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Tuesday 16th April, 2019 #

  • This is pretty close to how my laptop is at the minute
  • 5-star phonies - Inside the fake Amazon review complex
  • Buster Keaton & Edward Cline - "Dinner Scene" ("Smart" City Dinning) - Even the hunger is on a string, but in the smart city you don't pull the strings
  • The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
  • Iggy Pop's "Rockin' Rebels" - Playlist from his Radio 6 Music Show
  • Out of Buenos Aires, Argentina - Chantegui - Paper Plane (Mirror Records)
  • The New Cold War - It's China style internet vs US style internet and countires like Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia are moving towards the former
  • Seems like multiple screen apps is a new thing, latest iOS is to introduce the feature too
  • Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India
  • Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy fold - more than just a concept - Expensive but the fold concept is cool, the split screen apps is cool, 6 cameras is probably a bit over the top, I still can't get over the fact that these devices have 12 GB of RAM
  • YouTube shows 9/11 link on live videos of unrelated Notre Dame fire - No algorithms for ages and then 3 come at once
  • Freakonomic Radio Podcast - How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians) - Stephen Dubner talks with Spotify founder Daniel Ek
  • Thousands join Extinction Rebellion protests across London - Climate group blocks roads in capital and calls for peaceful acts of civil disobedience