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In the immortal words of Jenna Glasser, “Dear Coffee: Thank you.”
- Vintage Apple Ads: The 1980s was a time when a man could hang in the jungle with nothing but an Apple II covering his loins. Just sayin’.
- All’s Quiet on the Western Front: The New York Times reports that the Obama Administration is frozen in the face of increasing evidence that China — or its proxies — was behind large-scale, prolonged cyberattacks on American companies.
- Never Fear, the Germans are Here: Strange that the world’s shipping networks have never been mapped. Doubly strange since cargo ships move 90% of the world’s trade around the planet. No good German would let the situation linger and a group of them has created order by mapping the comings and goings of ships from 951 ports around the globe. The expected news? It’s a small world network. The unexpected news? It’s more efficient than flight.
- Puppet, Meet Robot: Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, discusses autonomous military robots that use swarm intelligence and robots that feed themselves organic matter. Connect the dots and you get autonomous, swarming, flesh eating robots. Somewhere a dystopian smiles.
- The Massive Wall of Fail: There are simply no words to describe this collection of human futility. None.
We’ll see you on the flip side.
