Linked: “Get Ready for Summer on Netflix US”
via Netflix: Here are some of the great and varied selection of films coming to our U.S. service…
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LInked: “Securing a BitTorrent Sync EC2 Instance”
via Ash Furrow: I’ve been trying to move away from online services that allow easy mass surveillance. For…
Linked: “Amazon Web Services in Plain English”
via ExpeditedSSL: Hey, have you heard of the new AWS services: ContainerCache, ElastiCast and QR72? Of course not,…
Linked: “LGBTQ+ Terminology”
via UCF.edu: (warning, PDF) “…and the extended acronym LGBTQQIAP2S, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning,…
Linked: “Wired thinks https can help fight vs ad blocking”
via DigiDay: Wired has a bigger ad blocking problem than the average publication, owing to its tech-savvy audience.…
Linked: “What makes a weblog a weblog?” [2003]
via Blogs.Harvard.edu: A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can…
Linked: “Why does Google hate the web?”
via Scripting: I understand that they want to force people to switch to HTTPS and to convert their…
Linked: “Aw, so cute!”: Allo helps you respond to shared photos
via Google Research Blog on Allo (their new messaging app w/ AI built right in): We utilize Google’s…
Linked: “Medium: A Publisher’s Perspective”
via MondayNote: Our findings were actually consistent with those of Medium’s own data scientist Mike Sall who notes,…
Linked: “Facebook Struggles to Stop Decline in ‘Original’ Sharing”
via The Information: Less than a year ago, leaders at Facebook convened to address a serious problem: people…
Linked: “Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers”
via Wired: The maps were part of one of the most ambitious cartographic enterprises ever undertaken. During the…
Technology: Google Calendar is Down
I just opened Calendar on my Mac, l guess there’s an advantage to not putting everything you rely…
Linked: “My flawed Apple Watch has become a necessity”
via DeSouzaDigest: Yet, despite all these complaints, the benefits far outweigh the faults. It is a device that…
Linked: “The Spectre 13 is HP’s attempt to out-design Apple”
via TheVerge: Its newest laptop is called the Spectre 13 (or sometimes, simply, the HP Spectre), and —…
Linked: “How to Make Taco Bell’s Entire Classic Menu”
via LaughingSquid: Josh and Mike Greenfield of the Brothers Green cooking and music show created a new series…
Linked: “Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji”
via GroupLens: To your smartphone, an emoji is just like any other character (e.g., lower-case ‘a’, upper-case ‘B’)…
Linked: “Goodnight, and good luck”
via Al Jazeera America: For Al Jazeera America online, no human tragedy could be reduced to a statistic…
Linked: “30 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1986”
via TheAtlantic: Three decades ago, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was one of the biggest stories…
Linked: “This Millennium’s Best Picture Oscar Winners Are Not On Netflix”
via TorrentFreak: The Oscar-winner limitations don’t seem to be tied to the Best Picture category either. Of the…
Linked: “Did the March Apple event deliver for Apple Watch owners?”
via WatchAware: I do still very much love my Apple Watch, and remain hopeful that Apple has some…