The New York Times
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Zeynep Tufekci
– Jul 14, 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley moguls seem to believe they can fix most anything, and they appear befuddled when their attempts to do so aren't met with unbridled enthusiasm. The tech billionaire Elon Musk was among the millions of people captivated by the plight…
Chinese tech isn't an imitation of its American counterpart. It's a completely different universe. Made in China Stickers at Huaqiangbei Electronics Market, Shenzhen. These stickers are still affixed to items by hand. 山寨 (Shanzhai)…
The New York Times
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Hayley Phelan
– Jul 12, 2:00 AM
You could say I had the epiphany when, in the middle of a flight to Los Angeles — and a busy New York workday — the Wi-Fi stopped working. Two very odd things happened in quick succession. First: I did not fall out of the sky. Second:…
My own experiences with censorship have led me to believe that the censor board is more the symptom than the problem, because I think everyone has had incidents where you're trying to express something and there is a gatekeeper who doesn't let you.
This weekend I wanted to play with Ubuntu 18.04 on a spare machine. This gave me a perfect excuse to try out the modules feature recently merged into the Go 1.11 development branch. TL;DR: When Go 1.11 ships you'll be able to download the tarball…
