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Monthly Archives: December 2017

A D.J. Could Save Your Life Tonight

Posted on December 31, 2017 by HeyJK
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On New Year’s Eve, you’ll be dancing, one hopes. If you’re lucky you’ll be dancing to an honest-to-God disc jockey — not to someone’s Spotify playlist or the musings of the latest demi-celebrities to fancy themselves party conductors. A real D.J.
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Apple apologizes for battery slowdown

Posted on December 29, 2017 by HeyJK
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Apple released a statement on Thursday addressing the company’s controversial decision to slow down older phones to protect battery stability. “We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize.
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Self-healing glass: a cracking discovery from Japan

Posted on December 28, 2017 by HeyJK
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A Japanese researcher has developed — by accident– a new type of glass that can be repaired simply by pressing it back together after it cracks.
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Future Apple Watch models could get EKG heart monitoring

Posted on December 22, 2017 by HeyJK
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We’ve already seen an EKG band for the Apple Watch, but now Apple is reportedly working on bringing the feature directly into its smartwatch, Bloomberg reports.
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The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin to Its Name

Posted on December 22, 2017 by HeyJK
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It’s clear that a business idea is hot when companies that have nothing to do with the idea get involved. It’s clear that the idea has turned into a mania when investors reward companies for doing this.
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REPORT: Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes are Being Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

Posted on December 22, 2017 by HeyJK
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TV viewership has completely changed for children. While most families have watched plenty of television ever since its invention and mass adoption, the ways in which we consume entertainment continues to evolve.
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The Atlantic to Install Paywall, Joining Wave of Publishers Diversifying Revenue

Posted on December 21, 2017 by HeyJK
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Nearly 10 years ago, the Atlantic tore down its paywall in an effort to grow its digital audience. Next year, it’s putting it back up again.
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Hundreds ‘Rickrolled’ in Mysterious Campus Prank at Cornell

Posted on December 21, 2017 by HeyJK
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Did you hear that? For more than a week, students and staff in at least four campus buildings heard a five-second tune, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly where it was coming from.
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Navy Pilot Says UFO He Saw Off California Was ‘Not of This World’

Posted on December 19, 2017 by HeyJK
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A former Navy pilot has opened up about an otherworldly experience he says he experienced in 2004. His testimony comes just days after the Pentagon officially revealed the existence of a secret office investigating the existence of UFOs. Cmdr.
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10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned

Posted on December 19, 2017 by HeyJK
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Building your personal bat signal I want to cross-pollinate a tweetstorm on lessons I’ve learned from a decade of professional writing. In a way, it’s a followup to some more general life lessons from 10 years of living in the Bay Area.
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Artificial Sweeteners Stimulate Fat Growth, Harmful To Metabolism, Study Finds

Posted on December 13, 2017 by HeyJK
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WASHINGTON — Artificial sweeteners have an effect on the body’s metabolism and can lead to excessive fat accumulation in people, especially those who are already obese, according to a recent study.
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How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces

Posted on December 12, 2017 by HeyJK
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Making a new “Star Wars” movie can be like gaining access to a toy collection that has been amassed over four decades.
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Putting a price on Bitcoin

Posted on December 12, 2017 by HeyJK
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SCENE: A pet shop with a bored looking proprietor. A customer approaches CUSTOMER: I’d like to buy a parrot.
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Apple buys music-recognition app Shazam

Posted on December 12, 2017 by HeyJK
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For nearly 10 years, Shazam has been something of a one-trick pony. Its app has a single purpose: identify a song that’s playing and connect users to a service to download or stream it.
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You Will No Longer Lease a Car. You Will Subscribe to It.

Posted on December 2, 2017 by HeyJK
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A curious trend has taken hold of the automotive community. Until recently, your only options with vehicle ownership were to purchase the car outright or to lease it from a dealership. But in a growing number of metropolitan areas, a third option is emerging: car subscriptions.
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NASA fires Voyager 1 thrusters after decades-long sleep

Posted on December 1, 2017 by HeyJK
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Way out in interstellar space, humanity’s most distant messenger wanders through the universe. NASA’s Voyager 1 launched way back in 1977, but it’s still in touch with Earth. To help keep it in contact, NASA scientists just fired up a set of thrusters that have been dormant for 37 long years. 
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SpaceX Finally Reveals When It Will Launch its Long-Awaited Giant Rocket

Posted on December 1, 2017 by HeyJK
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Though it’s just about to wrap up its best year ever, SpaceX missed one glaringly large goal: the maiden launch of its Falcon Heavy. Now, the aerospace company seems to have pushed the big day yet again — but this time, it might actually happen.
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Greener Is Getting Going
Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Inequality Is a Health Risk—and It’s Getting Worse
To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out
Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model
Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Uber Just Reinvented the Bus … Again
Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts
Barry Diller Invented Prestige TV. Then He Conquered the Internet
Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump’s Breakup
Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap
Palantir Is Going on Defense
At Bitcoin 2025, Crypto Purists and the MAGA Faithful Collide

Tech Crunch

Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Beginner Guide to CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) in 2022
TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Most Frequently Asked Questions About Affiliate Marketing
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?

