The Morning News

“It cannot be that in Germany there is any kind of anti-Semitism—not in schools, not in public, not at work, not in politics, nowhere. This cannot be happening. Germany has to live up to its special responsibility.”

Thousands of Germans don yarmulkes and march in several cities to protest an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin.

↩︎ The Associated Press

11h

Hackers demonstrate the "master key" they built for millions of electronically-locked hotel rooms.

↩︎ ZDNet 11h

Amazon's new Alexa device is designed to get your kids shopping early. It can also require using the word "please."

↩︎ Recode 12h

“One of the ways you protect yourself is by doing your job and being extra bulletproof. So if under Obama or under George W. Bush you would triple-check your work, now maybe you quadruple-check it because you don’t want to give them any excuse to call you ‘fake news.’”

The White House press corps has never had it so bad and so good at the same time.

↩︎ Variety

14h

Student activists trying to ignite #MeToo in China turn to blockchain to fight government censorship.

↩︎ Bloomberg 14h

A new series by photographer Sayuri Ichida, in which she asks a professional ballerina to try being less beautiful.

↩︎ Booooooom 17h

A study finds that most people are terrible judges of their own physical appearance.

↩︎ Nautilus 17h

A woman wears a "Power Vest" to the office for a week in order to understand life as a tech/finance/sales bro.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 17h

What's wrong with the intellectual left: conformity, regligious ignorance, and a willful dumbness about the right.

↩︎ Bloomberg 17h

We were putting in heating systems and putting in kitchens and bathrooms... When it was time to go back on tour, I just closed up for about three weeks and [would] come back and go to work again for two or three months sometimes.

Composer Philip Glass worked part-time as a plumber and a cab driver into his early forties.

↩︎ The Atlantic

17h

A Tijuana man crossed the border daily to study aerospace engineering. Now he works at NASA.

↩︎ The San Diego Union Tribune 17h

Trump called for hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents. Many of those likely to apply are Latinos.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times 17h

America gets a new memorial this week: a powerful monument to confront its wretched history of lynching.

↩︎ Curbed 18h

Police have recovered a solid gold casket containing the heart of French queen Anne of Brittany.

↩︎ BBC News 18h

Inside Prop Heaven, where Hollywood rents its fake breads, ducks, deli platters, and so on.

↩︎ Eater 18h

China has bought or invested in European assets amounting to at least $318 billion over the past 10 years.

↩︎ Bloomberg 18h

The Bajau, from the Malay Archipelago, spend 60% of their work day underwater—and they've got the DNA to prove it.

↩︎ The Atlantic 18h

Mosquitoes kill more people in a single day than sharks do in a century.

↩︎ gates notes 18h

I'd go so far as to claim that what's today called surveillance capitalism has been with us in one form or another for the last 200 years and is the funding mechanism for a free press in a free society.

An argument for “the digital self” as the single most valuable long-term commodity of the 21st century.

↩︎ Inc.

18h

Many women frequently wear men's fashion. Why don't most men occasionally throw on a dress?

↩︎ Racked 18h