An Instagram Account Chillingly Documents The Sites Of U.S. Drone Strikes By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The aptly named Dronestragram invites you to pause your visual consumption of your friends’ happy lives to consider a different kind of snapshot. There are no embedded reporter fly-alongs during a drone strike—no live CNN cameras on the grou… http://flpbd.it/KvVgM…
Amazing Photos Of Animals In The Wild, Snapped By Hidden Automatic Cameras BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com The Smithsonian’s Wild project uses advanced automated cameras to capture images of animals in their natural habitats as they go about their day. It’s a much better kind of specimen than a dead, stuffed animal. Bill McShea has traveled…
A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it? The cyborgian future that awaits us is full of enhancements to…
Infographic: Watch NYC Get Buried Under Its CO2 Emissions By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com In 2010, NYC added 54 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. This video shows it as a big, blue ball pit. Last week, thousands in New York and millions at home watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual, multi-hour…
The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany. As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspiration.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…
Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health. It was less…
The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut Worms Brandon Keim, wired.com A dose of parasitic whipworms cured monkeys with chronic diarrhea, fixing immune systems gone haywire and offering a snapshot of the unexpected benefits worms — which might someday be used as living vaccines — offer to people. The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut…
Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence &…
By Damon Lavrinc, wired.com LOS ANGELES, California – Geländewagen. It’s not an Austrian insult or some obscure epithet from the Eastern Bloc; it’s Mercedes-Benz’ iconic SUV. Originally crafted with a ruler and a chisel for military use, it eventually went… http://flpbd.it/cujf3 Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV Related articles Smart Crossover SUV to…
The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a redshirt thinking you might…
Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness Jeff Wise, gizmodo.com As dawn broke over the interior of Belize on April 30, an elite team of 42 police and soldiers, including members of the country’s SWAT team and Special Forces, converged on a compound on the banks of a jungle river.…
John McAfee Wanted for Murder Jeff Wise, gizmodo.com Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force’s Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate… John McAfee Wanted for Murder http://flpbd.it/7vzNY http://flpbd.it/Lrxaa
All the Black Friday Deals: 2012 Gizmodo, gizmodo.com It’s the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. Here’s your Ultimate Black Friday guide: happy hunting. Deals are grouped b…
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All the Cyber Monday Deals: 2012 Gizmodo, gizmodo.com Well Black Friday is over. Maybe you scored some deals, maybe you stayed in this year. Either way, Cyber Monday is here to drag you back for another round of insanely discounted shopping. We found, ranked, and sorted all the Cyber Monday… All the Cyber Monday Deals:…
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Is the iPad mini brilliant? The OpenForum discusses Cesar Torres, arstechnica.com This week Senior Apple Editor Jacqui Cheng reviewed the iPad mini, and she found many features to love about it, but some features, like the display, left a bit to be desired. Ars readers also got their hands on Apple’s new small-form tablet,… RT…
Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Romney’s Election Day defeat, frustration with the Romney campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT meltdown. Project Orca, the system the Romney campaign used to connect to an army of volunteer… http://flpbd.it/2fl2x
How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the…
How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the… http://flpbd.it/PH2OC
How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the… http://flpbd.it/6mV1z
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