Saturday, June 8, 2019

How Google Broke Itself

The Catch-22 That Broke The Internet, This Week's Best Memes, Ranked, and more.
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BREAKING ALL THE RULES
MAC AND THE BOYS, OBAMA AND ADAM SILVER
This Week's Best Memes, Ranked
digg.com
It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? SpongeBob in drag, Me and the Boys, the cheese grater Mac Pro and more.
GOOGLE, WYD?
The Catch-22 That Broke The Internet
wired.com
A Google Cloud outage that knocked huge portions of the internet offline also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it.
A WILDLY FRESH COAT OF PAINT
'Quake II' With Real-Time Ray-Tracing Blew My Mind
techreport.com
Pure ray-tracing is too demanding for modern games, but a title like Quake II makes a perfect showcase for RTX given its low polycounts and simple world geometry.
LIKE PADDLING UPSTREAM
'Brickception' Is A Perfect Afternoon Time-Waster That Redeems The Pop-Up
digg.com
It's "Breakout," where your paddle is a pop-up… that's playing another game of "Breakout."
PODCASTS WE DIGG | SPONSORED
Podcast Digs Into A Pipeline Threatening Historical African American Community
brokengroundpodcast.org
The latest episode of Broken Ground explores the Laurys' story of stepping up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won't back down from a risky, polluting project.
LOOKING GOOD
PICTURE THIS
The Most Northern Town In The World, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
digg.com
The intimate crime scene photos of Belle Epoque Paris, gritty photos from the Russian hinterland and other best photos of the week.
MONEY MATTERS
NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL
The Weird World Of Kidnapping Insurance
theweek.com
Not only does a private market for insuring kidnappings and advising the negotiations exist — by all accounts it's quite effective.
STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Can You Beat This Pricing Algorithm?
priceoptimization.ai
You play against our automatic pricing agent. Both of you will be selling a product at a specific starting price that you adjust throughout the game according to how well the product sells at each price level.
THE SPACE RACE
Getting Fabulously Wealthy In Silicon Valley: No Coding Required
bloomberg.com
Not far from the sprawling Googleplex in Mountain View, California, lies another, less assuming address of Big Tech. This is Google Building 900 — and the internet giant just dropped almost $139 million for it.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
BEAM ME UP TECHIE
This Ingenious Man Has Created A 'Tree Bike' That Allows Him To Go Up 100-Foot-Tall Trees
digg.com
Sit back, relax and enjoy the dizzying ride up an areca palm tree.
Much like tree bike man, we hope your day is on an upward trajectory.