Apple has posted five new 'Shot on iPhone 6' videos to YouTube as part of its continuing campaign to highlight the camera on the iPhone 6.
Richard D. James removed most of the music from his official SoundCloud account this week, effectively scrubbing the service of more than 200 Aphex Twin songs, edits, and experimental tidbits. Now all of those releases are available to download in a single zip file.
After Aphex Twin dropped his great comeback album Syro last year, the British electronic wizard has been steadily churning out new and forgotten work. There was the nihilistic, queasy EP Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2, there was the 1994 vinyl that originally only came out as a few test copies, and there was the mysterious SoundCloud user uploading demos.
Aphex Twin's almost bare SoundCloud is — like much of what Richard D. James does — largely a mystery,...
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The WSJ:
Microsoft Corp. is in serious discussions to buy Mojang AB, the Swedish company behind the popular “Minecraft” videogame, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The deal would be valued at more than $2 billion and could be signed as early as this week, this person said.
Believe it or not, this might be the biggest tech news of the day in the Gruber household.
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David Lynch directs the video for Nine Inch Nail’s first single off their forthcoming album.
The Black Flag logo is sort of like the Coca-Cola script: it’s been subverted and remixed so many times, it’s become bigger than its original intended use. Now, thanks to a mini-documentary produced by Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, we know the fascinating story behind the creation of the iconic mark—which, according to Henry Rollins, “every cop in LA remembers.”
    
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Sean Hannity is warning that data mining and surveillance are "very clear violation[s] of the Fourth Amendment," a drastic change for the Fox News host, who was a loud defender of National Security Agency surveillance during the Bush administration.
Media Matters offers a look at Hannity on NSA surveillance, then and now.
Path CEO Dave Morin: huge douchebag.
★crumbWhen a company that used to have a 255 million+ user base is now bragging about cutting a million device deal, you know shit is going pretty bad for them.
Blackberry's demise, much talked about and somewhat goaded, is on hold while the world reacts to the Blackberry 10 OS and two handsets launching on March 22. And already someone has come forward to buy a million units. So that's...unexpected. More »
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