On my mind today……
- How Bodega typifies Silicon Valley’s cultural ignorance
- Fools. There’s always an audit trail! –> Criminals Thought Bitcoin Was the Perfect Hiding Place, but They Thought Wrong
Windows & Microsoft
- This is another example of Apple doing right by customers. Why doesn't Microsoft such things these days? -> Why the advertising industry is upset with Apple right now
Business & Technology
- Electric motors will be entering a new age of almost logarithmic improvements in power and efficiency, thanks to the advent of electric transportation: planes, trains and automobiles. –> As electric motors improve, more things are being electrified
- It would Help NetApp, I think –> Cisco Will Buy NetApp, Says Summit Redstone, PSTG ‘Shopping Itself’
- When algorithms go rogue? –> Amazon.com Algorithms automatically recommended components in "frequently bough together" category
- A registered sex offender's company is called.....wait for it......Passion Capital! -> Will Britain Keep Investing in a Sex Offender’s Venture Fund?
- EPFL's Collapsible Delivery Drone Protects Your Package With an Origami Cage
- This is how extreme automation of farming starts -> Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
- Electrics seem to be here to stay. –> Giant Mining Trucks and Buses Are Smashing Electric Vehicle Records
- No one can stay on top for ever. No one. -> How Can Apple Remain on Top?
- A walk back on Memory Lane -> The early history of HP calculators
- That's very impressive. Perhaps they don't need their own mobile hardware platform after all –> Report: Microsoft now owns three of the top five most popular mobile business applications
- Aruba rolls out security fabric designed for IoT and the digital era
- Amazon Just Showed Us What Really Happens When Robots Replace Jobs
- Why would we want them to? -> Driverless Vehicles Will Talk to Us
- Smart move. However, they're speaking Xhosa to Urdu people: their targets believe in cord-cutting! -> Free ESPN in Dorm Rooms Gives Comcast Access to Future Customers
- Fearful money launderers, perhaps? -> Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills
- I'm impressed! -> New devices can transmit information with almost zero power
- How long is this abusive misogynistic ratfcker going to gravy-train his previous successes? -> Silicon Valley CEO Called Employees the N-Word and Hit Three Women, New Lawsuit Claims
- Doesn't this make these devices inherently more dangerous? Can't criminals - or law enforcement, for that matter! - ultrasonically command your so-called 'smart device' to quietly shut off your home security apparatus in order to enter your home? Or tell <insert device here> to whack you? -> There’s a Very Obvious Voice Assistant Hack: Ultrasound
- Good! -> Someone finally made an app to detect credit card skimmers at the gas pump
- Five Key Trends Affecting Commercial Aviation for the Next 20 Years
- Scientists Are Developing a Vaccine That Could Prevent Tooth Decay
General Interest
- I think not. -> After Equifax, Can Our Data Ever Be Safe?
- How Kobe Bryant Epitomized The Intersection Of Sneakers, Basketball, And Rap
- Normalizing prices, aka “lowering them, should be step #1 –> How Lego Can Rebuild Its Business
- I'm not a fan of their customer-derisive policies, or their disrespectful, buffoonish CEO. Not at all. -> Ryanair’s Penny-Pinching Hits Limits in Pilot-Shortage Debacle
World
- If this is proven true, won't ships have to get 'clean diesel'? #AllPunsIntended -> Shipping Triggers More Lightning
- Lockheed Martin Reaffirms Support For Sikorsky’s Raider
Politics
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