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gibsonsflowofthoughts · 6 years ago

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Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Photo: NASA, Getty, AP, Illustration: Gizmodo

Just when you think you know what the world holds, something comes out of the woodwork to shake you to your core No, not the terrifying spider scientists taught to obey their commands. I’m talking about something far worse, something we never could have seen coming—even when the signs were there all along.

I Had No Idea Who Grimes Is, But After 20 Minutes of Misinformed Research, Reports She’s Dating Elon Musk Make Sense

Photo: AP

On Monday, reports emerged in Page Six, the tabloid New York Post’s gossip page, that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dating none other than musician Grimes. At first, I didn’t know what to make of this, because—confession: I had absolutely no idea who Grimes is.

But reader, after roughly 20 minutes of research, I have concluded that this pairing is a match made in Musk Heaven.

Oculus Go’s VR Is Good and Cheap, So Why Am I Still Disappointed?

Photo: Patrick Lucas Austin (Gizmodo)

I’m standing in the middle of my living room, but my view is of the deck of a ship. I can hear my actual dog as he pants on the sofa I pushed against my wall so I could spin my head to explore my virtual surroundings. He’s obscured by the Oculus Go strapped to my face. I take a step forward in my living room, and sigh as nothing happens on the deck. I’d hoped the company would use its first portable headset to differentiate itself from the smartphone-based VR competition—competition that offers a similar experience making cheap headsets designed with your high-end smartphone in mind. The thing is, the Oculus Go doesn’t really stick the landing.

The Fight for a Massive Pentagon Cloud Contract Is Heating Up

Illustration: Sam Woolley (Gizmodo)

Top tech companies are launching a bidding war for a massive Pentagon cloud contract, even as their workforces are pressing them to refuse all military work. In addition to the protests from employees, the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract is bogged down by infighting between traditional defense contractors and the big tech companies that threaten to edge them out of a lucrative business opportunity—and the Department of Defense worries that all of the controversy distracts from its objective of obtaining the same basic cloud computing capabilities already available for consumers, which it says are necessary to better protect soldiers’ lives on the battlefield.

Satellite Analysis Shows North Korea’s 2017 Nuclear Test Literally Moved a Mountain

Image: Google Earth

By combining satellite radar with seismic data, an international team of researchers has re-assessed the effects of North Korea’s most recent nuclear test at Mount Mantap, offering disturbing new estimates for the strength of the device used and its influence on the mountain itself.

Everything We Learned About Android P at Google I/O

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)

Is it going to be called Pumpkin Pie or Peppermint Patty? Or how about Popsicle? Well, whatever Google ends up deciding on, if history is any indication, we’re not going to know for sure until the fall. So to hold us over, why don’t we take a look at all the new updates and features Google showed off for Android at I/O 2018.

For Android P, Google is propping up three main tenets: intelligence, simplicity, and digital wellbeing.

Inside Cambridge Analytica, Few Knew How Soon the End Would Come

Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)

Sitting with a friend in a bar in mid-March, a former Cambridge Analytica employee said he was having a beer when someone texted him Facebook’s announcement that it was kicking the data firm off its platform “pending further information.” “I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my God,’” he told Gizmodo. “This is going to be insane.”

“I was like, ‘Man, what am I going to do?’” the former employee continued. “I won’t say the writing was on the wall, I didn’t necessarily think that was going to be the death of us.”

Legion Is a Great Reminder of Just How Awful Charles Xavier Was

Image: 20th Century Fox, FX

Though Professor Charles Xavier is a gifted telepath and an excellent educator, he’s also a rather terrible father and all-around menace to teenaged mutants. That last bit never factored too much into Fox’s live-action X-Men franchise, but it’s something that FX’s Legion is very carefully trying to remind us.

Why I Didn’t Buy a Mattress Online

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)

The delivery mattress industry is booming. Makers of foam wrapped in fabric, like Casper and Leesa, are raking in millions each year convincing people the convenience of an all online and salesperson-free experience is worth it. Generally I am inclined to agree. I feel like I’m going to break out in hives when I make eye contact with a blue shirt at Best Buy or that one lotion man at the mall. But some things cannot and should not be purchased on the internet. And the mattress is one of those things.

