August 2020 Archive
2881.
United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 international routes (kokpitherald.com)
2882.
Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway (bloomberg.com)
2883.
Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist (latimes.com)
2884.
The Mega Constellations Are Already Here. The Time for Polite Concern Is Over (forbes.com)
2885.
The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents (washingtonpost.com)
2886.
Twilight of the Imperial Chef (nytimes.com)
2887.
Citigroup clerical error of $900M; a beneficiary refuses to hand back $175M (en.mercopress.com)
2888.
Shakespeare’s Son Died at 11. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art (nytimes.com)
2889.
How Predictable Is Fiction? (tedunderwood.com)
2890.
Israel military detects 6 blasts, each 11 seconds apart, before Beirut explosion (reuters.com)
2891.
UC Berkeley boosts Latino admissions by 40% in one year (news.berkeley.edu)
2892.
U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Blueprint for the Quantum Internet (energy.gov)
2893.
Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers are rising? (theguardian.com)
2894.
ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason) (rescript-lang.org)
2895.
Neoliberalism and the End of Democracy [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
2896.
TikTok and WeChat Expose Big Tech’s Lack of Innovation (bloomberg.com)
2897.
The SF Anthology Problem – Solved (classicsofsciencefiction.com)
2898.
Unopinionated framework faster than everything (0kb raw and gzipped) (github.com)
2899.
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux (phys.org)
2900.
Jay Z, Charles Schwab-Backed Ethereum App Opens Doors to Public (bloomberg.com)
2901.
Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts (independent.co.uk)
2902.
Digital Design in Architecture: research landscape map 1975-2019 (github.com)
2903.
Jobs to Be Done Framework Is More Useful Than Personas (medium.com)
2904.
AppleBot – Automate Things in Apple Dev Portal (getapplebot.com)
2905.
Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good (onezero.medium.com)
2906.
Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’ (pilotonline.com)
2907.
Improve Your Negotiation Skills with the U-Shaped Story (cristianmitreanu.com)
2908.
Bitwarden Announces Integrated Password Security with Identity-Based SSO (bitwarden.com)
2909.
Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape (thenewpublishingstandard.com)
2910.
Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video] (youtube.com)