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    LGR’s Clint Basinger plumbs the depths of retro-computing—and his YouTube comments

    Oh, that's not actually DrPizza being un-memory holed, is it?
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    White House-CDC tensions explode as Trump contradicts its leadership

    Why would you expect it to have moved more? The ultra-wealthy made out like the bandits they are with the tax changes, and they're able to push a lot of propaganda. But outside certain windfalls like that--subsidizing the small number of billionaires by extracting a little more blood from...
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    The first road tests of the Volkswagen ID.3 electric car are showing up

    Why the outdated tech? Id 3 engine was released 2005. But I guess good on VW for supporting open source.
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    Disinfectants help kill the coronavirus—but please don’t drink them

    Rommel been around lately to tell us how all us foolish techno-elitists will come around real soon into Trump's presidency and admit what a great and capable leader he is?
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    Motorola’s launches the Edge+, a $1000 flagship smartphone

    Curved displays and edge displays are horrible, at least when it forces the main screen to wrap and distort, and when it results in false screen presses. Sounds promising that Moto, unlike Samsung and others, at least lets you turn this misfeature off. Surprised there was never an Ars Technica...
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    SpaceX and Tesla could build ventilators, Musk tells Twitter fan

    No, but it _may_ mean you are in better position to adapt expertise and supply chain to build a different type of complicated machine. Mass conversion of industry isn't unprecedented, either. In my own industry, across Europe there are a whole bunch of meter factories that were converted to...
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    The nuclear option: EA bans “abusive” FIFA player from all of its games

    So, I see a lot of references in this article about posts/videos about EA, rather than to EA. If he's ranting about EA and their games on his own streams and feeds, how is he being disruptive?
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    Report: Google planning tenth messaging app—this one’s another Slack clone

    And most importantly, Google Voice is something that some number of people have paid real American dollars for, for number porting and what have you. Isn't it also linked in some way with Google Fi, another rare Google service where the users are the actual paying customer?
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    House bill seeks to gut NASA’s Artemis plan, resurrect Journey to Mars

    I'm all for an end to the mixing of space science and politics, but you're aware that would mean an end to any possibility of manned missions, right?
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    Why racism in science never really went away

    Little to do, but not nothing. And that's why it's disappointing to see other progressives go full bore on claiming "no" biological basis to race. Yes, that biological basis is almost entirely superficial appearance, and yes, on top of that basis is an enormous and damaging social construct of...
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    New boson hidden in beryllium decay? Check. New physics? Maybe 

    Having followed this on various physics blogs, my understanding is that the skepticism isn't driven by snobbish disregard for a small lab, it's driven by this particular small lab having produced and promoted irreproducible findings in the same vein previously.
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    Apple, Google, and Amazon team up for joint smart home standard

    AllSeen ate itself after whichever big tech company dropped out, Microsoft or whatever, now just squabbling as a task group within OCF. As for OCF, don't think these same conversations with a lot of the same players weren't happening with OCF leadership too. But at the end of the day, OCF's data...
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    Apple, Google, and Amazon team up for joint smart home standard

    Hue supports multiple networks, including Zigbee. Philips has been part of Zigbee board of directors forever, just now under the Signify name. Silicon Labs, another Zigbee board of directors member (and of Thread Group, too), bought Z-Wave from Sigma. The field is just getting more incestuous.
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    Apple, Google, and Amazon team up for joint smart home standard

    The hype for Smart Washers came out of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act $4.5B spending for Smart Grid. One expectation of these Smart Grid upgrades was that we were going to have nearly universal Time of Use Tariff/Real Time/Demand Response pricing, in place to support a huge percentage...
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    Apple, Google, and Amazon team up for joint smart home standard

    Google, Apple, Amazon are clearly the big names here. But having been in this space for 15 years, on both standards and product fronts, what Zigbee can and should bring to the table is local device-to-device communication. Why does my command to turn on a light have to bounce from my phone to my...
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    The Motorola One Hyper brings a pop-up camera, all-screen design for $400

    In that case, check out the Moto One Zoom. Small notch instead of popup front camera, 6.4" screen instead of 6.5", but OLED display and 4-lens rear camera with a pretty good night vision. Same 4000 mAh battery, headphone jack, microSD, etc. Really impressed with mine so far.
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    That time Benjamin Franklin tried (and failed) to electrocute a turkey

    I have never been more proud (and, appropriately, thankful) of my ancestor than I am today.
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    Europe is fresh out of IPv4 addresses

    Your idea is terrible. If ipv6 were that straightforward, how would cisco gouge everyone on network infrastructure equipment?