Archive for March, 2015
“The messengers do talk… They end up asking each other which apps they work for”
March 25th, 2015It’s not Portlandia. Baylandia? Oh yeah, Silicon Valley. Via: Medium: Angel the concierge stands behind a lobby desk at a luxe apartment building in downtown San Francisco, and describes the residents of this imperial, 37-story tower. “Ubers, Squares, a few Twitters,” she says. “A lot of work-from-homers.” And by late afternoon on a Tuesday, they’re […]
Hollywood Increasingly Re-Animating Dead Actors
March 25th, 2015Via: The Hollywood Reporter: No actor is indispensable. That is the blunt lesson from the fact that Universal Pictures was able to complete its April 3 tentpole, Furious 7, following star Paul Walker’s death in a November 2013 car accident about halfway through the shoot. Beyond saying that brothers Cody and Caleb stood in for […]
Yemen’s President Flees Residence
March 25th, 2015Via: AP: Yemen’s embattled president fled his palace home in the southern port city of Aden for an undisclosed location Wednesday as Shiite rebels closed in on the country’s third-largest city and launched airstrikes targeting the presidential forces guarding the palace’s compound. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi left the palace just hours after the rebels, […]
Some of Tesla’s Papers Remain Classified by U.S. Government
March 25th, 2015This is from 2013. Via: National Geographic: 5. Many of Tesla’s inventions were classified. When Tesla died in 1943, during World War II, the Office of Alien Property took his belongings, Alcorn said. Most of his things were later released to his family, and many ended up in the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, which opened […]
Amazon Now Wanting to Automate Pick and Pack
March 25th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Robots will use the latest computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms to try to perform the work done by humans in vast fulfillment centers.
Apple Patent Envisions Tracking People in Real Time
March 25th, 2015.gov has probably been doing it for years, so why not? Via: cnet: Apple’s current Find My Friends feature could one day expand into more of a Track My Friends feature. Granted to Apple on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent called “Sharing location information among devices” describes a process that […]
Germanwings Crash
March 24th, 2015Officials: Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Flight 9525 Via: USA Today: The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps deliberately worked to destroy the plane while passengers shrieked in terror and the pilot pounded on the cockpit door, a French prosecutor said at a news conference Thursday in Marseille. “This was voluntary, this […]
47% of American Households Have No Savings
March 24th, 2015Via: Business Insider: This could be the scariest chart in the world, from Deutsche Bank’s Torsten Sløk. Nearly half of American households don’t save any of their money. If it isn’t obvious, this has a broad range of implications. People who don’t save won’t have any buffer should the economy turn and they lose their […]
Royal Family Member Was Investigated as Part of Paedophile Ring Before Cover-Up, Ex-Cop Says
March 24th, 2015Via: Independent: A member of the Royal family was claimed to be part of a suspected paedophile ring under investigation by police in the late 1980s, a former police officer has said. The former Metropolitan Police officer says he was told by a detective sergeant that the investigation into the ring, which was also claimed […]
Wife of Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz Takes Leave from Goldman Sachs
March 24th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Heidi Cruz, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Houston, has taken an unpaid leave from her private wealth-management job to help with her husband’s campaign for the U.S. presidency, a person familiar with the matter said. Ted Cruz, 44, a Republican senator from Texas, said on Twitter early Monday morning […]
