🏴☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-349-AM Edition
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🏴☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-349-AM Edition
🌎 Planet News
- Germany begins hard lockdown against coronavirus until at least January 10, as COVID-19 spreads: Boing Boing
- China Moon probe starts return to Earth with lunar samples: Engadget
- Vaccine Trust World Opinion: Maps on the Web
- Regions experiencing Google service outages in the past hour.: Maps on the Web
- Foreign state hackers reportedly breached the US Treasury (updated): Engadget
🏪 Business
- An even bigger battle for gig worker rights is on the horizon: TechCrunch
- Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform: VICE US
- An investigation finds the Nature Conservancy helping big corporations greenwash their climate reputations.: The Morning News
- The USPS Expert Who Knew We Needed to ‘Save the Post Office’ Before Trump Attacked It: VICE US
📲 Tech
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- German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor: TechCrunch
- Virgin Galactic test flight fails to reach space after failsafe landing triggered: TechCrunch
- Reddit acquires Dubsmash: TechCrunch
- What happens when an M1 Mac starts up?: The Loop
- First look at the VW ID.4 Electric Vehicle - YouTube
- Pirate IPTV Provider Must Pay DISH $15.8m in Damages: TorrentFreak
- Amazon’s Zoox shows off its first autonomous robotaxi: Engadget
- Amazon’s Zoox unveils electric robotaxi that can travel up to 75 mph: TechCrunch
💾 Software
- MarsEdit 4.4.10: Fix crashes on macOS 10.12 and 10.13: Red Sweater Blog
🌊 Drifts
- The No-Fcuks-Given Isolation Fun of Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp: Boing Boing
- Lego Version of Hokusai’s Iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa: kottke.org
- Iconic Japanese woodblock print “The Great Wave” recreated in Lego: Boing Boing
- How to make fried water: Boing Boing
- How building a working Antikythera Mechanism might have uncovered an unknown lunar calendar: Boing Boing
- Why Madagascar is the world’s largest vanilla producer: Boing Boing
- An icy night in Ukraine: Boing Boing
- The rise and fall of Peoria’s Cookie Monster: Boing Boing
- Vocal synth with teeth is equally hilarious and horrifying: Engadget