Odd Stuff (Part 1)

For those who can’t operate a taxi app on their phone, ServiceNow has linked arms with Uber to bring the world a “Book Uber” feature via its Workplace Safety Management app to solve the “biggest problem businesses face”.

What a time to be alive.

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Uncle Sam says it’s perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to ‘dominate’ battlefields

The US Army Research Laboratory says it is experimenting with reinforcement learning algorithms to control swarms of drones and autonomous vehicles to overwhelm and dominate America’s enemies.

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The button placement was ridiculous. I’ve no idea how that got past R&D. Someone should gave realized a button between the dolls legs was problematic.
The hysteria over the button placement grooming children for sex acts is also ridiculous.

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Stay weird Portland.

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And the mosque is an architectural gem, too.
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Awesome swirl ride @5:00

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Steve Wozniak at 70: Here’s to the bloke behind Apple who wasn’t a complete… turtleneck

All hail The Woz!

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One of many in Cologne.

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What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

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Yeah, but none of them is anything like this one.

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We’ve reached the endgame: Bezos ‘in talks’ to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Those unfamiliar with the 1970s-1990s heyday of Sears and JC Penney will be forgiven for not understanding just what a seismic shift this deal reflects in American society. It is basically the equivalent of vanquishing your foe and turning his or her castle into horse stables.

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Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

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This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

The Tor Project has confirmed someone, or some group, is in control of a large number of Bitcoin-snaffling exit nodes in its anonymizing network, and it’s battling to boot them off.

One observer reckons more than 23 per cent of the entire Tor network’s exit capacity was under the command of one miscreant, or one group of miscreants, at one point in May, with the end goal being the theft of people’s cryptocurrency.

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The odd thing is that I thought he was dead. :man_shrugging:

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Now I’m queasy. Motion sickness from watching a video, dammit.

ETA: cool video, just aggravated with my delicate constitution.

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