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While the avalanche of announcements may have made it seem otherwise, today officially marks the first day of Mobile World Congress 2019, and aside from all the ambitious, weird, and sophisticated new handsets on display at the show, without a doubt the other big topic for the show is 5G.
https://gizmodo.com/5g-is-going-to-be-an-incredibly-tough-sell-in-2019-1832771232
* ambitious
* weird
* sophisticated
* Galaxy S10 5G
* a new 5G modem from Qualcomm
* even more 5G-ready phones
* these maps
* nine markets beginning as soon as May.
* 12 cities that have 5G coverage
* AT&T’s nonsense term for real 5G
* Verizon’s in-home 5G is available
* nationwide 5G until 2020
* Moto Z3
* OnePlus founder Carl Pei said
* $750 Galaxy S10E, $900 S10, $1,000 S10+
* painfully expensive $2,000 Galaxy Fold
* LG’s V50 5G
* expected to hit 0.4 percent in 2019
One theme of the Mobile World Congress trade show is for companies to show off their future 5G products - or at least a prototype with a 5G sticker on...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14029/oppo-demonstrates-5g-smartphone
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* Oppo Demonstrates 5G Smartphone at MWC 2019
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* Oppo
* Snapdragon 855
* MWC 2019
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"Don't make me come down there, I'll bin the lot of you!"
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/pope-francis-spends-morning-dodging-phone-calls-from-an-irate-jesus-christ-demanding-answers/
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Volvo's electric- and performance-focused brand eschews the SUV trend with the fastback Polestar 2.
https://www.wired.com/story/polestar-2-electric-volvo/
* running on electrons
* SUV
* E-tron
* iPace
* Cadillac
* General Motors’
* with an SUV
* Porsche
* Volvo’s
* Elon Musk
* the Polestar 1
* based on an old Volvo concept
In his testimony before Congress Wednesday, Trump's former fixer gave the most convincing narrative yet about Trump's presidential run.
https://www.wired.com/story/michael-cohen-congress-testimony-credibility/
* Michael Cohen
* Donald Trump
* an item
* FBI agents raided his life
* yelling at journalist Tim Mak
* streaming web browsers
* blockbusters in his prepared morning remarks
* testified
* now 18 investigations
* Trump Tower Moscow project
* used his question time
* Trump love child
* the Steele “pee tape” existed
* end of the Mueller probe drawing closer
* FBI’s missteps
* writing on the wall
* even in recent days
* @vermontgmg
* Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
If you’re going through a big transition or simply feeling drained, it can help to go into “low power mode.” I heard this tip on the podcast “Happier With Gretchen Rubin” while I was on maternity leave, and immediately felt comforted. Low power mode—yes. During this period, you’re able to perform only the most critical functions, while postponing everything else until you’re back on full power. You’re conserving your energy so that you don’t have to shut down completely. (The term refers to the iPhone’s battery-saving mode, for the non-Apple people.)
https://lifehacker.com/put-yourself-on-low-power-mode-when-youre-feeling-deple-1832935868
* “Happier With Gretchen Rubin”
I first encountered the phrase “intuitive eating” on Instagram, and my first assumption was that it was another list of dieting rules wrapped in a pretty package of empowerment and self-care. Then I noticed the bagels. And the cupcakes. And the glasses of wine. Having struggled with my own sometimes disordered relationship with food, I recoiled a little at what appeared to be a free pass to eat whatever you wanted and declare yourself an intuitive eater.
https://vitals.lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-intuitive-eating-1832765380
* book
* the diet
* diets fail
* crave more food, feel less full, and slow our metabolism
* 10 principles of intuitive eating
* Aaron Flores
* consensus has grown around the beneficial nature of these
* on Instagram
* One recent post
The Nubia Alpha is a smartwatch with a lot of the functionality of a regular smartphone. We saw it shown off in a non-touchable capacity at IFA last year, and now at MWC 2019 we’ve finally had a chance to strap it on our wrists and take it for a proper test drive.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18240370/nubia-alpha-release-date-price-features-wearable-smartwatch-flexible-display-mwc-2019
* iPad Pro
* Pixel Slate
* Galaxy Fold
* Mate X
* IFA last year
* MWC 2019
One of the biggest talking points this year at Mobile World Congress is the emergence of folding phones. The two largest smartphone vendors in the wor...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14016/huawei-mate-x-vs-samsung-galaxy-fold-ask-the-press
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* Huawei Mate X vs. Samsung Galaxy Fold: Ask the Press
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* Ian Cutress
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* Huawei
* Mobile
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* MWC 2019
* Mate X
* Foldable Smartphones
* Galaxy Fold
* Samsung Announces The Galaxy Fold: The First Folding Display Smartphone
* Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction
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It can be a fun surprise when you bump into someone you haven’t seen in awhile—for about five minutes. Then it veers into “let’s meet for coffee” territory, which reminds you of why you haven’t really been in touch with this person in the first place. Here’s how to turn down the idea of a catch-up coffee without turning an old acquaintance into an enemy.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-say-no-to-meeting-up-with-an-acquaintance-1832933047
* provided a script for when you want to refuse to hang out
* your inbox
by Anton Shilov on February 25, 2019 8:00 AM EST Posted in Wearables Smartphones Nubia MWC 2019
Nubia, a division of ZTE, ...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14025/nubia-at-mwc-2019-wearable-oled-smartphone-coming-to-a-wrist-near-you
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* Nubia at MWC 2019: Wearable OLED Smartphone Coming to a Wrist Near You
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During investigation, researchers found different isotope in crematory operator.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/heres-why-you-shouldnt-cremate-radioactive-dead-people/
* prohibits crematoriums from burning radioactive waste
* lutetium Lu 177 dotatate
* .0075 rems per hour
* 5 rems per year,
* 0.1 rems per year
* 10.1001/jama.2018.21673
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Jaybird is back with a second generation of its truly wireless Run headphones, the Run XT, which offer an improvement over the originals by adding full IPX7 waterproofing and some new colors options.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/29/18201390/jaybird-run-xt-waterproof-truly-wireless-headphones-exercise
* which suffered from unreliable Bluetooth connectivity problems
Three years ago, after leaving a job and with (very) little to do, I used part of my savings on an improv class at Upright Citizens Brigade. By all accounts, I was not very funny or quick. I also couldn’t stop sweating and most people in my class thought I’d dunked my head in the sink during breaks (they weren’t wrong).
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-better-small-talk-1832124157
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I’ve been a pretty good sleeper for most of my life — like the kind of sleeper who, when uninterrupted, will peacefully slumber until 2 p.m. no matter what time she goes to bed — but something changed after I moved to New York City a few years ago. I can still sleep a full day away no problem, but actually falling asleep has become a major issue for me. It might be that the city is never really quiet, or that the sky never gets completely dark here, or just the constant, nagging stress of being an adult (OK, yeah, it’s probably that last one), but I’m now well acquainted with the prolonged torture that is tossing and turning for hours, willing your mind to shut the fuck up so you can at least enjoy a few hours of sweet oblivion. Which is why I was excited to try out Felix Gray’s brand new Sleep Glasses.
https://theinventory.com/i-passed-the-fuck-out-after-wearing-these-new-felix-gra-1831582140
* Felix Gray’s brand new Sleep Glasses
* the brand that made blue light-blocking computer glasses look cool
* backed by the 2019 Sleep Better Report
* medical studies
* Faraday frames in Burnt Amber
* Sleep Glasses
Dropbox first appeared on the startup scene with its debut at Y Combinator Demo Day way back in the summer of 2007. Since then, the company has grown to hundreds of millions of users and to a value of more than $10 billion dollars — putting it in a cherry position for a much-anticipated initi…
http://social.techcrunch.com/gallery/a-brief-history-of-dropbox/
* Y Combinator Demo Day
Tiny biological messengers are being used by an Australian team that is devising new treatments for lung diseases.
