MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF
Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test https://www.cbc.ca/1.5900782
CBC
Is an $800 purifier best to clean your home's air? Marketplace tested 5 top brands and their claims | CBC News
A CBC Marketplace investigation has found out just how effective air purifiers are at cleaning the air in your home at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is forcing us all to spend more time indoors.
Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform https://www.shitbowl.com/
Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-epic-games-antitrust/epic-games-takes-apple-fight-to-eu-antitrust-regulators-idUSKBN2AH0MO
U.S.
Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to European Union antitrust regulators, escalating its dispute with the iPhone maker over its App Store payment system and control over app downloads.
There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company” https://hunterwalk.medium.com/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-startup-within-a-big-company-c3003615f3bc
Medium
Why There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Startup Within a Big Company’
You will never be able to take the brand risks, the legal risks, or the partnerships risks that a true startup can
Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-got-a-500-million-lesson-in-the-importance-of-ui-design/
Ars Technica
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design
Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
YouTube
Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars!
Watch an epic journey unfold on Thursday, Feb. 18 as our Perseverance rover lands on Mars. To reach the surface of the Red Planet, the rover has to survive the harrowing final phase known as Entry, Descent, and Landing.
Only then can the rover – the biggest…
Only then can the rover – the biggest…
The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports http://www.dreambank.net/
Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust https://tauri.studio/
Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
How to Destroy the Earth (2006) https://qntm.org/destroy
qntm.org
How to destroy the Earth
Preamble
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or…
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or…
Choose Boring Technology (2015) http://boringtechnology.club/
Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
meh.
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re