1. Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
On at least two occasions, we thought knew: American, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, and Aussie, Craig Wright (the same guy who is making the claim now). But those accounts were later discounted. Now, according to recent reporting from the Economist, GQ and the BBC, it would appear that Satoshi Nakamoto is in fact Craig Wright. But is he really...there still is skepticism. This story is the tech equivalent of Elvis and Jim Morrisson are still alive.
+ How do you convince someone you are really the Bitcoin creator? According to Wired, It might be as simple as, "Show me the money."
2. The Biggest Loser
This New York Times article is downright depressing. "After 'The Biggest Loser,' Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight."
"It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes."
"What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants’ metabolisms did not recover. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight."
3. What happened when Radiohead tried to erase itself from the Internet?
Nothing.
"Let’s take the four things Radiohead “erased”: its tweets, its Facebook posts, a Google+ profile, a website. Those things haven’t disappeared, they’ve merely dispersed. Radiohead.com, as it appeared Saturday, is still available on the Wayback Machine (and, one imagines, any number of other archiving sites). The band’s tweets still exist on some server at the Library of Congress and in the feeds of every user who has ever manually RTed them. And Facebook permanently erases user data such as photos and status updates only when you delete your account, which Radiohead hasn’t done. Even then, the site holds onto things other people have posted about you, and it doesn’t require third-party apps to delete your past data."
4. How Android Gets to 100% Market Share
5. End of One Era, Beginning of Another
Who's up for a trip to Havana? I'm in.
"The first cruise ship in nearly 40 years to sail across the Florida Straits from Miami to Havana docked in the Cuban capital on Monday, cutting a 90-mile ribbon of water that for years was a symbol of the political gulf between the two countries."
On at least two occasions, we thought knew: American, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, and Aussie, Craig Wright (the same guy who is making the claim now). But those accounts were later discounted. Now, according to recent reporting from the Economist, GQ and the BBC, it would appear that Satoshi Nakamoto is in fact Craig Wright. But is he really...there still is skepticism. This story is the tech equivalent of Elvis and Jim Morrisson are still alive.
+ How do you convince someone you are really the Bitcoin creator? According to Wired, It might be as simple as, "Show me the money."
2. The Biggest Loser
This New York Times article is downright depressing. "After 'The Biggest Loser,' Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight."
"It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes."
"What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants’ metabolisms did not recover. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight."
3. What happened when Radiohead tried to erase itself from the Internet?
Nothing.
"Let’s take the four things Radiohead “erased”: its tweets, its Facebook posts, a Google+ profile, a website. Those things haven’t disappeared, they’ve merely dispersed. Radiohead.com, as it appeared Saturday, is still available on the Wayback Machine (and, one imagines, any number of other archiving sites). The band’s tweets still exist on some server at the Library of Congress and in the feeds of every user who has ever manually RTed them. And Facebook permanently erases user data such as photos and status updates only when you delete your account, which Radiohead hasn’t done. Even then, the site holds onto things other people have posted about you, and it doesn’t require third-party apps to delete your past data."
4. How Android Gets to 100% Market Share
5. End of One Era, Beginning of Another
Who's up for a trip to Havana? I'm in.
"The first cruise ship in nearly 40 years to sail across the Florida Straits from Miami to Havana docked in the Cuban capital on Monday, cutting a 90-mile ribbon of water that for years was a symbol of the political gulf between the two countries."
