🏴‍☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-352-AM Edition

🏴‍☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-352-AM Edition

Think Globally.

🌎 Planet News

• Deb Haaland might become the first Native American head of the Interior: Grist
• 2020 Election Map: xkcd.com
• China Just Successfully Hauled Moon Rocks Back to Earth: VICE US

Chang'e-5 reentry capsule found! pic.twitter.com/Ijv3yaWObN

— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 16, 2020

🏪 Business

• Zoom will continue its unlimited free calls for upcoming holidays: Engadget
• HBO Max has landed on PS5: Engadget
• HBO Max will finally land on Roku devices tomorrow: TechCrunch
• Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy: Daring Fireball
• Following Hyundai acquisition, Boston Dynamics’ CEO discusses the robotics pioneer’s future: TechCrunch
• AutoLeap says it will repair your lousy relationship with car shops: TechCrunch

News folks are not going to love this. Some product manager announced internally a tool that FB is developing called "TL;DR". Basically, it will use AI to summarize long form articles and spit out bullet points so people don't have to read the full piece.

What could go wrong!

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 15, 2020

📲 Tech

• How location helps provide more relevant search results: The Official Google Blog
• NASA’s Lunar Gateway will feature Canadian Space Agency robotics: Engadget
• An electric RV is coming from Lordstown Motors and Camping World: Engadget
• Atari VCS will feature Google Chrome as its built-in browser: Engadget
• Amazon’s Project Kuiper has developed a small, low-cost customer terminal for its broadband satellite network: TechCrunch
• Qualcomm’s new chipset for wireless earbuds promises improved noise cancellation, all-day battery life: TechCrunch

You might've missed it LIVE, but you can watch Episode 5 of Kubernetes 101 over... and over... until the next episode on January 6! https://t.co/sG57piwWTh #kubernetes #kube101 #drupal

— Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) December 16, 2020

💾 Software

• Retweets are back to normal as Twitter ends its quote tweet experiment: Engadget
• There’s now a Google Reader-style RSS feed for your newsletter habit: Engadget
• Substack launches RSS reader: Waxy.org
• Discord’s screen sharing feature comes to smartphones: Engadget
• Discord will be able to screen share from iOS and Android devices starting today: TechCrunch
• AWS launches Amazon Location, a new mapping service for developers: TechCrunch

Substack has a new leaderboard system with 12 different categories – including climate – and lemme just say I'm super pumped that The Phoenix catching on, y'all.

I also found a bunch of new climate newsletters to subscribe to!

Check out the whole list: https://t.co/zTkxBX549i pic.twitter.com/kXvsdTKZce

— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) December 16, 2020

🌊 Drifts

• Slow Movement: CSS-Tricks
• ‘COVID-19 and the Failure of Swedish Exceptionalism’: Daring Fireball

blog stylings by JW