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1. Tot (Miloš)
2. Moom (Nebojša)
3. Solid Stage Logic i Teenage Engineering (Miloš)
4. Dyson (Nebojša)
5. Ego and Archetype (Nebojša)
6. Useful Not True i Meditations for Mortals (Miloš)
7. Merino vuna i Tecovas (Miloš)
8. Bombas (Nebojša)
9. Joga (Nebojša)
10. Plivanje (Miloš)
11. Manje plastike i manje putovanja (Miloš)

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• Milky Eggs » Blog Archive » What the Accelerationist’s Political Compass says about us — Every now and then, this “political compass” of acceleration vs. deceleration, hyperhuman vs. unhuman pops up. It’s a pretty interesting breakdown so I wanted to jot down a couple thoughts.

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• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
• The Dawn of Mediocre Computing - by Venkatesh Rao — Well, we all knew it was coming. Computers already easily overwhelm the best humans at chess and Go. Now they have done something far harder: achieved parity with David Brooks at writing.
• On Bullshit - Wikipedia — On Bullshit is a 2005 book (originally a 1986 essay) by American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt which presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the context of communication.
• Reverse Turing test - Wikipedia — A Reverse Turing test is a Turing test in which the objective or roles between computers and humans have been reversed. Conventionally, the Turing test is conceived as having a human judge and a computer subject which attempts to appear human. The intent of this conventional test is for the judge to attempt to distinguish which of these two situations is actually occurring.
• Aram Sinnreich: "Fellow academics: Strongly co…" - Mastodon — I just got OpenAI to write a better essay on #minstrelsy & US #popmusic than most of my UG students could muster, in about 1 second.

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• The Infinite Conversation — A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. When you open this website, you are taken to a random point in the dialogue. Every day a new segment of the conversation is added. New segments can be generated at a faster speed than what it takes to listen to them. In theory, this conversation could continue until the end of time.
• Google engineer Blake Lemoine thinks its LaMDA AI has come to life - The Washington Post — In a statement, Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel said: “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it).”

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• Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit — Personal Knowledge Management (“PKM”) is a trendy new term for techniques and applications designed to manage information. Everyone is overloaded with information thanks to the digital revolution, so—the PKM people tell us—we need new software and systems to survive and thrive. So far, so good. I agree with this intuition. The problem is that market demand for solutions is tremendous, while the underlying problem is stubbornly intractable.
• Merlin Mann on The Great Discontent (TGD) — Merlin Mann is best known as the creator of 43folders.com, a popular website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work. He is creator of The Merlin Show and cohosts You Look Nice Today, Back to Work, and Roderick on the Line. More recently, he has received rave reviews for his energetic productivity talks at Apple, Google, Adobe, and many others. Merlin lives in San Francisco, where the pork xiu mai is plentiful and his outstanding wife and daughter are within arm’s reach.
• Zettelkasten - Wikipedia — The zettelkasten (German: "slip box", plural zettelkästen) is a system of note-taking and personal knowledge management used in research and study. Variations of the note taking system are known by the "card index" or "index card file" in English and fichier boîte ("file box") in French contexts.
• Niklas Luhmann - Wikipedia — iklas Luhmann (/ˈluːmən/; German: [ˈluːman]; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is considered one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century.
• The Zettelkasten Method - LessWrong — Early this year, Conor White-Sullivan introduced me to the Zettelkasten method of note-taking. I would say that this significantly increased my research productivity. I’ve been saying “at least 2x”. Naturally, this sort of thing is difficult to quantify. The truth is, I think it may be more like 3x, especially along the dimension of “producing ideas” and also “early-stage development of ideas”.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.
• Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base — Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden.
• Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote — Remember everything and tackle any project with your notes, tasks, and schedule all in one place.
• DEVONtechnologies | DEVONthink, professional document and information management for the Mac and iOS — Focus on your work and let DEVONthink remember all the details. Collect, organize, edit and annotate documents of any kind. Have them automatically analyzed, connected, and filed. Sync them between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
• Building a Second Brain — A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
• xkcd: Automation — "I SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS TASK. I SHOULD WRITE A PROGRAM AUTOMATING IT!"

