We had a great time meeting and supporting the local developer community and hosting SF Hacker News (@SFHackerNews) for their mixer and lightning demos last Thursday. BitTorrent’s mission is to build a better internet for everyone. We were thrilled to hear about the awesome projects people are working on! Thanks to Dan Gailey (@DPG) for…

In this edition of Staff Picks: an inside look at the Oscar-shortlisted film The Road Home, Rahul Gandotra’s exploration of identity and otherness in the Himalayas. A young boy of Indian descent escapes from a remote boarding school, plane ticket to London in hand. In running away, he learns he can’t run from everything; especially…

In this edition of FDL: Digital Evolution. 23 year-old London native Illectrix has a style based on synthesis: part funk, part electro, part glitch; all soul. From synthesis, to a step change. The artist’s new album, Digital Evolution, reflects a lot of work in the lab: sounds, ideas, and genres transformed into tactile, visceral electronic…

MDBP 2014 tickets are on sale now. Grab the interactive mixtape, including the world premiere of new remixes of Diplo’s hit “Biggie Bounce” and “Boy Oh Boy” right here. The idea of the music festival is semi-mythic to us: Woodstock is a high school history lesson, and a hand-me-down, and an entire genre of clothing…

Ricky Rouse Has a Gun (SelfMadeHero), a new graphic novel from Jörg Tittel, illustrates all the weirdness of contemporary copyright culture — and our need for new sources of inspiration. These are strange days for intellectual property. We live in quotes and click-able links. We accept retweets as a measure of meaning. Curation is, like,…