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If Tangerine is about technology it’s not in the way that you think
Being shot with an iPhone isn’t this movie’s standout narrative.
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This PS1-style videogame is basically Speed with hysterical vehicle physics
Speed, the 1994 film in which Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and assorted extras hurtled around Los Angeles in a public transit bus, was a fun movie about absolutely nothing. With that in mind, here is OmniBus, an arcade-style game currently being developed by Chicago’s The Buddy Cops that takes Spee
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Finally, a typeface for all the words governments never say about surveillance
Surveillance has proven to be good fodder for games. In Touch Tone, a fictional yet fathomable government has deputized its citizenry to spy on their peers by solving puzzles and decoding encryption keys and codes to access private data. Nothing to Hide applies the logic to your every movement. It i
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Swipe right for Pin-Pon, the game that turns Tinder into a psychedelic gymnasium
The bizarre merger of dating and technology.
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How a smartphone game is helping to fight against malaria in Kenya
There are games that purport to have life-and-death stakes, and then there are games that are actual lifesavers. Mosquito Hood falls into the latter category. The game, which was first released by Kenya’s Momentum Core in 2013, challenged players to swat pesky mosquitos in progressively more difficu
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Chilling art installation turns drone strike fatalities into a shopping bill
This is artist Jonathan Fletcher Moore’s Artificial Killing Machine. Unlike other artificial killing machines—machine guns, shotguns, rifles, swords, switchblades, kitchen knives, tanks, battlefield range ballistic missiles, short-range ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, intermedia
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Soft Body’s teaser trailer is a meditative music video in search of a game
How many videogames could just as easily be Bon Iver or Sigur Rós music videos? Ten percent? Fifteen? In the spirit of that question, here is the trailer for Soft Body, which, in addition to being the fashion thinkpiece term of art for yours truly, is apparently “an action-puzzle game set in a medit
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Greek artist draws on Euros to send a message about his country’s plight
This, it is fair to say, is not how the European project was supposed to work out. At this very moment, German citizens can walk up to an ATM and withdraw their daily limit. At this very moment, Greek citizens can wait in line near an ATM in the hopes of eventually withdrawing their government-limit
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Robotic Latte Art: Very accurate and a little bit creepy
Your caffeinated beverage is, in all likelihood, milk with a side of coffee. Less generously, it is a milkshake. But what if your drink was something more than just the combination of espresso shots, steamed milk, and (heaven forfend!) pumpkin spice? What if your cappuccino was art? This, in a demi-
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Paul Krugman delivers punches and ripostes in an arcade-style news game
In light of the recent imposition of capital controls in Greece and the looming prospect of a Grexit, now seems like as good a time as any to talk about economists punching one another. He has the mien of a vituperative hobgoblin Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, New York Times colum
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Apps are the best hope for Moscow’s architectural heritage
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. So it is in Moscow, where on the occasion of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s unveiling, the architect Rem Koolhaas told The Guardian “you can say so many things about the Soviet system that were bad, but in terms of public architecture it was g
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Videogames understand symbols, except when it comes to the Confederate flag
The Confederate flag: offensive symbol or just a distraction from the real debate?