Last minute geek

1. Get your geek on with NatGeo’s new series Valley of the Boom
(English/the-gadgeteer)

... 90s when regular people like you and I first started learning about the World Wide Web, @ … Get your geek on with NatGeo’s new series Valley of the Boom Read More Read all  ...

2. Billionaire Beach Villain Vinod Khosla has a thought concerning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Vinod Khosla is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who chose to define his legacy through a spectacular legal battle to block access to the public part of a beach are he owns in California. Alexandria ...

3. Mysterious repeating signal from distant galaxy detected by new radio telescope
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... been reported once before, by a different telescope. ... The CHIME observatory, located in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, consists of four 100-metre-long, semi-cylindrical antennas, which scan the ...

4. Silicon Valley real estate asking prices fall 12% from peak
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... in Silicon Valley and San Francisco combined skyrocketed by 455% from a year earlier to 444. Read the rest Read all  ...

5. Califonia's haunted wineries host different kinds of spirits
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... there in the old hospital, going on to become the Sonoma Valley Wine Museum and then the Bartholomew Park Winery in 1992... This rather grim past came back to haunt the winery in the 1970s, perhaps literally, ...

6. Tech isn’t coming to save us
(English/engadget)

It's easy to believe that something new is naturally better than what we've already got, with the exception of the second Darrin on Bewitched. It's the Silicon Valley mind-set, that you've ...

7. "Um, Actually," there is a game show of nerd pwnage
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... with "Um, actually..." Many of the contestants on the show are familiar faces from Geek & Sundry, The Nerdist, CollegeHumor, and shows like Silicon Valley. When "Um, Actually" first showed up on YouTube ...

8. 'Stardew Valley' creator is working on more content and a new game
(English/engadget)

In a blog post and a few tweets, solo game developer Eric Barone laid out plans for 2019 that will expand his hit indie game Stardew Valley and extend to a new title. Now that he has regained the right ...

9. New music video by Dominque Pruitt: "High In The Valley"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Six ago I posted singer Dominique Pruitt's first music video, "To Win Your Love." Since then, she's released a number of country-inspired tunes and I like them all. Her latest is "High In The Valley." ...

10. Two new fun and gorgeous books by National Geographic
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... It is well-bound and lays flat so no small details are lost in the binding, which is important when looking at a two-page spread of a planet or trying to read the names of peaks, valleys, and craters on ...

11. Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... of one of her Stanford students were receiving a steady stream of mysterious packages addressed to "Returns Department, Valley Fountain LLC." Odell's investigation revealed a bizarre network of shitty, ...

12. The C64 Mini: a gaming blast from the past
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... The Arc of Yesod, Avenger, Battle Valley, Boulder Dash, Break Dance, California Games, Chip's Challenge, Coil Cop, Confuzion, Cosmic Causeway, Cyberdyne Warrior, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Deflektor, Destroyer, ...

13. Missouri's latest senator is part of a wave of (extremely selective) Republican enthusiasm for trustbusting
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... holds that monopolies are "efficient" and thus desirable), a bunch of "free market" Republicans have started sounding off like Roosevelt trustbusters about Silicon Valley companies, galled by their Democrat-leading ...

14. Maybe using butane to extract weed oil isn't the best idea
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... the valley, but the scenery would be better at the top of the mountain. Canada has legal cannabis. Now the cops are worried about Canadians making their own hash oil using dangerous methods. From the Kelowna ...

15. Apple's CEO: tech regulation is "inevitable"
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... also said that while Silicon Valley has embraced diversity in general, it “has missed it” when it comes to closing the gender gap. Apple’s Tim Cook says tech regulation ‘inevitable’ because free market ...

16. Direct from the Uncanny Valley: Affetto, the freaky child android head
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

This is the new version of Affetto, the robot child head that's a testbed for synthetic facial expressions. According to the Osaka University researchers who birthed Affeto, their goal is to "offer a ...

17. Google si allarga, migliaia i posti di lavoro a NY
(Italiano/webnews)

Google si sta espandendo e presto molti giovani di New York potrebbero avere la possibilità di lavorare nell’azienda: sembra infatti che, da Silicon Valley, il nuovo centro del gigante tecnologico ...

18. Collect them all: Venture capitalist trading cards
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Steep for ordinary folks, yes, but not Silicon Valley wheelers and dealers. Get'em while you can! Thanks, You! Read the rest Read all  ...

19. Kenyans from "the toughest neighborhood on earth" trace pixels all day to train autonomous vehicles
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The Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is Africa's largest slum, and it's home to an unlikely, Silicon-Valley-style tech park operated by Samasource (motto: "Artificial intelligence meets human dignity"), ...

20. ArcheoLab Italia Montenegro
(Italiano/CNR)

... di studi sul Mediterraneo antico (Isma-Cnr) e l’Istituto storico del Montenegro (HIM). Il Laboratorio (ArcheoLab Italia Montenegro), dal titolo 'Archaeological survey in the Doclea valley (Podgorica, ...

21. An artificial intelligence populated these photos with glitchy humanoid ghosts
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... DIGG: "In AI and robotics, we talk a lot about "the uncanny valley,” where stuff is human-like enough to make it seem plausible, but small deviations from our expectation of humans lead to a very creepy ...

22. Alt-right social network Gab down after website, domain registrar and own tech chief abandon it
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... a viral memo about women in tech, Torba capitalized on the case’s media attention to promote an “alt-tech revolution,” where conservative tech workers would rise up and topple Silicon Valley giants. Gab, ...

23. Facebook hires Nick Clegg, British politician who annihilated his own party, as new global affairs chief
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Clegg, 51, will move to Silicon Valley in January to succeed Elliot Schrage, who announced he would leave Facebook after 10 years in June. His recruitment will be as much of a surprise to the British political ...

24. Robin "Sourdough" Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... of old short stories from If and Galaxy, novels by "John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Joan Didion and Philip K. Dick," the poetry of Johnny Cash, oral histories of Silicon Valley, and, of course, "the ...

25. Palantir may IPO at valuation of up to $41 billion
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The highly secretive Silicon Valley-based data company Palantir is reported to be considering an initial public offering. The firm was founded by Peter Thiel, and is known for ability to analyze extremely ...