Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland Security Congress
http://youtu.be/EyaZlt-Xr_A The culture jamming activist group The Yes Men have struck again. Earlier this week, members of the group spoke at the Homeland Security Congress posing as U.S. government officials. At the conference, they announced a fictitious new U.S. government plan called "American Renewable Clean-Energy Network" to convert the United States to 100 percent renewable... Continue Reading →
Improv Everywhere Participants Handcuffed After Prank Goes Awry
http://youtu.be/B3FCpirYMKQ An Improv Everywhere prank at a Manhattan Gap store earlier this month featured some unexpected players after a manager called police to report a flash mob. Participants entered the store's Fifth Avenue location wearing white Morphsuits underneath Gap-style clothing to imitate mannequins. All 40 people were instructed to zip up the suits at a... Continue Reading →
Watch: Premiere of Joelistics – ‘Everyone Everything’
http://youtu.be/PE8tvB-cf34 Welcome to the weirder side of the new Joelistics’ record. Everyone Everything is a stream of consciousness ride across stark break beats and shifting musical landscapes. As Joelistics explains “‘Everyone Everything’ was written with Ptero Stylus after gorging on old Beastie Boys, El-P and Serge Gainsberg. We wrote the track like an experiment.Making four... Continue Reading →
This Is What A Holographic iPhone Might Look Like
http://vimeo.com/40056491 Lasers. Infrared sensors. Parabolic mirror assemblies. These are the technologies that could allow iPhones of the future to project holograms from 3-D screens, according to a new Apple patent application. Now, whether or not Apple will actually make such a device, no one knows. It’s perfectly common for the company to patent technologies that... Continue Reading →
Bitcoin 'Banks' Are Trying to Rebrand Cryptocurrencies for the MainstreamBitcoin ATM company Robocoin has announced that, from summer, it will introduce bitcoin bank branches—at least, that’s what it’s calling them.In a release, the company explained that they’re introducing online banking and converting their ATMs into “Robocoin bank branches integrated with Robocoin Online Banking.” On their website, they... Continue Reading →
Bitcoin ‘Banks’ Are Trying to Rebrand Cryptocurrencies for the Mainstream
Massive Solar Wind Energy Tower Proposed for the U.S.-Mexico Border
http://youtu.be/rMMlmqohOJs A Maryland-based energy company plans to build a 500-megawatt tower that would combine solar and wind power to generate energy. The Solar Wind Energy Tower will be located on the Arizona-Mexico border and will be the second-tallest structure in the United States. The company plans to start construction by 2018. The tower is likely... Continue Reading →
Open Technology Institute Statement on White House Big Data ReportToday, the White House released its much-anticipated report on the economic, political and social implications of “Big Data” – that is, new technologies and techniques for collecting, storing and analyzing massive new sets of information. The report is the result of a ninety-day review, led by White House... Continue Reading →
Open Technology Institute Statement on White House Big Data Report
The Problem Isn't The Robots, It's UsRichard Feynman was a legend in scientific circles. One of the preeminent physicists of the 20th century—even other top minds considered him a magician—he is almost as well known for his jokes and pranks as he is for his groundbreaking discoveries.When Feynman was a young scientist, Eugene Wigner compared him to Paul Dirac,... Continue Reading →
The Problem Isn’t The Robots, It’s Us
Where Does Fox News Go From Here?What is the future of partisan media? Not long ago, virtually all of the news media was “neutral.”* Political talk radio goes back only to the Reagan era, and Fox News didn’t exist for most of the Clinton presidency. Nor, obviously, did partisan or ideological web sites. Even op-ed... Continue Reading →
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