Congress Might Actually Save Net Neutrality, If Republicans Can Learn How to Read Polls

Photo: Getty

Democrats on Wednesday officially filed a petition to force a vote in the Senate to save net neutrality. With a single Republican supporting the effort, only one vote is needed to advance a resolution that may one day soon reinstate the net neutrality rules overturned by the FCC last year.

“The American people know that the internet is for everyone and was invented with the guiding principle of nondiscrimination,” Sen. Edward Markey, who led the effort, said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Simulated Moon Dust Kills Cells and Alters DNA, Signaling Trouble for Future Lunar Colonists

Photo: NASA

Astronauts hoping stay on the moon for long-term missions have another reason to worry about moon dust: It could be quite harmful if inhaled, as demonstrated in a new study.

We’ve long known that moon dust could cause trouble. During the Apollo missions, astronauts complained of sneezing and watery eyes after tracking dust from their spacesuits back into their ships. Scientists need to take moon dust and rocks into account when designing lunar landing equipment because it sticks to everything.

No mice or humans were sent to the moon for this new study. Instead, scientists grew both human cells and mouse cells in the lab and exposed both to a simulated lunar dust. In both cases, the moon dust could kill the cell or damage the cells’ DNA.

Uhh, Google Assistant Impersonating a Human on the Phone Is Scary as Hell to Me

Screenshot: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)

In examples Google demonstrated on stage during the I/O keynote, Google Assistant called a hair stylist to arrange an appointment and called a restaurant to get information about a reservation, using a voice that sounds a little less robotic than the standard Google Assistant (whether that voice is the user’s or a standard Google Duplex voice has not been made clear). And sure that’s ostensibly kind of neat. Intellectually speaking, I am very impressed with this technology! A voice that can contact human beings and impersonate them reasonably well, including using filler words like “um,” is a remarkable feat of AI engineering.

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foryourart · 7 years ago

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PLAN ForYourArt: April 12–18

Thursday, April 12

Westwood Openings and Events

CONVERSATIONS Part of the series Future L.A.: Engineering a Sustainable Supercity: Urban Revitalization and the Los Angeles River, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Culver City Openings and Events

Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula), Wende Museum (Culver City), 6pm.

Miracle Mile and Hollywood Openings and Events

Open Clay Studio with Eunice Lee, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 11am–1pm. $30–40.

Talk: Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—Helen Frankenthaler, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 12:30pm.

New Mountain, SHOW Gallery (Hollywood), 6-9pm.

Atwater Village Openings and Events

Spencer Moody: My Laurels, Cash Machine (Atwater Village), 7–9pm.

Downtown and Chinatown Openings and Events

Tattoo Closing Party, Natural History Museum (Downtown), 5–10pm. $10–12.

Unfolding Language: Hanif Abdurraqib + Brendan Constantine + Amy Gerstler, The Broad (Downtown), 7:30pm.

Benjamin Reiss, Package Factory (Natural Marriage of Natural Resources), Bel Ami (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Performing Radical Fictions, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–10pm. $15.

Elsa Trash, Igor Amokian, Zzyzxzyzz, and O.C.D., Human Resources (Chinatown), 8pm.

Eastside Openings and Events

Garden Talk - Out of Africa: Pelargoniums for California Landscapes, The Huntington (San Marino), 2:30pm.

Leila Rahimi: The Myth of Paradise and Other Lies They Told Us, Sade (Lincoln Heights), 7–10pm.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture - Commemorating Charles Darwin, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Chanel Von-Habsburg-Lothringen: BYSTANDER, AWHRHWAR (Highland Park), 8–10pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Sandwich Songs: A Noon Concert with Lainey, CalArts (Valencia), 12-1pm.

Desert Chic, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–8pm.

Meet the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–8pm. $40–95.

Graphic Design Lecture Series: Design, Bitches, CalArts (Valencia), 4:30pm.

Writing Now Reading Series: Mady Schutzman, CalArts (Valencia), 7–10pm.

Live! at the Museum: Los Angeles Ensemble, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.

Sky Piece by Dawn Givens, CalArts (Valencia), 8pm. Through April 14.

Paul Brach Lecture Series: Elliot Reed, CalArts (Valencia), 9pm.