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• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation: Johnson, Steven: 9781594485381: Amazon.com: Books — The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.
• Infinite Regress – Pieces of the Action — Old men and their tales are good for many things: knowledge, inspiration, amusement, and, occasionaly, ridicule. Vannevar Bush provides all four in this series of (mostly war) stories about innovation and how to kill it. The anecdotes are loosely grouped into themes, and are even more loosely chronologically arranged; an opportunity for a joke, a pun, or a humble-brag trumps any attempt at organization. The feeling is very much like sitting crossed-legged on the carpet next to your grandfather’s airmchair as he — pipe in one hand, tumbler of scotch in the other — spins you a yarn.
• Patent troll - Wikipedia — In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), chilling effects, and the like). Patent trolls often do not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question. However, some entities which do not practice their asserted patent may not be considered "patent trolls" when they license their patented technologies on reasonable terms in advance.
• House Lawmakers Are Considering 6 Bills Aimed at Big Tech - The New York Times — A committee took its first vote in the early afternoon, advancing a bill that would increase the money companies pay government agencies when getting some mergers approved.

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• Scripting News: The iPhone 13 epilog — As I reported yesterday, the iPhone 13 Pro arrived yesterday. So the embarrassing saga is over. Now I want to clean up, by finishing the story.
• Daring Fireball: The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K) — The new aluminum Siri Remote that ships with the new 2nd generation Apple TV 4K looks, feels, and acts like the black Siri Remote never happened. I mean, just look at the three of them: the new aluminum Siri Remote looks like the direct successor to the 2012 Apple Remote. Hallelujah.
• Hypercritical: An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec — I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app will be well on its way to not sucking.
• Rogue Amoeba | More Info On Rogue Amoeba — Rogue Amoeba is a privately held software company, based in the USA with offices around the globe. Since 2002, we've been making tools to assist you with all your audio needs on MacOS. In that time, we've delighted millions of users and earned some of the highest honors in the industry.
• What Is the Dark UX? — Self-interested brands use tricky web design tactics designed to deceive website viewers for their own gain. These tactics are called dark UX or dark patterns
• darkpatterns.org on Twitter: "How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract. Thread." / Twitter
• Old Friends. New Fun (Facebook / Meta - Superbowl reklama)
• Ubik - Wikipedia — Ubik (/ˈjuːbɪk/ YOO-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who, after an assassination attempt, begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik.
• Four kinds of knowing: John Vervaeke and a more grounded way to grow - YouTube — Sazetak novih pogleda na vrste znanja / mudrosti - metafizika uklopljena u nova znanja iz neuronauka. Vise u odlicnoj seriji John Vervaeke-a (psiholog sa Univ u Torontu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY

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• The Complete History of Podcasts | Voices — The first iPod debuted in 2001. A few years later, in 2004, former MTV VJ Adam Curry and software developer Dave Winer devised a plan that would enable them to download online radio broadcasts from the internet directly to Apple’s revolutionary device. Winer had authored an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) aggregator software, and Curry coded a program titled iPodder, which could extract audio files from an RSS feed so that they could be transferred to an iPod. For once, radio broadcast files could be stored on a portable player and listened to on the go.
• The Talk Show With John Gruber on Apple Podcasts — The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
• The Joe Rogan Experience | Podcast on Spotify — The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan. Follow The Joe Rogan Clips show page for some of the best moments from the episodes.
• The Cactus and the Weasel — The phrase, strong views, weakly held, has crossed my radar multiple times in the last few months. I didn’t think much about it when I first heard it, beyond noting that it seemed to be almost a tautological piece of good advice. Thinking some more though, I realized two things: the phrase neatly characterizes the first member of my favorite pair of archetypes, the the hedgehog and the fox, and that I am actually much better described by the inverse statement, which describes foxes: weak views, strongly held.
• Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History (Ep. 128) | Conversations with Tyler — We don’t study the past for its own sake.

