"The meta-commentary here is that he’s riffing on the computer vision system driving Google Images and created his own image-comparison algorithm to ‘sculpt’ the image found through Google and then output it for 3D printing." -
http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/a-figurine-for-the-ages-matthew-plummer-fernandezs-venus-of-google/ "Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is" - http://qz.com/81661/most-data-isnt-big-and-businesses-are-wasting-money-pretending-it-is/ "Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined" - http://www.thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-network-8-times-faster-than-top-500-super-computers-combined/ "Reporters at Bloomberg News were trained to use a function on the company’s financial data terminals that allowed them to view subscribers’ contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage, more than half a dozen former employees said." - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-admits-terminal-snooping.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&; "AFTER TRACKING HIS EVERY ONLINE (AND PHYSICAL) MOVE FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS, NYU GRAD STUDENT FREDERICO ZANNIER IS SELLING HIS ONLINE DATA--FOR A MERE $2 PER DAY." - http://www.fastcompany.com/3009602/what-if-we-thought-more-often-about-being-tracked-online-man-stalks-himself-to-find-out "Mocking Hipsters In The Service Of Capital" - http://technoccult.net/archives/2013/05/12/mocking-hipsters-in-the-service-of-capital/ "Drones move one step closer to unmanned pizza delivery" - http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/12/drones_move_one_step_closer_to_unmanned_pizza_delivery.html The libertarian case for personal nuclear weapons ownership - http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle1997/le970615-06.html "Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency" - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
