At this year’s SXSW Interactive, there was a panel titled The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices. It was about technology, and how it relates to art and design. Since SXSW, there have been many discussions, including a sprawling, 5000-word essay on Wired, about the New Aesthetic’s shortcomings, its potential and its significance.
You might have a friend who has to take them for asthma. You might know someone else who denies taking them but has gotten crazy ripped really fast and angers easily. Famous athletes are denying or being caught with them in their blood stream seemingly every day — just last night, MLB slugger Ryan Braun successfully appealed a positive test.
If you hadn’t heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet’s most influential sites — Reddit and Wikipedia among them — are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes?
Between the Roku Streaming Stick and these Samsung displays we’ve seen a few recent products equipped with a new audio/visual connection called MHL. It is not a new way to view hockey.
Holy data privacy scandal! Over the last week the news that Carrier IQ has been tracking millions of smartphone users without their knowledge has ballooned into a full-blown clusternut. Carrier IQ, huh? Sounds nefarious. But what exactly does it do? And why should you care?
So one of the things you’ll notice about all of Apple’s new stuff today is that they’ve got new Thunderbolt powers. What’s that mean? Thunderbolt’s a fairly new interface that’s pretty snazzy, and we explain in detail right here on: [Gizmodo]
