Because I work remotely, my bag was shot 5,200 miles from my London home at a tradeshow, so a lot of my equipment didn’t make the journey. Like most of my colleagues, I own a stupid amount of tech. Unlike most of my colleagues, who make the effort to bring every single piece of technology they...
A story of phones, tablets, and a seriously expensive alarm clock
Following weeks of speculation, the bankrupt VFX house behind many of the effects in Oscar winner Life of Pi has reportedly been sold to an Indian buyer. The Los Angeles Times reports that Rhythm & Hues has been sold to a company affiliated with...
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You won't find Harry Beck's face on any coins or postage stamps, but his fingerprints are all over London. Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the early 1930s when he created a radical new map of the London Underground.
His linear, color-coded diagram was at first greeted with...
This June, an Oakland-based company called Digital Detox will hold a retreat designed to help tech-addled adults unplug, power down, and get back in touch with their offline selves. As the Guardian reports, the aptly-named Camp Grounded is just one of several wellbeing programs offered by Digital Detox, an organization that aims to help people "step back into the natural rhythm of life." For $305, Camp Grounded attendees can spend four gadget-free days playing games like truth or dare and engaging in "laughing contests." According to Digital Detox, relationships at Camp Grounded "are based on real-life connections, and the most important status we'll update is our happiness."
"the most important status we'll update is our happiness." Camp Grounded
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North Korea's unfinished Ryugyong Hotel has towered over the capital city of Pyongyang for over a quarter-century without opening, but late last year it looked like the 105-story pyramid's development hell was coming to an end. German hotel operator Kempinski swooped in and claimed it'd take the...
Now in its 10th and final year, the Game Design Challenge here at GDC is a competition that pits gaming's most innovative minds against each other to come up with a game based upon a particular theme or concept — and this year developer Jason...
At Harvard Law School's Sports Law Symposium today, HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said that live sports would be on HBO Go by the end of this year, bringing real-time sports to HBO subscribers' phones, tablets, PCs, and set-top boxes for the first time.
The most likely...
