Frank* hebt seine Fäuste vors Gesicht. Frank ist bei der Identitären Bewegung. Er sagt: „Einmal die Woche treffen wir uns zum Kampfsporttraining. Zwei unserer Mitglieder sind darin ausgebildet. Da lernt man, wie man sich gegen einen Frontalschlag wehren kann.“ Frank schlägt mit der Faust in die Luft…

In the first episode of our series Under the Influence, we go from the streets of the Lower East Side all the way to South Korea to examine one of the most distinctive genres to sprout from the concrete of New York City: hardcore. Along the way, we’ll meet with everyone from tattoo shop owners to…

Eine Reise durch das Schweizer Asylsystem Als sich Mostafa aus seinem Versteck hervorzwängt und aus dem Zug steigt, ist Zürich wie leer gefegt. Es ist morgens um vier. Ein kalter Oktoberwind bläst dur

For more than a generation now, cochlear implants have, for some, been transforming the experience of deafness. In this week’s Op-Doc, “Between Sound and Silence,” director Irene Taylor Brodsky delves into conversation with a cohort of people living that transformation. Herself the child of deaf…

The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2018 brings together thousands of professionals in the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques. The conference takes…

Lens From the series “Every CCTV Camera.” London.Credit...James Bridle By Aug. 13, 2018 Security guards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London didn’t like the look of James Bridle. As he walked around the hotel’s exterior photographing its security cameras, Mr. Bridle — an artist and writer —…

Shout out to Skippa the robot for her help on this one. MUSIC- 0:11- Cereal Killa- Blue Wednesday - https://soundcloud.com/bluewednesday/ 0:35- Pokemon in NYC- Andrew Applepie- http://andrewapplepie.com/ 1:14- Danijel Zambo- Moutain King- https://soundcloud.com/danijel-zambo 2:54- Faidherbe Square-…

How simple reinforcement is used to prevent collapse of rock tunnels. Tunnels play an important role in our constructed environment as passageways for mines, conveyance for utilities, and routes for transportation. Rock bolts are a type of reinforcement for stabilizing rock excavations, usually made…

JPEG is an image encoding designed to compress photographs and similar images effectively, often 5 to 15 times over a raw bitmap format. It's a lossy format that exploits properties of human vision to eliminate information that is difficult to distinguish. You see JPEGs all the time, and if you've…

Ein Mensch begeht einen Fehler, ein Unfall geschieht. Ein Mann stirbt, drei andere sind schwer verletzt. Ihre Schicksale bündeln sich in dieser Sekunde, die alles verändert. Was macht das mit denen, die übrig bleiben? Das Leben ist schön. Das ist es für Heike Braasch eigentlich immer gewesen. Der 3.…

Inside the South London offices of Doppel, a wearable technology start-up, sandwiched into a single room on a floor between a Swedish coffee shop and a wig-making studio, CEO and quantum physicist Fotini Markopoulou is debating the best way to describe an off-switch. Nautilus Members enjoy an…

We built a little robot called "There's Waldo" to test the capabilities of Google's new AutoML Vision service. We've found that technologies can be unapproachable, and irrelevant by extension, to many people—so we learn ahead of the curve, and show our work in fun ways, to demonstrate what's…

At this point, there's nothing novel about noticing that social media is often toxic and stressful. But even aside from those concerns, our social networks are not things we generally think of as requiring maintenance or upkeep, even though we routinely do regular updates on all the other aspects of…

Dies ist die gekürzte Fassung des Originalbeitrags, der auf mspr0.de erschienen ist und der mit detaillierteren Beispielen arbeitet. Viele weitere mehr oder weniger kritische Geburtstagsreden sind direkt auf Fefes Blog erschienen, unter anderem von Markus Beckedahl, Julia Seeliger, taz-Mitarbeiter…

Pixel Qi is a company that started right at the cusp of the e-reader revolution. It was started in 2008, one year after the original Kindle was released. The Notion Ink Adam was the first tablet to employ the technology in 2011 and four other tablet companies issued their own products. Pixel Qi has…

W ir drohen uns beinahe schon daran zu gewöhnen, an diese rechte Rhetorik, die vor allem in der Wiederholung besteht und Wiederholung der Wiederholung und der Wiederholung der Variation und der Maskierung der Wiederholung der Variation der immer gleichen Begriffe und Bilder besteht: Brabbelbrabbel…

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten to…

I recently stumbled across a file format known as Intel HEX. As far as I can gather, Intel HEX files (which use the .hex extension) are meant to make binary images less opaque by encoding them as lines of hexadecimal digits. Apparently they are used by people who program microcontrollers or need to…

