Back when I was in college, IBM had this thing Robocode (https://robocode.sourceforge.io). It was a little video game with fighting robots. There was a pretty simple Java API to control them and you were supposed to write code to control it and fight others.

This is the 2018 version, and it looks amazing.

Palestine humanrights
Sadly, this headline could have been written at any time in the last 40 years and it would have been accurate.

Using a file compression algorithm as a metric of repetitiveness is genius.

The A12X chip in the new iPad Pro is by far its most impressive feature. But the only thing I can think of is: Imagine is they start putting these in tiny MacBook laptops.

Words first used in my year of birth.

So who’s lying (or got it wrong?) Bloomberg or The rest of the world?

politics
The world is headed in a very worrisome direction. The rise of the nationalist authoritarians is happening right in front of our noses.

scooter bird startup
I wonder how long it will take for the scooters to be stolen and/or disassembled to be sold as parts.

Hopefully I’m wrong.

This is extremely cool.

politics

I was under the wrong impression that it came from Civil War soldiers carrying signs for "zero killed."

This is the demo used by Apple during the introduction of the new iPhones to show off the new CPU. I thought it was very impressive, and also the first time I see AR as something other than a gimmick.

Terrifying,

What a disaster this man is for Great Britain

Presentation for new logo for Austin F.C.
So now we have a name and a logo. Maybe this will happen.

It's happening!

Online comic strips about the inner workings of the US government.

List of top websites in the world that still don't use secure connections. Maybe if you shame them, they will fix it?

Collection of iOS wallpapers, going back quite a bit.