Jacob Simon
68 posts
The Chinese real-life avatars spending "time" in prison.
It is surprisingly common, in China at least, for the wealthy to hire scapegoats to confess to unfavorable crimes. More unbelievable, though, is the practice of hiring lookalikes to serve the upper class’s prison sentences. Geoffrey Sant over at Slate has published an excellent article detailing the
Is the MP3 dead, or just a little senile?
While the rest of us are still bemoaning the lost physicality of records and CDs, Kill Screen contributor Kyle Chayka instead mourns a more recent victim in the death march of time: the humble MP3. Sure, MP3s are still around, but today we experience music less through our own curated playlists and
Will Oculus Rift be the first mass-market VR headset?
Backed Endorsed by id Software’s John Carmack, the Oculus Rift is a new VR headset that made its debut at E3. It’s also the technology powering USC’s Holodeck Project that we reported on a couple weeks ago. But today, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign that revealed a new design for the hea
