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Shameful Fact No. 3299: I have friends and relatives who still use Internet Explorer. Visual artist Joe Lifrieri has a hate thing going on for all things Microsoft (and Internet…
Shameful Fact No. 3299: I have friends and relatives who still use Internet Explorer. Visual artist Joe Lifrieri has a hate thing going on for all things Microsoft (and Internet…
MusicBox is a radically different music mapping and visualization software, developed by Anita Lillie for her Master’s thesis at MIT. The software was coded in Java, and uses the Processing…
Creepy and horrifying. A six-legged, torso-less, robotic Lou Bega dancing to ‘Mambo No. 5'. This hexapod robot created by the students of the HTL Saalfelden, Austria, won the Ashes Championship…
This is a yummy slice of tech history. Back in 2006, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sketched this conceptual, um, sketch of Twitter’s original UI on a notepad. Snip from the…
The SLORK Project could very well change the way music is created in the future. The project uses laptops as musical instruments, and also as devices to virtually collaborate in…
TinEye is an exciting and new image search engine from Idée Inc. The service is currently in private beta, but I managed to garner an invite to use it.
The interface of the site couldn’t be simpler. All you have to do is upload an image or an image URL, and the engine takes care of the rest. It can find images similar to the ones you have uploaded, even if they have been cropped, resized or even photoshopped.
TinEye does this by first creating a digital signature or fingerprint of the uploaded image, and then comparing it to the fingerprint of every other image in its search index.
This is the final version of 'The Machine is Us/ing Us' video. It was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University. He…
This is big. The RIAA has won a crucial victory in its tirade against music piracy. Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota native and single mother of two, was found guilty of…
A lawyer has called for people from California to join a class action suit against Apple. He wants consumers to band together to punish Apple, for releasing a crippling software…
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