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

•  ‘Fake news’ attack lost its power this week

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