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+Valve getting knee-deep into the #VR business is extremly exciting News. Now combine this with steam machines and All remaining changes to their ecosystem and we See that the #oculusrift was just the beginning.

Valve’s showing its own VR prototype in January, working on a VR Steam overlay

Good night everyone – food for thought.

"When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: “Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?” he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, [but] everybody understood that the NSA had approached him." Nils Torvalds

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux – Falkvinge on Infopolicy

The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week’s hearing on mass surveillance in the European Parliament. Chalk another one up of the United States NSA trying to make information technology less secure for everyone. The father of Linus Torvalds, […]

Für's Wochenende mal vom Nachbarn #ironman ausgeliehen…

+Daniel Suarez on CNN.
I feel proud to have discovered this #author  and followed him around ever since. The issues & topics he is touching in his made-for-mainstream literature are always on spot and ahead of our time.

The themes Suarez touches upon act as a humble warning on how we (mis)use #technology  in our day and age. At the same time his tales function as a stark exclamation mark behind concepts like "technological #democratization ", "genuine individual #choice  in a corporate globalized world", " #crowdsourcing  public consensus" and soon "political- or corporate know-how #monopolies " (see his latest book, " #influx ", slated for U.S. release on Feb 20th, 2014).

Drones over America? Time for debate

Daniel Suarez says the FAA is establishing six locations to try out safety and privacy approaches for civilian drones. It’s a vital dialogue to get started.