Friday, November 16, 2018

Millennials Kill Again

Somehow, a heartfelt essay about loss greeted me every time I opened a new tab in Opera. What's more worrying, however, is that it took me weeks to notice.
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THE REAL STORY
THE WALLPAPER INCIDENT
The Ghost In My Browser
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Somehow, a heartfelt essay about loss greeted me every time I opened a new tab in Opera. What's more worrying, however, is that it took me weeks to notice.
MAKING UP THE DOTS
Anatomy Of A Conspiracy Theory
politico.com
Credible sources say the Las Vegas shooting was a one-man job. But a small band of former government insiders is propagating a wild alternative theory — with dangerous consequences.
WE'RE IN TWO MINDS ABOUT IT
The Case Against Quantum Computing
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The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables
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A DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Millennials Will Probably Kill PBR, 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: PBR ​is losing its cool, antivirus software is still useful and even Renaissance painters loved a good pee joke.
A LOAD OF CPAP
'I'm Possibly Alive Because It Exists'
motherboard.vice.com
An Australian hacker has spent thousands of hours hacking the DRM that medical device manufacturers put on CPAP machines to create a free tool that lets patients modify their treatment.
LAND GRAB
When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home
theatlantic.com
The billionaire is drilling for futuristic transit under Los Angeles. He didn't have to ask the neighbors first.
BUT WITHOUT IT, THERE'D BE NO XBOX
A Young Man's Ego Doomed A Much-Hyped 'Jurassic Park' Game
kotaku.com
Seamus Blackley also doesn't have a stellar opinion of the man he used to be at 25. At the time, he was executive producer on the poorly-received Jurassic Park game Trespasser, and also "probably an insufferable jerk."
VIDEO OF THE DAY
CARRY ON
Fed Up Parent Comes Up With Creative Hack To Get His Stubborn Daughter To Move
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When a kid decides they don't want to move, It can be a real pain to convince them otherwise. So sometimes you have to take extreme measures.
IN THE NEWS
Death Toll In California Fires Rises To 66; Hundreds Still Missing
Oxford's 2018 Word Of The Year Is 'Toxic'
The Saga Of The Couple Who 'Swindled' A Homeless Man Out Of $400K Just Took A Wild Turn
Julian Assange Has Been Charged, Prosecutors Reveal Inadvertently In Court Filing
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