https://www.createdigital.org.au/nanotechnology-lung-disease-breathe-easier/
Icelandic actor Hafthor Bjornsson (Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane) has revealed the final season of Game of Thrones was so demanding that he had to use a st
https://www.techly.com.au/2019/01/24/game-thrones-season-8-brutal-even-mountain-needed-stunt-double/
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* 180kg/400lbs bodyweight.. in the best shape of my life and about to squat 440kg/970lbs on Monday. Stay tuned motherfuckers. • • • @australianstrengthcoach @andrimarinn @stefansolvi @roguefitness @sbdapparel
* Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
More people should eat pasta for breakfast. The combination of carbs, fat, and (sometimes) protein welcomes one into the world in a most comforting way, and often there is cheese. It also tends to reheat well, which means you can make a big batch and eat from it throughout the week. There is no downside.
https://skillet.lifehacker.com/eat-lasagna-for-breakfast-1832020795
* cacio e pepe
* a simple sausage gravy
* this 10-hour recipe
Apple has temporarirly disabled its Group FaceTime feature to fix a major security flaw. FaceTime has allowed attackers to listen in on people before they pick up a FaceTime call on an iPhone or Mac
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18201667/apple-group-facetime-disabled-server-side-major-security-flaw-fix
* A bug in Apple’s FaceTime video calling feature
* disabled the Group FaceTime
* October 30th with iOS 12.1
* scheduled introduction
* security flaw was discovered
* consumer alert
Do you thrive on Outlook email, but wish you didn't have to stare at your PC or phone to catch new messages? You don't have to... if you have the right devices....
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/07/microsoft-cortana-checks-email-by-voice/
Samsung practically stole the show at CES with its massive 146-inch MicroLED TV, The Wall. But that's not something most people will be able to afford. That's w...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/07/samsung-qled-2018-hands-on/
Last year Google revamped its Street View cameras to help us better map the real world, now it's taken the technology to a much more magical land. From today, y...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/06/google-adds-disney-parks-to-street-view/
* revamped
* explore
* Pandora
* Star Wars
* area
Oculus Rift users today found that their headsets were not working, and the problem appears to be an expired certificate.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17092084/oculus-rift-headsets-stopped-working-expired-certificate
* reported by Neowin
* In a tweet
To-do lists are the bane of many people’s existence but also a necessary evil if you want to maximize your productivity. Just because it’s necessary doesn’t mean it has to be boring—there are plenty of apps that turn getting stuff done into a game, and we’ve rounded up the best of them.
https://www.reviewgeek.com/2319/these-5-apps-turn-your-to-do-list-and-productivity-into-a-game/
* iOS
* Android
* website
* Android
* iOS
* CARROT
* FreakyAlarm
* Forest
* conejota
At CES a reporter had a question for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. What could he say to alleviate the concerns of fans who felt that the new RTX 20-series GPUs were overpriced and trying to force ray tracing technology on customers who don’t have much use for it? Huang smiled, with a mixture of serenity and satisfaction. “2060,” he said as if those four numbers were the secret to life and all of Nvidia’s success. Huang was referencing the just announced Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU, a card that’s pricier than its equivalent in previous generations, but still your most accessible entry point to the future of graphics.
https://gizmodo.com/the-nvidia-rtx-2060-is-perfectly-adequate-1831849128
* That card was released almost two years ago
* l
* ike this one on Amazon going for $1,500
* Anandtech tested on a similar rig
* newly announced Radeon VII
Sonos is said to be working on a pair of high-end headphones that could cost $300 or more and launch next year. The headphones will reportedly support multiple smart assistants, as Sonos’ latest speakers are designed to do.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195947/sonos-headphones-in-development-high-end-first-pair
* According to Bloomberg
* are designed to do
* quite a few high-end headphones
* Bloomberg has reported
"They were out of Maroons plates" he says disappointedly.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/local-tradie-blows-entire-marketing-budget-on-personalised-plates/
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You know who does creepier stuff with your data than Cambridge Analytica? Your ISP
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/21/the-death-star.html
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* Twitter
* Facebook
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* repeatedly caught sucking up all your clicks
* selling your data
* charging you hundreds of dollars extra a year
* Comcast wants to do the same
* the GOP destroyed even those
* California Democrats killed a state-level plan
* If You're Pissed About Facebook's Privacy Abuses, You Should Be Four Times As Angry At The Broadband Industry
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* Help Wanted: a Data and Democracy specialist for for the UK Open Rights Group
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* Even after you turn off Facebook location tracking, Facebook tracks your location
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* Facebook let Netflix and Spotify read the private messages of its users
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* Move your data freely across all your devices with this key app
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* This Raspberry Pi course teaches all makers need to know
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* This writing assistant is more than just a spell-checker
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Facebook was forged in its founders image. So unlike traditional companies—say Google or Microsoft—Zuckerberg’s silence has already harmed his bottom line.
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-trust-in-facebook/
* posted on his Facebook profile
* in the last five days
* told Bloomberg BusinessWeek
* spoken
* philanthropy and investment outfit
* he traveled to all fifty states
* arrived in September 2006,
* battered image
* Facebook allowed third parties to access vast amounts of our personal information
* even Facebook
* his undoing.
* lack of access
* unchecked ordination.
"Anyway. Should be good. We are going to get so crunk!"
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/gen-x-workmate-says-he-feels-like-getting-crunk-this-weekend/
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Optimizing battery use to minimize emissions is possible, but generally overly expensive.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/residential-batteries-may-save-households-money-but-rarely-reduce-emissions/
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* in the beginning of 2017
* Want to minimize your home’s carbon footprint? Go for solar, forget the battery
* a press release
* http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b03834
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If you’re learning CSS, or you want a friendly introduction to some of its terms and concepts, try 30 Seconds of CSS. Each entry on this site shows a different bit of code, demonstrates the result, and explains how each part of the code works. Here are some entries you’ll understand even if you’re not a designer or developer:
https://lifehacker.com/learn-some-css-30-seconds-at-a-time-1823961025
* second
* second
* second
* second
* second
* second
* LittleSnippets.net
51,000 of them to be exact.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/did-you-know-theres-actually-a-community-of-people-who-live-on-the-gold-coast-full-time/
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At the Open Compute Project Summit this week, Intel previewed their upcoming enterprise Optane SSD in the M.2 form factor, currently planned to be nam...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12562/intel-previews-optane-enterprise-m2-ssd
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* M.2
* NVMe
* 3D XPoint
* Optane
* Optane SSD DC P4800X
* Optane SSD 900P
* Optane SSD 800P
* too large for an M.2 drive
* SSD DC P4501
* Intel Previews Optane Enterprise M.2 SSD
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The stock market can be a scary place, especially if you’re just getting into trading or investing. However, some smartphone apps help decrease the barrier-to-entry and make it easy to get going. Robinhood is my favorite.
https://www.howtogeek.com/344853/how-to-buy-and-sell-stocks-on-your-smartphone/
* Robinhood
* Bitcoin Is Not a Currency, It’s an (Unsafe) Investment
* through their website
* iOS
* Android
* Acorns
* mentioned the app before
* M1 Finance
* Thinkorswim
* will cost you
This will be a really long post and will get a bit technical for some people. The TLDR version is that we have made a significant infrastructure upgrades in the last few months that will allow our service to scale in the coming years without any worries of downtime and potential data loss. We’ve been …
http://blog.inoreader.com/2018/03/success-story-inoreader-opennebula-storpool.html
* OpenNebula
* StorPool
* Equinix
* 3-day outage of Cast
* The FBI stole an Instapaper server
* major incident
* OpenNebula
* KVM
* StorPool
* use cases
* now used as primary hypervisor
* EMC
* Ceph
* StorPool
* website
* higher performance
* addon
* E5-2620
* Meltdown
* E5-2650 v2
* ViralVPS
* host=passthrough
* Graphite
* Grafana
* here
* MegaRaid SAS 9271-4I
* documented
Researchers detail the evolution of the world’s strangest fish, and describe how it could be a potentially powerful tool for scientists to study ocean life.
https://www.wired.com/story/mit-robot-fish/
* a paper
* Robert Katzschmann
* known as actuators
* air or oil to locomote
* swim bladder
* Hanumant Singh
I remember the moment my mother brought home our first chick, Victoria, better than I remember most of my birthdays. It was a warm, spring afternoon, and we came home from school to find my mother had finally started the flock she’d been wanting for so long. Looking at the downy fluff of Victoria’s body and her scrawny, dinosaur legs, it occurred to me then, as an eight-year-old, that I’d never really observed a bird up close before. Birds were probably my least favorite creatures, what with their beady eyes and sharp beaks, but Victoria was something else. She chirped in her sleep and made a mess of her water bowl and responded to treats just like all the puppies I’d loved before her.
