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Monthly Archives: June 2018

Safe Is The New Risky…And Risky Is Still Risky

Posted on June 27, 2018 by HeyJK
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With equity markets trading close to their all-time highs it would be easy to assume that most stocks in the S&P 500 are experiencing a similar performance.  After all, the index represents the market, right?  In our opinion, we are approaching a new phase of the current equity market cycle.
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Mosquitoes Might Like Your Smell, But They Remember Your Swat, Study Finds

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK
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BLACKSBURG, Va. — Many states, especially those in the South, often refer to the mosquito as their “state bird,” a dry joke making light of the high prevalence of the bothersome bug.
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How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK
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Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert. By
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Digital News Report 2018

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK
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Explore the 2018 data and build your own charts. Compare dimensions and data types between or within countries, Discussions over misinformation, disinformation, and ‘fake news’ have reignited interest in news literacy.
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How Batteries Went From Primitive Power to Global Domination

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK
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For an energy source that’s been around for three decades, the lithium-ion battery is only just hitting its stride. It’s worked its way up from primitive cellular phones to cameras and laptops before entering everyone’s pockets inside smartphones.
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Guinness’s ‘Surfer’ ad didn’t do that well in research ‘but we ignored it’

Posted on June 18, 2018 by HeyJK
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No list of the greatest ads of the past 40 years would be complete without Guinness’s ‘Surfer’ ad.
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American toddlers are eating more sugar than the maximum amount recommended for adults

Posted on June 12, 2018 by HeyJK
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We’ve long known that processed sugar is bad for kids.
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The Story Behind Susan Kare’s Iconic Design Work for Apple

Posted on June 12, 2018 by HeyJK
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Susan Kare’s icons and fonts for the original Macintosh were revolutionary. They gave a lifeless computer a warmth and personality that lives on in the modern Mac to this day.
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How To Get Your Kids To Do Chores (Without Resenting It)

Posted on June 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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Back in the early 1990s, psychologist Suzanne Gaskins was living in a small Maya village near Valladolid, Yucatán, when she struck up a conversation with two sisters, ages 7 and 9. The girls started telling her — with great pride — about all the chores they did after school.
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Why the Future of Machine Learning is Tiny

Posted on June 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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When Azeem asked me to give a talk at CogX, he asked me to focus on just a single point that I wanted the audience to take away.
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The Magic of a Cardboard Box

Posted on June 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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Ms. Lange is the architecture critic for Curbed. On April 20, Nintendo released a new line of accessories for its best-selling Switch game console.
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Math Bee: Honeybees Seem To Understand The Notion Of Zero

Posted on June 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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Honeybees understand that “nothing” can be “something” that has numerical meaning, showing that they have a primitive grasp of the concept of zero.
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Uber can tell if you are drunk by the way you hold your phone

Posted on June 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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For many commuters who have had one too many after work, Uber has been a godsend, allowing over-the-limit passengers to stumble into a cab and get dropped off outside their door at the touch of a button.
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Here’s Why CarMax Makes More Money On Used Cars Than Anyone Else

Posted on June 3, 2018 by HeyJK
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CarMax is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to pre-owned vehicle retailing. It sells more than double the used inventory than their nearest competitor and they make significantly more money doing so. The primary reason for this is simple—most people are overpaying.
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Patents: how and why to get them

Posted on June 3, 2018 by HeyJK
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Some of my points are a bit naughty. But I maintain that they’re based in fact and fairly widely known. So well-known, in fact, that I’m surprised to have never read it somewhere else.
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Tesla can change so much with over-the-air updates that it’s messing with some owners’ heads

Posted on June 3, 2018 by HeyJK
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When Consumer Reports recently found that the braking distance on the Tesla Model 3 was worse than that of a Ford F-150, CEO Elon Musk took the criticism and found a solution.
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Engadget

Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers
X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
Netflix will air new video podcasts from Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin this month
28 advocacy groups call on Apple and Google to ban Grok, X over nonconsensual deepfakes
Ryan Hurst cast as Kratos for live-action God of War show
The best VPN deals: Up to 88 percent off ProtonVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, NordVPN and more
Civilization VII comes to Apple Arcade in February
California is investigating Grok over AI-generated CSAM and nonconsensual deepfakes
Save up to 78 percent on ExpressVPN two-year plans right now
PS Plus Game Catalog additions for January include Resident Evil Village and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
He could just turn it off
How to turn off a VPN on iPhone
Get three months of Audible for only $3
The first-gen Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones are $150 off right now
The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons expansion has arrived earlier than expected
The Mac mini M4 is back on sale for $499
Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it
YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts
Our favorite 3-in-1 wireless charger from UGreen is 32 percent off right now
The Nintendo Switch 2025 year in review is finally here
Pick up Apple's 25W MagSafe charger while it's down to $30

