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Three households and a funeral
Up to three households can meet up during a five-day Christmas period of 23-27 December, leaders of the four UK nations have agreed. The leaders said 2020 “cannot be a normal Christmas” but family and friends will be able to… Read More ›
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29 hours of Obama
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his… Read More ›
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The future of Moore’s law seems uncertain
Moore’s Law was first proposed in 1965, then again in revised form in 1975. Assuming an 18-month average doubling period for transistor density (it was ~1 year early on, and lately has been ~3y) there have been about 40 doublings… Read More ›
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The Rolex Submariner (2020) vs the Bersigar BG-1651
You can buy the 2020 Rolex Submariner for £7,300 if you are looking for a lifetime wrist companion. OK, you can’t really buy one because they are so hard to come by, but some people give up their souls to… Read More ›
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Video games can improve mental health
Video games are fun and interesting, and doing fun, interesting things makes you happy. Would we need a study to show that watching a few episodes of a beloved TV show makes you feel good, or that sitting down with… Read More ›
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The Oppo X 2021
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Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan
The park, now due to open next Spring, is looking like a dream come true. A photo published by The Sankei News last month shows that things are pretty much finished, at least externally. Guests enter the park through the… Read More ›
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McGST Podcast Episode 32 (Being 16)
We start by discussing if the way we parented was most influenced by societal norms or by the way our parents brought us up. Next up was a discussion on education in 2020 and if kids have any respect for… Read More ›
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Meet the Xor Titanium Phone
The result of the last three years is Xor and the Xor Titanium phone. Hutchison talked about the origin of the name: “There were lots of names that went before Xor. I didn’t want anything too pretentious, or to buy… Read More ›
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Is Apple really a privacy-first company?
Cook also announced that after the release of the next iteration of their mobile operating system, known as iOS 13, any app that offers the option to sign in with Google or Facebook will also be required to offer Sign… Read More ›
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