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/get-your-kids-a-pet-chicken-1823949506
* some sleek DIY kits
* most people’s mortgages
Reaction with CO₂ gives lithium a protective coat that holds up to oxygen.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/new-lithium-air-battery-survives-hundreds-of-cycles/
* 10.1038/nature25984
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Virtual reality seems to have become a very tired topic to consumers, products are still getting made though because big tech companies are convinced of its eventual ubiquity. The challenge now becomes attracting attention from people whose attention spans for what you’re selling has perhaps …
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/03/21/first-impressions-of-the-199-oculus-go-vr-headset/
* Oculus
Elite: Dangerous’ largest player-led event kicks off January 13. Polygon will be embedded with the fleet, and there’s still time to join us.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/28/18159073/elite-dangerous-distant-worlds-2-expedition-fsd-upgrade
* Elite: Dangerous
* 400 billion star systems in our Milky Way galaxy
* El
* te
* Distant Worlds 2
* the original Distant Worlds expedition
* 3,000 player space battle
* exploration mechanics
* an excellent YouTube series
* the official website
The growth of Windows has slowed as Microsoft’s mobile platform goals have faded and the PC market matured. As a result, Microsoft has had to seek new revenue outside of its operating system.
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/04/08/in-a-slack-world-microsoft-bets-on-teams-and-yammer/
* announced
* to quote CNBC
* to a $20 billion run rate
* beat the goal
* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called
* Slack
* Microsoft’s Slack competitor
* wrote that
* rumored acquisition interest from Microsoft itself
* pretty much every big company in the sector you can name
* made headlines
* picked up guest access in February
* made it into mainstream tech publications
* retention policies
* bought Teams a friend
* Chalkup
* Yammer
* called, at the time, its
* search volume
* half-decade before
* into the market
* in December of 2015
* the $100 million ARR mark
* last September
* showering the company with cash
* Slack competitor launched
* fun to watch
Trump will never, ever be impeached and removed from office
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/05/you-dont-have-the-votes.html
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* Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT)
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* Trump Org. planned to give Vladimir Putin $50 Million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow
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* Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Russia Trump real estate project
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* Make your to-do list more doable with this revolutionary app
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* True PC power is now in a smartphone-sized package
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A technique based on genetic bar codes can easily map the connections of individual brain cells in unprecedented numbers. Unexpected complexity in the visual system is only the first secret it has revealed.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-brain-maps-with-unmatched-detail-may-change-neuroscience/
* Tony Zador
* a paper recently published by Nature
* the Allen Brain Atlas
* Justus Kebschull
* brain mapping technique called Brainbow
* Jeff Lichtman
* tantalizing, multicolored tableau of neon-colored neurons
* In MAPseq,
* new Nature paper
* Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
* such as schizophrenia
* and autism
* Hongkui Zeng
* Sreekanth Chalasani
* flood of transformative research
* Original story
* Quanta Magazine
* Simons Foundation
Dictionary app Reverso is getting new features with its 8.0 update. There are new exercices and games to help you learn new words. Reverso also now has an integrated thesaurus. Reverso is one of the biggest dictionary players out there. It now has over 40 million unique visitors on its website and …
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/04/08/dictionary-app-reverso-learns-new-tricks/
* Reverso
* Reverso
* wasting time scrolling through feeds
Running the continental grid at a higher frequency than normal added time to clocks.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/european-grid-dispute-resolved-lost-6-minutes-returned-to-oven-clocks/
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* James LeVeque
* Microwaves across Europe are 6 minutes slow due to a Serbia-Kosovo grid dispute
* confirmed that they were back to balancing their grids appropriately
* ENTSO-E announced
* Megan Geuss
* megan.geuss@arstechnica.com
* @MeganGeuss
Lego Mindstorms have paved the way for many programmable toys. And Austrian startup Robo Wunderkind is building a new kind of Lego-like programmable kit. The startup first launched on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage and just raised $1.2 million (€1 million) from SOSV, Austrian Federal Promotional Bank…
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/04/08/robo-wunderkind-wants-to-build-the-lego-mindstorms-for-everyone/
* Lego Mindstorms
* Robo Wunderkind
* on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage
* Robo Wunderkind
* two different apps
* on Kickstarter
For a minute there, 2018 was shaping up to be a year of new-organ discoveries. In January, Dr. J. Calvin Coffey, foundation chair of surgery at the University o...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/two-new-human-organs-arent-what-they-seem/
* leveraged in their study published in March
The virtual personal assistant is romanticized in utopian portrayals of the future from The Jetsons to Star Trek. It's the cultured, disembodied voice at humani...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/in-pursuit-of-the-perfect-ai-voice/
* Alexa
* Cortana
* Google Assistant
* Gartner predicts
* Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human–Computer Relationship
* Rebecca Kleinberger
* MIT Media Lab
* Quantified Communications
* a pitch that was 21 percent lower
* In an article in Wired
From Amiibos to Skylanders, game companies have led the 'toys to life' charge to translate real-world objects into digital worlds. But those have only transferr...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/microsoft-s-object-detecting-playmat-brings-toys-to-life/
* sets
* here
On March 30, the ACE Submarine cable cut out off the coast of Mauritania and resulted in significant connectivity drops for at least ten neighboring countries.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/8/17207556/submarine-internet-cable-mauritania-broken
* According to reports
* Alphabet’s balloons
* Facebook’s solar drones
In this post I show you how you can enable Remote Desktop on Windows 10 via Group Policy, PowerShell, WMI, or psexec because even the geekiest CLI geek sometimes needs to RDP into a remote Windows machine.
https://4sysops.com/archives/enable-remote-desktop-remotely-on-windows-10/
When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requ...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/do-i-need-a-smart-home-hub/
* Abode
* Stringify
* Yonomi
Wind turbines are usually concentrated in large open areas with few obstacles to airflow, but a new design could clear the way for people in city apartments to generate wind power at home.
https://www.createdigital.org.au/wind-turbine-renewable-energy-cities/
* International James Dyson Award
* high-tech take on a tape measure – the Macaron
* praised Noorani and Orellano
Paris-based indie developer Théo Le Du Fuentes goes by the name of Cosmografik, a fitting pseudonym for the creator of Vandals, a turn-based puzzle game...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/09/vandals-street-art-and-stealth/
* telling stories
* Type:Rider
* drawings of male genitalia
* Vandals
The creators of HBO’s Westworld have announced a novel plan to combat the perils of online spoiler culture: they’re going to give away all of the big secrets from the show’s upcoming second season before a single episode airs. Creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy made the announcement during a Reddit AMA today, acknowledging it as a "potentially highly controversial decision."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216640/westworld-season-2-hbo-spoilers-reddit-ama-jonathan-nolan-lisa-joy
* made the announcement today during a Reddit AMA
* active Westworld subreddit
* show’s biggest surprises
* upvote the Reddit post announcing the plan
Apple announced that its business is now powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources. The news is a major victory that the iPhone maker has been working toward for years through the purchase of green energy bonds and other renewable investments in its supply chain and physical infrastructure.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216656/apple-renewable-energy-worldwide-climate-change
* announced today
* purchase of green energy bonds and other renewable investments
* announced two years ago
* purchases enough renewable energy to offset its global energy consumption
* Renewable Energy Certificates
* newly opened Apple Park campus
* 58-page Environmental Responsibility Report
* notably clashed with Trump
* they should dump their Apple stock
* pushed back against
Is the villain in Ready Player One based on Scientology leader David Miscavige?
