Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

'Black Panther': Behind the Scenes of the Marvel Movie's Afrofuturism

The film’s challenge was to imagine what Africans would have done given reign over their own culture. The answer is a future that Tony Stark never could have dreamed of.
Source: Wired

How Ice Skaters Turn Physics Into Astonishing Spins

Conservation of angular momentum is the name of the game.
Source: Wired

Amazon reportedly paid $90M for security camera company Blink – CNET

Amazon bought the company at the end of 2017, and has big plans for its exclusive chips, says Reuters.
Source: CNET

Government websites hijacked by cryptocurrency-mining malware – CNET

Over 4,000 websites worldwide were affected by the malware.
Source: CNET

Uber to require a 6-hour break for every 12 hours of driving in the U.S.

 Uber has added a feature that will force a six-hour offline break whenever a driver on its platform reaches 12 hours of driving time. The feature is similar to one that Uber has in place in a few markets already around the U.S., which differs depending on local regulations, but this will apply across the U.S., and fully block use of the driver app for accepting trips during the six-hour… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

How WIRED's March 2018 Cover With Mark Zuckerberg Was Created

That bruised Mark Zuckerberg on the March 2018 cover? Here’s how the photo-illustration was created to accompany “Facebook’s 2 Years of Hell.”
Source: Wired

Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All

For two years, Facebook has been hijacked, vilified, and besieged. Here’s the inside story of the struggle.
Source: Wired

Is Now The Right Time to Try and End Measles?

WIRED columnist Maryn McKenna on why public health officials can’t decide whether the time is right to wage war against measles.
Source: Wired

Snapchat's Snap Map Will Now Be Available On the Web

By bringing the Snap Map out of the app and onto the web, Snap hopes to bring Snapchat to the masses like never before.
Source: Wired

Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog

 An attacker injected a crypto mining script into a web plugin’s JavaScript library, and some 4,000 websites — a large number of them taxpayer funded — were co-opted into illegal crypto mining… oopsie… Read More

Source: TechCrunch