http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346078/-A-lie-in-the-Darren-Wilson-defense-in-the-shooting-death-of-Mike-Brown-that-just-won-t-go-away# interesting use of google maps http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/ferguson-police-spending-thousands-riot-gear-protests coverage of this report: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amnesty-international-releases-new-ferguson-report-documenting-human-rights-abuses only covers the amount spent through the end of october not ferguson: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/google-search-judge-free-speech 3h Gothamist 200+ Free Wi-Fi Will Be Weaker In Poorer Neighborhoods The city’s plan to convert ratty, disused pay phones into convenient Wi-fi hotspots was a noble endeavor—the right to peruse […]

Engadget 2K Taking apart Google’s modular smartphone What do you want to know about Project Ara? Does a modular smartphone actually work? Yes. Is it very different from Android phones? In a basic how-a-phone-all-works, yes indeed. Paul Eremenko, Technical Project Lead on Google’s modular phone project… 2d Engadget 1K 60 seconds with Hemingwrite, an E […]

Find out about Cryptoparties in NYC here at https://www.cryptoparty.in/nyc Upcoming Events  Location: Babycastles, 137 West 14th St, Manhattan http://babycastles.com Time: 7:30 PM to when we kick you out because we want to go home Date: Thursday 6 November 2014 More: https://www.facebook.com/events/853973861321837 Topics Encrypted email and chat key signing What to bring? Your laptop and/or mobile […]

National Network to End Domestic Violence NNEDV’s Safety Net: National Safe & Strategic Technology Project creates resources to help victims and agencies respond effectively to the many ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking, including: http://nnedv.org/resources/safetynetdocs  This is a play that just ended in London about lolsec – […]

Flavorwire 29 ‘Simpsons World’ To Launch Tomorrow With On-Demand Access to Every Episode of ‘The Simpsons’ Just when the effects of FXX’s “Every. Simpsons. Ever.” marathon were beginning to wear off, just when you were finally… Read More 4h MakeUseOf.com 8 The Doom Of The Double Irish, And How It Affects You Technology companies currently […]

Rose has a new phone! Painting, the intersection of painting and technology Hong Kong – is still going on 3d Engadget 500+ London Zoo’s otters now livestreaming to YouTube using leftover TV signals Like most residents of The Smoke, you probably don’t visit tourist attractions like London Zoo unless out-of-towners (or your sprogs) require entertaining. […]

Saturday was the first day in 50 years that there were no Saturday morning Cartoons on broadcast channels.   Engadget Say Ello to the anti-Facebook Ello seems to have come out of nowhere. The creators are designers and artists. Its CEO, Paul Budnitz, makes toys. There’s no big marketing push and no obvious ties to […]

Today on the show: Taylor Beck author of – Can Dating Apps Solve Japan’s Sex Crisis?  Japan has a sex problem, and digital dating could help fix it. So why are single people there so reluctant to dive in? & Yoko Inagi acted as a researcher for Beck’s article and also aided with translation.  She […]

whcrebt.org and the upcoming Harlem Ready – harlemready.org & DDPNY.org at the top of the hour we talk to Doug about the ddpny node going up at Harlem hospital, where the upcoming HarlemReady! event is being held.  It is on Wednesday! This Friday is a harlem crypto party – https://www.cryptoparty.in/nyc & Martin interviews Stacey FergusonCo-Founder […]

When Lena started the show she talked about www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/we-are-all-classists Awesome Babycastles next WordHack event is coming up on Thursday, September 25th and I’m really excited to be able to share Haeyoung Kim’s audience-participatory, communal composition wonderworld “Moori” and Hannah Davis’s work turning novels into music, as well as great things from Lee Tusman and Gabriel […]