Curated Commons // Edition 58
Thank you for subscribing and welcome to the 58th edition of Curated Commons. Let’s dive right in ($ indicates potential paywall).
AI agrees, Curated Commons is good!
The AI to solve your moral quandaries is here - Read here
A social network that will kick you out for talking about it
Interesting read on an ultra-secretive social network that’s super long on privacy. - Read here ($)
Big oil is responsible for my generation’s…low IQ
Now I know who to blame!
VR, but for treating ‘lazy eye’ in children
This is a really good application of VR, and now approved by the FDA. - Read here.
Hacking the hackers
Several governments together have taken on the ransomware gang REvil and pushed it offline. Hopefully for good, but unlikely. - Read here
And talking of ransomware, apparently one of them is masquerading as a real company to recruit tech talent! - Read here ($)
Big pharma habits are infectious
“Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it” - Read here
Scale in China is wild!
Vinyl records sell more than CDs in the US
In the first six months of this year, 17 million vinyl records were sold in the United States, generating $467 million in retail revenue, nearly double the amount from the same period in 2020, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Sixteen million CDs were also sold in the first half of 2021, worth just $205 million. - Read here ($)
What is your procrastination style?
I like the self-care one ;-) - Read here ($)
No such thing as effective monitoring that truly works
Schools are relying on a monitoring software. The software, in its infinite wisdom, is apparently reporting students to the police, and in one case outed a student to their parents without first talking to the student! - Read here
Today, in 2021 things
Printing companies suck!
Canon USA is being sued for disabling the scan or fax features if the printer runs out of ink! - Read here
Reminded me of this brilliant video!
More interesting reads:
Wikileaks has a successor - Read here
Interesting thread on the newly-announced Worldcoin and security parallels with India’s Aadhaar system - Read here
Apparently, ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants - Read here
The lengths that India’s healthcare community went to get the first billion vaccine doses into arms - Read here
Researchers have successfully tested a pig kidney transplant in a human - Read here
SPAC not for all. Interesting read on a deep sea mining startup that went public, but is now left with a $200 Mn hole as one of the investors failed to deliver on the funds - Read here ($)
Amazon’s biggest warehouse has a 10:1 robot to human ratio - Read here
A startup that administers psychedelic drugs is here - Read here
Good read on women in the private space industry - Read here
New Zealand apparently, till a few weeks ago, had an official wizard - Read here
Fascinatingly scary read - The ship that became a bomb - Read here ($)
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