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• Information overload / emotional underload

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  I have been pondering what life was like some time ago for some reason recently and it occurred to me that the amount of information we take in now could be having a negative effect on the time we have… Read More ›

• Saw my heart rate go up, ended up being a pulmonary embolism

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  James Green, a podcast and reporter, from Brooklyn, New York, tweeted: “Never thought a stupid lil wrist computer I bought two years ago would save my life. “Saw my heart rate go up, ended up being a pulmonary embolism.” The… Read More ›

• KRACK

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Apple has already patched serious vulnerabilities in the WPA2 Wi-Fi standard that protects many modern Wi-Fi networks, the company told iMore’s Rene Ritchie this morning. The exploits have been addressed in the iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS betas that are… Read More ›

• Mobile Phone 13 September 1979

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Things have improved a little…

• It does more than fall down the stairs

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Well I never knew you could that with a slinky.

• Strangers going to work, for 9 years

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the span of those 9 years, Funch visited the same street corner at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt in New York City, outside Grand Central Terminal. As he photographed the people in the crowds between 8:30 and 9:30 in the… Read More ›

• One person’s history of Twitter

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This was my first look at Twitter, or twttr, as it was annoyingly called then. I was right about the logo and wrong about the service. It wasn’t stupid, it was just hard to explain. So Noah showed it to… Read More ›

• World’s Most Precise Clock

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Researchers at JILA (formerly also referred to as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) used a combination of strontium atoms and an array of laser beams to create a clock so precise it might be able to measure the interaction… Read More ›

• Hurricane sun

  By Shaun on October 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Across the British Isles, people have been looking to the skies today as the sun took on a mysterious shade of red. The phenomenon was first spotted in the West of England and Wales, before moving across other parts of… Read More ›

• The Pretty Reckless

  By Shaun on October 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Apple Music has become quite the eye-opener for me and I have discovered some decent music in recent weeks and so artists as well. None, however, compare to The Pretty Reckless who have made 3 albums to date and whose… Read More ›