October 2020 Archive
1921.
Mobile networks banned from selling locked phones (bbc.com)
1922.
Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time (smithsonianmag.com)
1923.
Separating Hype from Hydrogen: EU's 6GW Electrolyzer Plan (about.bnef.com)
1924.
Virgin Hyperloop picks West Virginia to test high-speed transport system (reuters.com)
1925.
Did Apple build MagSafe so that cases can “stick” to the new iPhones? (twitter.com)
1926.
The Gap: Where Machine Learning Education Falls Short (thegradient.pub)
1927.
Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies [pdf] (itpi.org.in)
1928.
Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO (twitter.com)
1929.
Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless (health.harvard.edu)
1930.
Symptoma – Digital health assistant and symptom checker (symptoma.com)
1931.
Overview of universal scaler DS.D3663LUA, revitalization of Philips 42-inch TV (redlightgreen.org)
1932.
Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil (blog.trailofbits.com)
1933.
Guide to Notion Landing Pages (optemization.com)
1934.
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
1935.
The Canadian printer who successfully sued the Soviet Union (cbc.ca)
1936.
Algolia releases new AI search features (algolia.com)
1937.
Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm (github.com)
1938.
Parsing RISC-V assembly (web.eecs.utk.edu)
1939.
Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops (ecowatch.com)
1940.
SDLang – Simple Declarative Language (sdlang.org)
1941.
Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago (wired.com)
1942.
Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app (netflixtechblog.com)
1943.
We All Live in Don DeLillo’s World (nytimes.com)
1944.
Canadian government invests in small nuclear reactors to help meet net-zero 2050 (cbc.ca)
1945.
YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling out 60 FPS videos (thehftguy.com)
1946.
'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle (uk.reuters.com)
1947.
Microsoft probed by US government over aim to double black staff numbers (bbc.com)
1948.
Mysterious ‘super-archaic’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors (sciencemag.org)
1949.
Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (1978) (archive.org)
1950.
Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum (partyline.chat)