ONE WEIRD TRICK
"ONE WEIRD TRICK is out today! This album is us trying to make sense of the end of the world. Not a polemic, but a process. What it feels like to be haunted by an increasingly uncertain tomorrow, chasing future echoes down the hall. These are the songs you dance to as the clock ticks closer to midnight." —Ghost Cop
Aphex Twin's Mask Collapses
After years of feeding the mystery machine, Richard D. James is offering us more pieces of himself.
Andrew Nosnitsky | Crack Magazine
China's state-run Xinhua News Agency debuts 'AI anchor' to read the news
The state-run press agency in China, Xinhua, will now deliver news using "AI anchors" made of digital composites that use synthesized voices to "read" the news.
Via Mashable
AIGA Design Futures
This research project examines seven trends shaping the context for the practice of design.
Via AIGA
Why we shouldn’t cry ‘aliens’ about that interstellar space rock just yet
What to expect when you’re expecting aliens.
Loren Grush | The Verge
E.T., we’re home
Existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers, study finds.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
The Sub of the Future Is a Drone Mothership Inspired by a Sperm Whale
The SMX-31 could be the first of a new generation of submarines.
Via Popular Mechanics
Future Shock in the Countryside
Earth’s rural areas are being transformed by climate change and technology.
By Darran Anderson, for The Atlantic
Watch the Futuristic Firestorm of Ghost Cop’s “ACCELERATE”
NYC’s Ghost Cop have just released their latest single “ACCELERATE,” backed with a futuristically stunning video. The track is the first preview of the duo’s long-awaited debut album, ONE WEIRD TRICK, due out November 9th.
Via Post-Punk.com
A to Z of The Designers Republic
The Designers Republic is the design group that changed design. But there’s never been a book that tells its story. Until now.
A Kickstarter campaign by Unit Editions.
‘Castlevania’ Renewed For Season 3 On Netflix
Netflix has ordered a 10-episode third season of Castlevania, its dark medieval fantasy based on the classic Konami video game.
Via Deadline Hollywood
Bitcoin: Are we really going to burn up the world for libertarian nerdbucks?
The continued growth of power-hungry Bitcoin could lock in catastrophic climate change, according to a new study.
By Eric Holthaus, for Grist
“Dark Ritual Ambient” Blends Haunting Music With Spiritual Energy
The concept of “ritual music” continues to the present day, with many artists—particularly in the realms of dark ambient and drone—seeking new ways to combine their haunting sonics with spiritual energy.
Via Bandcamp Daily
R Leporis: A Vampire's Star
The star's discoverer, 19th century English astronomer John Russell Hind, reported that it appeared in a telescope "... like a drop of blood on a black field."
NASA APOD 2018 October 31
Instant Archetypes: A New Tarot For The New Normal
Instant Archetypes is a toolkit to explore the never-ending narratives and multiple perspectives of our new normal: the world of tech-saturated late capitalism.
A Kickstarter campaign conceived by Jon Ardern, Anab Jain and Paul Graham Raven; designed and produced by Superflux; illustrated by Amelie Barnathan
Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds
The telescope has now gone silent, its fuel tank empty.
Via Phys.org
Escape Into The World of Geoffroy De Crécy’s Therapeutic Animations
Through robots, animation, illusions, and pools, Geoffroy De Crécy captures the simplicity and beauty of empty places, isolation, and automation like no one else.
Via Gestalten Journal
The ‘Farmosopher’ Creating Language for Our Climate Doom and Rebirth
Retired professor Glenn A. Albrecht has coined new words to describe the full range of positive and negative emotions we have toward the environment.
By Deidre Olson, for Motherboard