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• Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection

  By Shaun on March 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  It was late spring in Buffalo, New York, in 2015 — a season that was unusually hot that year, and heated. The wood-paneled meeting room at Gethsemane Grape Street Baptist Church hummed with anxious homeowners from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood, where a… Read More ›

• New stuff: AirPods, Kindle and Watches

  By Shaun on March 20, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Apple today announced new AirPods, the second generation of the world’s most popular wireless headphones. AirPods revolutionized the wireless audio experience with a breakthrough design and the new AirPods build on the magical experience customers love. The new Apple-designed H1… Read More ›

• It would take 332,064 years to say the 31.4 trillion digit number

  By Shaun on March 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion. Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with… Read More ›

• What Google knows about you

  By Shaun on March 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In addition to everything Google collects via its services, Google search aims to be a repository for all the world’s information. That means there’s a mountain of information accessible on Google because someone, somewhere in the world has put it… Read More ›

• Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight (M79030N-0002) thoughts

  By Shaun on March 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Tudor Black Bay is an unusual watch within the Rolex family. Yes, it is not a Rolex, but the influence is clear throughout and there is no doubt that the standards are very high when you inspect the finishing,… Read More ›

• The Garmin MARQ collection

  By Shaun on March 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  MARQ integrates revolutionary technology with superior design materials such as titanium, sapphire, ceramic, diamond-like carbon coating, jacquard-weave nylon and Italian vacchetta leather. Each watch is exquisite in its execution — and as inspiring as its owner… More here. These are… Read More ›

• Kenya’s ‘elephant queen’

  By Shaun on March 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  For more than 60 years, the elephant known as F_MU1, roamed the plains of Tsavo, Kenya. She was one of Africa’s last remaining “super tuskers” – so called because their tusks are long enough to reach the ground… More here…. Read More ›

• Street musicians

  By Shaun on March 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Worth watching both of these clips all the way through…

• Famous logos redesigned

  By Shaun on March 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Germany’s Bauhaus art school, founded 100 years ago, introduced a bold, minimal and radical new approach to design which remains hugely influential. To mark its centenary, an international community of designers have reimagined a host of modern brand logos in… Read More ›

• A child who wasn’t vaccinated

  By Shaun on March 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  The boy did survive. But after a weeks-long, gut-wrenching medical marathon — which cost well over $800,000 — his parents refused to allow the hospital to give him a full course of vaccines to protect him against tetanus. Nor would… Read More ›

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