See Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in new WikiLeaks film ‘The Fifth Estate’

The rise of WikiLeaks, particularly during the release of leaked diplomatic cables obtained by Bradley Manning, has proved irresistible to filmmakers, and now DreamWorks Studios says it’s started filming The Fifth Estate, a dramatic treatment of Julian Assange starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

Playing music: ‘Wave Trip’ for iPhone is half game, half album

Jetpack Joyride meets Sound Shapes

Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color’ is a trippy, sci-fi take on the forces that bind us together

The ‘Primer’ director is back with his first film in nine years: think of it as Terrence Malick-meets-Trent Reznor: abstract, brooding, moody, at times graphic. Ross Miller reviews.

This amazingly detailed maze took seven years to draw

How We Made “For Amusement Only” - Features - Source: An OpenNews project

In case you were wondering how we made The Life and Death of the American Arcade, check out this interview with Source.

Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century

To understand his contributions, we have to look beyond the headlines. Tim Carmody on Aaron Swartz:

I met Aaron Swartz in Cambridge shortly after he’d been indicted for downloading lots of JSTOR articles on MIT’s network in 2011. My Wired colleague Ryan Singel had been writing about his story, and I’d talked a lot with my friends in academia and publishing about the problems of putting scholarship behind a paywall, but that was really the level at which I was approaching it. I was there to have brunch with friends I’d known a long time only through the internet, and I hadn’t known Aaron that way. I certainly didn’t want to use the brunch to put on my journalist hat and pepper him with questions. He was there primarily to see Quinn Norton’s daughter Ada, with whom he had a special bond. The two of them spent most of their time playing in a back bedroom; sometimes you could hear them laughing from the living room. And that’s mostly how I think of him still: a too-young father figure who occupied an immense role in the lives of people close to me.

As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected

Programmers and politicians spar over sharing the campaign-winning code with the public

Don’t die: livestreaming turns video game speedruns into a spectator sport

New tech gives old games a fresh lease on life

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Deep Space Industries will send ‘FireFly’ ships to prospect for mineable asteroids in 2015

Who would have thought that within a year, we’d have multiple, competing asteroid mining startups? Deep Space Industries, which will hold its official launch on Tuesday at Santa Monica’s Museum of Flying, is the latest of several ambitious private companies to announce plans for the final frontier: in its case, to prospect near-Earth asteroids with an eye towards using materials in them to build a permanent presence in space. In 2015, it says it will begin sending unmanned “FireFly” spacecraft to explore asteroids that fly near Earth, followed by heavier “DragonFly” craft that will bring back samples from likely candidates between 2016 and 2020.

Motorola’s non-Android Motogo! channels the ‘Google Phone’ of 2006 for Mexico

Xperia Tablet Z hands-on: Sony design goes back to basics

Up close and personal with the world’s thinnest tablet

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Moog’s $1,099 Sub Phatty is a more affordable take on its classic analog synths

Moog’s iconic analog synthesizers tend to run on the expensive side, but the recently announced Sub Phatty synth offers a lower price point along with what Moog calls a new sound for its lineup.

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