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/is-the-villain-in-ready-player.html
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* Nolan Sorrento (played by Ben Mendelsohn), seems to be a dead ringer for Scientology leader David Miscavige
* #ReadyPlayerOne
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* April 1, 2018
* Make your to-do list more doable with this revolutionary app
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* True PC power is now in a smartphone-sized package
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* Become a certified Excel expert with this online master class
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At GamesBeat, Niantic chief predicts sci-fi future
https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/10/17221120/niantic-john-hanke-ar-gaming-pokemon-go
When the new Mac mini and MacBook Air debuted in late October, Apple added an online store listing for an upcoming Blackmagic eGPU Pro.
At the...
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/29/blackmagic-egpu-pro-december/
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Intel’s 9th Gen chips aren’t a massive leap ahead, but they show how the company is adapting for the future and the inevitable end of Moore’s Law
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/11/17963356/intel-9th-gen-chips-moores-law-future-processors-cores
* Intel’s 9th Gen Core processors are here
* sooner or later, Moore’s Law would break down
* focus on gigabit Wi-Fi
* unlikely partnership with AMD
Saud Al-Qahtani, a close advisor of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, was tasked with buying Hacking Team spyware, and apparently moonlighted as a member of online cybercrime website Hack Forums.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzjmze/saud-al-qahtani-saudi-arabia-hacking-team
* tried to hack a prominent Saudi dissident
* Amnesty International accused the country
* revealed
* aggressive push to quash dissent
* the state-led murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
* target dissidents
* a mysterious Saudi investor acquired 20 percent of the company
* as Motherboard reported earlier this year
* according to Reuters
* worked as media adviser
* Some called him
* Mr. Hashtag
* disseminate disinformation and harass critics
* large correspondence
* a message
* emails
* out
* Hacking Team
* was apparently satisfied with this response
* breached Hack Forums in 2011
* forum wiki
* Nokia2mon2
* Remote Access Tool
* relatively popular and easy to use
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Lucasfilm gives Star Wars fans their first look at The Mandalorian’s gunfighter and confirms five directors for Disney’s new TV show.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/4/17939032/star-wars-tv-series-mandalorian-first-photo-directors
* The Mandalorian
* previously announced by producer Jon Favreau
* Lucasfilm named five episodic directors
* an original Star Wars television series
* late 2019
Installed in the wake of recent high-profile mass shootings, controversial facial recognition systems that scan students’ faces could be the not-too-distant future for schools across America and beyond.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j53ba3/facial-recognition-school-surveillance-v25n3
* VICE Magazine's Power and Privilege Issue
* HERE
* recently offered up an open-source facial recognition system for use in schools
* $4 million through the Smart Schools Bond Act
* requested specific funds
* using tech developed by SN Technologies Corp.
* told the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
* worried
* Hundreds of documents related to Lockport’s new surveillance program
* website
* 4,500 students
* Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
* a letter to the New York State Education Department objecting to the use of this technology in schools
* Nestor
* teachers are more likely to perceive the faces of black students as angry
* a paper documenting the automated detection of student engagement
Razer is "refreshing" the Blade 15 lineup by offering a new lower-end model to make the gaming laptop family more accessible. On the flip side, Razer is also adding a Mercury White colorway of the new Blade 15 to ensure that there’s an offering for more than one type of gamer.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17955940/razer-blade-15-dual-storage-model-colorway-mercury-white-gaming-laptop
* a great gaming laptop for both work and play
* is available for purchase today
Making paper airplanes isn’t just a great low-tech boredom killer—it’s highly educational, too. Yep, all that time you spent folding spiral notebook paper into cool gliders in 11th grade economics, you were actually getting a lesson in design engineering. Neat, huh?
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/introduce-your-kid-to-this-database-of-paper-airplanes-1829946266
* Fold ‘N Fly database of paper airplanes.
* The Basic
* This one
* Fast Hawk
* Star Flight
* The Paper Airplane Guy
* The World Record Paper Airplane
* The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book.
* paper airplane-making episode
* world record for paper airplane flight
* Boing Boing
Hobgoblin? Carnage? She-Venom? Boasting big box office, Tom Hardy’s Venom is destined for a sequel. But with Sony developing more Spider-Man spinoff movies, what direction will they go? Looking back through comic history, here’s what source material that could be adapted.
https://www.polygon.com/comics/2018/10/12/17969932/venom-post-credit-sequel-venom-2-comic-stories
* Venom 2
* their own Marvel Cinematic Universe out of Spider-Man villains
* box office success of Venom
* Venom’s post-credit tease
* Morbius
* Sony’s Spider-Verse
* producers have said a solo film with Jared Leto as The Living Vampire
* this theme park ride
* the murderous She-Venom
* Death’s Head.
* ATF agent
* @tomtificate
Pedestrians don't necessarily need to synchronize their gaits to cause shaking.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/new-study-sheds-more-light-on-what-caused-millennium-bridge-to-wobble/
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* infamous collapse
* bit more complicated
* A phenomenon
* 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0564
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* Jennifer Ouellette
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It's a new design, but the improvements that count are on the inside.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/2018-ipad-pro-hands-on-improving-on-the-worlds-best-tablet/
* Adieu, home button—Apple’s new iPad Pros have nearly edge-to-edge screens, FaceID
* the old MacBook Air has been replaced
* Review: The 10.5-inch iPad Pro is much more “pro” than what it replaces
* Logitech’s Apple Pencil alternative arrives for all on September 12
* Valentina Palladino
New to World of Warcraft? This guide will break down important leveling perks and milestones you can look forward to as you level up!
https://www.wowhead.com/leveling-milestones-in-warcraft-guide
Latest fixes address an issue with extracting files from ZIP archives.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/windows-10-october-2018-update-still-not-released-running-out-of-october/
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* fixed that bug
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The machine has beefier specs and a higher price point than its predecessor.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/apple-finally-announces-an-overhauled-mac-mini/
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Scientists have begun to revolt after Bannon's inclusion as a speaker at the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9jnn/why-is-steve-bannon-giving-a-keynote-speech-about-nationalism-at-an-academic-tech-conference
* disinvited from the New Yorker Festival
* gold farms for a startup
* wide variety of peculiar tech projects
* a research professor at Boston College and the author of psychology textbooks
* Love and Sex With Robots
* He’s the
* Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ACE conference
* Cheok tweeted on September 4 above an article about The New Yorker Festival disinviting Bannon
* has a history of using social media to harass colleagues and critics
* a digital media researcher at the University of Madeira in Portugal
* Senior Research Fellow at the University of Falmouth’s Games Academy
* said on Twitter
* his combative attitude towards critics in the aftermath.
* Cheok tweeted as part of a multi-tweet long rant on October 29
* just that it’s using the university's campus as a host
Modern, big budget video games are all about instant gratification. 'Red Dead Redemption 2,' one of the biggest games of the year, is often slow and tedious, but that's the point.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/5987gd/red-dead-redemption-2-review
* my review of 2016's Doom
* Hugo Martin said
* the most profitable entertainment products of all time
* labor abuses in the video game industry
* second
Apple held a second hardware-centric fall event this morning in New York City, where the company launched updated iPad Pro models, a refreshed...
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/products-not-announced-at-october-30-event/
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With "The Abyss," No Man’s Sky takes a turn toward horror, with an expansion that adds terrifying monsters and a creepy new storyline to the sci-fi exploration game.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/30/18041934/no-mans-sky-travel-diary-the-abyss-halloween-sci-fi-game
* a series of journal entries
* came to a conclusion back in August
* The Abyss
* it may not be all that exciting
Apple announced a new MacBook Air during a hardware event in New York. The new MacBook Air finally gets a Retina display as well as modern processors, 50 percent thinner bezels, and an updated keyboard. It’s the first major refresh of the MacBook Air in years and finally turns it into a modern, competitive machine — but how does it stack up with Apple’s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro?
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/30/18042744/apple-macbook-air-2018-vs-pro-comparison-specs-features-best
* announced a new MacBook Air
* some of the issues
The bizarre incident happened during the installation of an MRI machine and was a surprise to everyone except Apple.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gye4aw/why-a-helium-leak-disabled-every-iphone-in-a-medical-facility
* post
* video
* iFixit
* detailed explanation
Sarah Petkus is rethinking how we use technology to communicate sexuality.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyea99/she-bon-cyborg-suit-sarah-petkus
* camera eyeballs
* bionic limbs.
