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A poetic and artful umbrella, Komorebi is based on a Japanese expression that approximately translates to “sunshine filtering through foliage.”

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It’s hard to draw a map without making someone angry. There are 32 countries that Google Maps won’t draw borders around. While the so-called geo-highlighting feature—which Google uses to show a searched area’s borders—is unaffected by the locale of the person looking at them, the borders drawn on Google’s base map will look different depending on where in the world you are.

For example, look at the borders of Arunachal Pradesh—an area administered by India but claimed as a section of Tibet by China (which also claims Tibet). The region is shown as part of India when viewed in India; as part of China when viewed in China; and as distinct from both countries when viewed in the US.

The border between China and Bhutan has been the subject of decades of diplomatic talks, since the areas China claims in Bhutan’s West would provide China with strategic military positions on the Indian border. The country’s borders are similarly altered when viewed from China, showing some areas administered by Bhutan as part of China.

This latest information about Google’s geographic capitulation was revealed at a hackathon this past weekend, sponsored by the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. The team producing the project included a visiting researcher at MIT, a developer from the publication Medium, a graphics editor from National Public Radio, and a designer at Fast Company. They wrote software to compare borders on Google Maps automatically and then put together a web page documenting their findings on how 12 different disputed areas are drawn.

In response to Quartz’s previous story on Google Maps’ borders, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed the company’s practice of tailoring borders to local views: “Google Maps makes every effort to depict disputed regions and features objectively.” She noted that certain jurisdictions have laws regarding maps, adding, “Where we have local versions, we follow local regulations for naming and borders.”

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This sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin is called “Politicians discussing global warming.”

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'Columbian Nazi Weed Pope' is this World Cup's most confused fan.

Desde la llegada de Popcorn Time, algo quedó claro: una nueva forma de ver películas y series había nacido. Ya no había que esperar ni a descargarse el torrent, podíamos utilizarlo como fuente online para reproducir el vídeo en streaming. Y claro, la industria no se quedó de brazos cruzados. El Popcorn Time original cerró a los pocos días de nacer.

Sin embargo, el daño ya estaba hecho. La aplicación estaba hecha con código abierto, y esto significaría la apertura (y en algunos casos más también el cierre) de varios clones de Popcorn Time que popularizarían el "torrent-streaming" por todo el mundo. Recopilemos algunos de los que todavía funcionan.

Cuevana Storm

El portal Cuevana, famoso por permitir el visionado online de películas, no perdió tiempo a hacer su propio clon de PopCorn Time llamado Cuevaba Storm aprovechando sus propios recursos. Está en fase beta y sólo funciona para OS X, pero cumple con lo que promete. Tenéis más detalles en Applesfera.

Time4Popcorn

Time4Popcorn es quizás el clon más conocido, ya que fue el primero que cogió las riendas tras el cierre del cliente original y su aplicación es compatible con todas las plataformas de escritorio junto con Android. De hecho tiene como nombre Popcorn Time, intentando seguir el rastro de la primera aplicación.

Este cliente es quizás también el más prometedor: tiene incluido un cliente VPN para poder utilizar el programa de forma anónima y para el futuro tendrá soporte para Chromecast (en Windows).

Popcorn Time.io

Es muy fácil confundir este clon con Time4Popcorn: hasta la web de Poprocn Time.io es completamente idéntica. Pero no todas las funciones están allí: no tiene cliente VPN integrado ni versión para Android... pero sí que es compatible con OS X, Windows y Linux y tiene todo lo necesario para poder ver una película en cuestión de segundos.

UnTV

UnTV se promociona directamente como un reproductor pensado para los ordenadores conectados al televisor, y así convertirlos en un Media Center donde en vez de almacenar películas (ojo, también es capaz de reproducirlas si las tenemos guardadas) las reproducimos directamente desde un archivo .torrent.

Algunas peculiaridades de este cliente son, por ejemplo, la habilidad de utilizar un teléfono móvil como mando a distancia a través de una web local o la cantidad de accesos directos que ofrece mediante el teclado.

ShowBox

Hasta ahora siempre hemos hablado de clientes pensados para ordenador, pero ¿no estamos precisamente en la era móvil? Show Box es un cliente nativo para Android que permite ver películas utilizando el mismo modelo. Incluso nos permite descargar los vídeos en el dispositivo para que no necesitemos conexión a internet, pero eso sacrificará espacio. Correrá a nuestra elección.

Zona

Terminamos con un clon que nos viene desde Rusia: Zona combina la reproducción de películas y series en streaming con la sintonización de canales de televisión de todo el mundo. Sin olvidarnos de la música, que también recode de torrents como hacía el lamentablemente difunto HipHop, y de otras fuentes de entretenimiento como eventos deportivos o juegos online. La lástima es que todavía no hay versión para OS X.

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La noticia Quiero mirar películas y quiero hacerlo ya: seis clones de Popcorn Time para conseguirlo fue publicada originalmente en Genbeta por Miguel López.

jfruh writes: "Creators of compilers are in an arms race to improve performance. But according to a presentation at this week's annual USENIX conference, those performance boosts can undermine your code's security. For instance, a compiler might find a subroutine that checks a huge bound of memory beyond what's allocated to the program, decide it's an error, and eliminate it from the compiled machine code — even though it's a necessary defense against buffer overflow attacks."

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Reality can be so complex that equally valid observations from differing perspectives can appear to be contradictory.

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Although Christmas still feels like something in the vast future (or past, depending on your point of view) it certainly doesn’t hurt to think about the wintry season as summer temperatures continue to rise. One of the most mesmerizing Christmas sights we’ve seen are these trams and local streetcars in Budapest decorated with over 30,000 LED lights. The twinkling lights, when photographed with just the right exposure, creates a marveling image that resembles a futuristic vehicle speeding through time. This beautiful tradition of decorating trams was an initiative by the Budapest Transport Company, which kicked off in 2009. If you want to plan a visit you’ll definitely want to check out their website for routes and tram schedules.

Prints of the long exposure images are available from Krisztian Birinyi through 500px. (via My Modern Met)

Photographer Alessandro Merga captured an incredible photo of the night sky and Milky Way during a Boeing 747 flight from New York to London on June 7th. The photo is the result of a single ten-second exposure Merga took using a blanket to prevent any cabin light from interfering.

photo via Alessandro Merga

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Spies are people just like the rest of us, and just like the rest of us, some of them probably like video games. Which games? Well, according to some new documents that have surfaced online, at least a few NSA employees appear to be Final Fantasy fans.

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