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“Know your Paradoxes, in the event of Rogue AI!”...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:01:05 +0800

“Know your Paradoxes, in the event of Rogue AI!” —> Aperture Poster

Future “Psycotix” gang...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0800

Future “Psycotix” gang member?

oldmanyellsatcloud:

special-k-art:

GET ON MY BLOG FOREVER

things to terrify my mother with

Fantastic work, chilling - and soon...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:00:50 +0800

Fantastic work, chilling - and soon reality.

someoneiswatchingyou:

Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behavior and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.

Special Thanks to surrogateself for submitting this.

error888: APR Characters | Cuded

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:59:14 +0800

error888:

APR Characters | Cuded

kuanggrademark11: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) True gold...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:29:39 +0800

kuanggrademark11:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011)

True gold nuggets of Deus Ex concept art - cyborg character studies.

velvetcyberpunk: New York City Graffiti Castle by Peter...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:32:31 +0800

velvetcyberpunk:

New York City Graffiti Castle by Peter Cigliano

Great cyberpunk interior - Mercury by...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:05 +0800

Great cyberpunk interior - Mercury by Eimer

via mayorofawesometown

hibiscustension: kian0538: INAISCE 12A/W I wish I lived in a...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:02:05 +0800

hibiscustension:

kian0538:

INAISCE 12A/W

I wish I lived in a cold country now!

The new Mega corps - State Owned companies (and they are not from the West)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:05 +0800

The new Mega corps - State Owned companies (and they are not from the West)

Could microbes grow the starship?

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:02:05 +0800

Could microbes grow the starship?:

We imagine making products “not found in nature”—but even natural microbes make molecules that organic chemists would never dream of. Look at thisantitumor agent discovered from a filamentous soil bacterium, the kind of bacteria that give soil that new smell in the springtime (Science 297:1170). Those sets of three parallel lines are each triple bonds, within a nine-carbon ring. Who would even think to draw such a thing, let alone make it? To make it, the bacteria use modular enzymes, nanoscale assembly lines that condense one functional part after another. The original nanotechnology.

Brochures from the companies that sell malware to governments -...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:06 +0800

Brochures from the companies that sell malware to governments - Boing Boing

The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn | Quiet Babylon

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:01:05 +0800

The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn | Quiet Babylon:

Brilliance from Quiet Babylon:

If unborn have rights, what about the indefinite number of future generations?
By going vegan, you’ll help reducing number of born animals..
Can you preserve animals in order to be able to hunt them?
Are vat grown people born or not?
What about failed fertilisations - how many unborn are killed?

Read on!

Subcultural weirdsomeness in New York - “flexing”...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:06 +0800

Subcultural weirdsomeness in New York - “flexing” (human contortionist breakdancing).

NextLevel Squad “Zilla March” New York Flexing | YAK FILMS & B’ZWAX MUSIC | Bonebreaking Gas Mask (by YAKfilms via BoingBoing)

Spare parts for humans: tissue engineers develop lab-grown lungs...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:02:05 +0800

Spare parts for humans: tissue engineers develop lab-grown lungs and limbs - Boing Boing

More makeups and hairstyles to confuse facial recognition...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:05 +0800

More makeups and hairstyles to confuse facial recognition algorithms

New round of future predicitions signed Charlie Stross

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:06 +0800

New round of future predicitions signed Charlie Stross:

Key highlights:

Lots of old people
Lots of environmental danger

Hacking is sometimes about old-school breaking in - illustrated by Tom Cruise

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:05 +0800

Hacking is sometimes about old-school breaking in - illustrated by Tom Cruise:

MI:4 has reminded me how effective the physical security attack really is. While today’s military grade firewall may be Fort Knox at keeping people out of the tubes, there’s really nothing that’s going to stop a hacker if they’re sitting right in front of the machine. Or if their increasingly disgruntled team leader is sitting in front of the machine with a pocket router after having scaled the sheer side of the tallest building in Dubai using only a suction cup and a fire hose. Or if the guy on the team who was never part of the plan that has to slide down an HVAC shaft into a subterranean server room that without the cooling system has become “an oven”, and by the way the walkie-talkies aren’t working and the bad guys just cut the satellite feed, is sitting right in front of the machine. Or if the plucky new female agent with a grudge and something to prove floats a balloon holding a wireless connection device over a wall to get into the signal area….

Well, I guess they can’t all be extreme, but it shows the excellent point that if your physical security strategy doesn’t cover the 50 feet underground and the 15,000 feet of air space above it, you’re doomed. (Don’t worry the plucky female agent gets extreme redemption when she completes one of our other favorite old-school physical hacks, the ‘beating someone with a $5 hammer [xkcd] until they tell you the password’ technique.)

Oh, and also everyone on the property should probably be assigned a dog because people are incredibly dumb

Quiz: Cop or Soldier? - Boing Boing

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:02:06 +0800

Quiz: Cop or Soldier? - Boing Boing:

I’ve put together a little quiz that may be of interest to Boing Boingers. The idea is to illustrate just how hard it can be distinguish police from military. Which is a problem, given that they have two very different jobs.

Crew of 170 people needed to keep Predator drone airborne for 24h

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:06 +0800

Crew of 170 people needed to keep Predator drone airborne for 24h:

The robot’s are going to have a hard time taking over the world anytime soon…

Polis: In Comuna 13 of Medellin, Colombia’s largest city, a...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:03:45 +0800

Polis:

In Comuna 13 of Medellin, Colombia’s largest city, a recently built 1,260-foot long escalator snakes across the hillside shantytown in six separate divisions. As part of the neighborhood’s larger urban regeneration project, this massive outdoor escalator cuts down the time to traverse Comuna 13, reportedly one of Medellin’s poorest and most violent neighborhoods, from 35 minutes to six minutes on foot.

Velocity applied to every traveller. Every pedestrian given escape-pod momentum and jettisoned clear of shantytown. In someone’s conception. I look at this and see a launchpad for all the feared criminals of Comuna 13 to speed up into all the nice places where the quality live. Saves having to nick a car.