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• Mindfulness - Wikipedia — Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention in the present moment without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques.
• Waking Up with Sam Harris – Unlock your mind — Whether you’re a beginning or advanced meditator, Waking Up opens the door to a deeper understanding of yourself—and to a new way of being in the world.
• Hobonichi Techo 2022 — The Hobonichi Techo is a Life Book that’s flexible enough to fit the lifestyle and tastes of its user, allowing for freedom in how to use it. The daily page books include the A6 size Original or Planner and the A5 size Cousin. There’s also a weekly book called the Weeks, an undated notebook with monthly calendars called Day Free, and the 5-Year Techo, just to name a few.
• Tools for Thought as Cultural Systems, not Computational Objects — The term tools for thought has become a new rallying point over the last few years. People who might otherwise gather around keywords like personal knowledge management, networked thought, productivity, or knowledge work are reframing their work.
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes — Whether you’re plotting your next thriller or writing your dissertation, designing a course, managing a legal practice, coordinating a campaign or planning a season of orchestral concerts, Tinderbox 9 will be your personal information assistant.
• Apple M1 - Wikipedia — The Apple M1 is an ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Macintosh computers and iPad Pro tablets. It also marks the third change to the instruction set used by Macintosh computers, 14 years after Apple switched Macs from PowerPC to Intel in 2006. Apple claims the chip has the world's fastest CPU core "in low power silicon" and the world's best CPU performance per watt.
• The Dawn of Everything — A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
• How to Think by Alan Jacobs: 9780451499608 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books — How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.
• Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction - YouTube — First episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
• The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) - IMDb — A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
• Dune (2021) - IMDb — Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
• The Americans (TV Series 2013–2018) - IMDb — At the height of the Cold War two Russian agents pose as your average American couple, complete with family.
• Twilight Struggle | Board Game | BoardGameGeek — Relive the Cold War and rewrite history in an epic clash between the USA and USSR.
• Death Stranding - Wikipedia — Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Konami in 2015. It was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 in November 2019 and by 505 Games for Windows in July 2020. An updated version for PlayStation 5, Death Stranding Director's Cut, was announced in June 2021 and was released on September 24, 2021.
• Priključenija 63: Pathologic — ✓ Kako je minijaturni ruski studio napravio igru bolju od svih AAA naslova? ✓ Koje su najbolje meta-igre? ✓ Po čemu se američki kolektivizam razlikuje od slovenskog?

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• Cuphead: Don't Deal With The Devil | Available on Xbox One - Windows 10 - Nintendo Switch – PlayStation 4 - Steam - GOG - Mac — Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era: traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
• Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic - MarketWatch — Global videogame revenue is expected to surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020, according to IDC data, making the videogame industry a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. The global film industry reached $100 billion in revenue for the first time in 2019, according to the Motion Picture Association, while PwC estimated North American sports would bring in more than $75 billion in 2020.
• A Long Tail of Whales: Half of Mobile Games Money Comes From 0.15 Percent of Players - Vox — In a mobile monetization report released today, app testing firm Swrve found that in January, half of free-to-play games’ in-app purchases came from 0.15 percent of players. Only 1.5 percent of players of games in the Swrve network spent any money at all.
• The Elder Scrolls | Skyrim 10th Anniversary — Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim celebrates 10 years of adventuring in stunning detail. The Anniversary Edition includes a decade worth of content: the critically acclaimed core game and add-ons of Skyrim Special Edition, plus pre-existing and new content from Creation Club including quests, dungeons, bosses, weapons, spells, and more.
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall - Wikipedia — The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an open-world action role-playing video game published and developed by Bethesda Softworks. The second game in the Elder Scrolls series, following 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena, it was released on September 20, 1996. It was both a critical and commercial success on launch. A successor, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, was released in 2002.
• Steam Deck — Steam Deck brings the Steam games and features you love to a powerful and convenient form factor that you can take wherever you go.
• Inside the GPU Shortage: Why You Still Can't Buy a Graphics Card | PCMag — How scalpers, a pandemic, and a cryptocurrency boom formed a perfect storm that continues to make PC building an exercise in futility.
• Portal (video game) - Wikipedia — Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, and Android (via Nvidia Shield).
• Portal - 'Still Alive' - YouTube — 'Still Alive' from at the end of Portal during the credits.

