Oct 04

In concept, it’s kind of interactive Twitch.

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In concept, it’s kind of interactive Twitch.

Originally shared by Ninja On Rye

Two people send thoughts to a third person to play a game of tetris in a 3-person brainnet proof of concept.

It’s currently low-bandwidth, but as the description below really captures the wow aspect of this research:

Stocco and his colleagues have created a network that allows three individuals to send and receive information directly to their brains. They say the network is easily scalable and limited only by the availability of EEG and TMS devices.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612212/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads/

Oct 01

The most interesting stuff to me is buried near the end, with frictionless payment taken to its ultimate extreme:…

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The most interesting stuff to me is buried near the end, with frictionless payment taken to its ultimate extreme: you just go about your life, and payment happens in the background.

This is already true for many of us for things like utility bills, and certainly for subscriptions. It obviously has its risks, if you’re anywhere close to a cash emergency or if you do something expensive without realising it, but because it’s safe enough if you’re living habitually within your means, and it’s super-convenient, I’m sure it will get wide adoption.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

3 Big Ways Tech Is Disrupting Global Finance

https://suhub.co/2Qm3NGm

Sep 29

This is exciting; it might even enable the fix to social media I proposed a while back (http://csidemedia.

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This is exciting; it might even enable the fix to social media I proposed a while back (http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/2018/01/09/fixing-social-media-part-1-the-big-fix/), in which you’re in control of your content, where it’s posted, and how you consume others’ content.

Originally shared by John Ward

This is promising. Tim Berners-Lee is trying to create an infrastructure that would allow people to own and control their data instead of trusting it to the many companies who buy and sell every bit of your personal information they can get. From the article:

When asked about this, Berners-Lee says flatly: “We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web
Sep 28

I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

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I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

What would it be like to see magnetic fields? Stephin Merritt is great, but you can also do it with an Arduino!!!

If you carry a smartphone around in your pocket, you have a GPS navigation system, a compass, an altimeter, and a very powerful computer at your fingertips. It’s the greatest navigational device ever created. To use this sextant of the modern era you’ve…

http://hackaday.com/2018/09/28/give-yourself-a-sixth-sense-with-an-arduino/

Sep 28

I’ve read this author’s Zero Sum Game, and really disliked the main character.

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I’ve read this author’s Zero Sum Game, and really disliked the main character. I would have disliked her just as much if she was a man, though.

It’s, on the whole, good advice here; I’d just caution that if you make the character unpleasant there will be people who aren’t into that, regardless of gender.

https://www.tor.com/2018/09/25/writing-women-with-sharp-edges/?utm_source=Feedburner:+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Torcom/Frontpage_Partial+(Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories)&inf_contact_key=3b34c1bf8afd3dd147aeb4c62c7efee1bf7ddf43f74b234d6d5725a16ed267ea