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BBC

  1. Barcelona attack: New manhunt for suspected driver
  2. Steve Bannon vows to 'go to war' for Trump agenda
  3. Finland killings: Knifeman 'targeted women in Turku terror attack'
  4. Big Ben's Ayrton Light to be switched off
  5. UK terror threat increased by IS losses, security minister says
  6. Lele Tao: The 'online goddess' who earns $450k a year
  7. Woman raped by Roman Polanski asks for 'mercy' to end case
  8. Russia knife attacker wounds seven in Surgut
  9. Band halts gig after seeing fan groped in crowd
  10. Struggling after giving birth? You're not alone
  11. £530,000 cash and 12kg drugs found in Merseyside raids
  12. Bury St Edmunds head teacher 'locked children in rooms'
  13. Silk Road: Google search unmasked Dread Pirate Roberts
  14. Vehicles left dangling as car park collapses in Nottingham
  15. Meet the eclipse chaser who's travelled the world hunting shadows
  16. The Joy of learning: Woman, 90, studies for sixth degree
  17. Metal detectorist finds rare 6th Century coin pendant
  18. Baghdad's Little Manchester
  19. Stories you may have missed
  20. Week in pictures: 12 - 18 August 2017
  21. Mexican muralists transform violent neighbourhoods
  22. BBC News Channel
  23. Sir Bruce Forsyth: 8 little-known facts about his career
  24. How Al Pacino came to my rescue
  25. Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down?
  26. Why finding large women's shoe sizes can be a problem
  27. Reality Check: How much more do graduates get paid?
  28. How much will you give me for my false teeth?
  29. The masseuse who pulled my arm out
  30. Barcelona and Cambrils attacks: What we know so far
  31. Spain attack: What do we know about the victims?
  32. Cambrils: 'Pop pop, a couple of shots and he fell down'
  33. Barcelona attack: Crowd screams as man arrested
  34. One officer shot four suspects dead
  35. Spain attacks: How Barcelona rejected hate
  36. Spain attacks: Fears for missing child
  37. Spain attacks: Terror timeline

Bitcoin

  1. $4,147.8938
  2. £3,222.2166
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Engadget

  1. ASUS ZenFone AR review: A 'better' Tango phone doesn't mean much
  2. The Morning After: Weekend Edition
  3. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 might be out as soon as September 15th
  4. Mercedes uses art deco inspiration for electric car concept
  5. Fighting classic 'Tekken' debuts on mobile
  6. ‘Secret World Legends’ expands into disaster-ridden Tokyo
  7. Bundesliga is the latest soccer league to use video referees
  8. Fisker’s luxury EV will debut in January at CES 2018
  9. Google mobile search shows 6-second video previews
  10. Play as David Beckham in his prime in ‘PES 2018’
  11. China's online court heard its first case today
  12. Facebook opens up its Craigslist-like section to retailers
  13. Google figured out how to flawlessly remove stock-photo watermarks
  14. Microsoft could release an Xbox One X ‘Project Scorpio’ edition
  15. The Echo Dot was free on Amazon for a hot minute
  16. ‘Marjorie Prime’ explores the limits of AI built from memories
  17. Porn site offers to revive 'Sense 8' for a third season
  18. Options for neo-Nazis on the internet are starting to shrink
  19. Google Home guides you through Vogue’s 125th anniversary issue
  20. TCL limits its budget-friendly 4K smart TV to one size
  21. The next 'Final Fantasy' brawler 'Dissidia NT' heads to PS4 in January
  22. Google uses machine learning to help journalists track hate
  23. USA Today teams with Instagram to livestream the solar eclipse
  24. The best instant camera
  25. Trump announces he’s elevating the role of US Cyber Command