Stepping onto an escalator is an act of faith. From time to time you see people poised at the top, advised by instinct not to launch themselves onto the river of treads. Riding the moving stairs is an adventure for the toddling young and a challenge to the tottering old. Natural hesitancy puts a…

Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time Miss Rosen Teenage kicks — Photographers GODLIS and Angela Boatwright may have captured two distinct scenes - 1970s New York and contemporary Los Angeles - but in-between these images, made then and now, lies a single connecting thread. Teenage…

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of "Orange" Yeah, But Can You Rhyme Something With It? VIA Yale University Press David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing July 27, 2018 The human eye can distinguish millions of shades of color, subtly discriminating small differences of energy along the…

Beyond the age of 5, very few people would profess to have a favourite letter. But if you have ever been to a statistics or data science conference, you may have seen more than a few grown adults wearing badges or stickers with the phrase “I love R!”. To these proud badge-wearers, R is much more…

Gwyneth Paltrow.Credit...Amanda Demme for The New York Times Feature Inside the growth of the most controversial brand in the wellness industry. Gwyneth Paltrow.Credit...Amanda Demme for The New York Times By July 25, 2018 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 On a Monday morning in November, students at Harvard Business…

Auf seinem Rücken trägt er einen prallen, vollgepackten Rucksack. Darin ist alles, was er vermutlich brauchen wird, jetzt, da er nicht mehr zu Hause leben darf. Zahnbürste, Unterhosen, Hemden, ein Parfüm: Route 66. Die Flasche hatte ihm seine Mutter gebracht. Wann er wieder zu ihr zurückkann?…

The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity. Whereas much of the contemporary world sees technological progress as inevitable, even a moral imperative, the Amish ideal lives in the past, circa 1850. It’s not that the Amish view technology as inherently evil. No rules prohibit them from using new…

Shuichi was 30 years old and working as a systems engineer at a tech company in Tokyo when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that triggers growths in the body’s major organs.

FUTURE HUMAN The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind Douglas Rushkoff 9 min read· Jul 5, 2018 -- (This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.) Press enter or click to view image in full size Illustrations: Matt Huynh Last year, I…

Randi strolls around the dining hall on the first day of camp wearing a worn leather holster on his belt, but no gun. Instead, he’s packing an STP (“stand to pee”) device that, in case it isn’t obvious, helps men without penises urinate while standing up. It’s made of deep-blue plastic, and its butt…

A woman gets on a plane. She’s flying from New York to Dallas, where she lives and works as a personal trainer. A couple asks her if she’ll switch seats with one of them so that they can sit together, and she agrees, thinking it’s her good deed for the day. She chats with her new seatmate and they…

In den USA macht die Strenge des Gesetzes nicht halt vor den Jüngsten und Vinny musste mit 13 in den Knast. Sein Schicksal und das seiner Familie zeichnet ein intimes Porträt von Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft. Benommen stolpert er aus der Tür, hört irgendwen brüllen: Police Department!, lässt…

TM Audio subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories, bonus podcast episodes, and much more. Already a subscriber? . It was a Sunday afternoon, August 7, 2016, the temperature a pleasant 78 degrees, as ten-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of…

Mein Plan war: So mache ich mir die Stadt erträglicher. Das Ergebnis ist: Sie wurde mir immer unerträglicher. In der Stadt biege ich mit dem Auto ab, mache einen Schulterblick, Fahrradfahrer kommt, ich halte an, Blickkontakt. Er schlägt mir trotzdem auf die Motorhaube, zeigt den Mittelfinger, ruft…

Over 1 million Webmentions will have been sent across the internet since the specification was made a full Recommendation by the W3C—the standards body that guides the direction of the web—in early January 2017. That number is rising rapidly, and in the last few weeks I’ve seen a growing volume of…

I took a tip from Dexter from the City of Detroit Office of Innovation, and started on the Detroit Mapping Challenge by browsing City of Detroit Open Data. What open data could help make OpenStreetMap Detroit the best map in the world? BikeShare locations looked like a useful and straightforward…

Berat geht nach Auschwitz wie ein Cowboy. Breitbeinig, die Oberarme ausgestellt, als wären sie etwas dicker, als sie es tatsächlich sind. Heute Morgen hat sich Berat im Hostel, wo es nach Moschus und getragenen Adiletten riecht, seine kurze Hose vom Vortag angezogen, ein weißes T-Shirt und die Nikes…

Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion, the same company that also purchased two other trendy games, Minecraft (2014) and GitHub…