Brother Electronics is coming out with the next generation of its printing line and to celebrate, the company put together this great advertisement of old printers playing a rendition of Bob Dylan’s classic Vietnam-era protest song. The behind-the-scenes video is a fantastic look at how the video was made. It’s worth noting this bears a [...]
The economist looks at how legalization of marijuana will impact the bottom line of the cartels: As a result, it estimates that Mexico’s traffickers would lose about $1.4 billion of their $2 billion revenues from marijuana. The effect on some groups would be severe: the Sinaloa “cartel” would lose up to half its total income, [...]
The spade-toothed beaked whale is one of the world’s rarest species. So rare in fact that no one had even seen one at all until 2010, when a mother and calf washed ashore in New Zealand dead. The spotting was so rare that the whales were misidentified as the more common Gray’s beaked whales — [...]
DNA hacking is now street legal in Europe for lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD), a disease that leads to pancreatitis. The treatment, called Glybera, will be released by Dutch firm uniQure in the second half of 2013. Glybera will be administered to patients by specially trained doctors at a limited number of European hospitals. Patients receiving treatment have [...]
Nick Bilton got the scoop: “In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobile-centric photo-sharing network, according to people who work at the company but asked not to be named as they [...]
The more recent cover New York Magazine features an incredible photo by Iwan Baan showing the blackout in lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. It’s a perfect bookend to the recent cover by Bloomberg Businessweek. Baan’s photo of lower Manhattan is difficult to stomach.
There’s so many interesting tidbits contained in this Businessweek profile of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate, and 52-year-old Carlos Brito, the man in charge of the company, that I’m at a loss where to begin. It’s a deeply fascinating look at how there is the runaway train of AB InBev and then craft [...]
Doesn’t matter if you vote for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, or Gary Johnson (he’s the Libertarian Party candidate, btw), so long as you get out and vote on Tuesday, despite who Will Ferrell says you should vote for.
I was at an event last night where the CEO of WiTricity demonstrated wireless electricity, a technology invented at MIT. It was astounding, mind-blowing, and you could feel — pardon the pun — the electric excitement flow throughout the room at the site of powering electrical devices wirelessly. Anyway, Boston Magazine examines the change underway [...]
