Archive for November, 2014
Pizza Hut: Eye-Tracking Menu
November 30th, 2014Via: Engadget: Pizza Hut wants to help you skip your super-ego middleman and just let your id order that triple-cheese bacon pepperoni pie directly. It’s “Subconscious Menu” uses Tobii’s eye-tracking tech to figure out which of 20 different ingredients you’re looking at on a screen (see the video below). It then takes all of three […]
Bird Bomb? Afghan Police Kill Bird Bearing Antenna, Explosives
November 30th, 2014Via: NBC: Afghan police said they are investigating how a wild bird came to bear an antenna, electronic devices and explosives. Police came across the strange sight around 8 a.m. in the northern Faryab province, a volatile region ravaged by Taliban violence. When police spotted the white bird — which isn’t native to the area […]
Jeb Bush’s Four Mysterious Companies Share The Same Address And Have Never Done Any Known Business
November 30th, 2014Via: Think Progress: Jeb Bush and his capital investment company have set up several companies that, despite being registered to his office and being approved for “any and all lawful business,” have seemingly not yet done anything. A ThinkProgress review of corporate registration records with the Florida Department of State revealed several companies registered in […]
Wanderers
November 30th, 2014Make sure to go full screen. Via: Erik Wernquist: Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.
Egypt: Ex-ruler Hosni Mubarak, Accused in Deaths of Hundreds, Cleared of Charges
November 29th, 2014Via: CNN: Egypt’s former longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak was effectively cleared of charges in a retrial Saturday and could soon be released — a stunning reversal for a man who faced life imprisonment or worse after a revolution toppled him in 2011. A Cairo judge dismissed charges linking Mubarak to the deaths of hundreds of […]
Who’s Making Money Off The War On Drugs?
November 28th, 2014Via: AJ+:
Cancer: Long Pepper Fruit
November 28th, 2014Via: The Windsor Star: “One of the major struggles with cancer therapy is whatever we use to kill cancer cells also kills healthy cells, which is a very bad side effect,” Pandey said. The long pepper fruit extract, however, seems to do a remarkable thing: trick cancer cells into cutting off their own energy. It […]
Flying Robots to Start Serving in Restaurants by End-2015
November 27th, 2014Nothing says “romantic dinner” like the ceaseless din of large, autonomous quadcopters buzzing around in a closed space. Via: Channel News Asia: Restaurant-goers in Singapore can expect to be served by autonomous flying robots – the world’s first commercial attempt – by the end of next year. Infinium-Serve, the autonomous flying robotic waiters, will be […]
Oil Down 6.88% On OPEC Strategy to Destroy U.S. Shale Business
November 27th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’ll be dusting off some capital for an eventual long side play. However, there’s a part of me, a gut feeling, that thinks that the shale apocalypse will just continue on somehow. Crude Oil Jan 15 (CLF15.NYM) -NY Mercantile 68.62 Down […]
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
November 27th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: OPEC policy on crude production will ensure a crash in the U.S. shale industry, a Russian oil tycoon said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept output targets unchanged at a meeting in Vienna today even after this year’s slump in the oil price caused by surging supply from U.S shale fields. American […]
