Kimberly Haddad
We Are Not Vigilantes: A Chat With the Founder of Zavilia, a Crowdsource Tool For ID'ing Rioters Through Photos
Social media isn't just great for starting "social unrest,” it's proving to be quite helpful for quashing it too. Not long after the bricks began to fly in London’s latest kerfuffle, locals angry over raging mobs scrambled to assist the police in their...
Turns Out People Prefer Their Story Spoiled
E.T. goes home, Jack dies, the friends with benefits idea obviously fails and they fall in love, Kevin Spacey is murdered by Brad Pitt for putting Brad Pitt’s dead wife’s decapitated head inside of a box, they save Private Ryan, Tom Hanks gets off the...
Faceless Threats Send London's DIY Crime-Fighting Facial Recognition Experiment Offline
British police aren’t alone in their massive effort to dig through hours of CCTV footage and photographs to identify the rowdy crowds "wrecking havoc":http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/09/the-great-kerfuffle-2011/ in London and Manchester: they...
Hardcore Hardware: An Interview with Kal Cobalt, Robot Fetishist
Just to be clear, robot fetishism, also known as “ASFR” or alt.sex.fetish.robots, is an unspoken sexual fetish involving an allure to humanoid robots what foot fetishism is to feet.
Dolphins Can See Electricity
The Guiana dolphin possesses the astounding ability to orgasm while spurting out a generous 50 to 100 mL dose of semen in just a bat of an eye, and of course they've got echolocation. But in addition to those traits, researchers have now discovered one...
Operation Calorie Drop: the UN's Weapons Against East African Hunger are Power Bars and "Nutella"
To bring food to the ten million people starving in eastern Africa, the UN World Food Program is airlifting and driving a dependable weapon in the world's war on the worst famine in ages: five tons of energy bars and knock-off Nutella. The High...