CES 2014 Is Turning Into A Funeral For 3D

Journalists take photos of a Panasonic television with Panasonic “Life Screen” technology during the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6, 2014. Steve Marcus / Reuters In the span of three years, Vizio has become the most important company in television. And this year,...

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What Video Games Would Look Like Without Outsourcing

John Gara/BuzzFeed Last month, Michael Thomsen, writing for The New Yorker, sketched the rise of a ubiquitous but little-discussed practice in the world of video games: outsourcing. Video-game makers were beginning to deal with the complexity and cost of their operations by relying on outsourcing—by using both temporary...

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I Nuked My Twitter Feed And You Should Too

1:00pm 5:00pm Yesterday I did what for me qualifies as the unthinkable: I nuked my Twitter feed. For the better part of five years, Twitter has been the dominant internet service in my life. It’s easily the most used app on my phone and probably responsible for 75%...

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21 Google Book Scans That Bring Surprising Intimacy To The Digital Book World

theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com Throughout The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1911). Digitized April 7, 2005. 2. Even the images, simply titled “Employee’s Hand” look like eery pieces of pop art. theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners, in England and Ireland by Josiah Woodward (1701). Digitized...

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What Happens When A Finance Company Makes A Video Game

Ansarada is a finance company that makes so-called “virtual data room” software—a web client that allows the partners in a merger or acquisition to disclose confidential information as part of the due diligence process. I know, I’m bored too. Next week, however, Ansarada launches M&ADE, which they are...

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