Because aviation isn’t already a perfect model for class war, privilege and the market’s ability to erode comfort, pleasure and humane treatment. (more…)
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Airlines try auctioning off seat-upgrades at the gate
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” just pushed James Cameron’s “Avatar” aside as the top-grossing film in North America. In just 20 days of release, the seventh installment in the space opera saga has earned more than “Avatar’s” $760.5 million lifetime gross. From Variety : One important caveat is that this massive haul does not account for inflation. When pricing increases are factored in, “Gone With the Wind” remains the highest-grossing film in history with $1.7 billion and the first “Star Wars” is runner-up with $1.5 billion. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is in 21st place behind classics such as “The Sound of Music,” “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” and “Titanic.” Globally, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ranks as the fourth highest-grossing pic in history, having earned $1.5 billion worldwide. It opens this weekend in China, the world’s second-biggest market for film. Depending on how enthusiastically it is received in the People’s Republic, “The Force Awakens” could shoot past “Avatar’s” record $2.8 billion global haul.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ overtakes ‘Avatar’ as highest-grossing film in US history
On December 30th, someone using an IP address from the 32nd Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg sent a probe out to every IPv4 address with an open connection on Port 80, consisting of a poem exhorting the reader to “DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean, Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones.” (more…)
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Someone at the Chaos Communications Congress inserted a poem into at least 30 million servers’ logfiles
Big streaming content news out of CES this morning: Netflix is now live in 130 additional countries , which makes its service available to billions of new users. The most notable exception: China. CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement at the annual Consumer Electronics Forum in Las Vegas today. “You are witnessing the birth of a global TV network,” he said. Netflix “won’t be available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria due to U.S. government restrictions on American companies,” the company said. Countries where Netflix will now be available include Azerbaijan, India, Vietnam, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Saudia Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia can now use Netflix–but presumably with certain restrictions, in certain nations. ” Netflix Is Now Available Around the World ” [netflix press release] [ CNN via @ brianstelter ]
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Netflix launches in 130 new countries, but not in China, Syria, or North Korea
I could get lost on this page for weeks. The stereoscopic views are great, if you know how to see them with your eyes. On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high resolution download. This is one of many experiments by the NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what was contained in that release.
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Here’s a fun way to browse the 187,000 digital items in the NY library’s public domain collection
It’s not just you. Instagram is down, with users reporting 503 errors. Don’t worry, they’re on it , but th ey better hurry, or I’ll have to show these photos of my lunch to the mailman. Update : It’s back. Whew. Read more…
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It’s not just you.
Facebook’s newest feature, Nearby Friends, begins rolling out today . The opt-in app addition lets your friends know when you’re close by, with the option to show your precise location on a map, if that’s the kind of thing you want to share with your friends. Read more…
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Facebook Adds "Nearby Friends" to Show You Where Everyone’s At
Now that Feedly has taken in more than 500,000 Google Reader refugees , it’s unveiled a community-driven feature roadmap that’ll guide it for the rest of the year. Sitting atop the list is speed, which the team says will be boosted by fresh hardware and the help of new hires. Windows 8 and Windows Phone support, access to Feedly via the web without a plugin, searching within a user’s feeds and refined group sharing are coming down the pipeline as well. Naturally, a raft of bug fixes round out the planned updates. The outfit also revealed that Reeder, Press, Nextgen Reader, Newsify and gReader will sport Feedly integration before Mountain View’s service retires on July 1st . Word of Google Reader’s demise may have caused anguish , but it looks like suitable alternatives are beginning to flourish. Filed under: Software , Mobile Comments Source: Feedly
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Feedly promises raft of new features, integration with Reeder and other apps
Today Facebook finally took the wraps off Home , a suite of apps and a home screen replacement for Android phones. It’s not just a new UI for launching apps however; it replaces the lockscreen with Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people instead of apps. There is a standard paginated launcher, that is always just a swipe away. But the focus is on the full-screen images that are your new welcome screen. These are status updates from friends that you can easily flip through and double tap to like when someone posts something exciting. Plain text status updates are placed over a user’s cover photo, to keep the appearance consistent with photo-centric posts. Notifications are presented as small cards, which Facebook applies an algorithm to, in order determine the updates that are most important to you. Just like with the standard Android UI you simply swipe notifications off screen to dismiss them. But, if you want to remove all of them in one shot, you long press a single notification and the rest will be drawn to it and you’ll be able to dismiss the entire stack. Gallery: Facebook’s Android event: Facebook Home Filed under: Software , Mobile , Facebook Comments
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Facebook Home official, replaces your app icons with social info (video)
Instagram started reporting its active user base in what many saw as an attempt to quell talk of an exodus following its terms of service debacle . It has a better reason to post hard numbers today, however: there’s now a neat, tidy 100 million active Instagram users every month. The milestone suggests that another 10 million mobile photographers got hooked on square-shaped photography in about five weeks, and it implies that the Facebook-owned company isn’t about to slow down just yet. Not that everyone is in a position to join the party , mind you. Filed under: Cellphones , Mobile , Facebook Comments Source: Instagram
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Instagram tops 100 million active users per month: what policy uproar?