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Submission + - Federal Trade Commission Slaps Twitter's Wrists ov (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by CoveredTrax
CoveredTrax writes: The FTC got mighty ticked at Twitter for not having sufficient security protocols. The action was in response to users getting angry about having their private Tweets broadcast, and about getting phony Tweets from people like Barack Obama. As the FTC explains:

Submission + - Daft Punk's costume designer makes tech clothes (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Janet Hansen began her professional career as a bio-engineer, then spent time in the aerospace industry, but now makes LED clothing for some of the world's biggest stage acts, including Daft Punk, Kanye West, and M.I.A. It's kind of like if Liberace was really into Tron.
Games

Submission + - Sid Meier and the 48-hour game (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Sid Meier is possibly the most influential game designer ever, having developed the Civilization series, among others. This short documentary looks at his past while he travels to the University of Michigan for the 48-hour game design competition, which was hosted by his son.
NASA

Submission + - Permanent Undersea Colonies are Coming [Video] (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Dennis Chamberland is one of the world's preeminent aquanauts. He's worked with NASA to develop living habitats and underwater plant growth labs, among other cool things. His next goal is establishing the world's first permanent underwater colony. This video gets to the heart of his project, literally and figuratively, as most is shot in his underwater habitat, Atlantica, off the coast of Key Largo, FL. The coolest part might be the moon pool, the room you swim into underwater.

Submission + - Dr. NakaMats is the World's Most Prolific Inventor (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: It should come as little surprise that Japan, home to the world’s most advanced and strangest inventions, would give rise to an inventor like Yoshiro Nakamatsu. But the quirky, fun-loving 81-year-old scientist seems ripped from another dimension altogether. Dr. NakaMats, as he’s known, is a kind of mash-up of Thomas Edison and Willy Wonka – on steroids.

Comment How? (Score 1) 1

by MMBK (#30853532) Attached to: After Emoticons, An XML For Emotions?
There are a million different levels of "how?" that my brain cannot wrap around on this one. I guess crazier things have been done, but a markup language for emotions? Really?
The Internet

Submission + - After Emoticons, An XML For Emotions? 1

Submitted by tedlistens
tedlistens writes: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is edging us closer to an Emotion Markup Language, or EmotionML, which could help us communicate emotions online far better than emoticons. But there are reasons to, well, feel confused (categoryset="everydayEmotions" name="confusion"/). The W3C's working draft on EML notes a number of challenges, among them that "even scientists cannot agree on the number of relevant emotions, or on the names that should be given to them." The document is also punctuated by highlighted red boxes of text noting outstanding questions like "Does it make sense to state the intensity of an emotion but not its nature?" or "What do the default values of 'start' and 'end' mean for resources that do not have a notion of time?" It certainly sounds like more than just the scientists may have to be called in.
Mars

Submission + - NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars 1

Submitted by tedlistens
tedlistens writes: NASA is asking the public to suggest subjects for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, its super powerful camera currently orbiting Mars. Since it arrived there in 2006, the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen more success than that lost lander, recording nearly 13,000 observations of Martian terrain, with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as a desk. By letting the public in on the Martian photo shoot, scientists aren't just getting more people excited about space exploration. They're hoping that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera’s already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged.
Idle

Submission + - 20-ft Mecha Robot Exoskeleton with Flamethrowers (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Mention Wasilla, Alaska, and presidential also-ran Sarah Palin leaps to mind like a caribou. But the southern Alaskan town’s more animated, engaging, and intelligent invention is easily a 20-foot-tall robotic mecha robot with flamethrowers for hands.
Games

Submission + - Ralph Baer: Father of Video Games (Vid. Interview) (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: Back in the late 60s, German-born gadgeteer Ralph Baer began inventing what later became known as video games. Over the ensuing decades he would develop Pong, the rifle you could point at the screen that was the precursor to the Duck Hunt shotgun, and the germ of countless other important concepts that the gaming industry is founded on. Simon Says, too! He invented that. He was also one of the first people to dip a toe in the murky waters now known as television commerce, but of course nobody with any money in the early 70s had much interest in latching onto the idea that people would one day impulse shop for crappy wares on their televisions. So Baer instead recast the idea, developing a small wooden video game console that attached to a TV and could bring untold hours of lo-fidelity entertainment to rich kids in the suburbs.
Politics

Submission + - Transborder Immigrant Tool Helps Mexicans Enter th (viceland.com)

Submitted by MMBK
MMBK writes: "By augmenting a low-cost Motorola phone with GPS and a battery of applications, Dominguez’s goal is to help illegal immigrants complete safe border crossings without being sent back by the Border Patrol or getting shot in the face by American 'patriots.'"

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