Ba da ba ba bah, McDonald’s is capturing and storing biometric data on its customers without their knowledge or consent. Pera reportfrom The Register, McDonald’s may be facing a class action lawsuit after an Illinois customer sued the mega-corporation for allegedly violating the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA): (The plaintiff) sued McDonald’s … on behalf of himself and all other affected residents of Illinois. He claimed the fast-chow biz has broken BIPA by not obtaining written consent from its customers to collect and process their voice data....

The iconic Type Atlantic 57 SC coupe, produced between 1934 and 1940, is admittedlya piece of Bugatti legend. It’s elegant, sporty, luxurious, and rare, with only three cars still in existence. Credit:Habib Orhan Almost 100 years later, designer Habib Orhan has introduced hisBugatti Hommage 100 2036 concept car that reimagines the emblematic coupe as a futuristic electric-powered model. Its spaceship-like shape is redefined in a more three-dimensional way, inspired by the Atlantic 57 SC and the C shape of the Ventoux coupe....

A new artwork has inverted the application of predictive policing. Instead of forecasting crimes committed by civilians, the project predicts which civilians will be killed by police. The future victims are memorialized on a website calledFuture Wake. None of them, however, are real people. Each identity and story is generated by AI. Yet the predictions about their deaths are based on historical events. Future Wake was funded by Mozilla and created bytwo artist-technologists called Oz and Tim....

“The biggest way technology can disrupt art is by providing exposure for the artists. Right now to find emerging artists you’d have to know their specific name to search for them on Google or gallery hop every weekend in Chelsea. Artsicle helps the artists find exposure earlier and make the money they need so they can continue to be artists.” -Artiscle Co-Founder Alexis Tryon What isArtsicle? It’s a disruptive platform showcasing emerging artists to the world with a rental model for everyman art lovers....

Over the years, WordPress has introduced more and more features, which, although make the software a more robust blogging platform, have made the writing UI more cluttered. Nevertheless, I have gotten so accustomed to it, so much so that I have found myself preferring it over many other writing tools and applications simply because it works, autosaves and I need nothing else. There came a time however when I realized that I was becoming more focused on formatting than the actual content and to be quite frank, the standard WordPress editor isn’t exactly the most user-friendly interface, and it’s not particularly eye-catching either....