Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It’s been almost three months since Google lead a $542 million round of funding for the Magic Leap, an augmented reality project shrouded in mystery. Aside from vague claims about a “biomimetic Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal,” the CEO of Legendary Pictures calling it “jaw-dropping,” and Neal Stephenson becoming the project’s “Chief Futurist,” we still don’t…
Last year, Google bought Word Lens, the amazing app that translates signs in real time, and made it free for everyone. Now the company has gone one better and rolled the feature into Google Translate. As you can see in the GIF above, the feature works just like it did in the Word Lens app….
Begin: WordPress Article Content Everyone’s favorite food-disrupting nutritional slurry, Soylent, has just closed a $20 million funding round, led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. Another prior investor in its 2013 $1.5 million seed round, Lerer Ventures, also participated in the new financing, along with Index Ventures. Announcing the raise on his blog, a16z partner Chris Dixton noted Soylent is…
Trigger warning for sexual abuse, stalking, rape, domestic violence and large-scale attacks by hate groups. Last Thursday, I criticized the Linux community for continuing to support and center a leader with a years-long, documented history of unrepentant abusive behavior, someone who has actively and systematically nurtured a hostile, homogeneous technical community, and someone who has…
Without any official group taking responsibility for this page, and with imageboard screengrabs showing jokes about its creation, we believe FSF is as much of a mean-spirited joke as media critic Shanley Kane says it is. cache hit 934:single/related:aff7ea81439932e4088551b75f744576 empty On Friday, following comments made by Linux legend Linus Torvalds about diversity in the open…
After taking big swings with Windows 8 and 8.1 — how big a miss they were is open to interpretation — Microsoft’s trying to redefine how we work with computers once more. We’re going to get a much closer look at Windows 10 at 9AM PT/12PM ET tomorrow (which we’ll be liveblogging, naturally), and all…
My younger, street-skating self would’ve scoffed at the idea of an electric skateboard, at least one that wasn’t built for tricks while in transit. But having spent less time doing slappies and ollies in recent years, taking to the streets on an electric version finally seemed a viable alternative. For those who aren’t planning stunts…
By Ramon Ramirez on January 18th, 2015 There are miserable gaps in the narrative. These deleted scenes double as reverberating cliffhangers. They mean hope to grieving families and widespread indignation for their countrymen. Here’s what we know: In September, six people were killed and 43 college students disappeared in the rural state of Guerrero, Mexico….
Illustration by Susie Cagle.Illustrations by Susie CagleIf you can brave the cold to walk over to the Southern District of New York courthouse in downtown Manhattan, where U.S. v. Ulbricht, the trial of the man accused of being the operator of a online drugs marketplace, is currently in session, the first thing you’ll see are…
Illustration of Day 1 of the Ross Ulbricht trial. (Illustration by Susie Cagle)To his family, he was former Eagle Scout Ross Ulbricht. To his housemates, he was “Joshua Terrey.” To the U.S. government, he’s “The Dread Pirate Roberts” – the criminal mastermind who created and operated the billion dollar black market website Silk Road. His…