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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_
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Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It’s Practically Free
This past June, Stockholm introduced a new shared bicycle service to replace Stockholm City Bikes, which operated from 2006 until 2018. Since that service shut down, the city was one of many around the world swamped by shared e-scooters that littered sidewalks and streets. As a result, the city wanted Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Plastic Recycling a ‘Failed Concept,’ Study Says
Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by U.S. Read more…
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Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes
As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take a moment to let that name sink in) blurs out nudes that are sent through the Bumble app, Read more…
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NewsFlash
If you hype something and it succeeds, you’re a genius — it wasn’t a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. — Neil Bogart
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Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet’s Traffic Every Second
A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable — enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second. Asbjorn Arvad Jorgensen at the Technical University of Read more…
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Bono Apologizes for 2014 iTunes Album Stunt, Remembers Pitching Steve Jobs a U2 iPod
Remember back in 2014 when every iTunes music library suddenly started showing U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence? In a new memoir (excerpted by the Guardian), U2’s lead singer Bono says he’s very sorry — and explains exactly how it happened: “Free music?” asked Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Read more…