Google Tech

Asian Shares Set for Weaker Open, Crude Oil Falls: Markets Wrap - Bloomberg.com
Twenty one English councils ask for election delays - BBC
A Marketing Wonder: Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’ Passes Up ‘One Battle After Another’ at U.S. Box Office - The Hollywood Reporter
Here's latest on Seahawks injuries as they prepare for playoff game - The Seattle Times
Bruno Mars Adds 30+ New Dates to ‘The Romantic Tour’ - Variety
At least 171 measles cases confirmed in 9 states: CDC - ABC News
SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined - Ars Technica
Simple Mike Vrabel question puts Patriots’ playoff opportunity into perspective - Pats Pulpit
U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Military Response to Iran - The New York Times
Embarrassing floor meltdown has House Republicans questioning their leaders - Politico
Red Sox To Sign Ranger Suárez - MLB Trade Rumors
U.S. Races to Sell Venezuelan Oil, Transforming Ties With Former Foe - The New York Times
Can the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good in Minneapolis Be Prosecuted? - The New York Times
S&P 500 books back-to-back losses as tech sells off, Bank of America slides after earnings: Live updates - CNBC
Anti-Trump US reporter says she was offered job at ICE after ‘minimal vetting’ - The Guardian
Most Downloaded PS5 Games of 2025 Revealed, as Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Tops Ghost of Yotei - Push Square
Virginia House committee advances 4 proposed constitutional amendments - VPM
3 ways to invest in what could become a $200 billion market for humanoid robots - MarketWatch
SpaceX breaks pad turnaround record at Cape Canaveral with midday Starlink launch - Spaceflight Now
The Real Reason the Supreme Court Reversed Its Position on Trans Rights - Slate
NFF Announces All-Star 2026 College Football Hall of Fame Class - National Football Foundation
Brazilian au pair testifies against former employer and lover in double homicide case - ABC News
Iran’s opposition is battling to oust regime but hobbled by divisions - The Washington Post
Minnesota and Illinois invoke the 10th Amendment in lawsuits to block federal agents in their cities. Here’s why that matters - CNN
Jonathan Bailey & Ariana Grande Confirmed For ‘Sunday In The Park With George’ - Deadline

Wired

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Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
- Maxwell Zeff
Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
- Lauren Goode
Neuroscientists Decipher Procrastination: A Brain Mechanism Explains Why People Leave Certain Tasks for Later
- Fernanda González
Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube
- Brad Bourque
AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
- Will Knight
Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls
- Lily Hay Newman
Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore
- David Gilbert
Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
- Dell Cameron, Ryan Shapiro
In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
- Leah Feiger, Paloma Shutes
15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— I’ve Tested 65 to Pick Them
- Julian Chokkattu
Greener Is Getting Going
- Kate Brandt
Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
- Moritz von der Linden
The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
- Ryan Roslansky
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
- Julia Ebner
Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous
- Ethan Zuckerman
A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
- Tori Tsui
AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
- Sander van der Linden
Inequality Is a Health Risk—and It’s Getting Worse
- Arline Geronimus
To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
- Rachel Botsman
Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out
- Cory Doctorow
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
- Maxwell Zeff
Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
- Lauren Goode
AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
- Will Knight
China’s Hottest App Is a Daily Test of Whether You’re Still Alive
- Zeyi Yang
Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’ Against the Trump Administration
- Katie Drummond
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
- Will Knight, Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer
Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax
- Steven Levy
X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
- Matt Burgess
Why a Chinese Robot Vacuum Company Spun Off Not One but Two EV Brands
- Zeyi Yang
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
- Caroline Haskins

Tech Crunch

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)
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?

Apple Insider

Verizon wireless outage leaves iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.
Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images
Level up your manicure with the Apple Watch charger
Apple Creator Studio takes one more step to an app subscription future
Compared: Apple Creator Studio vs Adobe Creative Cloud Pro
Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri
iPhone Fold's titanium & Liquid Metal rumors just won't go away
Apple Vision Pro owners will get a great assortment of classic arcade games in VR soon
'Civilization VII Arcade Edition' coming to Apple Arcade with big caveats
iPhone 18 design won't change much, except for Dynamic Island
What to expect from Apple's Q1 2026 earnings on January 29
JP Morgan took a profit hit to set aside money to run Apple Card
How to master the Camera app on iPhone Air
Increasing AI demands causing supply chain bottleneck for crucial iPhone components
Gemini-trained Apple Intelligence will work like other LLMs, says unsurprising report

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Hacker News

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
ChromaDB Explorer
Crafting Interpreters
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
Sun Position Calculator
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Ask HN: Share your personal website
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
Find a pub that needs you
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
I hate GitHub Actions with passion
The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock
You Need a Kitchen Slide Rule
Media Player Classic Qute Theater
Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them
Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)
Is Rust faster than C?
Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL
Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order
Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines

Slashdot

Are QWERTY Phones Trying To Make a Comeback?
Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public
Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion
DoorDash and UberEats Cost Drivers $550 Million In Tips, NYC Says
US Approves Sale of Nvidia's Advanced AI Chips To China
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
House Sysadmin Stole 200 Phones, Caught By House IT Desk
UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Enrollment for Workers After Public Backlash
Dell Tells Staff To Get Ready For the 'Biggest Transformation in Company History'
NASA Acknowledges Record Heat But Avoids Referencing Climate Change
Widespread Verizon Outage Prompts Emergency Alerts in Washington, New York City
Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software
Coal Power Generation Falls in China and India for First Time Since 1970s
McKinsey Asks Graduates To Use AI Chatbot in Recruitment Process
Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched

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