Apple Inc: A Pre-Mortem
How Apple is failing its users.
(tags: computers Apple )

Inequality Is Killing The American Dream
Would be interested to see this methodology applied elsewhere.
(tags: uspolitics economics )

How to Force Cortana to Use Chrome & Google in Windows 10
Avoiding the tyranny of Edge and Bing.
(tags: Internet computers microsoft )

Theresa May’s bunker: only the meekest courtiers are allowed in
Court politics ( Read more... )

Protesters ransack Macedonia president’s office as crisis deepens Crumbs.
(tags: macedonia ) Blake's 7 star Gareth Thomas dies at age 71 Sad news.
(tags: sf deaths ) America Hasn’t Gone Crazy. It’s Just More Like Europe Ivan Krastev's take.
(tags: uspolitics ) Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code The code was ( Read more... )

Will artificial intelligence kill us all? Probably not.
(tags: computers )

A "Decade of Uncertainty" if Britain votes to leave? Yup.
(tags: eu ukpolitics ) Pictures of women using boxy 1980s computers What it says on the tin.
(tags: computers sexandgenderandsexuality ) Super Tuesday 2016: Donald Trump closes in on widespread victory Oh Gawd.
(tags: uspolitics ) Parents on a date were asleep in car when cops arrived and ( Read more... )

• Xi Jinping meets President Omaba in Paris
  (tags: languages China )
• The £100,000 cost of sacking the sysadmin
  Which company *could* this have been???
  (tags: work computers )

• Her Code Got Humans on the Moon-And Invented Software Itself
  Margaret Hamilton's triumph.
  (tags: sexandgenderandsexuality computers space )
• In defence of TTIP, and my role as EU Trade Commissioner
  Malmström strikes back.
  (tags: eu )
• VW to recall 8.5 million cars in EU
  Who else, I wonder?
  (tags: eu climatechange )

Windows 10 irritation #1: Every time I open Chrome after restarting, it tells me Chrome is not the default web browser and asks if I want it to be. I say yes every time. And then it happens again ( Read more... )

• Islands in the Stream
  Whatever happened to the Bee Gees?
  (tags: music )
• Strange Horizons Reviews: 2015 Hugo Awards Short Fiction Shortlist, reviewed by Martin Lewis
  Reviewed by @nine_below (Martin Lewis).
  (tags: sf sadpuppies )
• Better advice for ‘Bothered’
  When your adviser keeps looking down your shirt.
  (tags: sexandgenderandsexuality )
• Google on ( Read more... )

• They're all going to laugh at you
  @NussbaumAbigail on Much Ado About Nothing.
  (tags: shakespeare )
• The Internet Archive's historical software collection
  For @MarioFannio in particular!
  (tags: history computers )