This classical music was created by a supercomputer in less than a second

The composition being performed in this video is entitled “Nasciturus”, and it’s one of the many pieces of contemporary classical music created by Iamus — who just so happens to be a computer cluster housed in Spain’s University of Málaga. More »

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This classical music was created by a supercomputer in less than a second

Watch a trippy, alien-filled animation by the director of Yellow Submarine

After finishing his work on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine , director and animator George Dunning made a surreal science fiction short, 1970’s Moon Rock . Turn on this 10-minute cartoon in which an astronaut encounters the strange creatures of a bizarre alien world, and let yourself get swept up in its peculiar dream-like logic. More »

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Watch a trippy, alien-filled animation by the director of Yellow Submarine

Code prints out randomly-generated cartoon faces

Mattias ” Mokafolio ” Dörfelt wrote a program that generates convincingly hand-drawn but randomly-assembled cartoon faces . [via Creative Applications ] Computer generated images have a certain aesthetics to them that make them immediately recognizable as such by the trained eye. Weird Faces Study is an attempt to combine my old interest in illustration with programing, to create something procedural that has a truly individual artistic touch to it and is not instantly recognizable as a generative art piece. Even though, the faces look hand-drawn, they are entirely expressed by algorithmic rules. Each face is random, each face is unique. Still, they look similar to my actual hand drawn faces.

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Why Apple’s Siri Is Personified as a Butt Lady in Japan

In Japan, it’s been popular for the past several years to make “-tan” versions of electronics. These are cute personifications of game hardware or even computer operating systems. Most recently, Microsoft released the official Windows 8-tans ; however, most of these “-tan” creations are not official. They are fan creations, like “Siri-tan”. More »

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Why Apple’s Siri Is Personified as a Butt Lady in Japan

Anonymous Destroys Israel By Taking Down Hundreds of Websites and Leaking Emails and Passwords

It looks like Anonymous followed up with its threat of digitally attacking Israel for taking military action in the Gaza strip. They’ve knocked down websites, deleted databases and have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords. It’s a whopping takedown. More »

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Anonymous Destroys Israel By Taking Down Hundreds of Websites and Leaking Emails and Passwords