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• The Galileo system may not be available to the UK

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Galileo system, developed in partnership between the European Union and the European Space Agency (a 22-country, non-EU organisation that the UK will not be leaving), has been years in the making, and was built to end the dependence of… Read More ›

• How Many Combinations Are Possible Using 6 LEGO Bricks?

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Mathematician Søren Eilers was intrigued by a LEGO-related math problem. Let’s say you have six “standard LEGO bricks” (the rectangular 4×2 bricks seen in the original LEGO patent). If you fit them together, how many possible structures can you make?… Read More ›

• After Not Scoring For 5 Straight Games…

  By Shaun on February 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  That is genius!

• Apple gets a 30 year old Mac SE Running

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Great idea.

• Giant Bear Gives Out Valentines

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  That is so sweet.

• Is the latest iOS eating your battery?

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  A strange thing has been happening with my iPhone SE recently in that I am needing to charge it twice a day to keep it powered. By lunchtime I am hitting 20% and then again by 6 or 7pm. My… Read More ›

• It feels immoral to just give up and detach utterly

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The above comic resonated for me. Lately I’ve been thinking about that balance between fretting over the world and tending to one’s own garden, so to speak. On the one hand, I recognize my relative helplessness to make meaningful change on… Read More ›

• The 10 most influential mobile phones

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  From Motorola’s oh so 80s DynaTAC brick to the Nokia 3310 with its changeable covers and Samsung’s explosive Galaxy Note 7 – these are the phones that matter the most… More at The Guardian. A good list, but in the… Read More ›

• Making More Outside The App Store

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The Mac App Store previously made up about half of Piezo’s unit sales, so we might have expected to sell half as many copies after exiting the store. Instead, it seems that nearly all of those App Store sales shifted… Read More ›

• Seiko Presage ‘Unlimited’ Enamel Watches

  By Shaun on February 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Seiko indicated an estimated shipping date of September 2017 for these four new Presage Enamel watches. That they are not limited editions points to Seiko’s confidence in the collection as well as their perception of how well they are doing… Read More ›