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In the early 90s you either had Windows 3.1 (it sucked) or the Mac (it sucked a bit less). Then Windows 95 appeared and for a long time, it ruled the nerd school. But imagine a magical world where Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer threw caution to the wind, took a bunch of drugs and released an OS in 1993. Art project Windows 93 is that parallel universe where drug-addled Microsoft executives released an OS that makes you wonder if the C-Prompt you see is the same C-Prompt I see. The brainchild of hacker/artists Jankenpopp and Zombectro, the project launched in October,…
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Following the trend of other online services like Twitter and Dropbox, Pinterest published its first transparency report to cover a full year. It received 41 requests for user data, which we’d like to think were to access recipes for delicious-looking cookie pins. As tends to be the case, the vast majority of these were from the US, with 39 requests covering 54 Pinterest accounts. The other two were from Canada and Australia. Within the US, 10 of the requests came from warrants, and the other 29 were subpoenas. The company says it informs users of data requests unless prohibited by law; in this case there…
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Mashups. That’s what the kids are into these days, and a brand new app called Trio is making the process of creating them swift and dead simple. Mashups — compiling different multimedia elements into a single overarching message — sounds cool but it is not the easiest thing to accomplish, especially when you’re gathering material from disparate sources. Trio, a hybrid social networking and creative app, provides artistic elements that cater to nearly every taste to let you easily find and remix images, videos, animated GIFs, looping videos and music. Elements come from Instagram, Vine, Giphy, iTunes and movie clips. Achieve any attitude you want…
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Do you remember the first time you logged onto the Web and how innocent everything felt? My first interaction with the internet was back in 1998 when my cousin bought his first computer and showed me where to find free online games. It became so addicting that my uncle eventually had to install software to limit our daily internet use. The Web has changed dramatically since 1998, or even 2010. So imagine if this week was the first time you accessed the internet: How would you react to the countless memes, Web lingoes, apps, viral videos or wild obsessions over #LlamaWatch or…
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