I don’t get Vine. I don’t give a looping turd about it. Every video I’ve seen so far is six seconds of jerky concentrated idiocy. I may be too old for this crap but I’m not alone—thanks, [ Willa via Laughing Squid via Petapixel ] More »
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This Is Why Vine Is Stupid
Ever wondered how a key opens a lock? Wonder no more. If this is not one of the best animated GIFs I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. First, because it taught me something new. And then, because it’s so satisfying to see it work. Aaaaaah. Oh yes. [ soup — Thanks Karl! ] More »
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How Keys Work Explained In One Perfect Animated GIF
While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America’s military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That’s why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access to a real-time battlefield mini-map just in like video games. More »
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DARPA’s SeeMee Satellites Are a Soldier’s On-Demand Eye In the Sky
A few years ago, the Library of Congress announced its plans to create an archive of every public tweet ever . If you thought that sounded a little bit optimistic, you’d be right; the Library of Congress released a white paper today explaining why they can’t quite pull it off . More »
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The Library of Congress Can’t Quite Handle That Massive Tweet Archive It Was Trying to Build
In Saudi Arabia, if a woman leaves the country, her husband or male “guardian” will receive a text message to let him know that, even if she’s traveling with him, ho boy! His woman is on the loose. Saudi Arabia: where technology and misogyny unite! More »
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Saudi Arabian Men Now Get Text Alerts When Their Women Leave the Country
theodp writes “Online education has had a fifty-year road to ‘overnight’ success. MIT Technology Review calls the emergence of free online education, particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs), The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years. ‘If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years,’ writes Antonio Regalado, ‘you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford’s Model-T production line, or even the bicycle. The list goes on. Now answer this one: what’s been the single biggest innovation in education? Don’t worry if you come up blank. You’re supposed to.’ Writing about MOOC Mania in the Communications of the ACM, Moshe Y. Vardi worries that ‘the enormous buzz about MOOCs is not due to the technology’s intrinsic educational value, but due to the seductive possibilities of lower costs.’ And in MOOCs Will Eat Academia, Vivek Haldar writes, ‘MOOCs will almost certainly hollow out the teaching component of universities as it stands today…But all is not lost, because the other thing universities do is research, and that is arguably as important, if not more, than teaching.’ So, are MOOCs the best thing since sliced bread, or merely the second coming of 1920s Postal Course Mania?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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MOOC Mania
Technology moves fast. So fast, in fact, that great apps often get left in the dust if they don’t come out of the gates full-featured and ready for primetime. With that in mind, here are a few apps that all but disappeared from our radar, but still offer a great feature-set. More »
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The Most Useful Apps You’ve Probably Forgotten