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By the end of 2024, passengers on the London Underground will have mobile reception across the entire network of stations and tunnels, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. At last, my candy can be crushed while on the Tube.
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Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media. We're gonna need a bigger mop.
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Well it sounded like an intriguing idea right up until "blockchain" at which point I facepalmed hard enough I'm probably concussed. Setting aside legal issues with non-deletability (*cough*GDPR*cough*RTBF*cough*) of personal data - and who you associate with is highly personal and thus would qualify in any sane world - having an undeletable or even unobfuscatable record of who you associated with in the past would cause all kinds of problems with how social media is actually used in the real world.
Remember that person you used to be friends with years ago that went crazy/toxic to the point that you cut all contact with them will be burned into an undeletable record in a database that needs to be publicly accessible to work providing easily available ammo to anyone who wants to vilify you in a witch hunt because obviously you'd never have associated yourself with the toxic nutjob if you weren't as horrible as person as they were. Unlike with current services where you can unfriend them, and go back deleting everything you publicly posted about them making it much harder for anyone trying to cause trouble to link you together because they'd be limited to trying to find screenshots of deleted messages; with failchain the record saying you and toxic nutjob were friends will exist from now until the end of time.
Having a single shared DB will also make it much harder if not impossible to keep different circles of contacts separate, or to avoid people you no longer want to have anything to do with. ex one of Google's failed social projects that went through old gmail history and automatically friended people with their exes, abusers, stalkers, etc.
In conclusion, I would need to make a  of 's and then pasted several copies of it one below the next to express how awful this idea would be.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Due in part to travel embargos, limited access to educational loans, and delays in student visa processing, U.S. colleges and universities are observing significant declines in graduate-level enrollments in computer and information science this year. Do you hear that? It sounds like a cash register. CA-CHING!
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Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders Move over, Mom. I have something else to blame.
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Google may be working on turning Android phones into a hivemind capable of finding lost devices, similar to Apple’s Find My network They're calling it Pandora's Box.
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If you're working with large amounts of data, you've likely heard about high-cardinality or ran into issues relating to it. This article explains what cardinality is and why it crops up often with databases of all types.
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Although I suspect the performance impact will be minuscule on average6, this surprise still serves as a reminder that raw CPU performance can silently change due to microcode updates and most Linux distributions and modern Windows have these updates enabled by default. Now that you mention it ...
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Practical quantum computers may be decades away – but the race to build them is already tackling thorny global problems, and unlocking the secrets of the universe Forty-two.
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liquid nitrogen 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Common data models, a cloud just for this vertical and IoT for monitoring patients: Microsoft is taking on healthcare once again. "Did you try turning the patient off and then on again?"
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South Korean vehicle manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics. I connected the string to a picture of a robot dog I'd tacked to the board. The string connected to Hyundai, South Korea, and Hamburgers. I knew they were all connected, but what did it all mean?
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What does it all mean, you ask?
Koreans will be eating robotic dogs in the future and will be spared the opprobrium for eating real dogs,😂😂😂
PS. It is a joke. Sorry if I offended anybody.
PPS. I have been watching the Korean serials ‘Tale of the Nine-Tailed’ and ‘18 Again’ on TV recently. No, they didn’t show anyone eating dog in those shows so that didn’t influence my joke.
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In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success. "It all started with a malfunctioning printer."
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My only memory of Bangladesh is George Harrison raising money for starving people there. Is it wrong that that one memory caused me to do a double take about the Bangladesh national bank having $1bn in it? Or that the same memory at the same moment made me think that N Korea was rather silly to try to steal money from that bank?
I'm old and horrible.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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The population of Bangladesh was 163 million (2019), which works out to USD 6 per person. They're not exactly drowning in foreign currency.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Massachusetts launched a COVID tracking app, and uh, it was automatically installed?! Clearly the lesson here is to not make silently push-installed applications visible to the user.
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Immortality and everlasting youth are the stuff of myths, according to new research which may finally end the eternal debate about whether we can live for ever. Who dares to love forever~ Oh oo wooooh, when love must die
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Sean Ewington wrote: Who dares to love forever~ Oh oo wooooh, when love must die
Queen: Highlander Soundtrack?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A beautiful example of the press using a misleading headline for reporting scientific results. There's a huge difference between "study proves ageing process is unstoppable", and the actual conclusion of "study suggests evolutionary biology trumps everything and, so far, medical advances have been unable to beat these biological constraints".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This last year makes me wonder if newspapers shouldn't be banned from reporting on science.
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Just this last year?! 
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No, not really, but it feels like an exponential process. If you excuse my pun.
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ID.me's CEO says unemployment fraud is costing taxpayers $400 billion, but his own company is denying claims because of problems with its tech, users say. "What could go wrong?" Turns out, everything.
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