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Monthly Archives: February 2021

The road to electric is filled with tiny cars

Posted on February 23, 2021 by HeyJK
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In Beijing’s southwestern outskirts, past a four-lane overpass with sidewalks as wide as the streets themselves, is Zhengyang Road.
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500,000 lives lost

Posted on February 23, 2021 by HeyJK
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As the trickle of fatalities increased, state agencies scrambled to track deaths with varying degrees of delay. The data below reflects deaths on the date reported, and not necessarily the day someone died.
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I Miss My Bar – Recreate Your Favorite Bar’s Atmosphere

Posted on February 19, 2021 by HeyJK
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A modern digital artifact recreating the atmosphere of our favorite local bars to keep us company while it’s safe to visit them again. An initiative by Maverick Monterrey.
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NASA rover Perseverance on track for daredevil landing on Mars

Posted on February 17, 2021 by HeyJK
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced robotic astrobiology lab ever flown to another world, neared the end of its seven-month, 293-million-mile (470-million-km) journey on Wednesday, hours away from a daredevil landing attempt on the Red Planet.
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New skin patch promises comprehensive health monitoring

Posted on February 16, 2021 by HeyJK
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Feb. 15 (UPI) — Scientists have developed a new skin patch that can provide all-in-one health monitoring capabilities. The thin, flexible patch, worn on the neck, can track the wearer’s heart rate and blood pressure, as well as glucose levels.
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Pentagon admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may ‘change our lives forever,’ expert says

Posted on February 14, 2021 by HeyJK
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THE Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter, shared with The Sun.
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The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes

Posted on February 8, 2021 by HeyJK
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Screen-star handsome and fabulously wealthy, the African American banker turned maverick personifies the contemporary fintech pioneer. But the feds describe Arthur Hayes differently: a wanted man who “flouted” the law by operating in the “shadows of the financial markets.
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The Battery Is Ready to Power the World

Posted on February 8, 2021 by HeyJK
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After a decade of rapidly falling costs, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery is poised to overhaul the car industry, disrupt the power grid and challenge the dominance of oil and gas.
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Bill would allow tech companies to create local governments

Posted on February 8, 2021 by HeyJK
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CARSON CITY — If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could be able to form a new own local government in Nevada. When Gov.
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‘Holy grail’ nanoparticle injection that treats skin cancer developed by Yale scientists

Posted on February 4, 2021 by HeyJK
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Could beating skin cancer in the future be as simple as a shot in the arm? Perhaps, according to a team from Yale University. Scientists are developing a skin cancer treatment applied by injecting nanoparticles directly inside tumors.
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The Unusual Rocket Thruster That Will Send Humans to Mars

Posted on February 4, 2021 by HeyJK
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A Department of Energy (DoE) physicist has a new nuclear fusion rocket concept that uses magnetic fields to make thrust. It’s a far-out idea that could carry astronauts to Mars. The mechanism is already at play in Earth’s nuclear fusion reactors, as well as the solar flares of the sun.
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The GameStop Fairy Tale And Its Lesson

Posted on February 3, 2021 by HeyJK
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Once upon a time, there was a zombie corporation named Game Stop ($GME). For the last few years, it has been circling the bankruptcy drain. Similar to Blockbuster, its business model, renting and trading video games and equipment, is going the way of digital streaming.
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The Three Biggest Myths Deluding the Modern Music Business

Posted on February 3, 2021 by HeyJK
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Music streaming isn’t just a big part of the record business: It basically is the record business.
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INFOBAR · Japan’s Iconic Mobile Phone

Posted on February 3, 2021 by HeyJK
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My love of industrial design started at an early age. That love turned into an obsession when I watched Objectified for the first time more than a decade ago. Until then, I thought of designers as serious stark men donning all-black and working in all-white studios.
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Why the Wingdings font exists

Posted on February 2, 2021 by HeyJK
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Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why? It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous.
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Tesla’s dirty little secret: Its net profit doesn’t come from selling cars

Posted on February 2, 2021 by HeyJK
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Tesla posted its first full year of net income in 2020 — but not because of sales to its customers.
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These ‘vaccine hunters’ are getting their shots ahead of schedule by gaming the system

Posted on February 2, 2021 by HeyJK
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If she’d waited to get vaccinated until it was her “tier’s” turn, Isabela Medina wouldn’t have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine until late summer.
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Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs
Are You Trading or Gambling?
Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc
Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go
Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python
Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems
PureScript and Haskell
Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver
Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU
The English Style: On the fashion trends of seventeenth-century London
Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity
How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size
Born to Be Posthumous (2018)
Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class
Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
The Bupstash Garbage Collector
Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Before You Memo()
SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity
Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool
Astranis (YC W16) is hiring a full-cycle tech recruiter to help grow our team
Tutankhamun’s Ostriches
Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage
Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before
‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos

Engadget

Volkswagen is using its electric ID.Buzz van to test self-driving tech
Facebook's BARS is an experimental TikTok-like app for rappers
A PlayStation Network outage is affecting certain games
NASA’s Perseverance rover carried a family portrait of its robotic siblings to Mars
'Terraria' will hit Stadia after all
Right-wing site Gab responds to 'alleged' data breach
Netflix is making a Terminator anime with the studio behind 'Ghost in the Shell'
Streaming music made up 83 percent of the record industry's revenue in 2020
Netflix's first 'Shadow and Bone' trailer shows off the fantasy world of Ravka
MSI GS66 Stealth review (2021): The gaming sweetspot comes to laptops
This week's best deals: $200 off the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and more
Apple Music's Behind The Songs hub highlights songwriters and producers
Ripley and the Xenomorph from Alien are the latest additions to 'Fortnite'
Netflix pledges $100 million to improve the diversity in its shows
These modern-day treasure hunters reunite people with lost heirlooms

