| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Video Games Change The Way You Dream | | | Maybe you're meandering, alone and lost, through an abandoned castle surrounded by a crocodile-filled moat. Suddenly, a flame-breathing dragon hurls towards you, snarling and gnashing its teeth, coming in for the kill. Do you wake up from this bizarro nightmare, covered in sweat and close to tears? Or do you stay in the dream,
grab your imaginary sword, and walk boldly into battle? (TheVerge)
Why This Is Important: The study found that hard-core gamers have more lucid dreams.
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| | #2 | Three Dangers Of Losing Net Neutrality That Nobody's Talking About
| | | Net neutrality is an incredibly important issue, but it's hard to know what to pay attention to when people throw around jargon like "common carriers" and "reclassification." It doesn't help that people who tend to be united in their reaction — everyone from techno-libertarians to VCs – seem divided about the gutting of the FCC's net neutrality rules this week. (Wired)
Why This Is Important: The new rules (don't call them laws) will likely affect the poor more than anyone else.
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| | #3 | Bitcoin Triggers Buzz, Controversy … And Now, Startups
| | | Bitcoin has triggered a wave of warnings from central bankers since the online currency started gaining, well, currency late last year. Now, it's also behind a wave of tech startups aimed at building up a bitcoin infrastructure. Some 320 startups are now involved somehow in maintaining or tracking the bitcoin eco-system, according to a database
maintained by Creandum AB, a Swedish venture capital firm. (WSJ)
Why This Is Important: According to venture capital firm Creandum, these bitcoin-related start-ups have raised upward of $90 million.
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"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
― Arthur C. Clarke, British writer and inventer
| | | Blog Post of The Day | She's A Beauty And A Geek: Supermodel Is A Coder
By Yasmin Khorram
The term "software engineer" conjures images of pasty-faced young men with poor posture and limited social skills. And people think fashion models are all beauty and no brains. At least, those are the stereotypes.So what will the world make of Lyndsey Scott, a model for Prada and Victoria's Secret, who spends her spare time building mobile apps? The 29-year-old has appeared in major magazines like Harper's Bazaar, W and British Vogue, but seems more proud of getting her iPhone and iPad apps approved by Apple. More » |
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