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Monday June 4, 2018. 07:37 PM
Jonathan Zittrain (previously) writes, 'There’s reason to worry about security for the ever-growing Internet of Things, and it’ll be tempting to encourage vendors to solely control their devices that much more, limiting interoperability or user tinkering. There are...
Bavaria's far-right, Islamophobic government enacted its Kreuzpflicht ('cross obligation') law, which mandates that every government building must display a Christian cross, and finessed this violation of Germany's legally enforced separation of church and state by claiming...
Since everyone's doing posts about their favorite cover of Toto's 'Africa,' here's my frontrunner, because it's very Norwegian: metal and ironic and funny all at once. (more…)
No big deal, just a short video of just some dude sliding down the side of a mountain, hydroplaning over glacial waters and then backflipping onto a chunk of ice. Please, continue with your day.
Ugears makes gorgeous wooden puzzle toys made from laser-cut plywood that snap-fits to create beautiful, retro machines and sculptures with meshing, working geared mechanisms. (more…)
Researchers have developed a generative neural network to make fake videos of talking heads. It's getting a lot harder to tell the difference between real and deep fakes. We present a novel approach that enables photo-realistic re-animation of portrait videos using only an...
This summer, San Francisco's Exploratorium is hosting an exhibit called Inflatable, featuring air-filled works by several artists. (more…)
Hey gang, let's talk Ebola: Everyone's favorite viral boogeyman. Over the weekend, the AFP News Agency reported that health professionals in the Democratic Republic of Congo have uncovered five new confirmed cases of Ebola: three cases in the Bikoro area and two in Wangata....
Jordan is broke, thanks to falling tax revenues due to tax avoidance and low taxes on the super-rich, and the country is seeking to bridge the gap in its finances by borrowing from the International Monetary Fund, which backed a bill that imposed crushing cuts on public...
PancakeBot 3D prints (somewhat) edible griddlecakes from your own design, or from a library of present options like the Eiffel Tower or a T. rex. (more…)
Every crappy thing in the world is beta-tested on people who have little or no power, perfected, and brought to the rest of us -- CCTV starts with prisoners, moves to mental institutions, then to schools, then to blue-collar workplaces, then airports, then white-collar...
What do you think -- was this a staged incident involving three douchebags, or a real incident involving two douchebags and one asshole with a bat? UPDATE: Jalopnik says it was faked: How do we know? Coby Persin, first of all, is the sort of contrived ass who makes YouTube...
An FBI agent was showing off his dance moves at a Denver bar on Saturday, but when he did a backflip, his gun flew out of his holster. When he grabbed it off the ground, it fired into the crowd that was watching him and hit a patron in the leg. According to CNN: One person...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDk4HrEtGrM&feature=youtu.be 'Saccades' are the phenomenon where your eyes flick momentarily from one place to another; during saccades, you don't consciously register visual input, creating tiny moments of blindness (AKA 'saccadic...
https://youtu.be/i1pdQjdAndc MIT 9.11, 'The Human Brain,' is taught by Nancy Kanwisher, the Walther A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT; Kanwisher is an engaging and lively science communicator and has...
This Canary Resuscitator was manufactured in the 1920s by Siebe Gorman and Co.; it was carried by miners to revive the canaries that were used from the late 19th century until 1987(!) as early-warning signals for potentially lethal gas leaks. (more…)
In 2014, the Economist described a 'Cambrian explosion' of tech startups trying every conceivable idea in every conceivable variation, competing to find better ways to deliver better services at lower costs; today it laments the 'kill-zone' of business ideas that are...
Government Attic used the Freedom of Information Act to force the NSA to cough up its 'old security posters from the 1950s and 1960s'; after two years' delay, the NSA finally delivered 139 pages' worth of gorgeous, weird, revealingly paranoid internal materials, produced by...
Just in time for Father's Day, here's a sweet animated film Tend, about a father who becomes too focused on tending a fire, at the expense of his young daughter. (more…)
Česko Slovensko Má Talent is the Czech-Slovak version of the popular talent show franchise, and they had a family of mirror-clad dancers compete. Note: their dancing is really more like gingerly swaying about, for understandable reasons. (more…)
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