WSJ reports that President Trump is going to give TikTok another extension to get their shit together make a effort to be legal: President Trump is planning to give TikTok another lifeline. With a mid-June deadline approaching and trade talks with China in limbo, Trump is expected to sign an executive order staving off enforcement of a law banning or forcing the sale of the app, according to people familiar with his plan. It would be the third extension since Trump took office in January. The current one expires June 19. Just a note that this, once...
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Watch: This Apple video from 1987 about 1997
Back in 1987, Apple made a (cheeky) video predicting what 1997 would be like. In it, Apple predicts that they will be basically the biggest company ever. Of course, we know that by 1997, they were basically bankrupt. Let\’s at least be happy that basically none of this came true, especially the glasses (or Vista Mac). Make sure you catch the Pepsi joke, as that\’s where John Scully was CEO before joining Apple.
Continue reading...Watch: Supercut of 80s computer hacking
Man, computer hacking in the 80s was really cool.
Continue reading...Breakfast Octopus
Go ahead and read these two paragraphs (go ahead, I\’ll wait for you): So there sat Bezos at the breakfast table, faced with a question for which he was apparently unprepared. Many painful seconds passed without an answer. Rutledge let the pause lengthen as long as he could bear it and was just about to tell his host to forget it, when Bezos finally spoke. He looked down at his plate. Bezos had ordered a dish called Tom’s Big Breakfast, a preparation of Mediterranean octopus that includes potatoes, bacon, green garlic yogurt, and a poached egg. “You’re...
Continue reading...Watch: President Obama plays soccer with a robot
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2vk6coBpI] So, this robot pretty much portends our coming doom.
Continue reading...Why is the Spotify player such a piece of shit?
Spotify is a pretty decent service. For free, you can listen to practically anything that’s ever been released commercially (sadly, no RVIVR, but that’s on them because they’re UP THE PUNX), as long as you’re willing to listen to some ads once in a while. And I’m not against listening to ads once in a while. The problem is, for a tech company with so much data, they use it horribly. Or they don’t use it at all. You’ll be listening to a sweet Biber partita, and get thrown a massively loud advertisement for ADVANCED AUTO PARTS. Listening to...
Continue reading...No more printed Oxford English Dictionary?
Sad news for bibliophiles: The Oxford English Dictionary as we know it may never be printed (in full) again. Nigel Portwood, the CEO of the Oxford University Press, told the Sunday Times (behind a pay-wall, damn you Murdoch), via the Telegraph: “The print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of per cent a year,” Nigel Portwood, the chief executive of OUP, told the Sunday Times. Asked if he thought the third edition would be printed, he said: “I don’t think so.” The current printed dictionary, the second edition, which was released in...
Continue reading...SEC Employees Fiddle With Themselves As Wall St. Burns
An internal audit of SEC employee computer use has uncovered some staggering details about exactly what employees and contractors were doing with their time and their laptops. The results: “During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time,” said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general’s office. The aerial view presented in the above...
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