Oscar fever is traditionally a seasonal affliction, but not anymore. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just redesigned its website and added a veritable goldmine of archival clips and pics from its gigantic permanent collection that goes way beyond the awards themselves.
Nicolas Belmonte—Technical Lead for Data Visualization at Twitter—has created an impressive interactive 3D visualization of the world's temperature anomalies since 1800 using data from NASA. It's like a deformed monster bloating and about to explode.
A leaked internal memo from drugstore chain Walgreens suggests that the retailer is aiming for an October 18th launch of Apple Pay, allowing iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus customers to use the contact-less NFC payment system inside stores to pay for goods. At this time, neither Walgreens nor Apple has given a specific launch date for Apple Pay.
The leaked memo says that Apple Pay will work when customers tap their devices to the credit card reader terminals in the upper portion of the PIN pad.
It's unclear when Apple Pay will launch for other announced partners, like McDonald's, Macy's, Panera Bread, and more.
Are you excited about being able to ditch your wallet and solely carry a phone for quick errand runs?
Source: MacRumors
Esta idea ya se ha visto por ahí en fórmulas similares en los últimos tiempos; el último modelo se llama Plastc y es una meta-tarjeta: es capaz de almacenar 20 tarjetas de crédito convencionales en su interior, leyendo y guardando los contenidos tanto de la banda magnética como de los chips/PIN* [ver nota abajo].
Según explican basta insertar las tarjetas una primera vez mediante un lector especial para dejarlas en casa, llevándose a partir de entonces solo la Plastc que ocupa menos.
La parte inferior de la tarjeta es una pantalla táctil LCD en la que se pueden mostrar el tipo de tarjeta seleccionado, códigos, números, nombres, resumen de pagos, o incluso sirve como pantalla para teclear el PIN.
Además de esto, la meta-tarjeta Plastc tiene conexión Bluetooth y un sistema que te avisa si te la dejas olvidada en alguna tienda. Su batería interna recargable dura 30 días más o menos. En cuanto al precio: algo más de 100 euros.
(*) Esto del «guardar 20 tarjetas en una» no es todavía perfecto pero no queda del todo claro en la web del producto. Si bien la banda magnética puede copiarse sin problemas está claro que los contenidos del chip/PIN no pueden «copiarse» así tal cual. Al parecer es una nueva funcionalidad que incluirán los chips de este tipo de tarjetas a partir de 2015. Así que su uso, de momento, se limitará a algunas tarjetas que, o bien estén ya actualizadas, o bien no necesiten el PIN.
(Vía GizMag.)
In the years after World War II, much of Europe was being rebuilt. The darkness of the war still hung like a pall over life and memory, and even though the old powers had been swept away, new rivalries were already setting conflict into motion on the world stage. The art world, in particular, was trying to look forward, and it needed a way to feel hopeful for the future.
Artists Heinz Mack and Otto Piene met in school in the early 1950s, and struck up a partnership aimed at wiping the slate...
Welcome to Reading List, a quick tour of this week's great prose around the interwebs. So, how's your Sunday going? Fall is in full swing, and we have a full plate of tech coming up this week. Embrace the slowness of Sundays and take a look at some of these long reads around the web you might have missed. We've got great write ups from Wired, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and New York Magazine for your reading pleasure.
