But Chinese Android brands such as Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Realme still have more than half of the country's smartphone market | Continue reading
Photos of my daughter in the last decade, in roughly chronological order, starting and ending with birthday photos from 2010 and 2019, respectively. It's been a privilege to be here as she's grown up. I wouldn't have missed a moment of it for all the treasures of the world. I can … | Continue reading
Camp Aerial is a transforming Portaledge that is fast to set up, functional on both flat grounds and rock walls, and provides protection from fierce weather conditions. Big Wall Climbs are an increasingly popular sport with more people attempting bigger challenges, and leading at … | Continue reading
From Week #14: What I want to say to the designer of this motorized lift for the disabled: "Yeah, looks real cool. Where the fuck is the rest of it?" From Week #15: "Over time, using these chairs may put some wear on the steel edges. If that | Continue reading
California has given counties more than $8 billion to handle thousands of new inmates. But lax spending rules and limited scrutiny have allowed some sheriffs to use that money for other things, which may violate state law. | Continue reading
Brian Kim Stefans at Poetry Magazine: I often think that my obsession with Ezra Pound’s poetry was due to his well-known formula “DICHTEN = CONDENSARE” (dichten means “to write poetry” but also “to seal” or “to tighten” in German) or to those chestnuts from “A Few Don’ts by an Im … | Continue reading
Looking ahead to the year to come, Dan Moren lays out some of the big things to expect (and not) out of Cupertino. | Continue reading
You might have gift cards! | Continue reading
Here is the best anime of the decade, from sweeping action stories to brainy science fiction to more low-key relationship tales. | Continue reading
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account | Continue reading
Hannah Stamler at Artforum: Unlike Armstrong or Cukor, who stay true to Alcott’s timeline, Gerwig begins in the middle of the narrative, depicting the second half of the book while weaving in scenes drawn from the first. We open on the March sisters in their late teens or early t … | Continue reading
2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected. | Continue reading
Mallika Rao at The Believer: Jugaad is a hack, a hustle, a fix. It’s a lot from a little, the best with what you’ve got—which is likely not much, if you need jugaad. A “very DU word,” a Delhi University grad once explained to me, and I thought about how college students as a rule … | Continue reading
Andrew Elrod in Dissent: A facility that saw 53,000 emergency room visits per year disappeared from Philadelphia this summer with the prolonged and still-unfinished closure of Hahnemann University Hospital. The 496-bed hospital employed 2,700 people and saw 17,000 admissions in 2 … | Continue reading
The Long March-5 rocket, China's largest carrier rocket, was successfully launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Friday night. | Continue reading
Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require very precise movements to pitch the ball to the strike zone, where the palm muscle plays a key role during movement. Recording the sEMG from the pa … | Continue reading
Cira, the organization that manages the .ca top-level domain, is offering a free stock photo library featuring typically Canadia | Continue reading
Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%. Martin Fowler: “We are still working hard to hire only the very top fraction of software developers (the target is around the top 0.5 to … | Continue reading
Central Asia, between China and Europe, is bustling | Continue reading
The company said it will pause political advertising in early 2020. | Continue reading
Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading
Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading
When you tell AI to produce world peace and it kills everyone. (Okay, some SF writers saw that one coming.) | Continue reading
And Other Truths We Struggle to Believe | Continue reading
Galen Strawson in The Guardian: There is no escape from this dilemma – either all matter is conscious, or consciousness is something distinct from matter”: Alfred Russel Wallace put the point succinctly in 1870, and it is hard to see how his colleague Charles Darwin, the great ev … | Continue reading
New year, new rights. | Continue reading
Planing around vacations, sick days, maternity leave, conferences, etc.? Pivotal Tracker's "Team Strength" feature may be exactly what you're looking for. | Continue reading
Today, I look back at the year in media — from the best to the worst to the odd to the inspiring and everything in between. | Continue reading
This paper appeared in PODC 2019, and is by Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta, and Ittai Abraham. The paper pre... | Continue reading
Fast-casual chains like Sweetgreen and order-ahead apps like MealPal are optimizing lunchtime to death. | Continue reading
China is clear to embark on ambitious exploration and space station missions following a successful return-to-flight Friday of the Long March 5. | Continue reading
The future is high-end Chinese food. | Continue reading
To makowy biszkopt przekładany masą budyniową i żurawiną, udekorowny polewą z białej czekolady. Idealne ciasto na świąteczny okres. Jakie są zalety tego wypieku? Ciasto nie jest przesłodzone. Wychodzi go dość sporo, jest podzielne i utrzymuje świeżość bardzo długo, nawet do tygod … | Continue reading
Not traveling alone? Tips, advice and links geared towards traveling families and seniors on how to make the most of your trip. It can be done cheaply! | Continue reading
Russian astronomer Valery Kozhevnikov has conducted photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable (CV) IPHAS J013031.89+622132.3 (J0130 for short), finding that the object exhibits deep eclipses. The discovery, presented in a paper published December 17 on arXiv.org, could … | Continue reading
We made it, minions! Another Christmas in the bag! Minions? | Continue reading