Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last year, Unreal Engine 4 switched to a $19/month subscription plan. It was the first in a couple of attempts to coax indie developers away from Unity—and CryEngine announced their own low cost subscription soon after. This year, Epic is going a step further. The studio has just announced that Unreal Engine 4 is available for free, along…
Sir Ridley Scott has made some of the greatest genre movies of all time, but in the last several years, he’s also made some horrible mistakes. But his misfires and missed opportunities pale before the grievous error he’s about to make: creating a sequel to Blade Runner. The original Blade Runner is a science fiction…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — An Orange County, Calif., attorney has filed a proposed ballot measure with the California Attorney General’s office asking voters to criminalize homosexuality in the state and impose a death penalty sentence. The filing, submitted along with the required fee of $200, will allow attorney Matthew G. McLaughlin to begin the process…
Like a great many such things, some of journalism’s most precious ideals were the happy result of geography and economics. That is, in any given geography, the dominant newspaper tended towards a natural monopoly for two reasons: When it came to costs, the ownership of expensive printing presses and distribution channels made entrance difficult for…
“Robots will take over the world.” It’s a familiar refrain from movie scientists, conspiracy theorists, or your paranoid friend after he saw a TV special on autonomous cars. As artificial intelligence research accelerates in sophistication, it has also set off alarm bells and calls for caution from some of the brightest minds in the world,…
In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times, pitched Jill Abramson, the paper’s then-executive editor, the idea of devoting a reporting beat on the national desk to coverage of race and ethnicity. Abramson liked the idea, and Vega became the beat’s sole reporter, publishing over the course of the next year an…
While the Hillary Clinton campaign seems unperturbed by recent problematic disclosures by Politico into the Hillary Clinton Foundation, the former first lady and current democrat presidential hopeful will have a field day explaining why, as the NYT reported overnight, Hillary – in her role as Secretary of State – “exclusively used a personal email account…
Entry Text Los Angeles police fatally shot a homeless man on Sunday in a disturbing encounter that was caught on video.According to the Los Angeles Times, the man, whom witnesses called “Africa,” was pronounced dead at the hospital. The incident, which occurred around noon in the city’s Skid Row area, was captured on video and…
Her violations of public records rules indicate little regard for the people’s right to information. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters On January 13, 2009, Hillary Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee. The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered…
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the…