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Tuesday 30th January, 2018 #

  • How The Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits
  • In a world where 48 football fields of forest is lost every minute - these drones can plant 100,000 trees a day
  • How the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect sites using Google Analytics
  • The paradigms of programming
  • Terry Gilliam reveals how he created his Monty Python animations
  • Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they'd be

Monday 29th January, 2018 #

Thursday 25th January, 2018 #

Wednesday 24th January, 2018 #

Tuesday 23rd January, 2018 #

  • We Can Only Assume This Man Riding His Wheelchair On Top Of A Hoverboard Is A Wizard
  • Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek (Nerdist Presents)
  • Facebook has announced a new unit of time
  • grep your way to freedom
  • Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan
  • Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues
  • The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified, or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified
  • The util.inspect() method returns a string representation of object that is primarily useful for debugging - Additional options may be passed that alter certain aspects of the formatted string
  • Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation device
  • Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable
  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Website - 10:30)
  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Redirect - 10:29)
  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Popup 10:28)
  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Overlay - 10:25)
  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced'
  • ISO 8601 - the International Standard for the representation of dates and times
  • Fighting sexual harassment in Bollywood
  • An Introduction to Droplet Metadata

Monday 22nd January, 2018 #

  • 289 groups and individuals signed 23 SCOTUS amicus briefs supporting Microsoft's case to prevent US government seizure of emails stored on servers in Ireland
  • Linus Torvalds Calls Intel “Please don’t be broken on boot” Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage'
  • Inside Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
  • What Even Matters Anymore - SNlL
  • Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts
  • Turkey targets Kurdish forces in Afrin - The short, medium and long story

Saturday 20th January, 2018 #

Friday 19th January, 2018 #

Thursday 18th January, 2018 #

Wednesday 17th January, 2018 #

Monday 15th January, 2018 #

Wednesday 10th January, 2018 #

  • A glimpse of a different Trump in action
  • This Intricate Marble Run Synced To Tchaikovsky Is Quite Good
  • Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industry
  • With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulation
  • Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs

Monday 8th January, 2018 #

  • SpaceX successfully delivers government secret satellite into space then lands rocket back on earth, more really critical space stuff in 2018
  • The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers
  • Triple meltdown - How so many researchers found a 20-year-old chip flaw at the same time
  • Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children
  • Structuring a NodeJS module  -  variables and methods
  • Our Best Evidence Yet That Humans Are Fixing the Ozone Hole
  • Turn on "three finger drag" for your Force Touch trackpad
  • I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site - Here’s how

Sunday 7th January, 2018 #

Saturday 6th January, 2018 #

Friday 5th January, 2018 #

Thursday 4th January, 2018 #

Tuesday 2nd January, 2018 #

Monday 1st January, 2018 #

  • Newspaper headlines - Britons 'upbeat' as hospitals face flu crisis
  • The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late
  • North Korea's Kim Jong-un issues threats and olive branch
  • Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant
  • Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content