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• Google reintroduces Maps for Apple Watch

  By Shaun on August 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, Google made two announcements about Google Maps for Apple platforms. First, Google’s app now works with the dashboard view on CarPlay screens, allowing drivers to see maps and media controls side-by-side. Second, Google is relaunching the Maps app on… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 2 (Tom Munch)

  By Shaun on August 11, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  In this episode I chat with Tom Munch, a man I have known for many years in an online sense. He has a brilliant voice and within his catalogue there are a number of songs that I cherish, but his… Read More ›

• Toshiba shuts the lid on laptops after 35 years

  By Shaun on August 11, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  The Japanese giant Toshiba has sold its final stake in the personal computer maker Dynabook. It means the firm no longer has a connection with making PCs or laptops. Sharp bought 80% of Toshiba’s personal computing arm in 2018 for… Read More ›

• How can a virus with 1% mortality shut down the United States?

  By Shaun on August 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  There is also a tweet thread here detailing the numbers. So, never again state that we are overreacting. Thanks to Andrew.

• Five lives saved

  By Shaun on August 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  While there, they conducted strep throat and flu tests. Both came back negative, but her heart rate was so high that they decided to monitor her further. “It wasn’t until I heard the doctors mention ICU that I realized how… Read More ›

• At Glacier’s End

  By Shaun on August 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This stunning coffee table book offers not only striking visuals, but an environmental and cultural message as well, following the conservation movement to preserve Iceland’s rivers so when borders do open to us again, we can all find the nation… Read More ›

• Breath

  By Shaun on August 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. In Breath,… Read More ›

• This is probably the world’s greatest photobomb

  By Shaun on August 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  And this is probably the world’s greatest photobomb. See the tweet for the close-up which explains everything. Such a simple coincidence that could become one of the biggest achievements in someone’s life.

• Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

  By Shaun on August 9, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 1 (Masks)

  By Shaun on August 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Why don’t some people wear masks? Why do some people believe outlandish things and go as far as demonstrating about them? Why do the craziest theories give people weapons? Background music courtesy of https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ Thanks for listeningShaun

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