Last minute geek

1. DC Universe cancels ‘Swamp Thing’ after a single episode (updated)
(English/engadget)

DC Universe cancelled Swamp Thing, its streaming sci-fi series, after a single episode. The live-action drama set in swamplands of Louisiana was cancelled on Thursday, less than a week after airing its ...

2. Excellent Utilities: Abricotine - open source Markdown editor
(English/Linuxtoday)

LinuxLinks: Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality. Read all

3. Listen to BBC Radio 4's "New Weird Britain" audio program
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John Doran, founder of the excellent music news site The Quietus, and producer Alannah Chance have created a fascinating audio documentary series for BBC Radio 4 titled "New Weird Britain." Over four ...

4. A closer look at the Bose 700 noise-cancelling headphones
(English/engadget)

As great as the Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones sound, let's be real: they look like they were designed for dads on a business trip. And listen, as someone who's into the whole chunky, dad-shoe ...

5. Investigating nozzle-wear in 3D printers (with excellent cross-sections!)
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

CNC Kitchen's 18-minute video on nozzle wear in 3D printing involves sending abrasive filaments (the abrasiveness comes from pigments and additives like carbon fiber, etc) through a variety of nozzles ...

6. USA, non avrete il mio account
(Italiano/webnews)

Pronto ad aprire la tua bacheca alla polizia aeroportuale statunitense? Meglio darle una pulita e cancellare quei post contro il governo. The post USA, non avrete il mio account appeared first on Webnews. ...

7. Why is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco?
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Karl Bode raises an excellent point when he asks why there isn't the same kind of energy to break up the telcos, whose routinely deplorable behavior make them the most loathed industry in America, and ...

8. Ted Chiang's "Op Ed From the Future": socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... also an important counterpoint to Jim Hughes's excellent 2005 Citizen Cyborg, which warns that left to its own devices, any transhumanist project will create a have/have-not dichotomy that's embedded in ...

9. Apple raises iOS cellular download limit to 200MB
(English/engadget)

Believe it or not, Apple has kept iOS' cellular download limit to 150MB per app since September 2017 -- and that's a problem when many apps can be larger. The company is changing with the times, ...

10. App Store: 200 MB il limite su rete cellulare
(Italiano/webnews)

Apple incrementa il limite di download per App Store, in vigore su rete cellulare, da 150 a 200 MB: in molti chiedono che le restrizioni vengano tolte. The post App Store: 200 MB il limite su rete cellulare ...

11. NASA, 125 milioni per razzi a propulsione nucleare
(Italiano/webnews)

La NASA ha ricevuto un finanziamento da 125 milioni di dollari per sviluppare un sistema di propulsione nucleare per le navicelle spaziali del futuro. The post NASA, 125 milioni per razzi a propulsione ...

12. 'Deadwood: The Movie' premieres this Friday on HBO, and looks great
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Deadwood: The Movie airs on HBO in the US on Friday, May 31. Can't wait for Swearingen's swears. “Thirteen years after it was abruptly cancelled, David Milch’s grimy, glorious western finally gets the ...

13. Microscopic robots carry stem cells through a mouse's body
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... magnetic field to steer microbots through a live mouse's body carrying therapeutic stem cells. From IEEE Spectrum: ..Delivering stem cells typically requires an injection with a needle, which lowers ...

14. Get 50+ hours of Microsoft Excel training for a price you pick
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... want to consider the latter option. Suitable for any level of experience, this training package covers all the essentials in 8 integrated lessons. You'll quickly learn to work with columns and cells, then ...

15. ASUS ZenFone 6, migliore fotocamera frontale
(Italiano/webnews)

Secondo DxOMark Image Labs, la Flip Camera del nuovo ASUS ZenFone 6 permette di scattare selfie di eccellente qualità, grazie al sensore da 48 megapixel. The post ASUS ZenFone 6, migliore fotocamera frontale ...

16. Skai could be the first fuel cell-powered flying taxi
(English/engadget)

... fuel cells (the first of its kind, the company... Read all  ...

17. Open Insulin: biohackers trying to create a "microbrewery" for insulin as an answer to price-gouging
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... (I gave $50). Price-gouging on insulin is literally killing Americans with diabetes, while Canadians pay only 10% of what their US cousins pay. A September, 2018 article in Cell does a good job of laying ...

18. The successor to Bose's QC35 noise-cancelling headphones arrives June 30th
(English/engadget)

Bose has a spiritual successor to its well-regarded QC35 wireless headphones... plus a little more. The company's newly unveiled Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 tout a serene listening environment ...

19. Print book reading is surging, just not in research libraries
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... who often win their battles...but then fail to patronize the libraries they've saved, a phenomenon documented in an excellent Atlantic article by Dan Cohen, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration at ...

20. Business schools are shuttering full-time MBA programs, citing low enrollment, millennials
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MBA programs are the origin node of a lot of ugly, exploitative business trends over recent decades (see this excellent documentary for more), and their star is in decline, with MBAs commanding a much ...

21. Help wanted! EFF is hiring a new copyright/trademark litigator
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... must have at least 3 years of litigation experience. That experience should include: devising and carrying out case strategy, and handling day-to-day projects and deadlines. Candidates must have excellent ...

22. Magical Women: a new anthology of feminist science fiction by women from India
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... summarizes the 14 stories in the volume, which span a wide variety of themes and modes, and sound genuinely excellent, calling it "long overdue" and identifying the ways that these stories both play with, ...

23. Poland has asked the European Court of Justice to overturn the #CopyrightDirective
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... the Polish complaint, apart from interviews in the Polish press, and a snappy infographic tweeted by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. Poland files complaint with EU's top court over ...

24. Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... hopeful monsters that forked off from WorldWideWeb: forgotten relics of a nobler age with names like NCSA Mosiac, Erwise, ViolaWWW, Midas, Samba and Cello! These fossils are excavated and lovingly cataloged ...

25. LG brings Alexa to its 2019 ThinQ TVs
(English/engadget)

... any of the ThinQ AI 4K models including NanoCell and OLED m... Read all  ...