Interesting Links for 10-01-2018

[andrewducker]

What Is MicroLED and When am I Going to Get It?

(tags: tv Technology led thefuture )

Koreas agree military talks to defuse border tension

(tags: korea NorthKorea GoodNews )

Just-Eat replaces credit-card charge with...service charge

(tags: money food uk )

Luxury retirement village in Granton (Edinburgh) given green light

(tags: edinburgh scotland housing uk )

The Edinburgh neighbourhood that's home to billions of pounds of illegal activity and money laundering

(tags: edinburgh money OhForFucksSake )

Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater

(tags: surgery 3d Technology )

No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions (yay!)

(tags: advertising Apple privacy GoodNews )

Virgin West Coast train firm stops selling Daily Mail

(tags: DailyMail virgin trains )

"The day I accidentally killed a little boy"

(tags: death children cars accident )

Prime Minister has to tell apparently grown adults that bullying people is not ok.

(tags: bullying politics society )

How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl

(tags: photography airplanes impressive )

Lessons from the history of radio, and why the internet needs to learn them.

(tags: internet radio technology communication Nazis war propaganda surveillance )

How George Lucas influenced Star Wars: The Last Jedi

(tags: StarWars georgelucas )

Andrew Hickey reads Fire and Fury so you don't have to

(tags: usa politics OhForFucksSake review )

Why dolphins are deep thinkers (They work for fish - and then learn how to game the system)

(tags: dolphins Intelligence )

In contrast to Theresa May: here’s how Clement Attlee went about a sacking

(tags: politics jobs history )

The Subtle Misogyny in Anti-Goth Makeovers

(tags: goth fashion society patriarchy )

Some friends are on a cruise around the antarctic. Some of the photos are awesome.

(tags: antarctic photos )

This is my favourite 2016 election map

(tags: maps politics elections usa xkcd )

Designing consent for the GDPR is onerous - and that's a good thing

(tags: consent privacy web surveillance europe )

In 1936 a doctor injected King George V so his death would be in time for the morning papers

(tags: royalty uk death history )

Institutional racism is when changing your name from "Jasmeet" to "Millie" means you suddenly get job interviews...

(tags: names racism uk jobs )

Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor

(tags: games tools Technology )

Researchers have tested ways to reduce the collective blaming of Muslims for extremism

(tags: psychology islam terrorism )

Michael Barnier asks important questions about Brexit and what comes after

(tags: uk europe )

The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won

(tags: videos Technology patents GoodNews )

Comments

[luckylove]

The name change racism one really doesn't surprise me. I still get asked to spell my first name and there's always a look of surprise when they realise it's a fairly typical "white" name. And people still do double takes when it's me who stands up to them calling "white name" into a waiting room.

On JustEat, my new resolution is to use them as little as possible. I'll brave using the phone because I disapprove of their. "service charge". They're going to make even more money from it because it applies to all orders not just card ones.

I'm still loving the Antarctic photos one.

[skington]

The proper thing to do is e.g. anonymise names on CVs so people make at least the initial decision based purely on qualifications and expertise, not whether the name sounds like the sort of people you already work with. I don't know how widespread a practice this is yet.

[andrewducker]

Glad you like the photos. I'm envious (even if I don't like the cold much).