Posts in June 13, 2014

Visitors to the National Radio Show at Earls Court in 1961 got a peek at the future of TV. Far from the enormous boxes that might sit on your living room floor, this TV was sleek and stylish — a preview of the TV modernist ideal that was slow to actually arrive.

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Netflix has been loudly agitating over the last few months about deals it says ISPs like Comcast and Verizon have forced it into for adequate service, and now the FCC is looking into them. While there's no action yet, FCC Commisioner Tom Wheeler has... -- For more information read the original article here.

Online video is going to be massive, according to Cisco's report (PDF) on consumer internet traffic. By 2018, over 75% of all traffic is going to be video based. Chart via Statista.

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Artist Adam Lister has taken iconic pieces of art history and remixed them into 8-bit watercolors.

The result is a stunning collection that brings to mind the art style and nostalgia of old 8-bit video games.

"These pictures are like puzzles, carefully taken apart and then pieced back together to reveal the subject," List said to Business Insider. "These works were inspired by my love for geometric abstraction, the history of visual art, and old school digital graphics."

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You can find this piece in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

"The Starry Night," Vincent van Gogh

In 1501, Michelangelo was commissioned to sculpt this statue out of a 19-foot block of marble.

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Netflix is getting a lot stingier with the way that third-party developers can use its content, announcing that it will stop supporting its public API by the end of the year. In a letter to API partners, Netflix VP of Edge Engineering Daniel Jacobson announced that it would retire the public API program effective November 14. Read More -- For more information read the original article here.

He's fresh to game development, but David O'Reilly has already created a game you likely know very well: the game in Spike Jonze's excellent film, "Her." While that "game" was, ya know, in a film and not a real game, he's just about to release his... -- For more information read the original article here.

Earlier today, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined his agency's plans to address cybersecurity to the American Enterprise Institute. Wheeler's approach would see the private sector, not the FCC, take the leading role in addressing new cyber security threats, leaving his agency to monitor and guide, stepping in only if a market-based approach fails to adequately protect… Read More -- For more information read the original article here.

Local and state law enforcement in 15 states use fake cell towers, also known as "stingrays," according to a map released by the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday. Stingrays are used to track the location of targeted phones, and can also intercept phone calls and text messages.

According to the ACLU, when these devices are used to track a suspect, stingrays inadvertently track the information of bystanders' phones. Stingrays can also send electronic signals into private residences, learning data about the owners and locations of phones within the buildings, which worries privacy advocates.

Besides the 15 states named in the ACLU's report, the ACLU also listed 12 U.S. government agencies that use stingrays, including the National Security Agency and the U.S. Army.

The ACLU's new map comes just two days after an activist filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, demanding to know how the city uses its own stingray devices.

SEE ALSO: Google can't protect our privacy — why we need new laws

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