Svippy writes “As we discussed earlier, 20th Century Fox Television was attempting to recast Futurama. As it turns out, this was just part of a big negotiation ploy, and the original cast have now… Original Futurama Cast Seals Deal With Fox
Shared by V Apple is doing a lot of things right in the notebook space. It’s bizarre that the mac and the iphone share the same platform. They’re both fantastic to use, but only one is generating… Daring Fireball: Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline
Shared by V Wouldn’t it be great if hearings resulted in anything useful? My, how the tables have turned. Earlier this week, we learned that Apple had suddenly begun to pull third party iPhone… FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection
Frank Rich: Moving as it may be to repeatedly watch Cronkite’s famous on-camera reactions to J.F.K.’s death and the astronauts’ moon landing, those replays aren’t the story. It’s a given that an… Frank Rich on Walter Cronkite
35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to… Meet the Real Life Invisible Man
And the beat goes on…. Here’s the latest example of the Obama White House mimicking its predecessor’s reflexive preference for secrecy over openness: the administration has turned down a request… Yet More Obama Secrecy: Won't Release Info On Visits From Health-Care Execs
Cryptography has zero-knowledge proofs, where Alice can prove to Bob that she knows something without revealing it to Bob. Here’s something similar from the real world. It’s a research project to… Verifiable Dismantling of Nuclear Bombs