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• Pathologic 2 - Wikipedia — Pathologic 2 (Russian: Мор, tr. Mor, IPA: [mˈor], lit. 'Pestilence') is an adventure game by Ice-Pick Lodge and published by tinyBuild. Originally planned as a remake of the 2005 video game Pathologic, it has been set to be a complete reimagining of the original game. The game is planned to be released in three parts, each one dedicated to the story of one of the three main characters, the Haruspex, the Bachelor and the Changeling. The first part telling the story of the Haruspex was released 23 May 2019.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia — The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in the Elder Scrolls series, following 2006's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
• Journey (2012 video game) - Wikipedia — Journey is an indie adventure game co-developed by Thatgamecompany and Santa Monica Studio, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and directed by Jenova Chen. It was released for the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019.
• Braid (video game) - Wikipedia — Braid is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None and considered an indie title. The game was originally released in August 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. Ports were developed and released for Microsoft Windows in April 2009, Mac OS X in May 2009, PlayStation 3 in November 2009, and Linux in December 2010. Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in video game development.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Wikipedia — S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-shooter games series with RPG and action-adventure elements, developed by GSC Game World, Ukraine. Game events take place in the alternative world`s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, present day.

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• John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Audio) - YouTube — "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver
• Prljavi inspektor Blaza i Kljunovi - Sunce tudjeg neba (Srbijo) - (Official Video) - YouTube
• Apple's Tim Cook on the Future of Fitness | Outside Online — In an extended interview for the Outside Podcast, the CEO talks about the ways technology can help us lead healthier lives and the benefits we get from ignoring our screens
• This Is How Tim Cook Transformed Apple (AAPL) After Steve Jobs - Bloomberg — Apple Is the $2.3 Trillion Fortress That Tim Cook Built
• Who We Are | GRAIL — We are a healthcare company focused on saving lives and improving health by pioneering new technologies for early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.

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• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders — These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle email (which is not how everyone should, but you may find some of these useful) — This is all about work email. I have succeeded in transferring most personal communication to Slack, iMessage, and WhatsApp, with a sprinkling of Skype for the grandparents. The sole holdout is Dad, who insists on emailing me links to Serbian tabloid news, child rearing advice, and recipes.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle meetings (which most certainly is not how everyone should, but again, may be useful to some) — It is easier than ever to organize and attend a meeting, which should scare the living daylights out of anyone who doesn’t organize or attend meetings for a living. It used to be that only middle management had to deal with a series of 90-minute meetings all 15 minutes apart in which they had no specific role, which had no effect on their task list, and which left them no better off than they’d be if they had just read the minutes.
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport — Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.
• xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
• Hook – Links beat searching — Hook enables you to instantly retrieve the information you need. Whether it’s on the web or in one of your favorite apps, with Hook you don’t need to search. Just click on links to access that email, PDF, task or other item — and get your job done fast.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — A note-taking tool for networked thought. As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.

