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After police arrived on the scene of her Tallahassee, Florida, neighborhood, 62-year-old Viola Young asked them why they were there. Told to turn around, Young did so and walked away. While walking away, at just about 2:31 in this video shot by a local resident, the officer brutally uses his stun gun to tase Young in the back. Immediately, she falls flat on her face. It’s brutal. No charges have been brought and the officer is currently on paid leave.

Florida Officer Tases 62-Year-Old Woman In the Back Just for the Hell of It | Alternet (via alexsegura)

[futuristech-info]

3D-stacked nanomagnets could replace transistors and further extend Moore’s Law

[azspot]

We need a society which measures its success on how the weak are cared for.

Pope Francis (via azspot)

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(via alltheinternetofthings)

Great info graphics for those wrapping their minds around the Internet Of Things

[fastcompany]

Watch This Guy Sculpt A Spider In Mid-Air Using An Oculus Rift

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#thefuture

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Kickstarting a prismatic, hat-brim mounted heads-up display for your phone

The Hattrickwear is an improbable ball-cap designed to mount your phone horizontally along your eyeline with a mirror and prism that keeps your screen in your field of vision all the time.

Read the rest…

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Free Consumer Credit Monitoring Company Credit Karma Raises $75M, Now Valued At Over $1 Billion | TechCrunch

A consumer-facing credit monitoring startup, Credit Karma, is now worth more than a billion dollars following a new round of funding. The company announced..

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ha! ;_;

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Good god.

I feel it necessary to break automation for a moment to restate:

This is The Most Boring Tumblr In Known Space.  Deliberately.  I run it as a sort of automated half-power Chronofile for my own use and amusement.  I get that it must be quite horrible for someone who isn’t me to scan through.  I will not be sad if you don’t read it.

I can otherwise be found, hopefully slightly more interestingly:

On Twitter as @warrenellis

On Instagram as warrenellis.  I usually have Instagram DMs switched on.

At my weeklyish newsletter, orbitaloperations.com - subscribe at that link, and once a week or more or less I will ramble and rant at you about things.  This is possibly the best way to keep up with me, if you’re interested in my work or whatever else leaks out of my skull.

I have a small personal presence on Facebook under my name.

I also have a Snapchat account, as warrenellis, which sometimes brings me nice surprises.

I write, most mornings, at http://morning.computer .

And I podcast ambient music at spkmdl.libsyn.com .

If you wanted to be nice, you could buy copies of my two current comics series, TREES and SUPREME BLUE ROSE, or my last novella, DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, but I won’t force you.

Seriously.  How does that reader count keep going up?

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Oh,...I don't know...perhaps because your a famous and prolific science fiction writer?

[futuristech-info]

Tiny accelerometer like sensors in your clothing can detect motion and instantly provide feedback

[alltheinternetofthings]

#IoT

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"Gartner says 26 billion connected devices by 2020, Cisco says 50 billion, Morgan Stanley says 75 billion"

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WANT

[fastcompany]

Watch These Horrifying Robots Swarm Together In Funny Shapes (Before They Kill Us)

[notational]

But flexibility — an alluring word for white-collar workers, who may desire, say, working from home one day a week — can have a darker meaning for many low-income workers as a euphemism for unstable hours or paychecks. Legislators and activists are now promoting proposals and laws to mitigate the scheduling problems. But those who manufacture and study scheduling software, including Mr. DeWitt of Kronos, advocate a more direct solution: for employers and managers to use the software to build in schedules with more accommodating core hours. “The same technology could be used to create more stability and predictability,” said Zeynep Ton, a professor at M.I.T. who studies retail operations.

Working Anything but 9 to 5 - NYTimes.com

Sad but compelling article.

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mothernaturenetwork: Spray-on clothes unveiled on chemistry lab catwalk

Manel Torres and Paul Luckham are perfecting a fabric that can be sprayed onto skin and other surfaces to make clothes, bandages and even upholstery.

  why is he cutting it?

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Mapping the Spread of the Military’s Surplus Gear