Pinboard

  1. (500) https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/ — “From the jury selection process that took place over three days in June for the trial of Martin Shkreli…”
  2. Twitter — If you have ever had a problem grasping the importance of diversity in tech and its impact on society, watch this v…
  3. Twitter — Unbelievable. He actually did bring the Middle East together.
  4. Twitter — A white person shared this true tea on Facebook. So I'm sharing it here.
  5. Twitter — .@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis.
  6. Twitter — congrats geraldo you're now to the left of many liberals in america
  7. Twitter — Want to make sure you all saw this photo. It's the line of people in Durham waiting to turn themselves in for toppl…
  8. Twitter — btw, the best statue in the world is the monument to rats used for DNA research in Russia
  9. Twitter — Nazis coming to town? Here's a positive and creative response. #Resist
  10. GoogleChrome/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API — Don't know if _this_ is the one i need, but some browser-testing is going to be required in the near future
  11. The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
  12. Twitter — Here's what Paraguayans did with a statue of dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89). It's an interesting compromise.
  13. Kubernetes at GitHub | GitHub Engineering — Kubernetes at GitHub by @jnewland
  14. Why We Terminated Daily Stormer — Why we terminated Daily Stormer.
  15. Twitter — Alan Turing, well-known and hugely influential computer scientist, was forcibly chemically castrated for being gay…
  16. (500) http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant — Bannon laid out his internal battle plan in on-record interview w the progressive Prospect.
  17. Twitter — Whoosh, @AliVelshi & @SRuhle completely dunked on this Trump dude Brad Thomas. 😂😂😂
  18. Twitter — Oh god the Martin Shkreli jury selection transcript is just too good
  19. Twitter — Ar camera app test -- your pictures stay where you took them
  20. Twitter — I can think of something worse
  21. Twitter — Don't f--k with Johnny Cash, or his family.
  22. Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be! — nice intro to makefiles
  23. Twitter — A perfect mix of noxious racism, love of war crimes and citing anecdotes which aren't true.
  24. Twitter — Trying to code when chat's open
  25. Twitter — Chameleons are fun cause they'll grab anything you give them.
  26. Twitter — Nous outils techniques reflètent les a-priori de leurs concepteurs. Fascinant.
  27. Twitter — Dear @realDonaldTrump, attached is our letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Human…
  28. Twitter — This was quite a segment from @CNN that will be shared far and wide
  29. Twitter — Boom. 👇👇👇
  30. Stability in a Chaotic World: How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic — Brandur Leach — Yet another awesome Postgres all about how Postgres and transactions work by @brandur -
  31. Elixir in depth - reading and personal notes - Digital Freepen
  32. Twitter — Wow. This all-staff moment of reckoning by @Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is ... *something*. Read:…
  33. Twitter — Not "from", but "with". We shared a common ancestor. Like cousins share common grandparents.
  34. Science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does - The Verge — RT @sarahjeong: I teamed up with science reporter @RA_Becks to break down the Google memo's shoddy case for inequality https://t.co/p5KSyUK…
  35. iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID - The Verge — iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID
  36. Twitter — From the Department of You Can't Fire Me, I Quit
  37. Twitter — It genuinely doesn't occur to these guys that you could put up statues of black people
  38. Now you can see what Donald Trump sees every time he opens Twitter - The Washington Post — I made a Twitter account, @trumps_feed, that shows what Trump sees in his timeline.
  39. APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
  40. Erin Blakemore on Twitter: "Hi! Let's talk about the Jefferson Davis Highway. You may recognize the name from your own city or state. 1/many"
  41. ImperialViolet - Security Keys — A review of various U2F security keys:
  42. “We Just Feel Like We Don’t Belong Here Anymore” – Mother Jones — After endless pieces detailing the feelings of white rural Americans, we talked to rural people of color:
  43. Twitter — The Martin Shkreli's jury selection transcript is *kisses fingers*
  44. Twitter — Ha. Didn’t get in front of the news.
  45. Twitter — i was excited for the solar eclipse but this made me so sad
  46. AP Definitive Source | How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville — At AP, we have taken the position the term “alt-right” should be avoided, meant as euphemism 2 disguise racist aims
  47. Twitter — I've never seen the UVA lawn like this. And this is only a quarter of the people here. Hundreds more marching.
  48. Twitter — This is wild. The three local ACLU chapters of California have all broken rank with ACLU National
  49. Twitter — My first cover for The New Yorker entitled "Blowhard."
  50. ACLU Changes Policy on Defending Hate Groups Protesting With Firearms - WSJ — RT @gonzowsj: ACLU will no longer defend hate groups protesting with firearms via @WSJ
  51. Twitter — RT @ryanflorence: This guy gets better and bette
  52. Twitter — Serving in Congress, I walk past a dozen statues of men who wanted to keep my ancestors in chains. Think about that.
  53. Desktop Kit | Facebook Design — Excited to share @facebookdesign's Desktop Kit, a Sketch template of UI elements found in macOS 🖥🔥
  54. Untitled (http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~rcs46/lectures_2015/01-markdown-git/slides/naming-slides/naming-slides.pdf) — Low-tech common sense about filenames. My slides may be homely, but this practical advice holds up well.
  55. Twitter — Build statues of these men.
  56. Twitter — So excited to go to Oxford!! Well done to all A-level students - the hardest year. Best wishes for life ahead!
  57. Twitter — I had no idea Google were putting conservatives in electro-convulsive therapy and chemically castrating them. Huge…
  58. Twitter — a member of clergy in charlottesville, committed to pacifism, describes the moment he changed his mind on antifa
  59. Untitled (http://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295) — "I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet." -@eastdakota #hellyeah
  60. Twitter — Nazis and Klansmen on the street. This is the picture that needs to go viral. Not jokes about Tiki torches.
  61. The Chilling Effects of Openly Displayed Firearms - The Atlantic — The other Charlottesville outrage: the open display of weapons to intimidate and menace political opponents
  62. Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression | Electronic Frontier Foundation — via Deeplinks http://ift.tt/US8QQS
  63. Twitter — "Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me."
  64. Build Your Own Linux: Presented by Linux Academy
  65. White nationalists flock to genetic ancestry tests. Some don't like the result — When people who think they're Aryans get bad news
  66. Twitter — oh no we are doomed to repeat winning the civil war
  67. Twitter — This is very lovely. It's a map of Pakistan showing the embroidery techniques of its regions.
  68. John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by Antonio García Martínez and ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ by Jonathan Taplin · LRB 17 August 2017 — LRB · John Lanchester · You Are the Product: It Zucks! via Instapaper http://ift.tt/2w65xKO
  69. xkcd: Eclipse Science — via xkcd.com https://xkcd.com/
  70. Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime - Scientific American
  71. Twitter — Wow.
  72. Untitled (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ph6sw?utm_content=buffere5981&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) — How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps: An annotated reading list
  73. Twitter — A handy dandy infographic explaining why tolerance has a limit. (it's kinda common sense)
  74. Opinion | How to Make Fun of Nazis — Counter-protesters at a K.K.K. rally in Charlotte, N.C., in 2012. Yash Mori For decades, Wunsiedel, a German town near the Czech border, has struggled with a…
  75. SVG can do THAT?! by sdrasner — Thank you for coming, @dvlpdnvr! Here are the slides for my "SVG can do THAT?!" speech!
  76. Twitter — Lol @realDonaldTrump you can't break up with us after we broke up with you LMFAO
  77. Twitter — Introducing Puppeteer: A modern Node.js API for headless Chrome. Built with ❤️ by the Chrome team.…
  78. Twitter — Is there some possible way we could make Leland Melvin's nasa photo into a statue. Hundreds of statues.
  79. Untitled (https://www.economist.com/news/international/21726276-last-week-newspaper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal) — The Economist has written a beautiful point by point logical takedown of Damore's Google memo:
  80. Twitter — "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
  81. Twitter — It's hard to stay positive sometimes, so here's a bird realizing a love of drumming
  82. Twitter — The Paradox of Tolerance.
  83. Task-based concurrency manifesto draft · GitHub — I wrote a thing! An essay looking at how async/await+actors could transform Swift concurrency & distributed compute:
  84. Wekan - The open-source Trello-like kanban — https://github.com/wekan/wekan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15039587
  85. Watch the 'VICE News Tonight' Episode 'Charlottesville: Race and Terror' - VICE
  86. Twitter — Lol
  87. Twitter — Hey young James, offending women not enough?
  88. Twitter — This person was sent to torture me.
  89. Bannon's colleagues disturbed by interview with left-wing publication — Steve Bannon either feels incredibly secure in his White House job or it's a case of forgetting to tell a reporter "this is off the record," à la Anthony…
  90. Trump and Charlottesville: ‘He is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting’ - POLITICO — This is an amazing sentence.
  91. Integrating Animation into a Design System — Keeping animation choreography cohesive from the outset of a project can be challenging, especially for small companies. Without a dedicated motion specialist…
  92. Twitter — the excerpts from the martin shkreli jury selection process are Extremely Good
  93. Twitter — Peak de-platforming
  94. Stonewall Jackson's grandsons: "The monuments must go." — The Monuments Must Go: An open letter from the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.
  95. Twitter — Wow! Line of residents in Durham, NC attempting to turn themselves in for 'crime' of removing Confederate Monuments…
  96. In Charlottesville, the Local Jewish Community Presses On | ReformJudaism.org — RT @jasonzweigwsj: Listen up, America.
  97. Twitter — Fucking unbelievable that 2017 still has this much gas in the tank
  98. Twitter — "Fuck it, I'll do it" - Black Women
  99. Sketch for Designers
  100. Twitter — There’s a statue celebrating on-time child support payments in your town?

