YouTube, Vine, MTV, and porn can all trace their roots to this little-known technology
Soundies were three-minute movies — usually musical, but sometimes fan dances or burlesque performances — that were available on a kind of movie jukebox called a “Panoram,” a coin-operated, 16mm, rear-projection cabinet, set up in bars and bowling alleys.
August 20, 2015 at 09:31PM
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Huh? Schools Think Kids Don’t Want to Learn Computer Science
In a big survey conducted with Gallup and released today, Google found a range of dysfunctional reasons more K-12 students aren’t learning computer science skills. Perhaps the most surprising: schools don’t think the demand from parents and students is there.
August 20, 2015 at 09:31PM
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‘Soft Robotics’ Sounds Like Something Really Cool, But Actually It’s Really Gross
We do see the value in robotics like this, but isn’t there a way to make them look less phallic?
August 20, 2015 at 04:22PM
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Fleshlight Creates The ‘First Interactive Live Show’ Which No One Asked For
Teledildonics was all fun and games until it finally came true, and now what kind of monsters are we?
August 20, 2015 at 11:57AM
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TV Channel Guide from the Future
A whole lotta cash is flowing from old television networks to new internet properties.
And what will these web properties do with it all? Probably spend it on getting more Facebook Likes. But also, many of them will be creating their own cable channels. This seems inevitable, because that’s where real money is minted today.
August 20, 2015 at 10:51AM
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Tinder and the moral panic over women using technology to meet men and have sex.
Panic over hookup technology like Tinder is out of control — and always has been.
August 20, 2015 at 10:51AM
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Scorned Spouses Cheer Ashley Madison Hack
Spouses are taking to online ‘infidelity survival’ forums after finding their partners’ names in the massive Ashley Madison data dump.
August 20, 2015 at 08:44AM
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When Amazon Algorithms Go Wrong
Smart software controls the prices and products you see when you shop online — and sometimes it can go spectacularly wrong, from causing offense to destroying livelihoods.
August 20, 2015 at 08:44AM
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Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets
Augmented reality glasses like Google Glass have never had a stellar reputation among the privacy crowd. But a group of researchers believes that cyborg eyewear could actually offer a privacy upside in the form of a new kind of effortless encrypted communication—one where sensitive data is decrypted not on the screen of a vulnerable computer, but only in the eye of the recipient.
August 20, 2015 at 06:45AM
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The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
Legions of programmers now stream their work on Livecoding.tv, a site that turns their lonely labor into something more like a party.
August 20, 2015 at 06:38AM
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