Friday, September 16, 2016

This Email Is For OS 9 Users Only

​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week, why some Mac owners insist on sticking with 16-year-old software, why railroads sit on crushed stone and Netflix has a lot of original shows.
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Some People Refuse To Upgrade From OS 9, And Other Facts
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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week, why some Mac owners insist on sticking with 16-year-old software, why railroads sit on crushed stone and Netflix has a lot of original shows.
BUT HEY HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW PHONE?
Apple Is Still Ignoring One Of The Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws Of All Time
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Just two years after it was released, the touchscreens of thousands upon thousands of iPhone 6 Pluses are completely losing their functionality under normal use. And Apple isn't doing a thing about it.
HITTING US WITH THEIR SECOND-BEST SHOT
Why Companies Make Their Products Worse On Purpose
1843magazine.com
In the late 1980s IBM's LazerPrinter, retailing at $2,395, printed ten pages per minute. In 1990 it launched the $1,495 LazerPrinter E, which was half as fast. But the new printer was not made using cheaper parts, or assembled by workers on lower wages. It had just been artificially slowed down. Why did IBM do this?
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This Sleek Carry On Is Genius
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This hardside carry on by Genius Pack literally makes packing hassle-free with its engineered interior organizational panel. It has designated compartments for all your clothes, a secluded laundry compartment, and 8 silent-gliding wheels so you don't have to wheel your luggage like the Hulk. Also super light, only 6.8 lbs!
PLAYING GAMES
A FIGHT OF FANTASY
The Man Who Wants To Beat FanDuel And DraftKings At Their Own Game
buzzfeed.com
Las Vegas legend Vic Salerno wants to reinvent daily fantasy sports by playing by the rules. But in a fast-changing, hard-charging, Wild West of an industry, will that be enough?
STILL NESTING
Where Young People Are Most Likely To Be Living With Their Parents
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More 18- to 34-year-olds are living at home than ever before, but the numbers aren't the same everywhere. This map shows where the highest and lowest percentages of young adults are still in their parents' homes.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
AMERICA'S XENOPHOBIC SWEET POTATO
A Supercut Of The Most Creative Insults Hurled At Donald Trump
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IN THE NEWS
Trump Campaign Says Trump Is No Longer A Birther — Right After He Refuses To Say Whether He Believes Obama Was Born In The US
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To Second Lowest Level Ever
13-Year-Old Boy Tyre King Fatally Shot By Police In Columbus, Ohio
Apple Hasn't Made Enough iPhone 7s
Time may not be on our side. But hey, it's Friday, so today it is.