The Next Web

  1. Design thinking has to keep up with the future of human-machine interactions
  2. Train to use Salesforce to guide any business the right way — for only $59
  3. Why it’s good we’re hearing about sexism in tech more often
  4. Your social media use is helping scientists monitor the world’s ecosystems
  5. AI can determine our motivations using a simple camera
  6. Apple may let you stream new movies while they’re still in theaters
  7. Android O will be revealed during Monday’s solar eclipse – and it’s probably Oreo
  8. This site wants to improve collaboration between tech journalists and experts
  9. Atari and Nestle are fighting over a 40-year-old video game
  10. Doom 2 reimagined as Diablo 2 is trippy as hell

Smashing Magazine

  1. Web Development Reading List: Announcing Changes, A Design Kit, DNA Malware, And Why Meaning Is An Advantage
  2. User Authentication For Web And iOS Apps With AWS Cognito (Part 1)
  3. Designing The Perfect Feature Comparison Table
  4. The Nine Principles Of Design Implementation
  5. Tracking Internal Marketing Campaigns With Google Analytics
  6. Friendly, Frictionless Work: Best Practices For Enterprise Messaging UX, From Slack
  7. How To Work Out What To Charge Clients: The Honest Version
  8. Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js
  9. Learn From What You See: It All Starts With Inspiration
  10. The Surprising Relationship Between Gamification And Modern Persuasion
  11. The iOS 10.3 Security Alert Is Killing App Store Downloads: Here’s How To Fix It
  12. Creating Custom Inputs With Vue.js
  13. Summer Bliss And August Adventures: Wallpapers To Kick-Start The New Month (August 2017 Edition)
  14. The Missing Advice I Needed When Starting My Career
  15. How To Protect Your Users With The Privacy By Design Framework
  16. Progressively Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid
  17. Web Development Reading List #190: Images in Web Notifications and Angular Code Splitting
  18. Designing The Perfect Slider
  19. Taming Advanced Color Palettes In Photoshop, Sketch And Affinity Designer
  20. Web Development Reading List #189: Sync Via Push API, RTL CSS, And The Disaster Factory

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Cable Modem
  2. Most Popular This Week
  3. The Best Drawing Tablets for Beginners
  4. Dear Wirecutter: Do Memory Cards Affect Audio and Video Quality?
  5. The Best Bookshelf Speakers for Most Stereos
  6. The Best Basic Snorkel Set
  7. The Best Cheap iPad Cases
  8. The Best Earplugs for Sleeping
  9. The Best Life Jacket for Most Watersports
  10. Most Popular This Week

Sweethome

  1. Most Popular This Week
  2. The Best Portable Grills
  3. The Best Bed Pillows
  4. The Best Foam Mattresses You Can Buy Online
  5. The Best Soda Maker
  6. Most Popular This Week
  7. The Best Twin XL Sheets for Your Dorm Room
  8. The Best Robot Vacuums
  9. Dining and Kitchen Tables We Like Under $1,000
  10. Most Popular This Week

Hacker News

  1. Flutter – cross platform mobile app development
  2. Vue.js vs. React
  3. Why Go is my favorite programming language
  4. “What next?”
  5. Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
  6. Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable
  7. OpenFaas: Functions as a Service: Serverless Framework for Docker and Kubernetes
  8. Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona
  9. Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation
  10. Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
  11. Explaining React's license
  12. What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
  13. NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month
  14. Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
  15. Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him
  16. HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system
  17. E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
  18. NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring a marketer to promote proxy re-encryption/blockchain
  19. The Cult of the Costco Surfboard
  20. Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today
  21. Former Harvard Money Manager Is Launching a Digital-Currency Hedge Fund
  22. Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence and Data Science
  23. My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
  24. Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals
  25. Getting an Amiga 1000 Online
  26. Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code
  27. 0x – A Protocol for Trading Tokens
  28. The Art of Teaching Math and Science
  29. Python code to generate text using a pretrained character-based RNN
  30. Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city

Ars Technica

  1. Nidhogg 2 review: Violent, disgusting, and hilariously fun
  2. In a great year for space music, Quindar’s Hip Mobility most puts us in orbit
  3. New surface is so slippery, shellfish can’t get a grip
  4. Code chunk in Kronos malware used long before MalwareTech published it
  5. Tor “can’t build free and open source tools” and stop racists from using them
  6. Google explains why it banned the app for Gab, a right-wing Twitter rival
  7. Wisconsin lawmakers vote to pay Foxconn $3 billion to get new factory
  8. Agents of Mayhem review: Destroying a really dull open world
  9. Android O is O-fficially launching August 21
  10. Here’s what happens to your retina if you view an eclipse without protection
  11. “Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches
  12. Trump’s DOJ not trying to stop AT&T/Time Warner merger
  13. Now you can post videos directly to Reddit, no third-party service required
  14. Secret chips in replacement parts can completely hijack your phone’s security
  15. Scorching heat, rolling blackouts: The West is changing how it does summer
  16. OkCupid bans white supremacist “for life,” asks daters to report others
  17. Sharp sues Hisense over a foreign “gag order”
  18. Hyundai looks to build a >300-mile-range electric car
  19. Final Defenders trailer gives us the best kind of villain
  20. How the tech sector can legally justify breaking ties to extremists

