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2017/10/31 #

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2017/10/30 #

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2017/10/29 #

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2017/10/28 #

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  • Catalonia Declares Independence, Madrid Immediately Suspends Its Government digg.com #

  • Why There's No Way The Moon Landing Is A Hoax digg.com #

2017/10/27 #

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  • Trump - Opioid 'national shame' a public health emergency www.bbc.com #

  • Catalan crisis - Regional MPs debate Spain takeover bid www.bbc.com #

  • JFK assassination - Trump declassifies some documents www.bbc.com #

  • Pope's tough question for International Space Station crew www.bbc.com #

  • Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research www.techmeme.com #

  • Radiolab Presents - More Perfect - American Pendulum I - Korematsu v. United States www.radiolab.org #

  • Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System www.nasa.gov #

  • Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element shkspr.mobi #

  • Piccadilly Circus lights switched back on after renovations www.bbc.com #

  • The Register - we are already through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole at this point, so let's see what else Scoble has for us www.theregister.co.uk #

  • Australia deputy PM disqualified from office www.bbc.com #

  • A Halloween guide to being scary in six easy steps www.bbc.com #

  • Young people 'not receiving mental health care they need' www.bbc.com #

  • Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself out of water back into the air boingboing.net #

  • Vintage news blooper of anchor hysterically laughing about a person's tumor removal boingboing.net #

  • Watch a real rocket scientist figure out (and beat) carnival scams techcrunch.com #

  • Hollywood sex scandal predators go unnamed and unashamed in this week’s tabloids boingboing.net #

  • San Francisco just took a huge step toward internet utopia www.wired.com #

  • Bill O’Reilly points finger at “God” after accusations of sexual harassment boingboing.net #

  • 18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones) techcrunch.com #

  • Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances techcrunch.com #

  • Brexit - EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054 www.bbc.com #

  • "It wasn’t just sexual abuse. Everyone got abused. It didn’t really matter how high up you were, you got the same treatment" www.theguardian.com #

2017/10/25 #

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  • NBA Rookie Throws A Smooth Alley-Oop Off The Backboard... To Himself digg.com #

  • Basketball Player Mistakenly Chucks Up Full Court Shot With 30 Seconds Left, Nails It Anyway digg.com #

  • Mongoose findOne query returning old data, is there some caching happening? stackoverflow.com #

2017/10/23 #

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2017/10/22 #

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  • Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th richest person in the world qz.com #

  • Security news this week - Russian spies rush to exploit the latest flash zero day www.wired.com #

  • Catalonia independence - Spain pushes to remove leaders www.bbc.com #

2017/10/20 #

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  • A Full Basketball Team Running In Perfect Sync Is Our New Favorite Glitch In The Matrix digg.com #

  • The oral history of John Titor, the man who traveled back in time to save the internet www.thrillist.com #

  • Little Kid Absolutely Nails BMX Tricks digg.com #

  • Web Share Target - proposed API allowing websites to receive share data (text, URLs, images) www.chromestatus.com #

  • The Web Share API - Example code dev.to #

2017/10/19 #

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  • People On The Internet Are Convinced That Melania Trump Has A Body Double At The White House digg.com #

  • Check Out This Quirky Short Film On The Loneliness Of Starting College digg.com #

2017/10/18 #

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  • This Ball-Throwing And Catching Machine Is Pretty Incredible digg.com #

  • Stephen Fry's lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world boingboing.net #

  • Jennifer Lawrence Had to Do a ‘Naked Line-up’ Early in Her Career www.thecut.com #

  • Björk Describes ‘Paralysing’ Sexual Harassment by Danish Director Following Lars Von Trier’s Denial www.vulture.com #

  • Reese Witherspoon Says She Was Assaulted by a Director at 16 www.thecut.com #

  • universal-analytics - A node module for Google's Universal Analytics tracking via the Measurement Protocol www.npmjs.com #

  • Justin Trudeau Breaks Down While Delivering Statement On The Death Of Gord Downie digg.com #

2017/10/16 #

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2017/10/13 #

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  • This Is What The Mysterious 'Sonic Attacks' In Cuba Sounded Like digg.com #

  • Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On nautil.us #

  • This Handheld Holograph Generator Is Kind Of Mind-Blowing digg.com #

  • Dubai Unveils A Fleet Of Police Hover Bikes With One Silly Intense Video digg.com #

  • The Fascinating Process That Goes Behind Restoring Jim Henson Puppets digg.com #

2017/10/11 #

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  • Building A Mental Model For Precedence And The "new" Operator In JavaScript www.bennadel.com #

  • Owning Both A Parrot And An Amazon Alexa Seems Like A Very Bad Idea digg.com #

  • In algorithms news - Dow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it techcrunch.com #

  • 'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto www.theregister.co.uk #

2017/10/08 #

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2017/10/06 #

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  • Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google www.buzzfeed.com #

  • Catalonia media reflects polarised Spanish society www.bbc.com #

  • Band Uses Facebook Live To Make An Awesome Looping Music Video digg.com #

  • Holy Shit, These Scooter Flips Are Insane digg.com #

  • Interesting Blade Runner 2049 review digg.com #

  • Fearless Girl statue firm faced down in equal pay row www.bbc.com #

  • Plan for a very hard Brexit, German firms told www.bbc.com #

  • Tate Modern's Turbine Hall turns into a giant adult playground www.bbc.com #

2017/10/04 #

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  • ‘Don’t brand me’ - The Indian women saying no to forced tattoos www.bbc.com #

  • The Trump administration is exploring ways to replace Social Security numbers with a modern cryptographic identifier www.bloomberg.com #

  • The wired brain - How not to talk about an ai-powered future ines.io #

2017/10/01 #

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