Author: timbatchelder

  • Instagram captures drone strike maps

    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…

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  • Game cams now capture real life behavior

    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…

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  • Memoto records every minute of your day

    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…

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  • Visualizing all public transit in NYC

    Watch One Mesmerizing Day Of All The Public Transit In New York BY MORGAN CLENDANIEL, fastcoexist.com This video, made using MTA data, shows the city as defined by its subways, buses, and trains. New York is a city defined by its pub­lic trans­porta­tion sys­tem. It’s why, when large parts of it were taken out dur­ing…

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  • Visualize NYC buried in its C02 emissions

    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…

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  • Visualize microscopic wonder of plants

    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…

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  • Scanadu tricorder

    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…

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  • Tim Ferriss disrupts book publishing with bit torrent

    Is BitTorrent The Future Of Book Publishing? Tim Ferriss Is Banking On It John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com If you walk into your local Barnes & Noble look­ing for a copy of Tim­o­thy Fer­riss’s new book, good luck. Even though he’s a New York Times best sell­ing author, the giant book retail­er refus­es to sell The…

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  • Evolutionary medicine and why parasitic gut worms can keep you well

    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…

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  • Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

    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 &…

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  • Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV

    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…

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  • Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

    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…

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  • 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.…

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  • 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

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  • 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 http://flpbd.it/vEevv

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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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  • All the Cyber Monday Deals: 2012 http://flpbd.it/4HOCB http://flpbd.it/puP2H

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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…

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  • 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

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  • 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…

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  • 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

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  • 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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