Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak Spatial Operating Environment — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface made quite an impression:

His company, Oblong Industries, was founded to move g-speak into the real world. Oblong is building apps for aerospace, bioinformatics, video editing and more. Before founding [...]

Apparently the Exxon Valdez catastrophe did not go to well. In fact working at the beaches to clean up the mess turn out to be quit hazardous: The life expectancy of those workers dropped to 51 years.
Read more here.

In the case of Baker v. Exxon, an Anchorage jury awarded $287 million for [...]

The Canadian police has been caught in 2007 to use agent provocateurs in Montreal. This time they are using them in Toronto. The security measures did cost about 1.1 Billion $. And silly me thought we have a financial crisis where the budget is tight. Well not when the citizens can be oppressed.

All kinds [...]

Not really news, but I haven’t yet seen such a simple description.

The warmongerers are pushing forward again. Last week the WELT called for war and demanded Obama to strike on Iran. The article had to be taken down since it is incitement. However, the net never forgets and here it is.
In connection with the latest developments in Yemen and the security conference in Munich it [...]

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began [...]

As you all probably noticed there is a lot of fuzz but suspected terror activists in Yemen. The story told by the government and parroted by the media is again pretty much bogus. The “terror attack” (the guy tried to put his underpants on fire!) will again serve as a pretext to get militarily involved [...]

Morgan Currie was that kind to transcribe the opening talk from Bruce Sterling at the confernce “You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator” in Amsterdam last december.
read it here: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/21/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
He’ll  be also talking at the opening of the transmediale this february in Berlin. So don’t miss it!
theres also a video of the [...]

Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:

The Bundestag has prolonged the mission of german soldiers participating in bombing innocent people (for 20 killed so-called “terrorist leaders” 700 civilians casualties are counted) to help keeping up a corrupt government, which, of course, was not elected in a democratic fashion at all. Here you can read the full list of how everybody voted.
This [...]