* maker treatment
* the whole setup SHE BON.
* robots are becoming more human
* become more like robots
Planar magnetic headphones are the HiFi tech du jour via impressive (but pricey) recent models like the Blue Ella and Audeze Sine. Now, RHA has brought the tech...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/23/rha-cl2-planar-magnetic-earphones-wireless/
* RHA's site
* IFA 2018
Microsoft's vision for the Xbox as a service might become clearer in the very near future. Windows Central has heard that Microsoft is prepping a Xbox All Acc...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/22/xbox-all-access-rumor/
* hinted
* pushing cloud services
* cloud-only Xbox console
In the past few years conversations about the media have evolved into heated debates about collusion, lies, ethics, confirmation bias, gatekeepers and, of cours...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/22/hackers-trolls-manipulating-media/
* fake Antifa pranksters
* ad-manipulating bots
* @JesseBWatters
* pic.twitter.com/MtwSmG5aIr
* July 16, 2017
* Facebook
* Twitter
The prequel to Suicide Squad will revolve around the Joker and Harley Quinn’s relationship. Penned by screenwriters Glen Ficarra and John Riqua, it apparently has lots in common with Bad Santa and This is Us, and not a ton in common with the DC Batman/Superman/Justice League movies.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/24/17897808/joker-and-harley-quinn-movie-dr-phil
* star of the upcoming Joker origin story
* his potential Suicide Squad spinoff with Harley Quinn
* Metro
* DC Extended Universe lore
* pretty catchy meme
In 2016, Evan Ungar set the box jump world record at 63.5 inches. Here's how he does it—and how he could go higher.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-vertical-leap/
* a CrossFit gym
* the vertical jump
As Telltale Games prepares to close for good, we look back at how the studio behind The Walking Dead and Minecraft: Story Mode helped change the way video game stories are told.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17896012/telltale-games-the-walking-dead-storytelling-gaming
* last week’s devastating news that the majority of Telltale’s talented staff had been laid off
* reports that the studio had been plagued by mismanagement and a toxic, workaholic culture
* In 2013, I called the studio the “HBO of gaming.”
* that released a game called Firewatch in 2016
* Ostensibly a typical teen thriller about a bunch of kids trapped on a haunted island
* the demonic drinking game Afterparty next year
* The series’s debut season felt remarkably like a TV show
* a three-episode prequel called Before the Storm
* the studio teased season 2 of Life is Strange with a standalone episode
* the first episode of The Walking Dead’s final season launched
Oculus says it finally has the right headset to deliver powerful VR without wires or PC.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/oculus-quest-a-fully-wireless-vr-headset-shipping-spring-2019-for-399/
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* Facebook changes an Oculus division’s name, invents term “Facebook Reality”
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* Our hands-on impressions of Oculus Quest
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At time of press, there were six garbage cans roaring in the executive floor of the Roosters offices.
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“Our marketing department’s solution was brilliant though, we just tightened the caps by 40%”
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This isn’t the first time Michael Atiyah has claimed to crack a big math problem and never followed up the claims with publication, however.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3j3kk/a-mathematician-may-have-just-solved-a-a-160-year-old-dollar1-million-problem
* Researchers Discover a Pattern to the Seemingly Random Distribution of Prime Numbers
* major
* fail to be published
* claimed
* turned out to be a sham
* an explanation for the strange distribution of prime numbers
* Numberphile
* Numberphile video
* proof
* seven most difficult math problems
* only one
For $300, HTC will cut that annoying tether tying you to your VR-ready PC.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/vive-wireless-adapter-review-compromise-free-vr-for-a-price/
* Oculus Go
* Samsung's Gear VR
* Oculus Rift
* HTC Vive
* Vive Wireless Adapter
* bulky backpack laptop
* spare the $300
* Intel to stop making WiGig cards for laptops but still pushing 60GHz for VR [Updated]
* WiGig adapter card
* a different receiver model
* questionable in-home game streaming
* The Lab's bullet hell space shoot 'em up "Xortex,"
* the excellent rhythm game Beat Saber
* HTC Vive Pro review: Eye-popping VR, with a price that’s a little too real
* $1,100 for the Vive Pro
Fortnite today, Sony "now in the planning process... for other titles going forward."
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/sonys-walled-garden-cracks-open-cross-console-play-comes-to-ps4/
* Sony is locking Fortnite accounts to PS4, and players are mad
* writes in the announcement
* Why Microsoft is finally pushing for cross-platform online gaming
* threw down the gauntlet on cross-console play
* complaints
* multiple game developers
* locked them out
* issued what it called a "non-negotiable" demand
* "happy to have the conversation"
* there wasn't "a profound philosophical stance"
* he was "confident" that a cross-console "solution" was coming
We explain why Apple's decided to go after a condition you may never have heard of.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/whats-atrial-fibrillation-and-whys-your-watch-telling-you-about-it/
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Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 has an upgradeable processor cartridge design that could be used on other Surface hardware. The software maker originally filed a patent for a modular Surface Studio PC
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17904860/microsoft-surface-hardware-modular-processor-upgrade-cartridge-studio-pc
* now ship in two versions
* Microsoft’s all-in-one PC was originally unveiled
* Patents that appeared
* seemed like the perfect monitor
* patent filings show
* Phone makers have tried it
* made its smart TVs upgradeable
* tiny PC attached to a monitor
The special counsel and former FBI director was spotted in the Georgetown Apple store today, working with a Genius bar employee to get help with a MacBook Pro.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/9/26/17907408/robert-mueller-apple-store-tech-support-genius-bar
* Meghan Pianta
* Kelly Cohen
* a strong likelihood
Oculus has announced that YouTube VR is coming to its Oculus Go headset "soon," following a launch on the Gear VR headset earlier this year, and filling a notable gap in its video ecosystem.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17906550/youtube-vr-oculus-go-mobile-app-launch
* announced the news today
* the Samsung Gear VR
* live Oculus Venues app
* Oculus Quest headset
Jordan and Sylvester Stallone are back for Creed 2, and a new trailer introduces a new set of challenges they’ll both face. Ryan Coogler also returns, sliding into a producer role for director Steven Caple Jr. (The Land), but overseeing the Rocky sequel franchise that he established with thunder.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/26/17905510/creed-2-trailer-michael-b-jordan-sylvester-stallone-rocky
* following a debut trailer in June
* Killmonger
* Black Panthe
How many times have you been sitting on the couch, controller in hand, and thought, "If only I could play video games for a living"? While life isn't quite
https://www.techly.com.au/2018/09/27/master-warcraft-darren-williams-turned-casual-programming-senior-role-blizzard/
* Andrew Miller
* 100 million registered accounts by 2014
* US$10 billion in revenue by 2017
* Battle for Azeroth expansion
It was in 2005, before Slipknot played at the Big Day Out, that the tattoo appeared.
