Covered this week; Apple assembles the biggest heart study in history... Penny Marshall dies at 75... Getting even with robo-callers... The sad aftermath of Tim Bergling's departure from this mortal coil... Americans earning over $200k are flocking to these neighborhoods... Uber has no choice other than to restart testing of self-driving cars... Regarding our cyber-security, it's just a matter of time...
Covered this week; Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ named most-streamed song from the 20th Century... Your Apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret... Citizens react strongly to self-driving cars... Rideshare companies have a compensation issue... Wisconsin’s Scott Walker signs Bills stripping powers from incoming Governor Tony Evers... Russia continues its attempts to sow discord amongst the American electorate... Would human extinction be a tragedy?
Covered this week; From last week, George H.W. Bush, dead at 94... Gillian Genser's Beautiful Death... New York City sets the nation’s first minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers... Apple releases iPhone XR Clear Case... Now the Nuns are getting in on the dysfunction in the Catholic Church... iPhone XR camera review... Panoramic photographs, think different...
Covered this week; Train for Thanksgiving with the Angry Uncle Bot... Lock her up, lock her up, oh, the irony... date stamping a photo taken outside Wrigley Field... WKRP's best Thanksgiving sitcom episode in history... Examining traffic issues using the nation's airports as case studies... Losing weight with a bike and some will power... A visual history of Illinois license plates...
Covered this week; Marvel founder Stan Lee dies at 95... The Art Institute of Chicago has put 50k high-res images from their collection online... The album is in deep trouble, and the music industry probably can't save it... Shot on iPhone XR, users share portraits, landscapes and more... The ubiquity of smartphones as captured by photographers... Millennials and women fuel 2018 Democratic surge... Now it seems we need to be afraid of Amazon as well...
Covered this week; The sad state of plastic, but perhaps some hope on the horizon... The absolutely incredible (free) archives of the Library of Congress... It's official, Democrats will control the House of Representatives... A final proving ground for guide dogs to the blind, Midtown Manhattan... If you want to hook someone on baseball, show them this inning... The 31 best dance scenes in movies... Trump’s Nationalism, rebuked at World War I ceremony...
Covered this week; ‘You Are Jeff Bezos’ shows us just how much 156 billion dollars is... John Gruber's iPhone XR review... How old are particular words? A fun website to explore... What the hell happened to Darius Miles? Britney Spears took on Megyn Kelly long before anyone else had the idea... Digging deep into some Atari Asteroids folklore... Jim Carrey lights Donald Trump up...
Covered this week; Paul Allen, dies at 65. A tribute from Bill Gates... How Sears went from gilded-age boom to digital-age bankruptcy... To woo Uber, a top Wall Street banker moonlighted as a driver... Banksy's 'Girl With Balloon' becomes 'Shred the Love'... Tim Cook wants Bloomberg to retract that Chinese spy chip story... Google+ properly eulogized... US student loan debt crisis, mapped...
Covered this week; Columbus Day fades in relevance... 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees... Facebook unveils 'The Portal', a video chat camera for people who still trust Facebook... Will Vinton dies at 70... Tex Winter dies at 96... A map of every building in America... How The Beatles logo came to be... The design behind Uber and Lyft...
Covered this week; Earnings in the 'gig economy' are dropping... Google is coming for your personal data harder than ever... MacOS Mojave Review... Berners-Lee endorses Ro Khanna’s Internet Bill of Rights... Conan says goodbye to his band... Banksy self destructs... the Brewers are the team to beat in the National League...
Covered this week; Pete Souza releases the first pictures taken using Apple's new iPhone XS... Freezing your credit will now be free... Denise Mueller-Korenek smashes the bicycle speed record... A 200-year-old guide to color, redesigned for the internet age... Imprisoned Valentino Dixon released after 27 years, due in large part to a golfing magazine... Meet the people helping Tim Cook run Apple... Myst turns 25, how it changed gaming, created addicts and made enemies...
