Articles tagged "data"

Is this the warped future of historical preservation?

The strange comment Constant Dullaart left on my wall sounded like him, but I knew that it wasn't.

Oh, sonder.

The modeled ebb and flow, uncannily synced to Blue Danube's waltz and simulated to predict flu virus transmission rates, is remarkably swarm-like in its sheer randomness.

Altmann's work defines a generation unsurprised by and unafraid of Stellar Wind, for whom privacy, like politics, has become a purely esthetic concept.

The Chinese social media app is 300 million strong and growing. It's also really fun. But how safe is your data?

The ability to transfer a terabit of information in one second is incredible and potentially world-changing.

Your DNA-powered iPod could hold something like a bajillion songs.

If only Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in Eb Major could cue up every time I get caught walking in the rain, which as of late has proven quite often.

Behold the wonders of open data and proto-mutual assured destruction.

The government has decided it needs to beef up the ranks of its digital defenses. It’s assembling a league of extraordinary computer geeks for what will be known as the “Cyber Reserve.”

About a third of the country’s wind is being pulled into a massive whirlpool by Sandy’s force, and it’s all at a pretty high rate of sustained speed.

By their very nature, microchips are little bitty things, but scientists wants to make them downright invisible – and they’re getting pretty close!

The Weather Channel — or Weather Underground or your TV weather person or your DIY forecasting buddy — pretty much just have what we have, which is the internet and the ability to access government-supplied data.

Maybe you've seen this photo that's been spinning around the Internet for a few years purporting to show the uncanny similarity between individual mouse-brain neurons and a model image of the universe. Here it is: !{width:584px}http://www.viceland…

It's easy to draw conclusions about someone's personality based on how they tweet. Everyone knows who the self promotional tweeters are, the ones that always want you to read something they wrote or back their Kickstarter campaign. We appreciate the

For all the griping the U.S. government has done about WikiLeaks, there are some actually some useful applications for the treasure trove of data the whistleblower organization has gotten its hands on. In a sense, the WikiLeaks dumps have created the…

Is the library of utopia inching closer to opening its doors? Maybe, maybe not. Nicholas Carr has an exhaustive look at Harvard’s Digital Public Library of America initiative, and it raises all sorts of gut-churning questions about copyright law, the…

It looks like there might be a more efficient way of "hacking":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/16/future-sex-i-hacked-my-boyfriend-s-cellphone—2 that ex's cellphone. Athena and Aceso, two data sucking products produced by UK-based "Radio Tactics":…

“Digital sprawl” is guaranteed to lead to our doom.

Every single day I get messages on Twitter asking me if I'm ready to get rich just by tweeting. Believe me, I am, but I've yet to see an offer from a spambot that I could put any stock in. The idea that you can make money off Twitter is simply hogwas…

Ever since last week's historic "web blackout":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell rattled the cage in Washington, droves of lawmakers have ei…