Our weekly roundup of what’s hot and not on this here Internet. See last week’s here.
ONE: Motherboard’s new look
Bear with us during the migration process.
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ONE: Why manufacturing is returning to the US
The new trend? Insourcing.
ZERO: Microsoft’s new campaign to make Google look bad
Have you been Scroogled?
ONE: A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer contemplate “extinction-level” risks to our species
ZERO: The new chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is a climate change skeptic
SOPA supporter Lamar Smith fills out a House committee of all white men. What happened to the binders full of women?
ONE: The digitalization of the largest retailer in the world
Walmart has Amazon in its sights. They certainly have the leverage: 96 percent of Americans live within 20 miles of a store.
ONE: President Obama nominates first gay Latina judge to U.S. District Court
If confirmed, Judge Quiñones Alejandro would become the first openly gay Hispanic woman to serve on the federal bench.
ZERO: The UN wants to take over the Internet
“Letting the Internet be rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla,” writes Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz.
ONE: Bill Nye’s Kickstarter
He wants to make an iPad game that teaches kids about aerodynamics.
ZERO: Syria disconnected their Internet
ONE: The Large Hadron Collider may be creating new types of matter
Collisions between protons and lead ions may have produced a new type of matter known as color-glass condensate.
ONE: We found the biggest black hole ever
It makes up 14 percent of its galaxy’s mass with an event horizon that’s 4 light-days across