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It's only a personal Terminator-style guardian for one of Australia's most precious natural resources. Coral bleaching has taken front and centre as far as
https://www.techly.com.au/2018/08/31/a-robot-assassin-is-set-to-guard-the-great-barrier-reef/
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* QUT Professor Matthew Dunbabin said
If you’re looking for a flight (say, for your next long-distance trip), you’ll want to know the ins-and-outs of the airline’s cancellation policy should you need to change or cancel after you’ve purchased your ticket.
https://twocents.lifehacker.com/cancel-a-flight-for-free-with-the-24-hour-rule-1828627155
* next long-distance trip
* Department of Transportation
* some airlines
* entire weekend to mull over your decision
* Business Insider notes
* won’t appear
* Delta and JetBlue
Four MQ-25 “Stingray” prototypes will set course for active carrier drones by 2024.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/boeing-wins-competition-to-build-navy-drone-tanker-prototypes/
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Whether you’re having family over or renting out your place on AirBnb, making your smart home tech easy for your guests is a good idea. Here are a few tips on how to do that.
https://www.reviewgeek.com/6506/how-to-make-your-smart-home-tech-guest-friendly/
* over at How-To Geek
* color or temperature
* a dimmer switch kit
* one-touch buttons
* switch guard
* this link to add a new profile
* the Profiles section of your account page
* a YouTube Kids account
* create multiple profiles for different kids
* yodeling Japanese men
* using a keyless lock
* Kwikset Kevo
* a keypad lock
* what your gadgets are called
A chocoholic rat named Marco helped scientists find special brain cell network.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/scientists-found-brains-internal-clock-that-influences-how-we-perceive-time/
* confirmed the mechanism
* a new paper
* said Tsao
* 10.1038/s41586-018-0459-6
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It’s been a bit of a drag to be a PC gamer over the last year or so. Cryptocurrency miners gobbled up all of the graphics cards in an already somewhat niche market, sending prices for high-end and even mid-range GPUs skyrocketing. That has changed.
https://www.howtogeek.com/363700/its-finally-safe-and-affordable-to-buy-graphics-cards-again/
* more economical to buy a pre-made gaming PC
* explain blockchain encryption
* altcoins
* are now deep in the hole
* cost of creating them when you factor in electricity and computer hardware is only going up
* a recent quarterly financial report
* topped out at a whopping $719 on Amazon
* isn’t as risky as you might think
* the first super-expensive cards in its long-awaited RTX series
* CoinMarketCap
* CamelCamelCamel
When you go to your cell carrier, they’ll give you an expensive phone up front and let you pay monthly for it for two years. Now, Microsoft might be considering the same kind of deal for an Xbox One.
https://www.reviewgeek.com/6774/would-you-pay-a-monthly-fee-to-buy-an-xbox-over-two-years-like-a-cell-phone/
* the sticker shock of buying a console
* Xbox Live Gold
* Xbox Game Pass
* Windows Central
* CNET
"If only there was something we could do about it - or somebody to voice my concerns to."
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/tony-abbott-stopped-by-police-for-absolutely-no-reason-whatsoever-for-the-first-time/
* Contact
So, readers, I’m pregnant! Third trimester. Boy. Current physical state: low and slow. I’m excited, a little overwhelmed and feeling all the feelings.
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/let-your-kid-hate-their-new-baby-sibling-1828571865
It’s hard to know what sizes you need to keep a baby properly clothed. Maybe you’re a new parent who doesn’t know, well, anything; maybe you’ve had a bit of a gap since the last kid and you need a refresher. Or you’re a childless person who is about to go to a baby shower with half a dozen newborn-sized ball gowns. Put them down and read these tips for picking out baby clothes first.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-buy-the-right-baby-clothes-1828559940
* thread
* u/rock_fact
* koolman2
* qOJOb
* dns12999
* vivagypsy
* kittifish
* naigung
Sexting is one of those private matters that we don’t talk that explicitly about—perhaps because admitting we sext tips people off to the existence of digital nudes. Let’s unlock our phones and discuss textual stimulation out in the open.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-sext-1828543554
* wrote
* claimed
* according to
* blogs a lot about dating
At this year’s IFA in Berlin, headphones manufacturers brought out a litany of meaningful, tangible, delightful improvements that have made the wireless audio market much more competitive and exciting than it was just a few days ago.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17803728/wireless-headphones-usb-c-google-assistant-siri-ifa-2018
* overdue
* 1000X M3s
* PX
* Momentum True Wireless
* Lagoon
* AptX Adaptive audio codec
* rumored to be launching
“To be recognised for this means so much to me”
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/local-mum-receives-international-accolades-after-evenly-defrosting-entire-beef-casserole/
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Google's Titan Security Keys, used to lock down accounts, are produced in China. Several experts want more answers on that supply chain process, for fears of tampering or security issues.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4zy3/transparency-google-titan-security-keys-china
* more robust two-factor authentication
* has previously said
* pointed to backdoors
* introduced into products from Cisco
* wrote in a blog post in July
* wrote in Thursday’s blog post
* say they manufacture their products
* tweeted on Thursday
Chris Roberts steps up to defend his team on the official message boards, only to later announces all streams will be free for fans with a valid set of community credentials.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/31/17806598/star-citizen-citizencon-free-how-to-stream
* Star Citizen
* a free Star Citizen community account
* the project’s official forums
* more than 2,000 upvotes
* over 2,400 upvotes
* a lengthy defense
* more than $193 million
* numerous controversies
* inception in 2012
* breach of contract
* conspiracy
* either of the products
* since 2016
* small fraction of the project’s multiplayer
Secret No. 4 on Doom 2’s Map 15 has been found without cheats, giving Zero Master 100 percent secrets found on the level for the first time. Doom 2 came out in 1994.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/31/17807464/doom-2-last-secret-discovered-map-15-level-15
* has been considered a glitch
* put it on r/speedrun
A Tesla was caught on video going airborne after blasting over railroad tracks. Here's how to estimate its speed.
https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-fast-that-jumping-tesla-was-traveling/
* Telsa
* this particular article describing the event
* location in Google Maps
* Here is an example of the motion of a soccer ball (with air)
An Indian entertainment channel is poised to take over as the largest YouTube channel in the world.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qb54/the-rise-of-t-series-the-youtube-channel-that-will-soon-dethrone-pewdiepie
* an Indian entertainment channel
* murdered
* rakes in
* 500 million
* Association of South Asians in Media and Entertainment
* lags
“It seems this room contains everything required to impersonate the working class Australian from the view of a soft handed executive who would die of exposure after half a day on a worksite.”
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/entire-room-in-government-advertising-department-dedicated-to-hard-hats/
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North Korea ramps up espionage hacks that target the US and 16 other countries.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/as-two-koreas-shake-hands-hidden-cobra-hackers-wage-espionage-campaign/
* exposed Tuesday by security firm McAfee
* highly destructive attacks visited upon Sony Pictures in 2014
* reported finding Bankshot
* ThaiCERT advisory published Wednesday
Popularized by misogynists, fueled by white supremacists, and now espoused by the most popular rapper in the world.
https://www.wired.com/story/kanye-west-red-pill/
* proto-alt-right internet
* Fox News
* The Ambivalent Internet
* the patently false but very old idea
* catalyzed mass murderer Dylann Roof’s radicalization
* most popular
* get jokes off
* the "incel" community
* viral videos
* ‘doggo’
* best hope for civil discourse
High-performing blue teams are "purposive social systems"—they shut up and work.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/army-researchers-find-the-best-cyber-teams-are-antisocial-cyber-teams/
* Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
* a press release
* simulated cyber-espionage campaign against a fictional Internet of Things middleware company.
* explained in their paper,
I want to live in the Gemini’s universe. It’s one where the promise of on-demand hardware has been fulfilled. Where crowfunding, rapid prototyping, scalable manufacturing all of those good things have improved our lives by giving us the devices we both want and need. It’s the utopian dream of 2011,…
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/04/28/is-the-world-ready-for-the-return-of-the-pda/
* Gemini’s universe
Marvel made a blockbuster with dozens of characters and no origin backstories
https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/28/17290930/avengers-infinity-war-marvel-spider-man-black-panther-disney
* one of the most expensive movies ever made
* Thor: Ragnarok
* all the Infinity Stones
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed a way to make your walls smart, at a cost of $20 per meter
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/28/17289976/smart-wall-carnegie-mellon-disney-home
* have developed a way
* NBC News
* announced a system called Electrick
Tesla will be one of the first to tell you not to put too much faith in Autopilot. It's currently more of an advanced driver assist than a full self-driving sys...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/29/tesla-owner-faces-road-ban-for-autopilot-abuse/
"These hillbillys aren't ever gonna vote for me anyway. They are all in national electorates" she said to media this morning.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/palaszczuk-clears-nockatunga-sized-parcel-of-land-south-of-logan-for-new-bogan-farm/
"Peanuts!!!"
