On my mind today……
- Seriously? If there's no electricity for your refrigerator, and indeed, zero electricity at all, how do you power the electric vehicle? I'm always dying of laughter at this! –> Electric car prototype is built for Africa's rural roads
- Could the Lethal F-117 Stealth Fighter Fly Again?
Windows & Microsoft
- A server management GUI? Dial me in! –> Microsoft unveils Project Honolulu, a new GUI for server administration
- Microsoft forced to build Dublin power station to service huge data centre
- Ballmer 2.0. I’ll pretend to forget his Los Angeles Clippers escapade. –> Steve Ballmer on data for the people
- Microsoft’s AI chief wants to launch a chatbot in every country with more than 100M people
- Introducing Azure confidential computing
- This Microsoft Tool Fixes Applications That Refuse To Install Or Uninstall
Business & Technology
- Allergan is still doing the “I’m dancing as fast as I can” thing –> Allergan's Restasis Patent Transfer to Face Precedent-Setting Legal Battle
- Excellent. More variety is good. –> Booze delivery businesses were Amazon-proof — but now they're bracing for the Whole Foods factor
- Wasn't Open Source supposed to make sure stuff like this NEVER happens? –> Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository
- Nuffin'burger. If you're going there to steal other people's stuff, why shouldn't they use your PC to power the theft? –> Pirate Bay 'borrows' visitor CPUs to mine virtual coins
- Thieves are very innovative! –> Card Sharks: How ATM Skimming has grown more sophisticated
- Here’s all the new Apple stuff you can order right now
- This issue might derail success. However, the Apple herd is true, and loyal. –> The iPhone X's face unlock and the fifth amendment don't mix
- The electric car space will soon become very frothy! –> Porsche’s electric Mission E arrives in 2019, priced like Panamera
- Kewl! –> The Navy will soon use Xbox controllers to operate its attack submarines
General Interest
- A $1,700 electric motor that makes your $100 skateboard go vroom-vroom. Stay stupid, everybody! –> Deliberately, I have posted no link!
- I can’t help thinking about this sled! –> How the Mercedes-AMG Project One Brings F1 Tech to the Street
- What a herculean task! –> Meet the man fighting to save our country's rarest chickens
- Inside the Movement for Black Lives’ first permanent exhibit in New York City
- A forgone eventuality. Technology will actually help them stay relevant, and preserve their culture, mores, and traditions. –> In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
- I’m sooooo envious! –> Ralph Lauren Just Revealed His Secret Car Collection To The World
World
- Mystery of Russian Fake on Facebook Solved, by a Brazilian
- I wonder why she’s now getting beat up. Maybe, just maybe, she’s tired of being imprisoned, and she is trying to help within the constraints of living in a faux-military dictatorships? –> Aung San Suu Kyi, the Ignoble Laureate
- I still want a pied-à-terre there –> Why Grosvenor Square is set to be London's number one residential address again
- It’s always a shock to firebrands on both sides that they have to become centrist, or at least centrist-leaning, in a democracy, in order to effectively govern. –> The Education of Emmanuel Macron
Politics
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