Original Recipe | This American Life ⇥
Chicago NPR program “This American Life” thinks they’ve found the original Coca-Cola recipe. This is quite similar to a recipe that’s been floating around since the year 2000.
Day: 15 February 2011
moby.com ⇥
A brand new Moby album won’t be out until May, but there’s a free (email required) EP available right now, and it’s awesome. The first song is quite shoegazey, the second more danceable and the last is a little more minimal. Really fantastic.
Apple Launches App Store Subscriptions For Digital Content | Epicenter | Wired.com ⇥
The advantage Apple has is that they have both the consumer and producer aspects under their thumb, with millions of iOS devices sold, paired with their media-producer contracts. The question is going to be whether old-world media can successfully adapt to media that isn’t new any more.
Ferrucci on Watson’s Jeopardy performance: Day One ⇥
Day one and game one for the Jeopardy AI wünderbot, and things aren’t looking rosy so far.