JETLAG RADIO 369 | BENKYO RADIO 369
New features in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers enhance remote presentations and working with documents on the go [TechMeme]
Study: Urban extreme heat exposure has increased by 200% since the 1980s [AXIOS]
A growing group of techno-utopians, cypherpunks, and software enthusiasts envision a future internet that is decentralized and underpinned by blockchain technology, and they’re calling it Web3. — In Web3, blockchain technology replaces the internet’s centralized servers. Instead of sending your information to and querying from a Facebook- or Amazon-owned server, for example, all of this data is stored on a peer-to-peer, decentralized database, or a public blockchain. This approach has its pluses and minuses:
Pros: Users own the data, transparency, native payments, censorship resistant
Cons: Lack of privacy, inefficiency, lack of regulation, environmental impact
The latest edition of the just-for-Quartz-members Forecast email unpacks these pros and cons and predicts where Web3 will be in one, five, and 10 years. [Quartz]
Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea [Recode]
A love letter to the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones [TheNextWeb]
What Is Huitlacoche — And Why Aren’t U.S. Diners Eating More of It? [Eater]
These Are the Top Tech Startups Attracting Talent in 2021, According to LinkedIn [Inc.]
Is your mentor a good match? Ask yourself these 3 questions [Fast Company]
Can We Talk About Female Bullies Please? [Medium]
There will be a shortage of Xbox consoles until 2022 as confirmed by Phil Spencer, director of the company owned by Microsoft [Entrepreneur]
Jamaica Is a Tech Desert. Gamers Make It Work Anyway [WIRED]
This Week in Google 631 [TWIT]
New designs for Chrome and Chrome OS, by Latino artists [Google Blog]
Improving Generalization in Reinforcement Learning using Policy Similarity Embeddings [Google AI Blog]
Looking at the records of 35,000 Union Army veterans who had served between 1861 and 1865, a 2010 study found that soldiers whose military units lacked a sense of camaraderie were six times more likely to have had heart attacks or strokes by their late fifties or early sixties than counterparts from units with strong esprit de corps. “Somehow being armed with close social bonds in the extremely stressful situation of battlefield combat,” said one of the researchers, “has a protective effect that continues long after the fighting has ended.” [Lapham’s Quarterly]
The Sky This Week: New Moon means dark skies [Astronomy Mag]
3 Ways Gamification Keeps Us Engaged and Motivated (by Heather C.) [Salesforce]
What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 369 & BENKYO RADIO 369.
Many in France are impatiently awaiting the trial of the century, regarding the 2015 French Terrorist Attacks. While everybody know that event made me more upset than ever in my entire life, the investigation has come to a sad conclusion. It appears that while the terrorists pouted that they were Islamic Fundamentalists, it appears that it all had to do with trafficking, especially “the Jewish Cartels who can hide in plain sight, hence, “Hypercacher””) It’s a very sad turn of event, inexcusable, and I demand that the GIGN puts these terrorists in prison for life. There is no excuse to kill innocent civilians, not to mention, this took place at the almighty beloved Stade de France, and concert venues. I mean, I live across the Atlantic Ocean in America, and I was traumatized. I can’t even fathom how those who were in Paris felt. It was an extremely sad day in France, and the GIGN vowed never to be messed with like that ever again. Thank you for bringing them to justice. I mean I really wanted to go all berserk on those guys.
Until Next Time!