Protesters in Hong Kong have started communicating via FireChat, an app that lets people send messages without cell reception . Read more…
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Protesters Are Using FireChat’s Mesh Networks To Organize in Hong Kong
It’s okay to desire the finer things in life, but at what point do you draw the line between luxury and exorbitance? Probably somewhere well before this insane 200-foot long mega-yacht from CRN called the J’ade, which features a built-in garage that smaller boats can drive right into. Read more…
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A Super-Yacht With a Garage For Smaller Boats Is Luxuriously Obscene
As part of Yahoo’s ongoing mid-life crisis, the company very quietly announced today that it’s killing off the original internet directory that gave the company its name. Read more…
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Yahoo Very Quietly Kills Off Yahoo
It’s easy to take translations for granted when Google can swap between Albanian and Zulu with the click of a button, but even that tech has real world limitations. Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of 130 different endangered Native American languages in the United States that don’t have any kind of digital—or analog—legacy. Read more…
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How An Octogenarian Preserved An Endangered Native American Language
Maglev trains have been promised as the future of public transport since about forever, but high-speed magnetic levitation systems are rapidly gaining a serious reputation — something Japan’s public demonstration of its high-speed maglev system is only going to help. Read more…
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Japan Tests Its New 500kmph Maglev Train
The sprawling Hermitage Museum has long reigned as the world’s largest museum—but China has plans to come close to it with a huge new building for the National Art Museum of China , the design plans for which were recently released by French architect Jean Nouvel. Read more…
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China’s National Gallery Will Be One of the Largest Museums on Earth
I’ve tried practically every version of the Oculus Rift VR headset, from some of the original duct-taped prototypes through to the latest DK2 developer kit and the Samsung Gear VR. Nothing I’ve seen prepared me for the new Crescent Bay demo. I just tried one of the best games I’ve never played . I want more. Read more…
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I Tried The New Oculus Rift, And It Blew Me Away All Over Again
San Francisco’s current tech-led boom has seen slick new housing high-rises pop up all across the grid, but Bay Area urban renewal in the 1970s had a very different look. Photographer Dave Glass is a native of the city’s Western Addition, and snapped these images of Victorians being driven around town like massive domestic trailers almost 30 years ago. Read more…
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So This Is How You Move a Neighborhood of Houses Across San Francisco
It’s not what Apple’s most recent transparency reports say that has activists concerned—rather, it’s what’s missing. Because the sudden omission of a mere two sentences essentially translates to Apple saying that yes, they’ve now been subjected to the Patriot Act’s demands . Read more…
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Hidden Message in Apple Transparency Reports Suggest New NSA Warrants
Here’s a new feature of iOS 8 that we weren’t expecting: Apple announced tonight that the new software makes it impossible for Apple to turn over the data on an iOS 8-equipped iPhone or iPad to U.S. law enforcement, even in the presence of a search warrant. Chalk one up for privacy. Read more…
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Apple Won’t Turn Over Your iPhone’s Data to Police If You’re Using iOS 8