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June 18, 2015
Today in Tabs: An Immense Pile Of Filth
It sure sounds like @Pontifex has been reading Tabs, doesn't it?
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.
YouTube Will Now Curate Eyewitness Videos
YouTube and Storyful debut the YouTube Newswire, a daily feed of the video-sharing platform's most au courant eyewitness accounts.
With the increasingly popularity of Periscope and Snapchat , YouTube is no longer the platform of choice for real-time, firsthand accounts of big news events. It seems like the video-sharing hub is well aware of this, judging by its latest initiative: the YouTube Newswire, a daily feed of the website's most newsworthy first-person accounts.
Why This Ex-White House Tech Honcho Is Now Working On Human Rights
For Nicole Wong, the White House's ex-deputy CTO and Google's former counsel, human rights video work is the next challenge.
When musician Peter Gabriel formed the nonprofit organization Witness in 1992 to help activists use video for human rights work, the world was a much different place. The Internet was still largely restricted to computer labs, camcorders were still a middle-class status symbol, and YouTube wasn't even a blip on the horizon. Now, of course, the world is much different. Witness grew over the years, became a much larger organization than the one Gabriel first launched, and is finding themselves dealing with a newer challenge: how to verify the flood of video content uploaded to the Internet.
Finally, A Woman's Face Will Be Featured On The $10 Bill
Designers take note: the Department of Treasury will be soliciting suggestions for how the new bill should look and who should be on it.
The U.S. Department of Treasury has announced that a woman will appear on the redesigned $10 bill, which will be unveiled in 2020. Who that woman will be and what the bill will look like remain to be decided, but the Treasury Department is opening it up to the public for suggestions. Designers, take note!
Marvel Expands Exclusive Digital Comics Agreement With Amazon
Amazon's domination of digital comics distribution continues with Marvel's new deal to sell single issues through Kindle.
Last April, Amazon took steps to own the comic book industry's digital transition by purchasing comiXology, the leading platform for buying and reading digital comics. Today the company has gone a step further, at least where one of the two largest U.S. publishers is concerned: More than 12,000 of Marvel's single-issue digital comics will now be available in the Amazon Kindle Store and on the Kindle platform worldwide.
Attention Cosmetic Surgery Junkies: It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print A Model Of Your New Face
A new company, MirrorMe3D, prints out 3-D replicas of people's faces so they can see what they'll look like after surgery.
These days it's not unusual for a cosmetic surgeon to use 3-D imaging software to show patients what they'll look like after undergoing surgery. In the market for a new nose? Your doctor can take a 3-D scan of your face, throw it up on a screen, and let you virtually try on noses until you find the perfect fit.
Derek Jeter's Foundation Takes A Stand Against Cyberbullying
Sharlee Jeter, the famed shortstop's sister, is using the family's youth leadership program to help stop online bullying.
When Sharlee Jeter and her brother, former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, were growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, bullying happened, but she says that may have meant being embarrassed in front of a room full of people. With smartphones and social media, when kids are humiliated or harassed today, it may be in a public online platform where the whole world can see. According to 2014 research by the iSafe Foundation, at least 52% of teens have been bullied online, and 35% of children have been threatened while surfing the web.
June 17, 2015
See How One Dad Is Making The Best Of His Daughter's Need for An Eyepatch
This is how you win at parenting.
Four-year-old Layla was born with a minor cataract. In order to avoid surgery or a lazy eye, she has to wear an eyepatch for at least two hours a day, which sounds like a complete bummer—unless your dad is Geof Grubb.
Electronic Dance Music Is Hot, And Here's the Data To Prove It
Hundreds of thousands will flock to the Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend. They stream a ton of dance music, but don't buy so much.
When electronic dance music heavyweights like Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Bassnectar, Afrojack, and dozens of others take the stage this weekend in Las Vegas in front of hundreds of thousands of ravers at the Electric Daisy Carnival, it'll be the physical manifestation of a music genre that has driven more than 11.2 billion streams since this time last year.
Amazon To Congress: Drone Delivery Aircraft Ready Within A Year
Amazon and the FAA say product deliveries via drones could begin much sooner than anyone ever expected.
Senior officials from Amazon and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) testified before Congress yesterday on the feasibility of using drones for commercial purposes—and it turns out Amazon could be making drone deliveries within the year. Not only that, but the e-commerce company wants to deliver products within 30 minutes using the small, unmanned aircraft.
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