On my mind today……
Windows & Microsoft
- TLA types must be salivating at the prospects! Microsoft’s autonomous gliders seek out thermal updrafts to stay aloft
- Nice win for Azure. Microsoft to power Baidu’s self-driving project outside of China
Business & Technology
- Excellent news, if you’re a holder of INTC, or a stakeholder: Intel announces its next-generation Ice Lake chips unexpectedly early
- New battery tech is always exciting! Bill Joy’s New Battery
- My bullshit meter VUs are maxing out on this! This app is certified in the EU as a form of birth control. Is the US next?
- With each mention of how 3D printing will revolutionize yet another thing, I fear the hypetrain is starting to roll again! 3D printing will revolutionize how the Marine Corps fights
- Back when we thought big thoughts…. Sea Dragon is the Biggest Rocket We Ever Dreamed Of
- When you lay down with pigs, flies are your friend! From Aide to Single Mom
- Sadly, Hollywood thinks that all they need is the DMCA! Hacking in Hollywood: Why the Industry Needs to Shore Up Security
- Excellent. Carpe diem! Seriously though, they have to have been very well connected to have obtained the VC’s phone number. These 2 teens cold-called Sam Altman and became the youngest founders ever accepted to Y Combinator
- Android is fast becoming a ‘use-at-your-own-peril’ OS! Messaging Apps With Surveillance Malware Made It Onto Google Play Store
- That’s a lot of moolah! How Apple’s Deal with Google Clicks
- Isn’t that something else? It’s Not Just Google: White Male Discontent Has Come to the Tech Industry
- Is the Delorean brand that strong? A Flying Car From DeLorean Really Won't Need Roads
- One man’s meat… How Energy Hedge Funds Are Making Money as Oil Prices Stagnate
- On making Keystone Kops look like Mensa mavens… 24 hours later, ANOTHER massive Wells Fargo fraud scandal
- Have we lost our tech edge in aeronautical systems integration? The Terrifying, Ongoing Mystery of Suffocating Fighter Pilots
General Interest
- Seriously? This would shatter the dreams of young adults worldwide! Ménages à trois might be bad
- Good primer. The battle over Confederate statues, explained. Confederate statues have always been about white supremacy. That’s why they’re coming down.
- Wow. Pretty sure I didn’t want to know this! New Drone Footage Exposes the Horrors of Factory Farming
- Does it still make sense to belong? Airlines make it harder to earn free flights for loyalty
- Interesting. Why do hotels still put a Bible in the nightstand?
- This isn’t new. Tim Brown has always shown himself to be a few tacos short of a full plate! He’s truly stupid, and rather imbecilic! Tim Brown Thinks Marshawn Lynch’s National Anthem Protest is ‘Negativity’
- Do they even think at all? What do flat-Earth truthers think is really happening during the 2017 solar eclipse?
- And that’s the effin’ truth! Video evidence is meaningless without accountability
- I love brain teasers! What Would it Take to Blow Up the Entire Earth?
- It IS patently unfair Berkeley Professor Aims To Eliminate Natural Hair Bans In Schools
- This will hurt us in the long run! Why students are choosing to go to college in Canada instead of the United States
World
- I agree. What a hero! Ken Frazier: The Strongest Man in the World
- Wouldn’t recoil slow this kind of drones even further? How is their survivability? Company's dystopian promotional video for drone armed with machine gun
- Time to pay the piper. Saudi Arabia's missing princes
- A looming fail. There’s zero accountability, so, what’s the point? Using the Blockchain to Clean Up the Niger Delta
Politics
- Excellent. Expose them all! Yes, your boss can fire you for being a white supremacist
- Aaah, know-nothings! “Barack Obama is to blame”: 13 Alabama conservatives on Charlottesville
- He’s maturing… LeBron James Comments On Charlottesville
- This is how smart folks do this thing. Crews remove Baltimore's Confederate statues overnight
- Nah. Let’s just repeal Obamacare. At that time, all these problems will automagically vanish. Right? Rural America’s Childbirth Crisis: The Fight to Save Whitney Brown
- Fingers crossed. Nigeria: Economic Titan Of The Late 21st Century
- They just won’t quit! There Are Two New Fronts in the War on Voting
- The Prison-Industrial Complex. When Prisoners Are a 'Revenue Opportunity'
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