Peter Thiel Wants to Make Hackers Into Heroes
“Name a science fiction movie in the last 25 years that shows technology in a positive light,” says Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech guru, PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor, and all-around defender of the future. “It’s always Terminator, The Matrix, Avatar, Elysium. Why can’t you make the villains a group of Luddites?”
October 5, 2014 at 12:22PM
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Compromise needed on smartphone encryption
Law enforcement officials deserve to be heard in their recent warnings about the impact of next-generation encryption technology on smartphones, such as Apple’s new iPhone. This is an important moment in which technology, privacy and the rule of law are colliding.
October 4, 2014 at 03:50PM
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The Last Medium
I hadn’t thought much about virtual reality since, I don’t know, the last Matrix movie came out. After a month of exploring virtual worlds, my perspective was so radically altered that at one point, milling around the San Francisco airport waiting for a flight, I had a vision of the near future in which all the people around me poking at their phones (which is to say basically all the people around me) had traded in those phones for head-mounted virtual reality displays, and this fad of showing our eyes in public would finally be a thing of the past.
October 4, 2014 at 11:04AM
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Uber Drivers Across The Country Are Organizing Their Largest Protest Yet
Uber drivers in New York, San Francisco and London are already on board, one of the organizers told BuzzFeed News.
October 4, 2014 at 08:57AM
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Intel issues apology regarding its advertising and ‘GamerGate’
Microprocessor-maker Intel issued a statement late Friday regarding its decision to pull advertising from the industry journal Gamasutra, a decision made under pressure from the movement calling itself GamerGate.
October 4, 2014 at 08:57AM
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The rise and fall of the interactive movie
Interactive films enjoyed a brief period of mainstream popularity in the mid-1990s, on PC and on consoles like the Sega CD and Philips CD-i, when then-burgeoning CD-ROM technology made it possible for game developers to integrate live-action video into the architecture of an otherwise animated game.
October 4, 2014 at 08:01AM
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The Birth of the Time-Motion Human
The quantified self movement encourages people to think of themselves in a constant state of imperfection — always striving to improve and optimize. But will it ever lead to happiness?
October 4, 2014 at 06:03AM
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Apple to Hold iPad Event on October 16
Apple has a few more new products to unveil before the year is out, and it plans to show them off in a couple weeks.
October 4, 2014 at 04:00AM
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Enter The World Of ‘Night At The Roxbury’ And Relive The ’90s
Get ready for a highly immersive next-generation premium 90’s virtual reality experience dedicated to putting you and your bobbing head directly into your favorite ’90s film. And yes, it is real.
October 3, 2014 at 03:57PM
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The Quest to Build an Elevator to Space
Forget buying a stairway to heaven. Serious people are trying to build an elevator to space. That’s not a metaphor, and yes, a space elevator sounds like plot point from an Arthur C. Clarke novel.
October 3, 2014 at 03:31PM
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