Works by Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie and Robert Frost are entering the public domain on Jan. 1. And that’s just the first wave.
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понедельник, 31 декабря 2018 г.
Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites
A federal regulator is under attack for what critics say is a systemic failure to police tech giants and their vast appetite for personal data.
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Empty Homes and Protests: China’s Property Market Strains the World
A glut of unwanted apartments gets part of the blame for a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. In some places, homeowners are taking to the streets.
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Cyberattack Disrupts Printing of Major Newspapers
Malware was focused on networks used by Tribune Publishing, former owner of The Los Angeles Times. It was the first known attack on newspaper printing operations.
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In the New Year’s Eve Spotlight: Snoop Dogg, Ninja and a Free Press
The Times Square Alliance is joining with the Committee to Protect Journalists to send millions of viewers a message on the importance of journalism.
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Sears Is Dying, but Workers’ Loyalty Lives On
Across the country, legions of former employees gather regularly to celebrate a bygone era of retailing.
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‘Exhibit A’: How McKinsey Got Entangled in a Bribery Case
The consultancy’s report became key evidence in a battle over the extradition of a powerful Ukrainian oligarch charged in a scheme to help Boeing.
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Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
Dr. Roberts worked with other engineers to create the underpinnings of the Arpanet, making many crucial decisions. But his work did not make him rich.
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Grace Notes: At Lord & Taylor, Everything Must Go. A Daughter’s Guilt Will Remain.
Her mother wrote a letter about plaques at the Fifth Avenue store that honored workers who had served in the military. She never sent it. So, where will the plaques go?
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With Interest: The Week in Business: ’Twas the Week After Christmas, and Markets Were Stirring
Stocks had a wild week. Congress, not so much. And federal employees? Well...
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The Workologist: What to Do About an Overly Critical Boss
Starting a new job, an employee is already preparing to quit because of a supervisor who repeatedly levels unfair critiques and then apologizes.
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Trump Issues Order Freezing Federal Workers’ Pay in 2019
Congress may still approve a raise, perhaps as part of legislation to reopen the government. But union leaders condemned the order as unnecessary provocation.
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Doubletree in Portland Fires 2 Employees After Kicking Out Black Man Who Made Call From Lobby
Jermaine Massey posted videos of his encounter with a white security guard on Instagram, where they were widely viewed. The hotel apologized and promised an investigation.
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David Austin, Who Breathed Life Into the Rose, Is Dead at 92
He combined the strong aromas of old roses with the color and repeated flowerings of newer types, and upended the market by creating more than 200 varieties.
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Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $575 Million to Resolve State Investigations
The bank reached a deal to settle state inquiries into a range of practices, the latest chapter in its long-running legal woes.
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Economic View: Four Questions for the Year Ahead
Here are four important unsettled issues for 2019 that are on the mind of the economist N. Gregory Mankiw.
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Tesla Names Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to Its Board
The appointment of two independent directors was required by a settlement the company reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission in September.
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Your Money: You Should Freeze Your Child’s Credit. It’s Not Hard. Here’s How.
A new law requiring credit bureaus to offer you free freezes applies to children, too. It’s easier than you’d expect, but you may still have questions. Here are some answers.
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gender letter: 2018: Year of the Woman, in 5 Powerful Quotes
The stories that defined this year for women around the world.
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China’s State Media Finds Good News in Underwear
An unorthodox economic indicator points to an improving outlook in China’s rust belt. Economists are skeptical, but there are precedents for this kind of measurement.
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Tesla Scrambles to Sell Cars Before a Tax Break Fades
Demand for the company’s electric cars could weaken in January, when a $7,500 federal tax credit is cut in half for buyers of Tesla’s luxury models.
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Update: Luxury Comes to Expedition Cruising
New small ships built for adventure are also offering a full range of amenities, from saunas and fine dining to solariums and luxury suites.
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Stocks Wobble as a Bumpy Week on Wall St. Comes to a Close
A muted session on Friday contrasted sharply with trading during the rest of the holiday week, when stocks rose or fell sharply — sometimes doing both the same day.
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How to Say Happy New Year
People all over the world ring in the New Year with gusto and a hope for a fresh start. To commemorate the occasion, it is important to spread the joy and positive vibes by wishing people “Happy New Year.” Sometimes, this phrase is said so reflexively that you may not notice just how much the expression can positively affect someone. While...
The Drone GIrl’s 8 Biggest Drone Stories of 2018 #drone #droneday
From The Drone Girl:
2018 was a huge year for the drone industry. There were ups and downs, highs and lows. Some companies shut down, evidence of the industry consolidating and the hype bubble bursting. But many new companies, particularly in the enterprise space, are popping up, raising more money and hiring
Read more and check out The...