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• Sudowrite — Bust writer’s block and be more creative with our magical writing AI.
• Ultimate Guide to Becoming A Medical Writer — Medical writing is an esteemed profession. Every day, medical writers are detailing, documenting, and sharing news and research that is improving health outcomes and saving lives.
• Wolfram Mathematica - Wikipedia — Wolfram Mathematica (usually termed Mathematica) is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allow symbolic computation, manipulating matrices, plotting functions and various types of data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other programming languages.
• IPython - Wikipedia — IPython (Interactive Python) is a command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages, originally developed for the Python programming language, that offers introspection, rich media, shell syntax, tab completion, and history.
• Project Jupyter | Home — Project Jupyter exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages.
• The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here's What's Next. - The Atlantic — Wolfram has a hard time seeing outside Wolfram, and perhaps that’s the reason that the Mathematica notebook has remained relatively obscure while a rival system—derivative, yes, and simplistic, but open—looks to be taking over the world.
• History of podcasting - Wikipedia — Podcasting, previously known as "audioblogging", has its roots dating back to the 1980s. With the advent of broadband Internet access and portable digital audio playback devices such as the iPod, podcasting began to catch hold in late 2004.
• Serial (podcast) - Wikipedia — Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story over multiple episodes.
• Google Reader - Wikipedia — Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of programs which used it as a platform for serving news and information to people. Google closed Google Reader on July 1, 2013, citing declining use.
• Google+ - Wikipedia — Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus; sometimes called G+) was a social network owned and operated by Google. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products like Google Drive, Blogger and YouTube.

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• A first look at Unreal Engine 5 - Unreal Engine — We’ve just released a first look at Unreal Engine 5. One of our goals in this next generation is to achieve photorealism on par with movie CG and real life, and put it within practical reach of development teams of all sizes through highly productive tools and content libraries.
• Oculus | VR Headsets, Games & Equipment — No matter who you are, with a growing library of games and experiences there is no limit to where you can go and what you can do in virtual reality.
• Augmented Reality - Apple — Apple has the world’s largest AR platform, with hundreds of millions of AR‑enabled devices, as well as thousands of AR apps on the App Store. And because Apple hardware and software are designed from the ground up for AR, there is no better way to experience AR.
• Apple Glasses: VR and AR Are Coming — Apple is rumored have a secret team of hundreds of employees working on virtual and augmented reality projects.
• Deepfake - Wikipedia — Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness.
• Knuckles the Echidna - Wikipedia — In January 2018, players began to flood the virtual reality video game VRChat with avatars depicting a deformed version of the character called "Ugandan Knuckles". The character stemmed from a 2017 review of Sonic Lost World by YouTube user Gregzilla as well as from fans of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds streamer Forsen who often make references to the African country Uganda in the chat section of his streams.

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• The Colonial pipeline ransomware cyberattack: How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom - Vox — A major oil pipeline is coming back online after a several-day outage resulting from a cyberattack that caused gas prices to surge and gas stations in multiple states to experience shortages. After nearly a week of being shut down, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced on May 12 that it was restarting pipeline operations and that the supply chain would “return to normal” within the next several days.
• Health care provider Universal Health Services hit with cyberattack — A nationwide cyberattack has crippled operations at Universal Health Services, one of the nation's largest health care providers. As a result, health care personnel reportedly began keeping records on paper as computer systems began failing over the weekend and some hospitals have sent incoming ambulances to other neighboring hospitals.
• Environmental Concerns Arise Over Energy Needed To Mine Bitcoin : NPR — In one upstate New York community, a Bitcoin mining operation is drawing criticism from people who say the natural gas burned to make the cryptocurrency is causing too much pollution.
• Bitcoin Security Model: Trust By Computation — Bitcoin is a distributed consensus network that maintains a secure and trusted distributed ledger through a process called “proof-of-work.” Bitcoin fundamentally inverts the trust mechanism of a distributed system. Traditionally, as we see in payment and banking systems, trust is achieved through access control, by carefully vetting participants and excluding bad actors. This method of trust requires encryption, firewalls, strong authentication and careful vetting. The network requires investing trust in those gaining access.