Bookmarks for December 29th from 04:27 to 13:32
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 29th from 04:27 to 13:32:
- A Google Gentrification Fight That Doesn’t Involve San Francisco – The locals say they don’t like the tech folks pouring into town to work at places like Google. They’re insular. They’re driving up housing prices. And they fear…
- Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push | ZDNet – There’s been talk for a while that Microsoft was going to make some big changes to Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 time frame, making IE “Spartan” look and…
- No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Jewels and Cataracts: the Echopraxia Postmortem – Why yes, since you ask; I expect there will be a concluding volume to the Consciousnundrum series. I know how it begins: father and son (what’s left of them)…
- A “Twilight Zone” for the Digital Age | The New Yorker – “Lip-read reconstruction: enabled,” a Siri-like voice says. The jealous husband has exactly what he needs—the ability to scrutinize his wife flirting with…
- Virtual Balcony | Royal Caribbean Blog – Of all the new and intriguing innovations coming to Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, Quantum of the Seas, few have captured the public’s imagination quite…
- AI: The film Stanley Kubrick never made – Close encounters: Kubrick was in frequent telephone contact with his friend Steven Spielberg and had suggested that Spielberg direct his next project,…
- STANLEY KUBRICK, BRIAN ALDISS AND A.I. (PART TWO) – Here, as promised, is Part Two of the article focusing on the history of the movie that we would unfortunately never get to see: Stanley Kubrick’s A.I……
- STANLEY KUBRICK, BRIAN ALDISS AND A.I. (PART ONE) – With hundreds of Kubrick memorial articles floating around the Web, I decided that the ultimate retrospective on the man’s life would be to focus on the history…
- The Art of Artificial Intelligence – As a major A.I book gets published, conceptual artist Chris Baker talks about working with Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg on the film If you get an invite…
- The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots – ??NASA / Wikimedia
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won’t look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It’s likely they won’t be… - Establishing the Feedback loop for the Digital Marketplace | Digital Marketplace – Digital Marketplace: .@lanalytics00 talks about establishing the feedback loop for the Digital Marketplace https://t.co/tVDWxWiwta
- Well, That Escalated Quickly – This post is probably going to be a little bit scattered, because I’m still reeling from the overwhelming, unexpected response to the last post. I honestly…