On the first of January, 2008, I promised you a book about the things I saw happening at the intersection of emerging networked information technologies with urban place. Well. It has been a long, long time coming, the book has inevitably evolved from my initial conception of it, and there’s still a great deal of work to be done. But I’m now in a position to at least let you know, in a fair amount of detail, just what The City Is Here For You To Use argues.
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En fait, “ils ne cherchaient pas à fabriquer une bombe, ils faisaient de la marijuana synthétique”, se souvient M. Clancy, “c’est une grande success story , même si cela n’a pas été l’affaire terroriste du siècle”.
Rando only launched in March but the anti-social photo-sharing app that deliberately eschews the standard social network clutter of likes and comments and connections – simply letting users share random photos with random strangers and get random snaps in return — has blasted past five million photo shares after a little over two months in the wild. It is now averaging around 200,000 shares per day, says its creator ustwo. (via Rando’s 5M Anti-Social Photo Shares Could Be The Canary In The Social Networking Coalmine | TechCrunch)
« iXoost is the first audio system for iPhone©/iPod© entirely hand-built in Modena by local craftsmen ». (via IXOOST)
La presse nippone se plaît en outre à souligner que Tianhe-2 est destiné à calculer des trajectoires de missiles ou autres usages militaires, tandis que les modèles japonais sont conçus pour les simulations de catastrophes naturelles ou le développement de nouveaux médicaments.
La grande marque semble donc arriver à ce point de domination psychologique que sa seule évocation manipule, dans le cerveau, notre perception du produit lorsqu’on le consomme…
« Hell is Other People is « an experiment in anti-social media » according to its developer Scott Garner. Using data from your FourSquare account, the web app will monitor recent check-ins of your « friends » and calculate a position where you’re almost guaranteed to avoid them entirely ». (via Anti-social: ‘Hell is Other People’ keeps you as far away from your ‘friends’ as possible | The Verge)
« The programs of the past can be characterized as “proximate surveillance,” in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade mark the transition to “oblique surveillance,” in which the government more often just goes to the places where information has been accumulating on its own, such as email providers, search engines, social networks, and telecoms ». (via Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com)
Security, simplified. Open Source security for mobile devices.