#Welcome To the Future
Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems. ROBOTIC WAREHOUSES GET.
Fucking robots, man. All crossing our technological borders and stealing our jobs and shit. The latest band of thieves are them Kiva Systems robots, now that they’ve been acquired by Amazon.
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Economically Devastated Greece Has Turned To Internet-Powered Barter Economy. Awesome.
…Not the economically devastated part, mind you. What is awesome is the idea that people of Greece have turned to thinking outside of the (western) culture box and adopted an internet-powered bartering economy. Living in fiction, man. Someone’s dream. Or nightmare.
THE PIRATE BAY Wants To Use DRONES To Put Servers In Sky. Futurism ++
Pirate Bay, man. They’re all, you know. Pirating. Torrenting. Naturally, the Man wants to bring them down and they need to devise ways to stay ahead of them. Their latest method is science-fiction porno, that is also a fitting middle finger to the Powers That Be.
Net Neutrality’s Death Begins July 12. Download That Fetish Porn STAT
You better stockpile the porn and download the esoteric bands you may enjoy. Starting on July 12 a whole cadre of ISPs are going to begin monitoring user-usage in an attempt to ferret out those they suspect are pirating content. Which means…roughly 99% of my generation.
Video: GM And NASA Create Real Life POWER GLOVE. Wield Responsibly!
GM and NASA have teamed-up to create the real life Power Glove. A technology so fierce you’ll finally be able to beat the piss out of that Test Your Strength machine at the local burger joint.
Hit the jump for video and details.
Video: Self-Frothing Beer Mug Is Modern Day Polio Cure. Inappropriate Hyperbole.
It’s the afternoon here on the Eastern coast of the Empire. Work is drudging. We seek the chemical escape. Let us momentarily bask in the power of technology. A technology that gives us self-frothing beer mugs.
Hit the jump to watch it in action.
Microsoft Is Working On A Universal Translator. Foreign Language Teachers Shitting Themselves.
…Naw!, I’m just kidding. As products of the cultures they reflect, foreign languages will always have worth. Plus French is sexy. However, it would be goddamn glorious if I could have something to translate for me in a pinch. That’s why my boys Microsoft and their Science Daemons have my back.
USDA Buys 7 Million Pounds Of PINK GOOP BEEF For SCHOOLS
I have to say, we set our kids up to succeed these days. Cutting school budgets, mindless burecracy preventing the evolution of the educational system and now this: about as close to poisoning the little fuckers as you can get.
DOJ Asks Court To Keep Secret Any PARTNERSHIP Between GOOGLE And NSA. LOL @ Privacy
The Justice Department refuses to divulge whatever sort of agreement there may be between Google and the National Security Agency. Not that there is one, of course.
Yahoo Sues FACEBOOK For Patent Infringement. Good Luck With that!
Living in a post-legal world where it’s not about adhering to the law but rather being Titanic and Rich, this is a bit amusing. Yahoo has decided to sue the Leviathan. May the Gods smile upon you.
