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by bitumen 9y ago
LEGO’s fake product of the day is clever, and something that actually needs to be invented: a vacuum cleaner that not only picks up bricks, but stores them by color and shape (and separates out dirt on the floor). Anyone who’s stepped on o
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China Busts Smugglers Using Drones to Transport Smartphones(reuters.com)
4 points by bitumen 9y ago|1 comments
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Parasitism and the Fight for the Wrong Century(techcrunch.com)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Amen. Once you upload it, you should just assume it’s out there forever. It’s probably worth assuming that virtually all anonymity can be pierced, if not now then within a decade or two. With a few exceptions, anonymity online is ephemeral
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Explore an Interactive Aerial Map of the Past(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Of all the things Russia does, this has to be one of the most expected and universal. What major power isn’t going to have plans to tap or cut cables? Nerve agent and polonium poisoning is unusual and reprehensible, this is not.
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When Russia Won the Space Race: A Cold War History, in Pictures(undark.org)
7 points by bitumen 9y ago|1 comments
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Why Uber Won’t Be the Last Shocking Self-Driving Death(wired.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
If we add that up with the lack of control from governments and Facebook attempts to solve the issue, we have a ticking time bomb. The only positive, Galup says, is that services like the ones on offer from Cambridge Analytica are prohibit
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by bitumen 9y ago
A really staggering amount of the time, “Privilege” as it’s used in politics today is just a convenient bludgeon devoid of critical thought. In this case though, “better off not knowing” is pretty much the definition of privilege. Of cours
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by bitumen 9y ago
They’re already near a 50% recall rate on their cars, so upping production significantly seems like a real challenge.
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China Busts Smugglers Using Drones to Transport Smartphones(reuters.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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MailChimp clarifies its anti-ICO policy(techcrunch.com)
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The Lie Detector in the Age of Alternative Facts(theatlantic.com)
3 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
I wonder if this will help with the sometimes brutal keyboard latency thst crops up on the iPad.
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by bitumen 9y ago
It’s a cult, inside and out. People believe because they want to believe, and because they have faith in Elon Musk. I don’t hate Tesla, and SpaceX is downright exciting, but I also have no particular faith in Elon Musk. Tesla in particular
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Cambridge Analytica still hasn’t deleted Facebook user data as promised(theverge.com)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Didn’t SoftBank just throw a ton of money at Uber?
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by bitumen 9y ago
The headline could just as easily be, “Nobody has heard of it.” How does Amazon fail to market something so completely? Internal politics?
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DOJ Charges FBI Whistleblower Under Espionage Act(theintercept.com)
7 points by bitumen 9y ago|1 comments
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Astronomers use artificial intelligence to spot 6,000 new craters on the Moon(theverge.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
It’s been working for Magic Leap and Tesla (sort of) not so much for Theranos.
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by bitumen 9y ago
Production issues are only one part of the Model 3 problem, however. The car doesn’t seem to be in as high demand as Chief Executive Elon Musk once promised investors. Analysts at Bernstein said in a research note last week that fewer than
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Airships and the Future That Never Was(99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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How Arrow-Wielding Men Mapped Britain in the 1940s(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
On this site maybe, not in reality. Most people want a return on investment, not a shine job about living on Mars next week.
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DocuSign unveils IPO filing(techcrunch.com)
4 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Temporarily Blocks New Apps from Joining Its Platform(theverge.com)
1 points by bitumen 9y ago|0 comments
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by bitumen 9y ago
Not at all, I’ve always had a very healthy relationship, insofar as I’ve never made an account on Facebook or a Twitter or anything like it. I’ve always been amazed that supposedly smart people don’t understand the simple truth of the inter
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by bitumen 9y ago
You can’t trust Facebook, period, full stop. Their business model is adversarial to their end users, and those users are the product being sold. Do not use them, do not work with or for them.

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