Micronutrient//Sai//QTQR8R//Dolly Dirtbag//Xoco//Dark Pulse, CalArts (Valencia), 11pm–1am.

Friday, April 13

Openings and Events in Westwood

Metaphors On Vision: Early Films by Stan Brakhage, UCLA (Westwood), 7:30pm. Also April 14.

Openings and Events in Hollywood

Francesca Gabbiani: Vague Terrains/Urban Fuckups, Gavlak (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Surface Magazine presents: Design Dialogues: Kenya Hara, Japan House LA (Hollywood), 7–8:30pm.

Openings and Events in Chinatown

Pauline Gloss: Lullabies for the Psychotic and Other Work, Human Resources (Chinatown), 7:30pm.

ACCORDANT COMMONS: You are measuring…, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm.

Openings and Events in Glassell Park

Anthony Bodlović: Soma / Sema, elephant (Glassell Park), 7–10pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Film Screening: Western by Valeska Grisebach, CalArts (Valencia), 4pm.

IncorpoReality, CalArts (Valencia), 4pm–12am.

Night at the Bijou: Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, CalArts (Valencia), 7:30pm.

CalArts School of Theater Presents: Appropriate, CalArts (Valencia), 8pm.

Saturday, April 14

Westside Openings and Events

Roman Gems and Jewelry: The Art of Adornment, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 1–4pm.

Kelly Berg: Unknown Horizon and Ned Evans: Paintings and Keyholes, Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–7pm.

Alon Aboutboul: LADIES & GENTLEMEN, ARCANE Space (Venice), 6–9pm.

Rob Sato - 442: Original Art From The Graphic Novel, GR2 (Sawtelle), 6:30–10pm.

Openings and Events in Culver City

Legacy, FP Contemporary (Culver City), 3–5pm.

Cig Harvey You an Orchestra You a Bomb and Joanne Dugan: Multiples, Kopeikin Gallery (Culver City), 6–8pm.

Openings and Events in West Hollywood and Hollywood

Reena Spaulings: The Male Gates, Matthew Marks Gallery (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.

DAVIA KING: REBORN, Ewkuks Gallery (West Hollywood), 8pm.

Sue Williams, Regen Projects (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Wheel Throwing Workshop with Wayne Perry, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–4pm. $45–55.

Film: Documentary Film: Hockney, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Downtown and Chinatown Openings and Events

Symposium: SENGA NENGUDI: IMPROVISATIONS AND CONVERSATIONS, USC Fisher Museum of Art (Downtown), 9am–4pm.

Screening & Panel Discussion: Take None, Give None, Central Library (Downtown), 2pm.

Christoph Weber: Contact, Flora Hauser: Telescope at the Sun, and Wayne Magrin: The Far Away and the Familiar (Narrative Paintings of Surfers, Sailors and Bushrangers), Ibid (Downtown), 3–6pm.

A Retrospective of Dance Duets by Sophia Wang/Brontez Purnell, 356 Mission (Downtown), 3–6pm.

Tomorrowland and Junghwa Hong: Veiled, CB1 Gallery (Downtown), 4–7pm.

CalArts Dance School Performs HUMAN, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 4:30–5:30pm.

Folkert de Jong: Cathedra and Nathan Redwood: After Tin Man, DENK Gallery (Downtown), 6–8pm.

Co_Works, Tieken Studio & Gallery (Chinatown), 6–10pm.

HAND AND MIND: Illustration Beats Explanation, FOLD Gallery (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Saved by Grace Gospel Choir 20th Anniversary Concert, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm. $15.

Nicholas Deyoe and Matt Barbier, Human Resources (Chinatown), 8 and 9:30pm.

MacArthur Park Openings and Events

Brian Zamora: New Lighting Devices, haphazard/ as-is.la (MacArthur Park), 6–8pm.

Eastside Openings and Events

Children's Culinary Workshop: The Artichoke: A Flower Bud You Can Eat, The Huntington (San Marino), 9:30am. Sold out.

Fiber Arts Day, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm.

Family Day, Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 12–5pm.

K. Bradford Workshop: Adventures in Upcycling; Tracee Johnson Workshop: Building Gathering Spaces, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 1–4pm.

Ankita Mukherji: Places of being, gallery 1993 (Cypress Park), 4–6pm.

