How KaiOS Is Becoming the 3rd Major Mobile OS (TechAltar)
Google has just invested $22 million into an operating system called KaiOS. Can it become the 3rd major mobile platform?
PHP in 2018 by the Creator of PHP (Coding Tech)
For many in the PHP community 2016 and 2017 was all about getting onto PHP 7. The drastic performance improvements and overall efficiency has resulted […]
How 156 years of British rule shaped Hong Kong (Vox)
Hong Kong has British DNA. Follow the Vox Borders watch page: https://www.facebook.com/VoxBorders/ Follow Johnny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnywharris/ Watch on YouTube
Why artificial intelligence has no common sense
We are surrounded by artificial intelligence. From the Google Home and Amazon Echo, to Facebook’s facial recognition and whatever it is Huawei’s doing. It’s easy to become desensitized to the term and misunderstand the current state of AI we live in.
G Funk | Official Documentary
“When you’re making magic, sometimes the ingredients don’t come with instructions” – Snoop Dogg During the early 90s the G Funk style of hip-hop emerged […]
Sexual attraction is shaped by gut bacteria and desires (Big Think)
Behind our sexual impulses — who we feel attracted to and why — complex biological interactions help determine our feelings, our obsessions, our repulsions… Kathleen McAuliffe’s book is This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
What makes a good life? Lessons for the longest study on happiness (Ted)
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to […]
Robot restaurants won’t take your job and food will be better (Vox)
Robot restaurants are popping up all over downtown San Francisco, as a futuristic option for people to grab fast food for cheap. The latest example is Creator, a robotic restaurant that specializes in making gourmet hamburgers with their all-in-one burger robots.
What if we got rid of all road signs? (Vox)
Some cities in Europe are undergoing a fascinating transformation: they’re getting rid of all of their road signs. That’s thanks to a design concept called “shared space,” where urban planners drastically lessen the presence of traffic lights, signs, and barriers, encouraging all forms of transportation to share the road.
How Aristocracies Rule (The Atlantic)
The American fairytale is far from enchanted. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other so that the poor turn against the poor. It’s how most aristocracies throughout history have worked. It’s also how the American elite convinced 25 million non-slaveholding citizens to aid and abet them in slavery.
How France produces the best football players
France has had the most native players and coaches in the last 4 World Cups… and their dominance has been on the rise. Players like Kylian Mbappe and Paul Pogba are the children of immigrants and the product of the French soccer academy system. French- born players have played for Togo, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Argentina, Portugal, and many more.
The cost of JavaScript to your website (Coding Tech)
As the world build sites that are more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see.
Why the US national anthem is so hard to sing (VOX)
Although most people kinda know the US national anthem, most people have a hard time singing it. The Star Spangled Banner has quite the musical […]
White People Whitesplaining Whitesplaining (MTV Decoded)
Every person of colour has gone through something similar, where a conversation about racism, xenophobia or just general issues gets hijacked by a “woke” white person explaining their hardships to them.
Globally, assessments vary on whether life is better or worse than 50 years ago https://t.co/OSTDl4sJoX pic.twitter.com/kbFwnjnHlw
— Pew Research Global (@pewglobal) July 2, 2018