Apple Insider

macOS 27 will be the last operating system to fully support Rosetta 2
Apple Vision Pro 'Spatial Widgets' blend digital life into your real space
Hexcal Studio review: A desk stand that wants to do more, but is held back by price
Metal 4 & Game Porting Toolkit 3 boost frame rate & ray tracing performance
All of your iPhone icons can be clear in iOS 26 -- if you want to
macOS Tahoe is the last big update for Intel Macs
macOS 26 Tahoe Phone app greatly improves taking calls on your Mac
Be strong, let everyone else risk their devices and data with the new betas
All the Mac games Apple teased at WWDC 25
Revamped iOS 26 Camera and Photos app prioritize speed and convenience
Apple brings Live Translation to iMessage, phone calls, and more
Files on iPadOS 26 doesn't suck anymore
Liquid Glass tvOS redesign is restricted to second-generation Apple TV 4K and later
Sorry Docker: macOS 26 adds native support for Linux containers
What Macs will be able to run macOS Tahoe

Google Tech

Stock futures rise as investors await details on U.S.-China trade policy: Live updates - CNBC
Panthers dominate Oilers, chase Skinner in rout - ESPN
Airports face little disruption as Trump’s new travel ban takes effect - The Washington Post
Jim Irsay’s three daughters will take over ownership of the Colts, team says - The Washington Post
Israel preparing to deport Gaza aid boat activists, including Greta Thunberg - The Guardian
HBO and CNN owner Warner Bros Discovery to split in two - BBC
Kyiv rocked by relentless drone, missile barrage - ABC News
Camp Pendleton Marines deployed to L.A.; after ICE protest, union leader faces a federal charge - Los Angeles Times
Trump announces $1,000 government-funded accounts for American babies - The Guardian
The US and China are holding trade talks in London after Trump’s phone call with Xi - AP News
White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains - The New York Times
RFK Jr. removes all current members of CDC vaccine advisory committee - CNN
WWDC 2025 live: Updates from Apple's keynote including new iOS, iPadOS, Apple Intelligence and more - Engadget
Availability of Jaire Alexander could complicate Jalen Ramsey trade efforts - NBC Sports
Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 - ABC News
Tennessee Republican Mark Green to resign from Congress for private-sector job - NBC News
Pharmacy group withholds endorsing CDC's latest vaccine recommendations - AOL.com
Judge dismisses Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds - CNN
'Acts of a dictator': Newsom lashes out at Trump after arrest threat - ABC News
Appendix cancers on the rise in younger generations, study finds - NBC News
Waymo Limits Service in San Francisco as LA Protests Spread - The New York Times
Meloni’s coalition taunts left from the beach as low voter turnout scuppers referendum - politico.eu
PSA: iPadOS 26 removes Split View and Slide Over multitasking features - 9to5Mac
NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032 - Space
BlackRock Is Accused of a Plot Against Coal. The Firm Says That’s ‘Absurd.’ - The New York Times

Hacker News

Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation?
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction [pdf]
Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess
Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees
Why agents are bad pair programmers
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
Sly Stone has died
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI (2017)
RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Launch HN: Chonkie (YC X25) – Open-Source Library for Advanced Chunking
Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns
Why quadratic funding is not optimal
Doctors could hack the nervous system with ultrasound
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
Working with the EPA to Secure Exposed Water HMIs
A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square
Debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless
JavaScript await was rogue rogue along
What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain
Pi in Pascal's Triangle (2014)
Show HN: An open-source rhythm dungeon crawler in 16 x 9 pixels
The Lexiconia Codex: A fantasy story that teaches you LLM buzzwords
Go is a good fit for agents

Slashdot

FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems
If India Chokes Less, It Will Fry More
ICANN Waves Hands in Protest at AFRINIC Election Arrangement
Private Equity CEO Predicts AI Will Leave 60% of Finance Conference Attendees Jobless
Apple Will End Support For Intel Macs Next Year
Ohio University Says All Students Will Be Required To Train and 'Be Fluent' In AI
Warner Bros. Discovery Splits Streaming From Cable TV
Apple Lets Developers Tap Into Its Offline AI Models
Apple Unveils a Dedicated Games App
China Shuts Down AI Tools During Nationwide College Exams
Apple Finally Brings Mac-like Windowing and Menu Bar To iPad
YouTube Will 'Protect Free Expression' By Pulling Back On Content Moderation
Seagate's New 4TB Xbox Expansion Card Costs More Than the Xbox Series S
Apple's New Design Language is Liquid Glass
Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack

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