How Disney Was Hustled into Making the Trippiest Movie About Computers Ever
“Computers are People, Too!,” a Disney documentary about computer art released in 1982, might just be the defining artifact of this period. At the very least, it’s certainly the strangest.
December 16, 2014 at 10:53AM
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‘Carol Of The Bells’ Played On Vintage Computers
The Glasgow School of Art broke out a collection of vintage Mac computers, a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum + 1 and a SEGA Mega Drive to bloop through this holiday classic.
December 16, 2014 at 10:14AM
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The Road Goes Ever On
When the creator of “Bioshock” fired up “Shadow of Mordor,” he didn’t expect Tolkien meets “Arkham City” meets “Hamlet” — or to discover a radical new kind of narrative form.
December 16, 2014 at 10:01AM
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Dozens More Companies Sign Up for Apple Pay
On Tuesday, Apple announced that in recent weeks the company had signed up dozens more banks, retail stores and start-ups to adopt Apple Pay.
December 16, 2014 at 08:56AM
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These Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016
Elevator technology hasn’t really improved much since its first appearance over 160 years ago. Enter ThyssenKrupp’s MULTI — an advanced elevator system that’s poised to radically transform the way we get around buildings.
December 16, 2014 at 08:31AM
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Achievement Points, You Can’t Take ‘Em With You
Playing games can be a chore, and design has become so rote that robots — literally — can do it. So why shouldn’t we let them?
December 16, 2014 at 08:31AM
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How a Flying Laser Built a 3-D Map of a Massive Alaskan Forest
The Last Frontier is vast, yet threadbare of roads. Settlements are motes on the terrain. There’s so much space, so much of it inaccessible, that the US Forest Service — charged by Congress with keeping track of the nation’s timber — readily admits that more than one-quarter of the state’s forest has never been inventoried. But that’s about to change.
December 16, 2014 at 07:32AM
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BMW Made A Car That Parks Itself By Talking To Your Watch
BMW is back at CES next month with a self-driving i3 that finds a space in a multi-story car lot, parks itself, and comes back to the driver when summoned through a smartwatch app. And it doesn’t even need GPS.
December 16, 2014 at 01:57AM
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The Intel Enigma
Intel once turned down the opportunity to become the sole supplier of iPhone processors. Why haven’t they let go of their defocused search for the Next Big Thing and, instead, used All Means Necessary to regain the account?
December 15, 2014 at 10:45PM
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This Startup Is Using FOIA to Request Student Email Addresses
Startups are always thirsty for email addresses to grow their nascent user bases, so no one would be surprised to hear that Campus Job, a young company in “move fast and break things” mode, might want to take advantage of a tool of democracy in order to solicit potential users.
December 15, 2014 at 09:08PM
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