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/gen-x-comedian-brings-house-down-with-new-joke-about-how-kids-with-allergies-are-soft/
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Blue Origin's first test flight of 2018 was a success, and then some. After last-minute weather setbacks, Jeff Bezos' outfit completed its eighth New Shepard la...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/29/blue-origin-completes-highest-test-flight/
* launching a human-crewed flight
* New Glenn
Multiple people I know are convinced that Facebook is listening to their phone calls and in-person conversations. Call it the Microphone Myth. But why do these myths continue to persist despite there being no hard evidence?
https://www.howtogeek.com/349647/why-the-facebook-microphone-myth-continues-to-persist/
* It isn’t true
* a great episode of the Reply All podcast
* Facebook Isn't Spying On Everything You Say
* ran an article
* removing Facebook from your life
* How to Remove Facebook from Your Life (And Why That’s Nearly Impossible)
* Chinnapong/Shutterstock.com
The DS X E-Tense concept car looks like something straight out of Speed Racer.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/29/17286732/ds-x-e-tense-electric-concept-futuristic-take-on-old-school-racecars
* Mercedes-Benz Formula One car
* after the leader’s suspension broke
* almost totally phase out passenger sedans in North America in the coming years
* Lexus UX
* Nissan Xmotion
Superheroes beat Star Wars
https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/29/17299156/avengers-infinity-war-box-office-record-domestic-opening-weekend-star-wars-marvel-disney
* Disney
* conservative $225 million debut
* second
* Box Office Mojo
* Star Wars
* in its premiere weekend
* Marvel
* grossed more than a billion worldwide
The Transportation Security Administration is examining the possibility of doing away with passenger screening at small- and medium-sized airports across the United States, according to CNN.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17641038/tsa-ending-passenger-screening-small-airports-proposal
* according to CNN
* the TSA began
* eventually lifting the ban
* explored ways of hardening airport security
* TSA has quietly been tracking US citizens
Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies when it comes to minority employees, according to the organization’s latest diversity report.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/how-slack-got-ahead-in-diversity/558806/
* its 2017 diversity report
* has said
* involving employees
* Textio
* feature phrases
* study
* said
* implying
* feel supported
* letters@theatlantic.com
* Submit a letter
* Jessica Nordell
* Jessica Nordell
* Twitter
In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft's bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric Lundgren will spend 15 months in prison for selling discs that let people reinstall Windows on licensed machines. A federal appeals court this week upheld the sentence hande…
http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/how-microsoft-helped-imprison-a-man-for-counterfeiting-software-it-gives-away-for-free/
* Microsoft’s
* Look, you can still do it
* full blog post
Tesla may have struggled through "production hell" to build the Model 3, but the car has helped the company set a new record: $4 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2018, according to an earnings report published on Wednesday. It also reached another milestone: the Model 3 is finally starting to make Tesla some money.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17639588/tesla-earning-q2-2018-model-3-production
* earnings report
* the company doesn’t “die”
* many finished Model 3s currently sitting in parking lots
* first achieved in late June
* fired up a new production line in a tent
* workers from other parts of the company
* churned out Model 3s 24/7
* the company won’t need to raise new funding
* third Gigafactory in China
* two as originally stated
* build a fourth Gigafactory in Europe
* report surfaced that Tesla had opted against including driver monitoring technology
* worse than that of a Ford F-150
* thousands of workers
* warned his company of alleged “sabotage”
* filed a lawsuit
* there was the tent
* trade war
* officially winding down
* top engineers left
* hit back with a counterclaim of his own
* entire saga
* attempt to develop
* resulted in Musk calling one of the divers a “pedo”
Parents who share a Netflix account with their families know the distinct pain. After putting your kids to bed, you sit down to watch a sexy new drama (or for me, The Great British Baking Show), and up pops on your TV screen: “Because you watched Lalaloopsy: Festival of Sugary Sweets, here’s Luna Petunia, My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake!” Your shows! What happened to all your shows?!
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-your-kid-from-messing-with-your-netflix-his-1828036410
"The labour pains were almost too much"
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/man-in-adjacent-toilet-cubicle-needs-an-epidural/
It's offensive and archaic.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/heres-why-kink-shaming-the-poo-jogger-is-problematic-for-people-who-like-laying-cable/
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"Ahh that's good"
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It's becoming much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide from the air
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/its-becoming-much-cheaper-to.html
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"It's just shit" he says.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/sports/italian-mate-says-the-standard-of-soccer-in-2018-world-cup-has-been-pretty-shit-so-far/
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Comcast made good on weeks of hints by making an all-cash bid to buy 21st Century Fox for a whopping $65 billion — a direct challenge to Disney’s offer. A horde of Marvel fans are now actively rallying against Comcast’s bid for attempting to keep the Fox-owned X-Men from joining their fellow superheroes in Disney’s MCU.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/16/17461884/marvel-fans-fox-comcast-deal-x-men-mcu
* made good on weeks of hints
* Disney’s stock-based, months-in-the-making offer
* actually went up
* nothing particularly new
* for a while
* Disney made with Sony
* bullies local governments
* gifted with a Star Wars Land
* one of the most hated companies in America
Pastry chef tries her hand at making artisanal Skittles and Kit Kats
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/10/pastry-chef-tries-her-hand-at.html
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* Claire Saffitz
* Cheetos
* Twinkies
* digg
* Check out these gorgeous edible earths
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* Weaponized candy
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* Deranged candymaker creates many flavors all with one color
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* These bluetooth headphones recharge up to 10 times in their case
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* Make Facebook work for your business with this marketing course
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* This 360-degree wireless security camera is $45
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Everyone’s seen the horror stories. Someone placed an Internet connected camera in their home and left it open to attack, allowing strangers to eavesdrop on their most private moments. Here’s how to pick a camera that guarantees your privacy.
https://www.howtogeek.com/356189/how-secure-are-wi-fi-security-cameras/
* Wi-Fi-enabled security cameras
* Alphabet’s Nest Cam
* Amazon’s Cloud Cam
* scary stories
* SHODAN
* Internet of Things
* Alphabet’s Nest Cam
* Amazon’s Cloud Cam
* Netgear’s Arlo
* two-factor authentication
* firmware
* They have reputations to uphold
* Are My Smarthome Devices Secure?
* Wyze Cam
* thought the Wyze Cam worked pretty well
* ThroughTek
* Wyze Camera Review: The Cheapest Home Security System You'll Ever Find
* Foscam
* Nest account
* Amazon account
* What Is Two-Factor Authentication, and Why Do I Need It?
* Nest
* Amazon
One cautionary point: Pro-leisure science does not give permission to trance out on Twitter or graze Netflix endlessly.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-you-should-slack-off-to-get-some-work-done/
* at work
* secret to true productivity
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Last month when we learned that Joshua Schulte still had not been charged for allegedly providing CIA hacking information to Wikileaks despite being in custody...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/19/vault-7-joshua-schulte-wikileaks/
* still had not been charged
* providing CIA hacking information to Wikileaks
* charged with 13 counts
* Politico
* Vault 7
Bernard and Maeve make important strides of their own in the season’s penultimate episode
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/17/17468578/westworld-season-2-episode-9-recap-vanishing-point
* heartbreaking origin of the Ghost Nation tribe
* new insights about the creation of Bernard Lowe
* going to have a shot at redemption this season
* The Cradle was a big virtual simulation
* back in episode 2, “Reunion.”
* during his interrogation in episode 7
* Ford told Bernard in “Les Écorchés”
By Federico Viticci
"There's something in your latest scan that we need to double check."
Here's what I've learned about cancer as a survivor: even on...
https://www.macstories.net/stories/second-life/
* proton beam
* I last wrote about my life after cancer
* mens sana in corpore sano
* lots
* more
* my story from three years ago
* second
* second
* approach
* I mentioned earlier this year
* Headspace
* soothing voice
* Headspace premium
* Apple's Breathe
* free
* David Foster Wallace's This Is Water speech
* Apple's Heart Month challenge
* I wrote on MacStories
* second
* my Apple Ecosystem story from March
* cardio zone
* wasn't too tight
* move
* available on the market
* Polar H10 heart rate monitor
* pairing
* interval training
* anaerobic level
* manage risk factors for diseases
* Club MacStories
* second
* I often went to bed at 5 AM
* second
* Fantastical-like
* doughnut chart
* heart rate recovery
* second
* peak
* Kyle
* science
* times
* I highly recommend it
* Workflow article
* iPad review
Book review: A president and a factory novelist collaborate on a cyber-thriller. Oh. No.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/billl-clinton-and-james-patterson-take-on-the-cybers-in-the-president-is-missing/
There are plenty of things that can go wrong when you dock a boat, and if they do, the consequences can be expensive. It's a problem that Volvo Penta claims to...