Digg

  1. Helpful Things To Read About Fascism, And The Fight Against It
  2. The Agonizing, 8-Page Memo On How To Chauffeur A Congressman
  3. The White Lies Of Artisanal Food Culture
  4. The Best Credit Card To Get In The Age Of Hacking — Here's How It Works
  5. Dancing While Hydro-Jetting Is Not The Best Idea
  6. The Remarkable Travel Itineraries Of Animals
  7. Are You Above Average Or Below Compared To Other People?
  8. Trump, First Lady Pull Out Of Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony To Avoid 'Distraction' For Honorees
  9. The Best Photography Of The Week
  10. Holy Shit, Look At This Guy Front Flip Over A Charging Bull
  11. The Cult Of The Costco Surfboard
  12. We Are Nowhere Close To The Limits Of Athletic Performance
  13. This Company Makes It Really Easy To Deal With Credit Card Fraud
  14. Dog Is Completely And Utterly Entranced By Video Of A Bird
  15. To Get Good At Fantasy Football, You First Have To Change How You Think About It
  16. Lin Manuel-Miranda Joined James Corden For A Crosswalk Production Of 'Hair' (And, Yes, They Got Naked)
  17. The Quest To Find The Perfect Replacement For Sugar Is Looking Hopeless
  18. What's Stopping Airlines From Making Your Seat Even More Miserable
  19. Nothing, Not Even A Flood, Can Stop This Biker From Braving It Down The Road
  20. Charlottesville Rally Attendee On Why He's Leaving College: Everybody Hates Him
  21. Mastodon Is Big In Japan. The Reason Why Is… Uncomfortable
  22. This Is The Perfect Credit Card For Savvy Online Shoppers
  23. CNN Scrolls Through A List Of Everything Trump Has Done In The Last 4 Weeks, And Oh Man, This Is Exhausting
  24. The Scientific Reason It’s Better To Dilute Whiskey With A Little Water
  25. Kickball Player Misses His Kick In Spectacular Fashion
  26. How NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts Took Over The Internet
  27. Everything About Disney And ABC's 'Pink Slime' Settlement Should Scare The Hell Out Of You
  28. Man Gets The Best News Ever Upon Getting His Old Rolex Appraised
  29. Constant Anxiety Won't Save The World
  30. The Secret Reason Why McDonald's Apple Pies Are So Good
  31. Nightmare Snail Inhales A Live Hermit Crab, Shell And All
  32. Is The Essential Phone Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Have To Say
  33. Is Netflix's 'The Defenders' Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Say
  34. This Woman Did Not Understand What She Was Getting Herself Into When She Agreed To Ride The Roller Coaster
  35. Life As A Gay Gang Member
  36. Scorching Heat, Rolling Blackouts: The West Is Changing How It Does Summer
  37. What Do Flat Earthers Think About Monday's Solar Eclipse?
  38. This Buzzer-Beating Hail Mary Is The Wildest Ultimate Frisbee Play We've Seen In A While
  39. The Controversial Concussion Lab That Could Save Football
  40. Brother's Reaction Every Time His Sister Comes Home To Surprise Him Is Devastatingly Cute
  41. Can Border Collies Process Language?
  42. The Deeper Problem Behind The Sale Of A Posh San Francisco Street
  43. Police Officer Rescues Poor Dog From A Hot Car
  44. Bitcoin Is Forking. Again.
  45. NASA's Ambitious Plan To Save Earth From A Supervolcano
  46. Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland And The 'Rick and Morty' Team Finally Try McDonald's Szechuan Sauce
  47. The Argument Against Terraforming Mars
  48. Juggalos Are Mad As Hell And They're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
  49. Just Three Cross-Eyed Opossums Happily Munching Away On Some Berries

