What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write about.
OK, only crypto? Not necessarily. We do that Monday to Friday, so we try to explore new subjects on weekends.
Feel free to join in and submit entries on Twitter. Any topic is fair game.
April 2
3 years ago
The latest BBC Tech Tent episode covering Axie Infinity’s $600M exploit featuring our Director of News, David Canellis. Expect our coverage of the event and its developments next week.
An investigation by Bellingcat, @the_ins_ru and #BBCEyeInvestigations has found that in the months before he was shot dead, Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was followed by members of the same FSB squad that tailed @navalny and other opposition figures https://t.co/ldHNlfjDGZ
Vladimir Putin, from his first years in office, was obsessed with the restoration of Russian might in the world, David Remnick writes. NATO’s expansion propelled his suspicion of the West and his inward turn.https://t.co/W4wISaiHuo
at this weekend's SailGP, the french team joined forces with swedish boatmakers candela to launch the competition's first electric hydrofoil chase boathttps://t.co/kJLz2KnDpWpic.twitter.com/ONIZMAeSqv
Chris Rock: Well, way back when I was 57, this unhinged man took the stage and hit me, and security didn’t do anything. He just kept yelling and I had to settle him down myself. And right after I got off stage, they gave that guy an award.
Nuclear power has never quite lived up to its promise, but governments committed to ambitious climate-change targets have been giving the technology a second glance https://t.co/tD3OofpWAG
In a new interview, Judd Apatow talks about making a project about the pandemic during the pandemic, the value of catastrophic thinking, and why the cracking of people’s façades is always funny. https://t.co/RdsmYYLkpT
From our Summer '21 issue: Chris Rock is not interested in any lifetime achievement award offers. “I get these offers and I always turn them down,” he says. “I’m always like, you can’t be in the Hall of Fame and play at the same time.” https://t.co/Zq3ri7l2jG
“Cut the LARP, cut the war adventurism, cut the fear of missing out crap,” one user wrote. “War is hell. Don’t rush over there right now.” https://t.co/x0h08RSA7g
Machine learning has catapulted astrophysics research forward. “As a community, we have been dealing with super-hard problems for many, many years,” an astrophysicist said. “These problems are getting solved with machine learning.”https://t.co/DlXCgLLI69
Gas giants are called giants for a reason. This photo shows just a sliver of Saturn's size compared to the moon Dione. Notice how thin Saturn’s rings are when seen edge-on—and if you peek toward the bottom, you'll see a shadow cast by the rings onto the atmosphere.
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