Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features/
Meta
A Single Way to Log Into Oculus and Unlock Social Features | Meta Quest Blog
Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 2020: Everyone using an Oculus device for the first time will need to log in with a Facebook account; if you’re…
Open Problems in Robotics https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/open-problems-in-robotics/
Locklin on science
Open problems in Robotics
Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests
Los Angeles Times
'It's a Telegram revolution': Messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
The Telegram messaging app has become an indispensable tool in coordinating the unprecedented mass demonstrations that have rocked Belarus.
College Notebook of Isaac Newton http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment https://vtm.netxs.online/
Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/
BestBroadbandDeals.co.uk
The Cost of 1GB Of Mobile Data in 237 Countries
A global league table of mobile data costs. The average cost of one gigabyte (1GB) compared from over 5,600 mobile data plans in 237 countries.
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Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework https://arwes.dev
Arwes
Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework.
Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account/
MacRumors
Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
Apple in mid-August said that it would terminate Epic Games' developer account if the Fortnite app continued to break the App Store rules, and...
American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time https://aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time/
American Academy of Sleep Medicine – Association for Sleep Clinicians and Researchers
American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Eliminate daylight saving time
Public health and safety would benefit from eliminating daylight saving time, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-of-the-brains-behind-tesla-found-a-new-way-to-make-electric-cars-cheaper-11598673630
WSJ
One of the Brains Behind Tesla May Have a New Way to Make Electric Cars Cheaper
What’s the secret to building a more affordable electric vehicle? JB Straubel has an answer. It starts with a pile of old cellphones.
I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-thought-i-would-have-accomplished-a-lot-more-today-and-also-by-the-time-i-was-thirty-five
The New Yorker
I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the Time I Was Thirty-Five
When I think about all the time I frittered away today, it agitates me, and I jump on Wikipedia to look up famous nineteenth-century circuses.
Level 3 Global Outage https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on
The Drive
Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report A Guy In Jetpack Flying Alongside Them
Even in an era in which congress wants to openly investigate UFOs, a dude flying alongside an airliner over Los Angeles in a jetpack is still bonkers
Most-favorited Hacker News posts https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
Observable
Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time
The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. The list skews toward innovative learning resources and tech career tips, but there is a little of everything. Data was scraped 2020-09-1 from the public favourites lists. This is…
Unix Wars (2000) https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727
POLITICO
Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay
But the controversial phone metadata program played little role in the terror-fundraising case at issue, the long-awaited ruling says.