New Scientist

  1. Choosing alternative cancer treatment doubles your risk of death
  2. Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better
  3. Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth
  4. Can a crowdsourced mega-forest offset Trump’s climate chaos?
  5. Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science
  6. Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready
  7. Can’t stop procrastinating? Try cognitive behaviour therapy
  8. Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends
  9. Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain
  10. Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home
  11. Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility
  12. Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova
  13. Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar
  14. Culture not biology is behind many differences between the sexes
  15. Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer
  16. Shutting down neo-Nazi Daily Stormer sets a dangerous precedent
  17. Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to heal ulcers
  18. This self-healing robot can regenerate after being stabbed
  19. Weird creatures are spreading polluting plastic through the sea
  20. Speedy test for Lyme disease could help us treat it in time
  21. Banking a baby’s cord blood may save their life. Is it worth it?
  22. I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it
  23. We can program robots not to get all up in our personal space
  24. Jellyfish galaxies may feed black holes with their long tendrils
  25. A surveillance state is no fix for Brexit’s Irish border issue
  26. Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time
  27. Activated charcoal drug can protect microbiome from antibiotics
  28. AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories
  29. Fish eat bits of plastic because they think they smell good
  30. England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025
  31. Twitch gamers live-stream their vital signs to keep fans hooked
  32. Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted
  33. How US diplomats may have been attacked by sonic weapons in Cuba
  34. There are almost 100 new volcanoes hiding under Antarctic ice
  35. This year may be one of the worst ever for Atlantic hurricanes
  36. Ancient warriors killed and ate their dogs as rite of passage
  37. Even ‘healthy’ overweight people have a higher cardiac risk
  38. Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age
  39. Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells
  40. Fighting to breathe in the face of Canada’s wildfire emergency
  41. Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
  42. Smart cameras spot when hospital staff don’t wash their hands
  43. Farmland is in retreat. We should make the most of that
  44. The BBC should stop giving unwarranted airtime to Nigel Lawson
  45. Mystery of missing tsunamis explained by geological model
  46. Tottering piglets can’t walk at first but learn super-fast
  47. Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency
  48. Early humans may have seen a supervolcano explosion up close
  49. Memo to all tech bros: Sexism, not biology, holds women back
  50. There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas
  51. Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs
  52. CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans
  53. Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution
  54. DeepMind AI teaches itself about the world by watching videos
  55. Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed
  56. We can stop hacking and trolls, but it would ruin the internet
  57. Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany
  58. First implants derived from stem cells to ‘cure’ type 1 diabetes
  59. No, North Korea (probably) won’t nuke the US territory of Guam
  60. This is why the first CRISPR baby won’t be born in the US
  61. Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close
  62. Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did
  63. Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy
  64. DeepMind dojo will train AI to beat human StarCraft players
  65. ‘Three parent’ technique must not be marketed in US, says FDA
  66. Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor
  67. Are atheists really morally depraved? The idea defies logic
  68. Hot yoga classes reduce emotional eating and negative thoughts
  69. England’s dire north-south health gap is a scandal that must end
  70. Over-mothered puppies more likely to fail guide dog training
  71. Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
  72. Church floodlights are driving away the bats that roost there
  73. Penguin tail feathers reveal secrets of where they swim for food
  74. Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants
  75. Americans already feeling effects of climate change, says report
  76. Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars
  77. Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day
  78. North Korea isn’t bluffing, the nuclear threat to the US is real
  79. Largest ever wildfire in Greenland seen burning from space
  80. Genetically engineered salmon goes on sale for the first time
  81. People in north England are 20 per cent more likely to die young
  82. Tackling resistant malaria may fuel antimicrobial resistance
  83. Self-propelling droplets creep towards heat to cool microchips
  84. New sky survey shows that dark energy may one day tear us apart
  85. You could finally control your Facebook data if UK law is passed
  86. Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water
  87. Watching others wash their hands may relieve OCD symptoms
  88. Internet giants need to be reined in for the public good
  89. Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany
  90. I tried ingesting rat tapeworm parasites and my poo turned green
  91. One day without notifications changes behaviour for two years
  92. Siri rival can understand the messy nature of our conversations
  93. Lazy ants lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat
  94. Augmented reality graffiti will lead to advertising ambush wars
  95. How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes
  96. We may finally be able to slow Parkinson’s, with a diabetes drug
  97. Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly
  98. It took 2000 years to make seed for America’s famous ‘corn belt’
  99. Teacup tornado’s inner twists and writhes seen for first time
  100. Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

Slashdot

  1. US State Department Suffers Worldwide Email Outage
  2. Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote To Pay Foxconn $3 Billion To Get New Factory
  3. Atlas 5 Rocket Launches $400 Million NASA Satellite Into Space
  4. Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database
  5. How Hackers Can Use Pop Songs To 'Watch' You
  6. Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car
  7. Memories of Fear Could Be Permanently Erased, Study Shows
  8. Android O Is Officially Launching August 21
  9. US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command
  10. Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button
  11. Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival
  12. The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future
  13. Self-sufficient Eclipse Chasers Hit the Road To 'Totality'
  14. Info on 1.8M Chicago Voters Was Publicly Accessible, But Now Removed From Cloud Service
  15. YouTube Music Head Says Company Pays Higher Royalties Than Spotify in US

BoingBoing

  1. Watch: Pole-dancing T-rex
  2. Stop worrying: Pets aren't interested in staring into the sun
  3. Why we often choose to keep useful information out of our heads
  4. Carpet is disgusting
  5. These intricate hand-painted mandala stones reveal the cosmic beauty of math
  6. Boing Boing's oldest extant live page, an interview with John K. that just turned 22
  7. Shark cats: delightful portraits of terror
  8. Artist creates dollops of paint that are actually colored pencil illustrations
  9. Watch a quarter million dominoes fall in this delightful game-themed setup
  10. Bannon back at Breitbart after Trump White House ouster: 'I've got my hands back on my weapons'
  11. Brandi Milne art exhibition opening August 19th in Los Angeles
  12. Exhibition of Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump's work
  13. Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire
  14. Mike Pence wins the blunder games, at least in this photo
  15. 97-year-old man takes his first ride in a Tesla
  16. Living Tiny
  17. Watch: Domino's Pizza employees tackle and rough up an armed robber
  18. Bird's eye view of a Lamborghini catching fire
  19. DIY ant killer
  20. Watch 1,069 robots simultaneously dance, setting world record
  21. Hidden message in mass resignation letter from President Trump's Committee on Arts and Humanities
  22. Durham protesters turn themselves in at police station after pulling down Confederate statue
  23. Hiding malware in boobytrapped replacement screens would undetectably compromise your mobile device
  24. Preserving electronics: vermin, leaky batteries, melting rubber, brittle plastics, dribbly capacitors, fungus and dust
  25. Millennials blamed for death of Chuck E. Cheese's animatronic band
  26. Bannon Out of White House as Trump's Chief Strategist
  27. Google researchers reveal automated process for removing watermarks from stock images
  28. Artist turns words into the things they describe
  29. Look at this man trying to stop a Boston Dynamics robot from opening a door
  30. Trump's ghostwriter prediction: Trump is going to resign

Core77

  1. Just What is a Tiki Torch, Anyway?
  2. A Soap Opera Filmed in IKEA, a Look at a Fascinating Motorcycle from the 1990s and Lots of Nostalgic Architecture 
  3. How a Traditional Korean Inlaid Lacquer Box is Made
  4. Designing the Exoskeleton of a Medical Power Pack
  5. Reader Submitted: A Student's Take on Designing an Electric Drill for Non-Professional Users
  6. A Clever Piece of Graphic Design in Protest of the Current State of Affairs
  7. What Are the Practical Differences Between Different Tire/Rim Sizes?
  8. Design Job: Is this Opportunity Fate or Science?! Science News is Seeking an Assistant Art Director in Washington, DC
  9. Interactive Map Shows You the Exact Opposite End of the Globe From You
  10. Reader Submitted: Students Parametrically Design and Digitally Produce a Chess Board
  11. A Fun "Eye Test" for Designers
  12. Yea or Nay? Instead of the Selfie, the "Bothie"
  13. 3M's Precision Standing Desk Gives You the Option Between Sitting and Standing in an Effortless Package
  14. Another Crazy Optical Illusion: There are 16 Circles in This Image
  15. Design Job: Fight Gravity as Astro Studios' Lead Industrial Designer in San Francisco, CA

