Corona kills trust; Uber's back; programming errors; Tesla's crypto stock, 5 year olds are in charge; Google's Project Bernanke; Twitch will act on off-platform offenses; Facebook's Hotline; Pinterest creates a Creator Fund; Thiel on Bitcoin; China hits Alibaba with antitrust fine; Coded Bias; Made for Love; Hard; judging people on music taste, with science; Jon Stewart; Turntable.fm is back; the Serpent; the Nevers; working lightsabers; Logitech stops Harmony remote production; AR toys; Saturn's Monsters; Chuck Palahniuk; White Claw; nuclear sabotage at Natanz; LinkedIn, Clubhouse data scrapes; the Dutch are out of cheese.
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FOLLOW UP
“I Do Not Trust People in the Same Way and I Don’t Think I Ever Will Again”
Uber says March was its biggest month ever
IN THE NEWS
A Darkly Comical Programming Error Shows the Human Assumptions Behind Code
Tesla (TSLA) now has crypto stock token by Binance to buy fractional shares
Tesla Owners, Say ‘Open Butthole’ and Get a Little Surprise
Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform
Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live
Pinterest announces $500K Creator Fund, ‘Creator Code’ content policy, moderation tools and more
Peter Thiel: China Using Bitcoin as a ‘Financial Weapon’
Alibaba hit with $2.8 billion fine in China antitrust case
MEDIA CANDY
Science now says you can judge people by their taste in music after all
An Interview With the Guy Who Yells “Mortal Kombat” in the Theme for Mortal Kombat
Turntable.fm Reminds Me How Much Fun the Web Can Be
The next Star Trek movie is scheduled for 2023
Spotify Has Now Deleted 42 Episodes of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’
APPS & DOODADS
Disney Has Reportedly Revealed a Working Lightsaber
Logitech is done making Harmony remotes
Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40
Google’s new AR toy fulfills the childhood dream of digging a hole to the other side of the Earth
FCC Wants You To Test Your Internet Speeds With Its New App
Google Photos just let me copy text from a photo into my web browser
AT THE LIBRARY
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
SECURITY HAH!
White Claw releases 8% seltzer, variety pack with 3 new flavors
Iran nuclear attack: Mystery surrounds nuclear sabotage at Natanz
Scraped personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked online
What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?
Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center
Dutch supermarkets run out of cheese after ransomware attack
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