This is what 1px-wide font looks like
Cool post from boing boing on Matt Sarnoff’s awesome Subpixel Text Encoding work.
Millitext is a “font” whose glyphs are just one pixel wide. But it’s really a clever exploitation of how subpixels — the individual red, green and blue lights of an LCD display — are triggered by pixels of certain colors. For example, a magenta pixel triggers...
#3DPrinted POV Globe
From TheTNR on Hackster.io:
A quick intro to POV or persistence of vision: Any AC voltage light is actually blinking on and off at a frequency of 60hz or 60 times per second. Our brains perceive this as constant light. It is this concept which we will be taking advantage of, in order to create a spherical image using a single row of LEDs. We used 58 LED for each half. So you need totaly 116 LEDs. And will use a 3D printer for...
The First Female Student at MIT Started an All-Women Chemistry Lab and Fought for Food Safety
via Smithsonian
This past election cycle, hundreds of women ran for office on a promise to make the future brighter and more female. Many ran on platforms that made climate change a priority, asserting that the United States needed to take drastic action to protect our planet and our future. Women rallying behind environmental protection...
Know someone who’s been considering AdaBox? Give them a taste with an #AdaBox gift subscription
Did you know you can send an AdaBox gift subscription?!
Buy a specific number of AdaBoxes up front. Starting with the next AdaBox installment we will ship one AdaBox directly to the gift recipient until the gift subscription is fulfilled.
Send an email to the recipient today, on a specific date that you choose before the upcoming AdaBox...
Give the gift they really want with an #AdafruitGiftCertificate!
Know someone who loves electronics but doesn’t know the difference between an XBee, a soldering iron, and a SMA to uFL/u.FL/IPX/IPEX RF Adapter Cable? Want to buy the perfect gift but don’t know whether your Maker friend is a BeagleBone fan or a Rasp Pi devotee? Just a fan of Bruce Yan’s incredible design? If you’re any of these, or more,...
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: December 24th – December 30th
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
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Mike Barela shared some awesome info on how to...
‘Doomba’ Turns Your Roomba’s Cleaning Maps into Doom Levels
via The Verge
The idea first started when [Rich] Whitehouse and his wife were researching robot vacuums. Honestly, nothing will beat Whitehouse’s own explanation for the tool’s original, so I’ll let him take it from here:
“I soon realized that there was a clear opportunity to serve the Dark Lord by conceiving a plethora of unholy algorithms...
New Years Eve Project! 3D Printed Ball Drop #CircuitPython
New Years Even Ball Drop on Adafruit Learn System
Code and CAD on GitHub
Yay, we made it! 2018 here we come. Back in November, Limor had this idea to make a New Years themed project. I worked on the CAD and mechanical design while Dave Astels worked on the code.
Using Circuit Python in this project was an excellent decision as it allowed us to make adjustments quickly so we could fine tune the ball drop with synchronized audio.
The...
On New Year’s Day, a spacecraft will zoom by the most distant object humanity has ever visited #NewYear
The New Horizons spacecraft has been on a 13 year journey to the far reaches of our Solar System. Via the Verge:
Just after midnight on January 1st, a NASA spacecraft will whiz past the most distant space rock that’s ever been visited in our Solar System. This remote interplanetary flyby will be over in a blink. But if successful, the event...
This algae-powered exterior cladding turns polluted air into fresh oxygen
Via Treehugger
According to architects Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto of ecoLogicStudio, the large-scale algal curtains are architectural add-ons, capable of storing the same amount of CO2 as twenty large trees (about one kilogram of CO2 per day):
AlgaeClad is the world first living ETFE cladding. It requires far less structural support...
Geek.com’s Ultimate Super Smash Bros. Character Guide
From Geek.com:
Ultimate crushes all rivals by including every single playable character from the across the four previous games in the twenty-year-old series. Include the new combatants and so far we have over 70 fighters to wrap our heads around. We’re excited, but we’re also intimidated. So to get ready for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,...
Netflix Released a New Black Mirror Holiday Special #SciFiSunday
Another reason to spend the last weekend of 2018 relaxing on the couch in your best sweats, binging Netflix.
Write-up from Gizmodo.
The one-off special shares its name with the Alice in Wonderland creature, as well as an actual video game project from the 1980s that never came to fruition. The episode is directed by Black Mirror alum David Slade and stars Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), along with Will Poulter (The Revenant), and...
