When You’re Done With a Fabricated Identity, This Artist Will Make It His Own – Motherboard
Your inbox is a lot like an online home, protected by a password rather than a burglar alarm. The same could be said for your social media pages, your bank accounts, your supermarket loyalty cards. Together they constitute an identity. But what if your accounts,…
Nudes Are Old News at Playboy – New York Times
Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader…
Bosch Saves Us From Wrong-Way Driving – IEEE Spectrum
The traffic accident you least want to be in is a collision with a car moving in a direction opposite to your own. Even though such wrong-way collisions account for only about 3 percent of accidents on divided highways in the United States, according to a 2013 report by…
ARMing a Breadboard — Everyone Should Program an ARM – Hackaday
I’m always a little surprised that we don’t see more ARM-based projects. Of course, we do see some, but the volume isn’t what I’d expect given that low-level ARM chips are cheap, capable, low power, and readily available. Having a 32-bit processor with lots of…
Instagram Opens Up Sponsored Posts to Advertisers – Business 2 Community
Instagram boasts over 400 million active monthly users, who post 80 million photos and like 3.5 billion of them every day. It’s a fast-growing social media platform that enables you to efficiently and quickly capture an audience through enticing image ads, video ads or carousel…
What Makes BuzzFeed Quizzes So Popular? – Business 2 Community
It’s 2:00pm in the afternoon. Lunch was just over an hour ago and you still have a couple of hours until you get off work. You check your inbox to find that there are no new emails for you to respond to, so you open…
MELTDOWN: The complete story – Metalbulletin.com (subscription)
IMatthias Horner closed his front door gently behind him and scrunched across the gravel drive to the garage. He flicked the button on his car key ring, and the garage door began to swing open, as did the gate at the end of the drive…