CNET

  1. How to photograph the eclipse with your phone - CNET
  2. Me, my wife and Giulia: L’amore on the road - Roadshow
  3. The movies we had to leave before the end - CNET
  4. EFF speaks out on neo-Nazi site removal, Bill Gates gives away billions video - CNET
  5. This home theater makes you rethink your priorities in life - CNET
  6. The 43 best Android games of 2017 - CNET
  7. The 47 best iPhone games - CNET
  8. Want more women in tech at your company? Make it a focus - CNET
  9. Revisiting an old friend, the MacBook Air video - CNET
  10. Nebula Mars Portable Cinema review - CNET
  11. 'The Defenders' review: A Marvel-Netflix series you’ll actually want to finish - CNET
  12. Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet electrifies Pebble Beach - Roadshow
  13. Essential Phone PH-1 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET
  14. Five things you need to know about the all-new 2017 Jeep Compass video - Roadshow
  15. Five things you need to know about the all-new 2017 Jeep Compass video - Roadshow
  16. Galaxy Note 8 preorders may come with some serious extras - CNET
  17. Alexa finally listens for Fire TV. It was worth the wait - CNET
  18. Samsung Note 8 will try to win back burned Note 7 fans video - CNET
  19. CNET UK podcast 527: Nokia's flagship and Andy's train-talking rage - CNET
  20. Hey, Josh Cartu, how did you get to race Ferraris? - Roadshow
  21. 2017 Mercedes-AMG GLE43 review - Roadshow
  22. NASA greets Earth-buzzing asteroid Florence in September - CNET
  23. Amazon was selling Echo Dots for the low, low price of $0 - CNET
  24. The 404 Show 1710: A conversation with Austin Walker (podcast) - CNET
  25. Did a new Xbox just leak? - CNET

Reddit

  1. Thinker
  2. When your food fights back
  3. Smashing
  4. Smashing
  5. 20 Tons Of Nutella Stolen From Truck In Germany - Police are looking out for over $80,000 of sweet contraband. “Anyone offered large quantities of chocolate via unconventional channels should report it to the police immediately.”
  6. New Grand Prix Starter Pack
  7. Finally, news worth watching
  8. World's sexiest coral
  9. Beast mode on
  10. Hassan Zubier, a Swedish tourist, got stabbed multiple times trying to save the life of the stabbed woman and protecting his girlfriend with his own body (link in Finnish)
  11. Met this well behaved flyer on the plane
  12. hmmm
  13. Meet Sparky the Bison: Lightning-Strike Survivor
  14. Battle-scarred Hippo
  15. A capitalist's hell
  16. Any value in this meme?
  17. Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial. Australian researchers hail breakthrough after ‘life-changing’ tolerance persists for up to four years.
  18. NASA: "We're Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars"
  19. TIL that the most commonly used sentence in the Harry Potter book series was: "Nothing happened."; for The Hunger Games series it was: "My name is Katniss Everdeen.", and for the Twilight series it was: "I sighed."
  20. A white and a black man leading a civil rights march (late 50s to early 60s)
  21. Trying hard to support his kids yet he's ridiculed
  22. White supremacists taking DNA tests sad to discover they’re not 100% white
  23. The judge at a child beauty pageant
  24. What happens when I tell people I'm colourblind.
  25. The internet: Where there is no win.
  26. A different twist to a wolf in sheep's clothing (by mahoukarp from Instagram) (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و
  27. MRW I'm on a road trip and have been in bumper to bumper traffic for 2 hours and my friend wakes up from a power nap.
  28. Look at this calm superbowl
  29. A heady debate
  30. Our new apartment has a little milk door under the cabinets
  31. 6 police officers shot in 3 US cities Friday night, two confirmed dead
  32. Son: "Daddy, I fell in love and want to date this awesome girl."
  33. Rusty Spoons
  34. 🔥Skull covered in sea salt
  35. Talking to a friend at my local coffee shop, and my mom comes up in conversation. I haven't spoken to her in a few days, so I call her. She's driving down the same street, passing the coffee shop, so she says "I'll come in and say hi!" We were both wearing the exact same outfit. I'm kinda spooked.
  36. 2meirl4meirl
  37. Batman reveals his true identity
  38. HMB while I do a burnout
  39. In fourth grade all I wanted was to marry JTT
  40. 3 months ago I found out I was hiv positive at 22 after an unprotected sexual encounter with my gay best friend.
  41. MARTIAL 4-0
  42. Have you ever gone all the way?
  43. Satisfying Icing
  44. I honestly have no idea what I expected. Nothing less.
  45. Tiny Elephant Makes A Friend
  46. A fox sunning itself
  47. ⚫🌞August 21st is the Great American Eclipse, the first Total Solar Eclipse to touch the US mainland since 1979 and the first since the creation of Reddit. We need your help to gather footage of how buildings react to the eclipse, for science! 🌞⚫ Learn how you can help in the comments
  48. PsBattle: Well-timed photo behind a volcano
  49. Shitty ass editors at The Onion
  50. Why whisky tastes better when diluted with water. A little bitter of water causes whiskey's flavor molecules to bind with the ethanol and concentrate at the liquid-air interface.
  51. (b emoji)
  52. Pink Floyd concert in Venice on 15 July 1989. [1024 x 768]
  53. Aaron Judge has struck out in 35 consecutive games.
  54. This warning came with a new torch at work
  55. I predict that Jon and Dany are going to have sexual intercourse on some sort of vessel used to carry people and other cargo items across bodies of water.
  56. Rare photo of the little-known "Berlin Wall" being erased from history when a gang of barbaric Leftists tore it down. You've probably never even heard of it...
  57. The thin line between genius and insanity is this sandwich
  58. Trillium Lake, Oregon [OC] [4032 × 3024]
  59. Nate Diaz on boxers poking fun at McGregor: “We’re talking real fighters now you one-dimensional boxing fucks”
  60. Click anywhere on the Earth to preview your view of the August 21st, 2017 total eclipse
  61. Expectations vs. Reality: Cake Edition.
  62. In Zootopia, Nick's handkerchief was part of his Scout uniform from when he was a cub
  63. What's the worst instance of a band fucking up live? And is the evidence on YouTube?
  64. Let me just silently sneak up on this tiger
  65. On Dunkirk, Nolan strapped an IMAX camera in a plane and launched it into the ocean to capture the crash landing. It sunk quicker than expected. 90 minutes later, divers retrieved the film from the seabottom. After development, the footage was found to be "all there, in full color and clarity."
  66. From a Million Miles Away, a Camera Aboard NASA's DISCOVR Spacecraft Shows the Moon Crossing the Face of the Earth [2048 x 2048]
  67. give me more petting human
  68. Trying to care about a dead heart transplant survivor is like caring about a grain of sand... or something.
  69. AT&T's $85 Billion Time Warner Merger is Going to be Approved
  70. White Supremacist doesn't understand all the hate he's receiving. How can you hate someone you 'never met, never saw, never had a conversation with'?
  71. "I think they should put [the confederate flag] in a museum. Let it go. Respect whatever it is you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum. But I would take it down, yes." (06/23/2015) [Video]
  72. Makes sense to me.
  73. Nope nope nope
  74. World's sexiest Coral
  75. Blackberries are almost not bite size anymore.
  76. Podolski hat seinen Pass verloren und muss auf unorthodoxe Weise zurück nach Europa kommen
  77. Running Backstage
  78. A drawer that I made to miss the stove that sticks out.
  79. We do not hire LIBERALS. (x-post from /r/iamverysmart)
  80. Nine different sandwiches in one. Genius.
  81. One billion
  82. Statistically 6 out of 7 dwarves aren't happy
  83. The Shovelator
  84. meirl
  85. Secret service agent in all films
  86. So this happened yesterday, my date with u/cdbz11 and our babies
  87. 2-Legged Cat Gets A Brother Just Like Him
  88. Reality is overrated
  89. Dat corgi smile
  90. Didn't know there were acrobats in PUBG.
  91. i irl
  92. Fan gets picture with Conor McGregor
  93. Are you sure captcha?
  94. TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl's life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.
  95. Friends, dude
  96. Imagine an alternate universe in which this was funny
  97. I Went Braless For a Week - and You Won't Believe What People Said to Me | One guy, only one, said "why did you do that?" Her mom also said "I can tell you're not wearing a bra." That's it.
  98. The positive changes I've noticed since I started reading again.
  99. Men CONjUre EViL sIlvER DemON fRom tHe unDerwOrld!!
  100. Oh it's right Mint, SO right

