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OC4 Keynote - John Carmack, Oculus CTO - State of Mobile VR and More

2017-10-12

https://www.facebook.com/oculusvr/videos/vb.270208243080697/1189602884474557/?type=3&theater
Elon Musk Gives the Big Picture at Governors Meeting

2017-07-15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJ89vE-QfQ
The Future of Bitcoin - nChain (Craig Wright)

2017-06-30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo&t=8596
The Myth of a Superhuman AI

2017-04-25

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai/
WebVR Experiments

2017-04-12

https://www.webvrexperiments.com/
The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

2017-03-29

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/03/28162208/PI_2017.03.29_Social-Climate_FINAL.pdf
Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker

2017-03-21

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/russian-hacker-spy-botnet/
Hardcore History: The Destroyer of Worlds

2017-01-24

http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/
Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia

2017-01-24

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-uncovers-grim-correlation-violence-inequality-millennia/
The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

2017-01-19

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale
Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

2017-01-17

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/
DeepMind's work in 2016: a round-up

2017-01-03

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-round-up-2016/
Software Defined Emissions

2016-12-27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t4paclIwuU
Taking a Drone on Honeymoon - 400 Days Around the World

2016-11-03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Zq6Q2m-ig
Elon Musk: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

2016-09-27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

2015-07-21

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Signal From Pluto to Earth

2015-07-14

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/science/space/nasa-new-horizons-spacecraft-reaches-pluto.html
The Chernobyl Story

2015-02-27

http://imgur.com/a/TwY6q
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

2015-02-25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk
What was the first animal that evolved to have a brain or a brain-like structure?

2014-11-05

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-first-animal-that-evolved-to-have-a-brain-or-a-brain-like-structure
100,000 stars

2014-08-06

http://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
Bitcoin vs. Political Power: The Cryptocurrency Revolution

2014-04-25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joITmEr4SjY
Why the West Rules—For Now

2013-10-02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnqS7G3LmMo
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

2013-06-09

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA

2013-01-27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
Multi-Angle: Grasshopper 12-Story Test Flight

2012-12-17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PEXLODw9c
Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

2011-11-22

https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/11/electronic-contact-lens-displa.html
1 Million Robots To Replace 1 Million Human Jobs At Foxconn? First Robots Have Arrived.

2012-11-12

https://singularityhub.com/2012/11/12/1-million-robots-to-replace-1-million-human-jobs-at-foxconn-first-robots-have-arrived/
Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

2012-10-21

https://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

2012-08-17

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram
Digital pills make their way to market

2012-07-30

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/digital-pills-make-their-way-to-market.html
WTF flat ground tricks (1000 fps slow motion)

2012-05-22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHrn3-Cb3iM
First gene therapy successful against aging-associated decline: Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with a single treatment

2012-05-14

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120514204050.htm
Strange Organism Has Unique Roots in the Tree of Life

2012-04-29

http://www.livescience.com/19955-ancient-protist-kingdom.html
Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash

2012-04-28

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17866646
Planetary Resources Webcast

2012-04-24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0c9oZh4vTo
Google Art Project

2012-04-10

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/
Wipeout Nominees - Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2012

2012-04-09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2J1Sj3TRHQ
Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

2012-03-15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c
Russians resurrect 30,000-year-old frozen flower

2012-02-21

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/02/21/russians-resurrect-30000-year-old-frozen-flower.html
The Scale of the Universe 2

2012-02-10

http://www.htwins.net/scale2/
Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

2011-12-20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2JfigaNcs
Engineered Avian Flu Could Kill Half the World's Humans

2011-11-28

http://gizmodo.com/5863078/engineered-avian-flu-could-kill-half-the-worlds-humans
All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS

2011-10-06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g
Madeon - Pop Culture (Dance Video)

2011-08-30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPbgnO81sQ
Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

2011-06-22

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028181.700-evolution-machine-genetic-engineering-on-fast-forward/
Asteroid Discovery from 1980 - 2011

2011-06-21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUSP23cmAE
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

2011-06-18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNkLWV7jSw
ScienceCasts: Voyager

2011-04-28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFT68U4i-Xw
The most dangerous job in the world

2010-09-16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvCuc1_mgM&t=1m20s
The Egg - Andy Weir

2010-07-13

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Mysterious 'Dark Flow' May Be Tug of Other Universe

2010-03-18

http://www.seeker.com/mysterious-dark-flow-may-be-tug-of-other-universe-1765035964.html
On Influenza A (H1N1) - Comparison to Computer Viruses

2009-06-21

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

2008-04-26

http://web.archive.org/web/20080708220257/http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
Marc Johnson - Fully Flared

2007-11-16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNF9gWwUac
Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks - Duncan J. Watts & Steven H. Strogatz

1998-06-04

http://www.cecm.usp.br/~eris/pub/artigos/temp/smallworld-watts.pdf
Richard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture

1984-10-25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c
AT&T Archives: Viewtron Introduction, from the Viewdata Corporation

1983-01-01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6DVBPmo4Co
Flintstones Cigarette Commercial

1961-01-01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c

Interesting web pages, articles, and more

OC4 Keynote - John Carmack, Oculus CTO - State of Mobile VR and More

Elon Musk Gives the Big Picture at Governors Meeting

The Future of Bitcoin - nChain (Craig Wright)

The Myth of a Superhuman AI

WebVR Experiments

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker

Hardcore History: The Destroyer of Worlds

Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia

The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

DeepMind's work in 2016: a round-up

Software Defined Emissions

Taking a Drone on Honeymoon - 400 Days Around the World

Elon Musk: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Signal From Pluto to Earth

The Chernobyl Story

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

What was the first animal that evolved to have a brain or a brain-like structure?

100,000 stars

Bitcoin vs. Political Power: The Cryptocurrency Revolution

Why the West Rules—For Now

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA

Multi-Angle: Grasshopper 12-Story Test Flight

Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

1 Million Robots To Replace 1 Million Human Jobs At Foxconn? First Robots Have Arrived.

Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

Digital pills make their way to market

WTF flat ground tricks (1000 fps slow motion)

First gene therapy successful against aging-associated decline: Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with a single treatment

Strange Organism Has Unique Roots in the Tree of Life

Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash

Planetary Resources Webcast

Google Art Project

Wipeout Nominees - Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2012

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Russians resurrect 30,000-year-old frozen flower

The Scale of the Universe 2

Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

Engineered Avian Flu Could Kill Half the World's Humans

All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS

Madeon - Pop Culture (Dance Video)

Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

Asteroid Discovery from 1980 - 2011

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

ScienceCasts: Voyager

The most dangerous job in the world

The Egg - Andy Weir

Mysterious 'Dark Flow' May Be Tug of Other Universe

On Influenza A (H1N1) - Comparison to Computer Viruses

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Marc Johnson - Fully Flared

Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks - Duncan J. Watts & Steven H. Strogatz

Richard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture

AT&T Archives: Viewtron Introduction, from the Viewdata Corporation

Flintstones Cigarette Commercial