Wired

How Google's Grand Plan to Make Stadia Games Fell Apart
A Shot Nears Approval, Experts Study Transmission, and More
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
Blood of Zeus Combines Myth With Saturday Morning Cartoons
Now Is a Great Time to Try These 5 Menstrual Products
The Rumored Apple Car Is Bad News for Elon
To Quash Disinfo, Researchers Must Work With Journalists
OK, The 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Reveal Was a Good Troll
Coding Blackness: A History of Black Video Game Characters
A Very Technical—and Emotional—Journey to Mars

Apple Insider

Apple says Developer Transition Kit must be returned by March 31
'Narcos' star Wagner Moura to star in Apple TV+ original 'Shining Girls'
How to watch the Post Malone Pokemon 25 virtual concert on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac
Minnesota the latest to introduce bill that allows developers to bypass App Store billing
Austin Butler, Callum Turner to star in Apple TV+ 'Band of Brothers' sequel
New 'Behind the Songs' Apple Music hub will let you learn more about your favorite music
Security researcher raises questions about trackers in LastPass Android app
Higher resolution eufy Floodlight Cam spotted in FCC listings
Woman buys iPhone 12 Pro Max, receives apple-flavored yogurt instead
Apple edges out Samsung on Q4 European smartphone sales
World Health Organization denies vaccine passport talks with Apple
AirPods Max back at Amazon, beating Apple's month-long wait, plus $50 off AirPods Pro
Apple series 'Truth be Told' filming shut down amidst protests
Hacker allegedly posed as Apple Support to scam user out of $1,500
TikTok agrees to pay $92 million to settle data breach lawsuits

Google Tech

House passes $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill on near party-line vote - WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro
Donald Trump Jr. slams Liz Cheney, says Gov. Cuomo 'would be in jail' if GOP - New York Post
Biden Won’t Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi’s Killing, Fearing Relations Breach - The New York Times
COVID-19 relief bill: Here’s how much you could get in stimulus checks, child tax breaks - KTLA
The House just passed Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus bill – here's what's next - CNBC
Republicans sued over proxy voting in the pandemic. Now they're using it to speak at CPAC. - USA TODAY
Biden administration to open new tent facility in Texas amid surge in migrants at border - Fox News
FBI identifies suspect in death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, sources say - CNN
Texas's Power Market Is $1.3 Billion Short After Energy Crisis - Bloomberg
Louisiana police officer shot, killed while escorting suspect from HS basketball game: reports - Fox News
Ilhan Omar, other progressives question Biden's 'legal rationale' for Syria airstrikes - Fox News
Myanmar's UN envoy dramatically opposes coup in his country - The Associated Press
Parents of Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Tried to Pull Them Out of School Before They Were Taken - The Daily Beast
Deschutes County to receive 800 fewer COVID-19 vaccine first doses next week - KTVZ
FDA Panel Recommends Emergency Use Authorization For Johnson & Johnson Vaccine | NBC Nightly News - NBC News
How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble - BBC News
The Power Is Back On In Texas. Now Comes The Recovery, And It Won't Be Cheap - NPR
Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak - CNN
Terraria dev says Stadia launch will now proceed after resolving spat with Google - Eurogamer.net
FF7 Remake PS5 Upgrade Reaction, and Xbox Cloud Plans - GameSpot
Bill Gates explains why he still prefers Android over iPhone during interview on Clubhouse - 9to5Mac
Halo Infinite developers call it a "spiritual reboot" with familiar visuals - Rock Paper Shotgun
Lady Gaga's dogs recovered safely after dogwalker shot - CBS News
11 revelations from Prince Harry's James Corden 'Late Late Show' interview - Wonderwall
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's Oprah Winfrey sit-down caught palace courtiers 'off-guard,' royal expert claims - Fox News

Tech Crunch

6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021
What the NFT? VC David Pakman dumbs down the intensifying digital collectibles frenzy
Daily Crunch: Facebook launches rap app
Astra awarded NASA launch contract for storm observation satellites
Salesforce delivers, Wall Street doubts as stock falls 6.3% post-earnings
EC roundup: BNPL startups, growth marketing tips, solid state battery market map, more
With $62.5M in debt financing, Road Runner Media puts digital ads behind commercial vehicles
Yelp puts trust and safety in the spotlight
Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments
Facebook launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for creating and sharing raps
In freemium marketing, product analytics are the difference between conversion and confusion
Sources: Lightspeed is close to hiring a new London-based partner to put down further roots in Europe

Slashdot

Amazon Rainforest Plots Sold via Facebook Marketplace Ads
Google's Stadia Problem? A Video Game Unit That's Not Googley Enough
US Drops Digital Tax Demand, Opening Door To Global Deal
Apple Forced To Add iPhone and MacBook Repairability Scores To Comply With French Law
Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images
FCC Approves $50 Monthly Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Households During Pandemic
Best Buy Lays Off 5,000 Workers, Will Close More Stores
Stanford Researchers Identify Four Causes For 'Zoom Fatigue' and Their Simple Fixes
US Says Saudi Prince Approved Journalist Khashoggi Killing
FBI Confirms Report of 'Long, Cylindrical' UFO 'Moving Really Fast' Over New Mex
Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000
Biden Lifts Trump-Era Ban Blocking Legal Immigration To US
Plastic Bottles Holding 2.3 Litres Are Least Harmful To the Planet
Sergey Brin's Airship Aims To Use World's Biggest Mobile Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Coinbase Says Entire Crypto Market Could Destabilize if Bitcoin's Creator is Ever Revealed or Sells Their $30 Billion Stake

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