Modern warfare is defined by ambiguity—and with it, soldiers (and training) have had to adapt. Posted online this week, a U.S. Army document guides soldiers through the rigors of recognizing terrorist and insurgent groups in the wild. Not through weaponry or language, but through branding.
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On September 30th, Ubergizmo and Stained Glass Labs will host Digital Fall, a Tech Fashion Show that will feature wearable technology devices.
Sponsored by Lenovo and produced by Y’Anad Burrell – Glass House Communications, the fashion show will feature the following designers: Manic Designs by Rachel Riot, Roc Rio by Rickie Lee, Christina Morgan Cree and SENSOREE.
Digital Fall will be the closing party of the GLAZED Conference, a 1-day conference dedicated to wearable technology where the world’s top tier investors, press, developers and entrepreneurs will gather to celebrate fashion, art, and technology during a fashion show that will showcase the latest innovations.
Thanks to our partners: Girls in Tech, GABA, Prime, FACCSF, SunnyKarma and Graffiti PR for their support
Tickets start at just $20 with discount code – Sept. 30th at Mezzanine, event starts at 7.30 pm,
Use the exclusive DIGITAL50 discount code to get your ticket. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/7642120789?ref=ubergizmositebanner&discount=digital50
Note: this a 21+ event
More information about the event oand our past events on the website: http://digital-seasons.typepad.com/
Photos from past Digital Summer events hosted by Ubergizmo
Ubergizmo’s Digital Fall in San Francisco is Next Monday original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Artist Alex Kiessling is seen on a screen in Vienna while a robot copies his movements in Berlin. Another bot did the same in London.
(Credit: Dirk Mathesius/Long Distance Art)
Andy Warhol famously had a series of studios in New York called The Factory. Part of his oeuvre was assembly-line production of silkscreens. Sadly, he had to put up with human workers.
Would that Warhol were alive today to see Viennese artist Alex Kiessling in action. The painter has just produced simultaneous portraits in three European cities with the help of two industrial robots.
The stunt, which took place in Vienna, Berlin, and London, is part of the Long Distance Art project.
Call it telepresence art.
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(Credit: United Artists/SciFiMovies.com)
Why bother with boyfriend-vetting sites like ReportYourEx.com when you’ve got the ginormous spying resources of the NSA at your fingertips?
That seems to have been the thinking of at least one intelligence worker with the US National Security Agency, who, an NSA letter suggests, regularly tapped the agency’s now-infamous phone-data collection program to screen people she met at cocktail parties and the like.
The overseas staffer “tasked the telephone number of her foreign-national boyfriend and other foreign nationals and…reviewed the resultant collection,” the letter reads, adding later: “The subject asserted that it was her practice to enter foreign national phone numbers she obtained in social settings into the [NSA] system to ensure that she was not talking to ‘shady characters.'”
These intriguing, fill-in-the-rest-of-the-narrative-as-you-see-fit details come in a just-published letter from NSA Inspector General George Ellard to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In August, Grassley asked Ellard to provide details… [Read more]
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Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had a blunt message for House Republicans on Friday.
The Reid-led Senate passed a bill that would institute a short-term measure to keep the government funded, while stripping the House’s provision to defund Obamacare. With a 54-44 party-line vote in hand, Reid said the House needed to “accept what we just passed,” while adding some choice words on Obamacare being untouchable.
“Here’s a president, who less than a year ago, won the election by five million votes, five million votes,” Reid said. “Obamacare has been the law for four years. Why don’t they get a life and talk about something else? People deserve better.”
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More on Republicans
As more oil spills were discovered this week in Colorado following devastating flooding that inundated drill sites in the state, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) is calling on the House Resources Committee for a hearing on the leaks caused by the floodwaters.
“Not only have my constituents been dealing with damage to their homes, schools, and roads, they are increasingly concerned about the toxic spills that have occurred from the flooding of nearly 1,900 fracking wells in Colorado,” Polis wrote in a letter to Resource Committee Chairman Doc Hastings, KDVR reported. “Congress must deal with this issue to ensure that natural disasters do not also become public health disasters.”
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission announced Thursday that there are 12 oil and gas releases classified as “notable,” which was unchanged from Wednesday, the first time this week that COGCC has not found an increase in spills from day to day.
Google has once again found itself in the hot seat over its data practices, and this time, a French agency is sounding the alarm. Earlier today, France’s National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL) threatened Google with a €300,000 fine due to the company’s lack of compliance with a June decision aimed at protecting users’ private data. Previously, Google was given three months to address CNIL’s concerns about centralized data collection that lumps together information from Youtube, Gmail and searches and transparency about how such data was put to use. Now, the clock is up, and France isn’t fooling around. While formal sanctioning is a lengthy process that won’t be resolved for several months, the country’s stance is considered aggressive, even if the fine is relatively modest. Google, however, doesn’t seem phased. Company spokesperson Al Verney said, “Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services.”
Source: Yahoo
As it seems to be with all great technology projects, Google started in a garage. As any garage band can tell you, great inspiration comes from working in someone’s personal space, dreaming of the greatness of a dedicated home base – for Google, that time was 15 years ago this week. To celebrate, Google has […]
LOS ANGELES — A new study suggests the proliferation of gay and transgender characters in films and television shows has not prevented gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender actors from experiencing discrimination in Hollywood.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists commissioned the survey released Friday showing that more than half of the actors who identify as gay, bisexual and transgender say they think directors and directors and producers are biased against them.
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