Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. | | | | | Michael Douglas as 'Nicholas Van Orton' in "The Game" (1997) (PolyGram Filmed Entertainment) | | | | |  | “Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm slowly becoming more and more interested in FACEBOOK LIVE. A few mornings a week I roll over in bed, pause HOWARD STERN on my SONOS, and pick up my phone to launch Facebook. Then I "tune into" CHEDDAR, a sort of CNBC for millennials run by my friend JON STEINBERG. He talks fast (and maybe more than me) and it wakes me up. Like a human espresso. One morning as I started streaming he looked at the camera and gave me a shoutout. Which freaked me out for a second. I was barely lucid and it conjured memories of MICHAEL DOUGLAS' television in THE GAME. Jon could see which of his friends were watching. I found it quite cool and started thinking about a future where talent are personally "talking to us" through a mixture of computer generated imagery that looks like the real thing paired with artificial intelligence. It's the evolution of talking to the camera POV we see now and kids respond to on YOUTUBE. It's one of my theories on why younger audiences loved THE MARTIAN so much. MATT DAMON talks directly into the camera through a computer for half the film. Right now everyone can broadcast. In the future every broadcast can be personalized just to us. Not only the programming, but the talent. Just a thought. Check out our MEDIA ORIGINAL on The Death and Resurrection of Live & Communal Entertainment... I have switching cost fear. No matter what kind of service provider. Is the grass greener or the same from the other side?... As we speed toward the age of self-driving cars, the fatal TESLA crash gives us pause to rethink how we'll get there. In our new TechSET, we take a look at Tesla and the Future of Autopilot... Friends doing well: TROY CARTER and JAMES ANDREWS... FashionREDEF's curator ADAM WRAY has a new obsession... For my friends who suffer from migraines... SPIELBERG moments... Happy Birthday to PATTI KIM, DAVID LEE, MIKE SLADE, JEFFREY KAUFMAN, MARC JURIS, JON STAENBERG, JEMIMA KISS and BRETT LEVE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Katie Couric on Yahoo! News |
| Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric talks to Politico’s Chief White House correspondent and Playbook author Mike Allen about the 2016 election and his surprising decision to leave the publication to start his own online venture with Politico CEO Jim VandeHei. | | |
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 | Jezebel |
| In a furious, well-stated argument about the blue code of silence, Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg went completely off on an officer who called into today's Ebro In The Morning radio show to talk about the death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man shot and killed by police in Louisiana. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| Britain and the United States rely on elite, private academies to mold their future leaders. Instead of cultivating statesmen, they’re producing brutish, entitled, insecure bullies. | | |
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 | Nature |
| Inventive graphic design and abstract models are helping researchers to make sense of a glut of data. | | |
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 | Oculus Story Studio |
| One of the biggest challenges we've faced at Story Studio is how to design seamless experiences in positionally tracked VR. Positional tracking is one of the core, and most important, features of Rift. It's the system by which your physical movements in the real world are mapped to your avatar's movements in virtual reality. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| Founded in an era of segregation, the New Amsterdam Musical Association is one of New York's most fascinating-and unknown-cultural landmarks. | | |
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 | Joi Ito |
| In 2015, I wrote a blog post about how I thought that Bitcoin was similar in many ways to the Internet. The metaphor that I used was that Bitcoin was like email - the first killer app - and that the Bitcoin Blockchain was like The Internet - the infrastructure that was deployed to support it but that could be used for so many other things. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. Confined to a wheelchair and unable to care for himself, Tony had been told he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder. It turned out Tony actually had Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, a rare but treatable neuromuscular disorder. | | |
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 | PSFK |
| Kellogg’s New York is just the latest evolution of cereal’s shifting role in western culture. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| The real history of Silicon Valley's infamous nerd fight club is far stranger than you might think. From keyboard fights to knives, this is the story of their evolution. | | |
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 | Pando |
| We've posted a few clips of our PandoLand interview with Max Levchin-- a crowd favorite-- but here's the entire thing. We got into a lot: What he loved about immigrating to the mid-west instead of a coast, his views on his close friend and former co-founder Peter Thiel serving as a delegate for Donald Trump, why he jumped back into the financial services world with Affirm, and how his political views have changed as he's aged and become a father. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Messi and his father won't serve jail time despite being found guilty of tax fraud by a Spanish court. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| Google’s machine learning division plans to help doctors spot the early signs of visual degeneration by sifting through a million eye scans. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| "You are an active endorser of what is tantamount to harassment and abuse of actresses and women," the 'Charmed' actress and social activist writes of critic Owen Gleiberman's attack on the 'Bridget Jones's Baby' actress' looks, adding, "It also reeks of status quo white-male privilege." | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Can we endure even one more communications service? | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Farmers are adopting smart-sensor technologies and connected farm equipment more quickly than ever, stretching each season to eke out greater yield from finite acreage. This rise in so-called precision agriculture has precipitated a massive influx in unstructured "bushels to bytes" farm data, creating new opportunities for an industry that has previously operated solely in the physical realm. | | |
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 | The Evening Standard |
| As he jets into London to co-host tomorrow night’s Serpentine party, the man who dresses America’s darlings talks all things fashion | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Is ours the most exhausting age ever? Many sociologists, psychologists and cultural critics argue that the rapid spread of exhaustion syndromes such as depression, stress and burnout are consequences of modernity and its challenges. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Television’s obsession with the tiny house “revolution” is lighting up conversations about class, race, and even the politics of housing regulation. | | |
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 | 500ish Words |
| 20th Century Advertising in the 21st Century | | |
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 | Austin City Limits |
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