Drops: When US Cyber Command Pulls the Net (via TheRedacted)
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Read moreThe only way to be a Post Digital business is to be a thoroughly, deeply, massively digital one. To be digital in culture not just in capabilities. To know how to iterate in public, to do experiments not research, to recognise that it’s quicker and better to code something than it is to describe it in meetings. You need to be part of the wider digital culture, to have good sharing habits, to give credit where it’s due, and at the very least to know how to do ellipses in Processing.
Post Digital was supposed, if anything, to be a shout against complacency, to make people realise that we’re not at the end of a digital revolution, we’re at the start of one. The end game was not making a website to go with your TV commercial and it’s not now about making a newspaper out of your website. Post Digital was supposed to be the next exciting phase, not a return to the old order. It’s the bit where the Digital people start to engage in the world beyond the screen, not where the old guard reasserts itself.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 