Click on the image for a closer look at a wanted poster from 2019. Civillians can opt to join a crowdsourced posse, setting their mobile devices to scan for the fugitive’s biometric and genetic signatures. What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? Via Wired...
Something tech fans have been desperate for for years may actually be about to happen: Most of your computer wires may soon be replaced with a single, simple standard. It could change everything, right down to device design. A single standard for peripheral connectivity has remained elusive in the PC industry for decades. True, the USB...
Yoshiko Tanaka (at right in the first image), best known as Sue-chan from the '70s idol group Candies and from her starring role in Shohei Imamura's Black Rain, passed away last week at age 55 after a battle with breast cancer. In a final farewell, recorded from her hospital bed and played at her funeral Monday, she tearfully...
The trailer for Eric Khoo's Tatsumi, an animated feature celebrating the father of Gekiga comics, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, which screens at Cannes next month....
The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth...
Imagine an ad that stares back at you when you glance at it -- analyzing your face, your age, and who you're with. Then imagine that ad going one step further, changing its message to display something its analysis suggests will hook you. That's what Immersive Labs, a New York City startup launching this week, is trying...
After seeing Fyodor Khitruk's interpretation of Milne's old bear, I wonder if I'll ever watch the Disney version again. Although, there's something to be said about the Disney Pooh in Spanish. The chorus from the intro canción gets me every time: The Japanese and Swedish versions are pretty good, too....