The Verge

  1. What would an Obi-Wan Kenobi film mean for the future of the Star Wars franchise?
  2. Twitter DMs should be turned into a proper messaging app
  3. What Happened to Monday is a familiar gimmick in a sci-fi story we’ve seen before
  4. The eclipse’s effects on animals will be wild
  5. YouTube adds ‘breaking news’ section to homepage and mobile apps
  6. Google shows how easy it is for software to remove watermarks from photos
  7. Google adds autoplaying videos to search results on Android
  8. Google wants to help news publishers turn readers into paying customers
  9. China launches cyber-court to handle internet-related disputes
  10. Sonos hints at smart speaker in privacy policy update

Wired

  1. Would It Be Better If Men Couldn't Vote?
  2. Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week
  3. Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Power Electric Cars of the Future
  4. Bang & Olufsen's Beosound Shape Speakers Create a Beautiful Wall of Sound
  5. Trump Administration Elevates US Cyber Command
  6. "Change is Good" Book Excerpt: WIRED Cofounder Louis Rossetto’s New Novel Parties Like It’s 1998
  7. Space Photos of the Week: Neighboring Galaxies Got a Star Factory Going
  8. Yes, Expose the Neo-Nazis. Then Recruit Them Back to Humanity
  9. Bacteria May Rig Their DNA to Speed Up Evolution
  10. The Solar Eclipse Is Coming—Here's Exactly When It'll Happen
  11. Gadget Lab Podcast: Essential Wants to Get Into Your Pocket—and Your Smart Home
  12. Explore the Moon Using Augmented Reality
  13. Does the Star Wars Franchise Really Need an Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie?
  14. Guntherwerks Revamps Porsche 993s for Just $525,000
  15. What a Solar Eclipse Taught Me About Love
  16. Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover
  17. This Lumbering Self-Driving Truck Is Designed to Get Hit
  18. Flying Deloreans, the Electric Nikola Zero, and the Rest of This Week’s Car News
  19. The Robots Will Be Soft and Cuddly and Heal Their Own Wounds
  20. White Supremacy Isn't a Philosophy, It's a Filter

LifeHacker

The Onion

  1. SeaWorld Dynamites Orca That Beached Itself On Concrete Walkway
  2. Report: There Just Something Dark And Intriguing About Man With Serious Personality Disorder
  3. European Leaders: ‘We Stand Together To Say Loud And Clear: We Are Scared As Fuck And Don’t Know What To Do’
  4. Fleas Carrying Bubonic Plague Found In Arizona
  5. What To Watch For In The New Obi-Wan Kenobi Film
  6. Spanish Authorities Ask Anyone With Information About Curbing Endless Cycle Of Nihilistic Violence To Come Forward
  7. ‘My Work Here Is Done,’ Smiles Contented Bannon Before Bursting Into Millions Of Spores
  8. Nation Begs Disaffected Youth Gravitating Toward Neo-Nazism To Get High And Play Xbox Instead
  9. Top 10 College Preseason Football Teams
  10. Costco Forced To Pay $19 Million For Selling Fake Tiffany Rings
  11. Report: 97% Of Inner Tube Occupants Agree It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
  12. Man Forced To Pathetically Comb Through Movie For Familiar Scene After Falling Asleep Previous Night
  13. Man In Center Of Political Spectrum Under Impression He Less Obnoxious
  14. How Democrats Plan To Rebrand Their Party
  15. Man Misidentified As Charlottesville Terrorist Suing Right-Wing News Sites
  16. Man Worried Favorite Jedi Died After Seeing ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Trending
  17. Inverted Bob Added To Supercuts Arctic Vault Where Hairstyles Preserved For Future Generations
  18. Aides Say Bannon Was Not On The Record When He Issued Deafening, Atonal Howl That Caused Journalist’s Skull To Explode
  19. Trump Inspires Thousands Of Kids To Believe They Could One Day Grow Up To Be President Of Confederacy
  20. Malala Can Tell Oxford Paired Her With Roommate Just Because They’re Both Nobel Laureates

