Tuesday, January 8, 2019

That's It, We're Quitting

As we start 2019 afresh, the editors at Digg have decided to come to terms with our own fraught relationships with the big corporations in our lives.
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BAD TECH
BREAKING BAD BUSINESS
The Bad Tech Companies We're Quitting In 2019  — And The Ones We Can't
digg.com
As we start 2019 afresh, the editors at Digg have decided to come to terms with our own fraught relationships with the big corporations in our lives.
NEON AND BLACK FOREVER
I Love The Ugly Gamer Laptops Of CES
motherboard.vice.com
While the rest of the world started computing on Apple machines that looked sensible and cool, those of us who got into computers because of video games fostered an alternative gamer aesthetic that asked, in an inversion of Apple's sensibilities: Wouldn't it be better if computers were actually ugly and hard to use?
DO US A SOLID STATE
Before The Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs To Reinvent The Battery
bloomberg.com
Solid-state technology promises to be cheaper and charge faster than anything on the road today. But no one is close to figuring it out.
PLATFORMS WE DIGG
Your Team Is About To Accomplish More Work. Meet monday.com
monday.com
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ALWAYS USE PROTECTION
PACKING HEAT, AND CRAYONS
When You Give A Teacher A Gun
gq.com
The question is no longer "should we arm teachers?" Now, it's "how many armed teachers are already out there?" We flew down to Ohio to embed with a group that has trained thousands of teachers from all across the country how to shoot to kill.
PROTECTING YOU FROM INTERNET ADDICTION
We Need An 'AI Sidekick' To Fight Malicious AI
thenextweb.com
"Now that we realize our brains can be hacked, we need an antivirus for the brain." Those were the words of Yuval Noah Harari, famous historian and outspoken critic of Silicon Valley.
STEP BY STEP
On Being A Woman In America While Trying To Avoid Being Assaulted
theparisreview.org
Lately, I've come to suspect that maybe a lot of people, especially men, still have no idea what it's like to be a woman in America going about her life while trying, and at times failing, not to be assaulted. So, these past weeks, I've been observing myself.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SENSEI SHOSEI
Teen Acrobat Shatters Laws Of Physics Into Pieces, Kicks Them Around Gymnastics Gym
digg.com
Shosei Iwamoto is 14 years old, and he's already managed to figure out ways to cheat the in-game physics of the simulation we call our universe.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Will Take Case For Border Wall To Public In Prime-Time National Address
Turkish Leader Scolds And Snubs National Security Adviser John Bolton Over Kurdish Fighters
Cyntoia Brown, Sentenced To Life In Prison For Killing Her Alleged Sex Trafficker, Granted Clemency
Former Uber Driver Pleads Guilty To 2016 Killing Rampage In Michigan
CBS Names Legendary Producer Susan Zirinsky As Head Of News
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Don't quit, you can do it!