Topic: MUSIK - on August 3, 2016 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
An Easy Extraction: The Top 100 Albums Of 2016 So Far
To me, musically at least, the year doesn't really kick off until the moment our mid-year chart is published. Then it finally feels like I can breathe out. That things are rolling at last. Editing a music website is like constantly being in that weird fugue state that comes over most people in record shops. "Man... I know I actually like music but made by which groups, singers and producers? I know once I get home I'll be able to think of 38 LPs and a whole bunch of EPs I really want but right now I can't call to mind a single thing I'm into." So you walk out of the shop with yet another copy of Station To Station by David Bowie. Just in case something happens to the other seven copies you own. Speaking as someone who runs a music magazine, this temporary sonic amnesia can be overwhelming. I constantly seem to be at a music festival saying: "Errrrrrr... Nope. Can't think of a single thing..." to the eminently reasonable question: "Have you heard any good music recently?"
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Topic: FUN - on August 3, 2016 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
Kickstarting a levitating Nixie clock
Edinburgh's Tony "Lasermad" Adams is kickstarting a levitating Nixie clock -- featuring vintage Soviet deadstock Nixie tubes -- that draws power wirelessly from its base, as it hovers magically in midair on a cushion of mysterious magnetism, displaying the time and date.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on August 3, 2016 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Strange, Seductive and Surreal Erotica from 1920-30’s Vienna
Atelier Manassé was a highly successful photographic studio established by husband and wife team Adorján von Wlássics (1893 - 1946) and Olga Solarics (1896 - 1969) in Austria in 1924—though some sources cite 1922. Principally based in Vienna—with a smaller office in Berlin—the studio flourished during the 1920s and 1930s. It was known for producing highly flattering portrait photography of film, theater and cabaret stars. It could be said Adorján and Olga were the airbrush pioneers of their day—artfully painting out any blemishes or wrinkles and reducing the unsightly flab from legs and waists. The resulting photographs were mass produced and sold to fans as much sought after postcards.
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Topic: food - on August 3, 2016 at 5:30:00 PM CEST
18th Century Britain's Great Culinary Breakthrough: Mushroom Ketchup
Halfway through the process of making traditional mushroom ketchup, the dark and leaking fungi looked like a rotting puddle of chunky bog. Chopped, salted generously, left to sit for 24 hours, the pile of portobellos had given up their juice. After the first hour, the mushroom chunks were sitting in a shallow pool of brown liquid. Now they were bathing in it. It seemed unlikely that this marshy mixture would lead to anything tasty. It was even harder to believe that this was the forebear of today’s sweet, sharp and gloopy tomato ketchup.
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Topic: TV - on August 3, 2016 at 5:27:00 PM CEST
Fred Tomlinson R.I.P.
Fred Tomlinson, Chef der Tomlinson Singers und Co-Autor von Monty Pythons Lumberjack-Song und „Spam! Wonderful Spam!“, ist bereits im Juni im Alter von 88 Jahren gestorben. Nachrufe bei den Pythons und im Telegraph.
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Topic: Drone - on August 3, 2016 at 5:24:00 PM CEST
DJI is opening an indoor drone arena for first-time fliers and professionals alike
Dronemaker DJI has already opened physical stores in China and South Korea, but now it's expanding its consumer outreach with its first ever 'drone arena.' The 1,395-square-meter arena will open later this month in Yongin, a city in the south of Seoul's greater metropolitan area. DJI says the indoor venue will be kitted out with safety nets, an LED-light circuit for advanced pilots, and support for first-person-view flying. There'll also be a small workshop for carrying out minor repairs.
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Topic: ROBOT - on August 3, 2016 at 5:21:00 PM CEST
Hackable, educational walking bot can add a Raspberry Pi
Robotical’s hackable, Cortex-M4 based “Marty” educational robot has flexible legs, and can be upgraded with an onboard Raspberry Pi. A startup called Robotical is seeking funds on Indiegogo for a 3D printable, mostly open source, walking robot called Marty. The WiFi-controlled bipedal bot has a 180MHz Cortex-M4 MCU, and is primarily designed to teach kids about programming using Scratch. It can also be programmed with Python or C++, and you can upgrade it with a Linux-driven Raspberry Pi or other small SBC.
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Topic: CARS - on August 3, 2016 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Investment-Manager wettet auf Untergang von Tesla
Mark B. Spiegel nennt den Elektroautobauer ein "schreckliches Unternehmen" Der Investment-Manager Mark B. Spiegel hat in einem Interview mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung erneut gegen Tesla Stimmung gemacht. Spiegel ist für seine Skepsis gegenüber Tesla bekannt, er gilt als Elon Musks Börsen-Nemesis. Mit sogenannten Leerverkäufen wettet er an der Börse auf den Untergang des Unternehmens – er hat also ein finanzielles Interesse daran, Tesla schlecht zu reden. Interessant sind seine Gedanken dennoch. Spiegel bezeichnet Tesla-Chef Elon Musk als"Lügner" und attestiert Tesla ein Kakerlaken-Problem: Damit meint er, dass man, wenn man eine Kakerlake sieht, davon ausgehen kann, dass es viele weitere gibt.
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Topic: CARS - on August 2, 2016 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
Aristotle at the Gigafactory: Why Physics Is a Philosophy
On Friday, in Storey County, Nevada, a woman at Tesla’s Gigafactory inauguration hollered, “Beam me up, Elon!” Elon Musk, the electric car company’s chief executive officer, had just taken the stage along with J.B. Straubel, Tesla’s chief technical officer. “Okay, we’re working on that one,” Musk gamely replied before saying: “Alright—welcome everyone to the Gigafactory launch party! I hope you’re having a good time.”
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Topic: History - on August 2, 2016 at 3:41:00 PM CEST
The Alarming Aesthetics of Jazz Age Perm Machines
The perm may be the unofficial hairstyle of the '80s, but the perming process originated many decades earlier—and involved machines that resembled medieval torture devices rather than sleek salon appliances. “Science has pronounced straight hair to be freakish,” declared a haircare ad in a 1922 issue of Harper's Bazaar. “Just think of the great improvement a permanent wave makes in appearance. Close your eyes and imagine fairy fingers transforming your lank strands into lovely, lasting curls, as natural looking as if you were born with them.”
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Topic: CARS - on August 2, 2016 at 3:38:00 PM CEST
The Jeep Hackers Are Back to Prove Car Hacking Can Get Much Worse
Almost exactly a year ago, Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 million vehicles after a pair of hackers demonstrated to WIRED that they could remotely hijack a Jeep’s digital systems over the Internet. For Chrysler, the fix was embarrassing and costly. But now those two researchers have returned with work that asks Chrysler and the automotive industry to imagine an alternate reality, one where instead of reporting their research to the automaker so it could be fixed, they had kept working on it in secret—the way malicious hackers would have. In doing so, they’ve developed a new hack that offers a sobering lesson: It could have been—and still could be—much worse.
wired.com Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 2, 2016 at 3:37:00 PM CEST
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses
Seeing 3D movies in theaters isn’t my preferred choice for a bunch of reasons, but the glasses definitely rank among its most annoying features. The cheap plastic things always have to ride atop my existing, actual vision glasses, for one, and they also always seem to be scratched or otherwise marked up. Which is why news that MIT has developed a glasses-less 3D display tech suitable for use in movie theater settings – even if it’s only a prototype – is so welcome.
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