Seen in → No.53
- Waymo’s cars drive 10 million miles a day in a perilous virtual world. “Waymo has covered more than 6 billion virtual miles in total.”
- It’s not in anyone’s interest to admit whether China hacked us. (On the disputed Bloomberg Businessweek spying scoop.)
- Apple’s New Proprietary Software Locks Will Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros. Well F you too, Apple. (In other random news, I was reading this just yesterday: elementary OS 5 Juno is Here.)
- The Robots Are Coming To Las Vegas.
- Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.
- ‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss. “This is one of the most disturbing articles I have ever read.”
- What is the impact of China’s ivory ban?. Some good news.
- New Battery Soaks Up Carbon Dioxide.
- Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden. And her first name is Saga!
- Rams — Gary Hustwit. I’m going to have to see this. (And, of course he’s into bonsais.)
- “In my history of consumption class, I teach about Sears, but what most people don’t know is just how radical the catalogue was in the era of Jim Crow.” Great thread.
- How the Mercator Projection Distorts the True Sizes of Countries on Maps. Known facts but nice visuals to emphasize.