With a $100 budget, Director Cullen Hoback set out to make a film. “I wanted to make something for nothing,” he says wistfully. Hoback and his team worked at a summer camp program in exchange for shooting the film there and luckily, had food and shelter paid for. They shot on used tapes and used real people instead of paying actors. FrICTION was shot it in 11 days. FrICTION questions what happens when you put a camera in a situation and start making suggestions in people’s lives....

How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data The Social Dilemma If you think Facebook wasn’t having enough troubles on its own,The Social Dilemmalanded on Netflix like a bomb leaving the company reeling from user drop-offs across its platforms. When the docu-drama dropped on Netflix in September, it sparked a surge in search interest around deleting social media and (ironically enough) anti-social media discussions… on social media. The docu-drama featured interviews with several former employees of social media giants like Facebook and Twitter who were tasked with developing new ways of keeping users scrolling....

Once again social media makes the news for breaking the news. This morning, President Obamaannouncedthat Osama bin Laden had been killed and captured. Fascinatingly it was on Twitter, some time earlier, that first rumors of Bin Laden’s death first circulated. It was an announcement on twitter at 9:45 p.m. PST on Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, that initially brought light to the fact that major news was to be announced....

Electric vehicles are becoming more and more popular, but still, range anxiety and charging time are obstacles to their widespread acceptance. Imagine, though, charging your car by simply changing lanes and driving over to special charging strips embedded in the road. That’s exactly the vision ofKhurram Afridi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University. Along with his team, they’re developinga groundbreaking approachto charge EVs without the need for cables....

As far as apologies go, it does’t get much more insincere than this… But, possibly with good reason. Yesterday, an unlikely pair, commentator/comedian Andy Levy and singer Chris Brown, went head-to-head on Twitter. Levy added a comment to a tweet from Brown that understandably caused a fair bit of controversy: Last night, Levy took to the air to give Brown an ‘apology’ he won’t forget in a hurry. Calling all Scaleup founders!...