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Your Computer Really is a Part of You
An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attention wasn't superficial. It seemingly extended to the very roots ...
Apple's Secret Plan to Control the Universe
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe. Much has been written anecdotally about the Apple app-approval process, with the words “arcane" and “Kafkaesque" coming up a lot. But the letter (and crimping spirit) of the agreement was a ...
Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “informational privacy." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down intrusive background checks last year on ...
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust
On March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq peaked at 5,048.62. Then it promptly nose-dived, never to see that level again. Here's a look back at the era that launched -- and crushed -- a million dreams. No ecommerce company has ever made a profit. Certainly we will, and the analysts have us making a profit in 2001. ...
New Zealand Capital Erects Film Sign
The New Zealand home base of Weta Digital, and a host of other NZ film companies, is set to officially become Wellywood, with a Hollywood-style sign to be erected on the hills of the Miramar Peninsula. The term has been used informally for some time but the new lettering -- mimicking the style of the Hollywood ...
Underwater Footage Key To 'Cove'
Much of the impact of “The Cove," which collected the documentary feature Oscar on Sunday night, comes from underwater footage that could not have been captured without help from Lucasfilm spinoff Kerner Optical. Kerner runs a hush-hush “skunk works" that solves high-tech problems for private industry, government contractors and the occasional three-letter agency. Since Kerner's expertise ...
Young Trumpet Phenom Christian Scott Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Since emerging a mere eight years ago as a member of New Orleans native Donald Harrison's group, trumpeter Christian Scott has gone on to become one of the most exciting young players and bandleaders on the North American scene. With three releases already under his belt, including 2008's hot Live at Newport, Scott returned earlier this ...
Enter the Blue Note "Lionel Loueke - Mwaliko" Giveaway Contest
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Blue Note Records “Lionel Loueke - Mwaliko“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on April 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Lionel Loueke at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
Four in Five Consider Web Access a Fundamental Right
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent of internet users believed ...
Japanese politicians pan Oscar winner "The Cove"
The Oscar win for documentary “The Cove" is not getting much applause in Taiji, the port city in western Japan where helmer Louie Psihoyos and his crew secretly filmed the annual dolphin slaughter. “This film has mistakes of fact," mayor Kazutaka Sangen told local press. “I'm surprised that it won the award even though its content ...
