Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute - BBC News
A popular video blogger hits out at cosmetics brand Lush after he loses control of a YouTube address he has been using since 2005.
A World Without Work
For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
Hasnain says:
"Decades from now, perhaps the 20th century will strike future historians as an aberration, with its religious devotion to overwork in a time of prosperity, its attenuations of family in service to job opportunity, its conflation of income with self-worth."
Posted on 2015-06-24T05:20:39+0000
Why the Saudis Are Going Solar
The fate of one of the biggest fossil-fuel producers may now depend on its investment in renewable energy.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2015-06-24T05:15:11+0000
The Cartel That Makes Sure Airplane Tickets Never Get Cheaper
It’s been a windfall year for the industry, but you won’t be getting any better accommodations or more affordable fares. What gives?
Hasnain says:
"The problem is that the people running airlines in the U.S. have one part of their brain missing, the part that provides the service ethic. As well as fare-gouging they’re space gouging in the cabins. Even with the newest jets like the Dreamliner they are packing more seats into coach than the airplane designers (or nature) intended."
Posted on 2015-06-23T07:29:45+0000
The Curse of the Excluded Middle - ACM Queue
There is a trend in the software industry to sell "mostly functional" programming as the silver bullet for solving problems developers face with concurrency, parallelism (manycore), and, of course, Big Data. Contemporary imperative languages could continue the ongoing trend, embrace closures, and tr…
Slack CEO explodes over editorial about the South Carolina shooting, says 'f--- you' to Wall...
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield criticized The Wall Street Journal for an editorial published following the Charleston shootings.
Update from the Team: CRYENGINE 3.8.1 is here, adding OpenGL, Linux and Oculus Rift Support
CRYENGINE 3.8.1 is now availableNew API: OpenGL Support Starting with 3.8.1, we are shipping a fully-featured OpenGL rendering implementation with CRYENGINE, which goes hand in hand with Linux support for your games (see below).New platform: Oculus Rift Support You asked about it, and we listened:…
To Apple, Love Taylor
I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music. I feel this deserves an explanation because Apple has been and will continue to be one of...
Hasnain says:
"We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."
Posted on 2015-06-21T11:28:26+0000
A farmer's straight talk on the drought: Listen up, city dwellers
It was heating up in the San Joaquin Valley this week. Joe Del Bosque, a farmer who had to make some hard decisions this year, was driving toward an asparagus field he's about to plow under. The windshield of his white Yukon was splattered with dead bugs. He didn't seem to notice.
Biotech firm creates fake rhino horn to help save real rhinos
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3 D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with these cheap horns to curb poaching.
Hasnain says:
The first case I've heard of folks in the West creating something fake to be sold in China?
Posted on 2015-06-20T22:08:59+0000