Simulations, SAFEs, and China beats America in AI patents

Editor’s Note The most consistent feedback we have gotten from Extra Crunch members is that I write too much, and the Daily emails are too long for mortals (and apparently my mother) to read. This is great feedback: a huge focus for Extra Crunch is to create signal from noise. To that end, we are […]

View More Simulations, SAFEs, and China beats America in AI patents

Facebook’s former chief security officer compares company to ‘The Matrix.’ Whoa.

A system designed to keep us docile while extracting value from every aspect of our dulled existence is both an extremely rough plot summary of the 1999 film The Matrix and a description of Facebook.  
Just ask the company’s former chief securit…

View More Facebook’s former chief security officer compares company to ‘The Matrix.’ Whoa.

Nokia’s revived Matrix phone could’ve been so much cooler

TwitterFacebook

HMD Global’s Nokia 8110 4G — a fresh take on the legendary phone best known for its appearance in The Matrix movie — disappointed some fans because it didn’t feature the spring-release mechanism on its front cover, as seen in the movie. 

The criticism is somewhat misguided, though, since the original Nokia 8110 was a simple plastic slider that never had the spring-release mechanism. Only the movie version had the spring-release feature for added coolness. 

However (and this will surely add to the confusion over this matter), the new Nokia 8110 4G almost had the spring-release mechanism; Nokia gave up on that design at the last minute.  Read more…

More about Nokia, The Matrix, Nokia 8110 4g, Tech, and Consumer Tech

View More Nokia’s revived Matrix phone could’ve been so much cooler