Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17.
And so begins Manna, Marshall Brain‘s tale of robotic takeover. I won’t spoil the fun and just say it reads like a Kafkaesque nightmare. Enjoy!
Golden People love Gold Jewelry Robots by epSos.de used per the Creative Commons License
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
I’ve been tinkering with my new HTC Vive VR headset and was recently able to wirelessly stream the stereoscopic image to an iPhone 6. This was accomplished using Moonlight for iOS, a HTC Vive VR HMD, and a gaming rig loaded with a i7-6700k 4GHz CPU and a 980ti Hybrid GPU. This setup currently only mirrors what is displayed on the Vive.
Lincoln is in.
This is what happens when you take a great song like Genesis by Justice and add NASA.
From the BBC Interview for Horizon ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out‘. Animated by Fraser Davidson.