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/18/volvo-builds-a-self-docking-yacht/
* automate
* Boat Parking Assistance
Recent Microsoft-Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey shows 87 percent of respondents are currently exploring, piloting, or deploying mixed reality in their company.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/06/21/mixed-reality-microsoft-june-2018-update/
* which you can read here
* Microsoft’s commercial customers
* LiveWorx
* must-watch
* @lorrainebardeen
In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news of Apple's acquisition), I outlined some of the probable outcomes for the app. The more optimistic one – the
https://www.macstories.net/stories/shortcuts-a-new-vision-for-siri-and-ios-automation/
* Future of Workflow article from last year
* acquisition
* announcements at WWDC
* SiriKit Intents
* shortcuts are "donated" by apps
* generated on-device
* NSUserActivity
* offer search results in Spotlight
* accomplish more
* have been around since iOS 10
* slightly improved it last year
* domain-specific approach
* include
* WorkflowKit framework I imagined last year
* introduced in Workflow 1.7
* Bear
* Things
* Ulysses
* widget
* INPlayMedia intent
* recurring theme this year
* unlike Google Assistant
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced bold plans to combine the technologies of his two biggest companies by placing rocket thrusters on future specialized models of Tesla’s Roadster. The thrusters won’t actually combust, according to Musk; instead, they will expel highly pressurized cold air.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/16/17459224/tesla-roadster-elon-musk-spacex-falcon-copv
* by placing rocket thrusters on future specialized models of Tesla’s Roadster
* supposedly one of the fastest cars in the world
* second
* the COPVs would take up a good chunk of the car
* that friction between the propellants in the engine tank and the COPV was to blame
* specific impulse of about 70 seconds
Microsoft and Adobe are extending their close partnership this week with the integration of Adobe PDF services into Office 365. Adobe’s PDF services will be available from the ribbon inside web...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17478090/microsoft-office-365-adobe-pdf-partnership
* redesign its Office web apps
* Office.com
* improve Photoshop on touchscreens
A look back at everything we tested and liked this month, as well as the most promising updates to the stuff we're already using.
https://www.wired.com/gallery/things-we-loved-may-2018/
You should never show a physicist a spaceship's control panel.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-fast-do-spacecraft-travel-in-the-expanse/
* The Expanse
* and here is the data in plot.ly
* rocket equation
At Montpellier Medical University in France, researchers are using 3D scanners to create "virtual cadavers" in hopes of solving the worldwide shortage of dead bodies.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17413270/virutal-cadaver-dissection-medicine-health
* worldwide shortage of dead bodies
* according to The Economist
* Guillaume Captier
* Artec 3D scanner
USB-C is here to stay, but if you’ve made the jump to the new port standard early, you might need a new USB-C to get your old ports back. And for most people, the one you can buy is the Satechi Aluminum Multi-Port Adapter V2.
https://www.theverge.com/this-is-my-next/2018/6/1/17413728/the-best-usb-c-hub-for-laptops-macbook-pro
* promise for a better future
* our ethics policy
With the public launch of iOS 11.4 earlier this week, Messages in iCloud is finally ready for prime time—and not a moment too soon. If you ever linked your phone number to Messages on multiple devices at once, you’d have to delete the same texts on each device over and over. Now, when your devices’ Messages apps are all linked through iCloud, what you do on one synchronizes to the others. Time saved; frustration reduced.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-find-and-set-up-messages-in-icloud-on-your-mac-1826485023
* just launched today
What Toto's "Africa" is really about
https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/what-totos-africa-is-rea.html
How the appearance of the Aeropress coffee maker has changed over time
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/01/how-the-appearance-of-the-aero.html
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* an article that shows the evolution of its coffee maker over time
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* Power tool company Makita sells a coffee machine
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* A LaTeX mod to draw coffee cup rings on your technical papers
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* California coffee cups to get cancer warning
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* Build new empires in the latest release in Sid Meier's Civilization franchise
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* This Alexa-enabled smartwatch is cheaper than an Apple Watch
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Search for Ubuntu in the Microsoft Store and you’ll see three versions: “Ubuntu 16.04”, “Ubuntu 18.04”, and “Ubuntu”. This means you can install a specific LTS version, or always have the latest LTS version.
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/there-are-now-three-versions-of-ubuntu-in-the-microsoft-store-heres-why/
* how to install and use the Linux bash shell on Windows 10
* Long Term Release (LTS) version of Ubuntu
* Ubuntu 16.04
* Ubuntu 18.04
* Ubuntu
* Ubuntu 18.04 launched in Windows Store
* at MSPowerUser
Lead researcher Kayle Bradshaw told the Advocate that there is strong reason to believe that there could be even more towns claiming to have a panther of their own.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-news/16-aussie-towns-boring-enough-to-make-up-a-rumour-about-a-panther-living-in-the-hills/
"I will never forgive them for everything they are doing to Australian society"
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/pauline-hanson-says-shell-never-forgive-muslims-for-turning-four-senators-against-her/
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We all need vitamins, but that doesn’t mean you need to take a vitamin. This week, science gave us another brick for the giant “vitamin pills are useless for most of us” sign that’s been under construction for a while. (It’s a metaphor, but I imagine it as something like the Hollywood sign, except nobody looks at it because they’re all busy shopping for vitamins in the valley below.)
https://vitals.lifehacker.com/which-vitamins-do-you-really-need-1826433744
* nothing but ramen all semester
* vitamins that look like they’ll improve our health often turn out not to have that effect
* Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
* 2012 review
* This week’s study
* Ritual
* Care/of
* sums up the appeal
* the CDC’s report from 2012
* top sources
Amazon bars Australians from shopping on its non-Aussie sites to put pressure on the government to rescind tax rule
https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/aussie-human-shields.html
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* Youtubers with millions of followers are dropping out, citing stress and burnout from algorithm kremlinology
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* Citing bad publicity and internal dissent, Google announces it won't renew contract to supply AI for US military drones
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* Amid wage stagnation, corporate leaders declare the end of annual raises triggered by increased profitability
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A Google executive told employees that the company won't renew its contract with Project Maven, bowing to concerns of more than 4,000 employees who've protested the deal.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-wont-renew-controversial-pentagon-ai-project/
* Project Maven
* according to Gizmodo
* reports
* not the only large tech company
* expand Project Maven
* revolutionize war
* ban
* Cambridge Analytica
"Jesus wept, mate," he uttered.
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/milk-from-rudd-era-discovered-in-local-sharehouse-fridge/
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For Lord of the Rings fans, a list of movies with magic, monsters, and fairy tale surprises.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/1/17374190/best-netflix-fantasy-movies
* Netflix
* Arthur Rackham
* dark ride
I recently installed a Google Home (GH) in my apartment and although the amount of actions the Google Assistant can do out-of-the-box is massive, things got really exciting when I discovered that GH…
https://medium.com/francesco-pongetti/listen-to-your-favorite-instapaper-articles-with-google-home-dd9b361996d3
* Homepage
* Life ho(p)ping
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* Francesco Pongetti
* amount of actions
* IFTTT
* Instapaper
* Narro
* Pushbullet
* Tasker
* Podcast Addict
* instructions
* his page
Narro is the simple way to listen to the web - a text to speech podcast app. Narro will take your bookmarked articles and read them back to you as a podcast.
http://www.narro.co/faq
* Register
* Log In
* bookmarklet, browser extension, or phone app
* Narro home page
* Narro apps
* Narro integrations page
* your Narro feed and home page
* instructions for subscribing
* recommended players page
* upgrade to Narro Pro
* contact me here
* Josh Beckman