Ciara Moore: JET, Keystone Art Space (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm.

An Evening of performance organized by artist Brian Randolph, ODD ARK•LA (Highland Park), 6–10pm.

Armory Annual Benefit Honoring Scott Ward, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 6:30–9:30pm. $150.

Corynne Pless and Mercy Weiss: Clear Abstractions, Namaste (Highland Park), 7–9pm.

Be Here Now: Esther Baker-Taparga, Kirsten Davis, Bianca Medina, Odeya Nini, Wilfried Souly and Allison Wyper, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 8:30–10pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

CREATE - Awkward Family Comedy Show, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1–4pm.

Families: On-Site: North Hollywood—Art in the Ancient Americas, Valley Plaza Branch Library (North Hollywood), 2pm.

The Insanity Principle Workshops Taught by Linda Carmella Sibio, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 2–4pm.

Raymond Loewy House [Salon], Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 4–6pm.

A Fundraiser and Art Auction by Matthew Monahan and Lara Schnitger, RSVP for address (private studio), 6pm. $75.

Sunday, April 15

Westside Openings and Events

HAMMER FORUM: Ted Lieu: The Trump-Russia Investigation, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 2pm.

Drawing from the Masters: Paper Dimensions, Getty Center (Brentwood), 3:30–5:30pm.

Finding Michelangelo, and Other Tales, Getty Center (Brentwood), 4pm.

Openings and Events in Culver City

Book Signing with Melba Levick and Ruben G. Mendoza for The California Missions, Arcana: Books on the Arts (Culver City), 4–6pm.

West Hollywood Openings and Events

Marathon screening of In the Name of the Place by Mel Chin and the GALA Committee, West Hollywood Public Library (West Hollywood).

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am–7pm.

Echo Park and Chinatown Openings and Events

Los Angeles Filmforum and Acropolis Cinema present Stan Brakhage: Life, Death, And The Elements, Echo Park Film Center (Echo Park), 7:30pm. $6–10.

Morgan Evans-Weiler: General Motions in Relation, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm.

Lincoln Heights and Downtown Openings and Events

Workshop: Radical Choreography: Cultivating Listening and Action with Esther Baker-Taparga, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 11am–2pm.

Sewing Rebellion, California African American Museum (Downtown), 12–4pm.

Cariño: Autocuidado y Curación en Tiempos Difíciles, Main Museum (Downtown), 1–3pm.

Orgasmic Yoga Dr. Victoria Reuveni, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 7–10pm. $20.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Poetry as Portraiture: Adam Zagajewski and Andrew Winer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30pm.

Mary Kelly and Nizan Shaked in Conversation - The Synthetic Proposition Book Launch, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach (Long Beach), 3pm.

Orca, CalArts (Valencia), 8–9pm.

Monday, April 16

Culver City Openings and Events

Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture, Wende Museum (Culver City). Continues April 17.

Frogtown Openings and Events

How Feminism Failed Reproductive Freedom, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–9:30pm. $8–10.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

High Desert Test Kitchen april ingredient: yucca, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm.

Tuesday, April 17

Westside Openings and Events

SCREENINGS: Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Film: House of Wax, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Hollywood Openings and Events

Nancy Baker Cahill: Hollow Point/Strange Laugh, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (Hollywood), 7–10pm.

Downtown Openings and Events

Youth Now, California African American Museum (Downtown), 12–3pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Aggregate as Self, Claremont Graduate University (Claremont), 6–9pm.

ArtCenter Spring 2018 Graduate Seminar Lecture: Anne Imhof, ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena), 7:30pm.

East Asian Garden Lecture Series - Representations of the Garden of Solitary Delight (Dule yuan), The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Daedalus Quartet, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 7:30pm.

Wednesday, April 18

Westside Openings and Events

Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists' Visions and Palmyra: Loss and Remembrance,, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10am–5pm.

MUSIC & PERFORMANCE: From the Highlands to the Concert Hall: Classical Music of Armenia, 2018, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Downtown and Frogtown Openings and Events

“Walkout” Movie Screening & Conversation, Self Help Graphics (Downtown), 6:30pm.

Sick Circle, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–9pm.

Cross-Hatched | Impresarios, Inc., The Broad (Downtown), 8pm. $25.

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