How Often Should You Upgrade Your iPhone? An Experiment
Is it more cost effective to sell your old phone early, while it still had value, or run it into the ground? Which saves you more money in the long run?
September 8, 2015 at 06:33PM
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My Life as a Robot
“I have been part robot since May. Instead of legs, I move on gyroscopically stabilized wheels. Instead of a face, I have an iPad screen. Instead of eyes, a camera with no peripheral vision. Instead of a mouth, a speaker whose volume I can’t even gauge with my own ears. And instead of ears, a tinny microphone that crackles and hisses with every high note.”
September 8, 2015 at 05:20PM
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How Movies Use Aspect Ratio As A Storytelling Tool
Although Now You See It makes some inconsistent remarks (aspect ratios are confusing and there are different standards in film, tv and digital) the point holds true. Next time you’re watching a movie set in space, remember that those black bars around the picture are helping immerse you.
September 8, 2015 at 08:51AM
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What Happens When Biases Are Inadvertently Baked Into Algorithms
As more companies and services use data to target individuals, those analytics could inadvertently amplify bias.
September 8, 2015 at 04:33AM
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No One Can Make the Perfect TV, Not Even Apple
“I finally cracked it.” That right there is the most famous Steve Jobs quote nobody knows what to do with. Four words that launched a thousand ships, each one trying to understand what Jobs discovered about the future of TV.
September 7, 2015 at 08:54PM
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In the Streaming Era, Should Musicians Be Thinking Like Startups?
Streaming services like Pandora are pitching data analytics to musicians like an analytics firm might to an unimaginative business. They’re suggesting using data to build a strategy in the same way a startup might.
September 7, 2015 at 03:41PM
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Scientists develop blood test that estimates how quickly people age – and their risk of Alzheimer’s
Scientists have developed a blood test to estimate how quickly someone is ageing. They believe it could be used to predict a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease as well as the “youthfulness” of donated organs for transplant operations.
September 7, 2015 at 02:30PM
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How Saudi Arabia’s pop music artists use the web to find a fanbase when they can’t play in public at home
Most western style pop artists stay underground rather than risk performing in public although there are a handful of private shows at homes and embassies. So the web has become a lifeline for musicians like Homsi who want to share their music — something that would have been next to impossible even fifteen years ago.
September 7, 2015 at 06:54AM
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When a Hurricane Hits Facebook
How can social media help the world track disasters that are countries away?
September 7, 2015 at 12:30AM
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How The Rules Of Cyber Engagement Have Changed
Governments are beginning to use cyber attacks to influence very specific events and gain calculated strategic advantages, e.g., giving one company leverage over another in a competitive bid.
This is uncharted and complex territory from a policy perspective. To make matters worse, corporations currently have few incentives to report and share breach information, meaning these attacks will continue to escalate.
September 6, 2015 at 05:05PM
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