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• Going back to the office for no good reason

  By Shaun on July 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As an unsettling number of people have started ignoring public health guidance because they’re tired of restricting their behavior, employers too are increasingly relaxing their own practices even though the coronavirus continues to surge in many parts of the country…. Read More ›

• Apple: A one-party state

  By Shaun on July 17, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Another recent ex-employee said that security was weaponised across the company, with internal blogs boasting about the number of employees caught leaking and NDAs required even for non-sensitive or mundane projects. The employee described how they were once asked to… Read More ›

• The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets

  By Shaun on July 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Often, upon losing a family member, 18th century mourners would send the dead to their graves only after giving them one last haircut. They would harvest their locks to create elaborate weavings. Sometimes, the hair would be fashioned into floral… Read More ›

• The Zodiac Super Sea Wolf GMT Limited Edition

  By Shaun on July 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This summer’s sherbet orange and cream edition follows the same format, but this time, Zodiac has made 282 examples available instead of 182. The rapidly extinguished supply of the initial release has demonstrated that the demand is there, so why… Read More ›

• 35 days at sea and still testing positive?

  By Shaun on July 17, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Argentinian health officials are scrambling to understand how nearly every crew member of a ship which spent 35 days at sea were found to have contracted coronavirus upon returning to land. All 61 sailors aboard the trawler, Echizen Maru, tested… Read More ›

• The AirPods Pro won

  By Shaun on July 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  I wrote a comparison between the AirPods Pro and Jaybird Vista in-ear wireless buds a few weeks ago and the Vista won quite easily. And here I am now wearing the AirPods Pro every day because they have proved to… Read More ›

• RokBlok

  By Shaun on July 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Rock out to your favorite records with RokBlok’s built-in speaker, or wirelessly send your music to any Bluetooth device for an even bigger sound. Measuring only 4 X 2 inches long, you can use RokBlok to listen to your favorite… Read More ›

• ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born

  By Shaun on July 16, 2020 • ( 2 )

  The fertility rate – the average number of children a woman gives birth to – is falling. If the number falls below approximately 2.1, then the size of the population starts to fall. In 1950, women were having an average… Read More ›

• The Garbage Watch

  By Shaun on July 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In the press release, Vollebak co-founder Steve Tidball said “To avoid trashing our own planet, we need to start figuring out how to re-use the stuff we already have. So our Garbage Watch started with a very simple idea. What… Read More ›

• How dare you risk the lives of others so cavalierly

  By Shaun on July 15, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Chicken pox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don’t think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives there forever, and maybe when you’re older, you… Read More ›