The Register

  1. US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher
  2. No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court
  3. Wisconsin advances $3bn bribe incentives package for Foxconn
  4. Sorry, but those huge walls of terms and conditions you never read are legally binding
  5. Berkeley boffins build better spear-phishing black-box bruiser
  6. FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something
  7. Microsoft president exits US govt's digital advisory board as tech leaders quit over Trump
  8. Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer
  9. NetApp swallows Icelandic cloud management software biz
  10. So long and thanks for all the phish: Red teams need to be smarter now
  11. Q: How many drones are we bombing ISIS with? A: That's secret, mmkay
  12. Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad
  13. Last FalconStor CEO survived just six weeks before being replaced
  14. What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit
  15. So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?
  16. Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops
  17. Why does the market care so much about Cisco's security biz?
  18. British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup
  19. UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!
  20. Software definer wants you to befriend the 'BFC', do a bit of 'reverse virtualization'
  21. Infosys CEO quits, citing 'untenable atmosphere' created by critics
  22. Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook
  23. Who wants multiple virtual workstations on a GPU in a blade server?
  24. Lenovo expects data centre profits in two years, if it can fix China
  25. Where there's smoke there's a Galaxy Note: Refurbished Model 4 batteries recalled
  26. New NIST draft embeds privacy into US govt security for the first time
  27. Australian money cops gain powers to regulate cryptocurrency
  28. US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that's touched that mast
  29. What code is running on Apple's Secure Enclave security chip? Now we have a decryption key...
  30. Tomorrow, DreamHost will square up to US DoJ to avoid handing over 1.3m IP addresses of anti-Trump site visitors
  31. Don't panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records
  32. FYI: Web ad fraud looks really bad. Like, really, really bad. Bigly bad
  33. Judge yanks plug out of AT&T's latest attack on Google Fiber
  34. I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours
  35. London cops urged to scrap use of 'biased' facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival
  36. Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway
  37. Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it
  38. Making money is so DRAM easy for some memory-flingers
  39. London council 'failed to test' parking ticket app, exposed personal info
  40. Apple bag-search class action sueball moves to Cali supreme court
  41. Celeb-backed music gambit rebrands as 'Roxi', prays for IPO
  42. HPE sales chief Peter Ryan abandons ship amid downsizing ploy
  43. Singapore court awards $2.9m over bad job reference
  44. Nine months and a lot more b*llocks to go before new EU data protection rules kick in
  45. NetApp, you went all-flash, never go all-fla... Hey, wait. It's working
  46. Defra recruiting 1,400 policy wonks to pick up the pieces after Brexit
  47. What'll we do tonight, Kieran? Same thing we do every night, Tintri....
  48. Ads regulator raps PC repair biz for massaging malware infection rates
  49. Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare
  50. Scrutiny? We've heard of it. Dot-UK supremo Nominet goes dark

TechMeme

  1. Tencent reports $15.7B Q2 revenues and a record quarterly profit of $2.7B, up 70% YoY, as company's mobile game revenue tops PC, propelled by Honour of Kings (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
  2. Sources: government review of AT&T's $85B takeover of Time Warner has reached an advanced stage, as AT&T lawyers discuss merger conditions with the DoJ (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Following President Trump's Monday order, the United States Trade Representative formally launches probe into China's alleged theft of US intellectual property (Reuters)
  4. Google is testing new tools with NYT and FT to boost subscriptions for publishers; tools may include changes to "first click free", payment, targeting options (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
  5. US lawmakers and advocates on both the left and right are increasingly calling for regulating Google, Facebook, and Amazon (David McCabe/Axios)
  6. Google is rolling out autoplaying AI-generated silent 6-second previews for videos in search results, while on Wi-Fi in Android Chrome and Google apps (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
  7. Immersv, a mobile 360 and VR ad platform, raises $10.5M Series A led by Rogers Venture Partners with participation from HTC Vive, Initial Capital, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
  8. Facebook VP Deb Liu talks about Marketplace expansion plans including adding ticket sales and listings from local car dealers and real estate agents (Kurt Wagner/Recode)
  9. In less than a month, over 29M unique viewers have watched Stay Tuned, NBC News' daily Snapchat Discover show (Sara Fischer/Axios)
  10. China launches a court to handle Internet-related disputes; first civil case handled in 20 minutes, with parties communicating with judge online (BBC)
  11. Google will livestream official Android O launch on August 21st; teaser file name suggests it will be called Oreo (Ryne Hager/Android Police)
  12. Lyor Cohen, YouTube's Global Head of Music, on promoting new artists, copyright safe harbors, and how ads and subscriptions can thrive together (Lyor Cohen/YouTube Blog)
  13. Donald Trump authorizes elevation of US Cyber Command to the status of Unified Combatant Command, triggering a review of whether it should be separated from NSA (Jordan Fabian/The Hill)
  14. Asus Tango-powered ZenFone AR review: good camera, nice screen, but annoyingly bad battery life and Tango disappoints with a pathetically small number of apps (Jordan Palmer/Android Police)
  15. Sources: movie studios, including Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, in talks with Apple, Comcast to offer movie rentals within weeks of theatrical release (Anousha Sakoui/Bloomberg)