100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year | #SciFiSunday
Absolutely epic list from Tor.com. If you’ve resolved to read more in the new year, this is a great place to start looking for your next book.
Last year, I was so inspired by the various Best Of, Must Read, Smashing Science Fiction and Fantasy lists I encountered around the net that I decided to make my own book list, books chosen entirely...
The Drone GIrl’s 8 Biggest Drone Stories of 2018 #drone #droneday
From The Drone Girl:
2018 was a huge year for the drone industry. There were ups and downs, highs and lows. Some companies shut down, evidence of the industry consolidating and the hype bubble bursting. But many new companies, particularly in the enterprise space, are popping up, raising more money and hiring
Read more and check out The...
Trump points to 'wall' built around Obama's DC home during fight for border wall funding
President Trump pointed to the wall former President Obama built around his Washington DC, home as a reason Congress should fund his barrier on the southern border.
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Texas AG ‘eager’ to defend court’s Obamacare ruling after judge issues stay
Ken Paxton, Texas' Republican attorney general considered the architect of the lawsuit to defeat Obamacare, said on Sunday that his office is "eager to defend" last month’s federal judge's ruling that declared the 2010 law unconstitutional.
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Bernie Sanders staffers seek to address ‘predatory culture’ during 2016 campaign: report
More than two dozen people who worked on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign have called for a meeting with the senator and his top aides — saying there’s been talk in recent weeks about a “predatory culture” that developed while he was running.
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Texas judge stays own ruling of Obamacare as unconstitutional to allow for appeals
A Texas federal judge who declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional earlier this month has stayed his ruling while appeals proceed.
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Graham says 'I feel pretty good' about Syria after lunch with Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Sunday that "I feel pretty good about where we're headed" in Syria after suggesting that President Trump is "reconsidering" the planned pullout which had drawn bipartisan criticism and forced the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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Outgoing chief of staff John Kelly contradicts Trump in exit interview: 'To be honest, it’s not a wall’
White House chief of staff John Kelly, who is set to leave the Trump administration within days, flatly asserted in remarks published Sunday that the president's proposed border project "is not a wall" and that all plans for a concrete wall were abandoned long ago -- directly contradicting the White House's repeated claims to the...
Border Patrol chief: Agents 'did everything they could' to prevent 'absolutely devastating' deaths of migrant children
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Sunday that while the recent sudden deaths of two children in the agency's custody were "absolutely devastating for us on every level," federal authorities followed protocol and took all available steps to save their lives.
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Scalise: Dems from 2006 would have ended partial government shutdown by now
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told "Fox News Sunday" that the government shutdown could end in a matter of hours -- if Democrats are willing to take their own advice from 2006.
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Giuliani suggests Mueller cover-up, charges Dems 'absolutely' could have prevented illegal immigrant cop killing
In a wide-ranging interview on "Fox & Friends" on Sunday, President Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani charged that Democrats had rejected legislation that would have "absolutely prevented" the murder of a California police officer by an illegal immigrant early Wednesday.
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Women's March event canceled over concerns of being 'overwhelmingly white'
Organizers of a Women’s March rally slated for Northern California next month have canceled the event, saying they were concerned that participants would have been “overwhelmingly white."
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Sunday Night Futures
Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of December 30, 2018
Monday:
• At 10:30 AM ET, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December. This is the last of regional manufacturing surveys for December.
From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: S&P 500 are up 12 and DOW futures are up 130 (fair value).
Oil prices were down slightly...
December 2018: Unofficial Problem Bank list declined to 77 Institutions, Q4 2018 Transition Matrix
Note: Surferdude808 compiles an unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources.
Here is the unofficial problem bank list for December 2018.
Here are the monthly changes and a few comments from surferdude808:
Update on the Unofficial Problem Bank List for December 2018. During the month, the list fell by one to 77 institutions...
Florida Newspaper Publishes Exhaustive Parkland Report: Sheriff’s Office ‘Cost Children Their Lives’
Authorities and school officials either failed to act or were unclear about procedures when confronting the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Feb. 14, 911 logs, surveillance videos and interviews show.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel released a minute-by-minute rundown of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in “Unprepared and Overwhelmed.”...
13 Books to Add to Your 2019 Reading List
The new year is here, so why not start it off right with a new book?
Here are 13 books that our friends at The Heritage Foundation think you might enjoy reading in 2019.
Current Affairs
1) “Ghettocide: A True Story of Murder in America” by Jill Leovy
Have you ever wondered why children and young men get shot in America’s inner cities, but...