Miles and miles of nothing
Aerial footage captures the scale of the devastation in the Santa Rosa suburb of Coffey Park, where the October wildfires burned down more than 1,500 homes.
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Why hold music sounds so bad on phones today.
An explanation of why hold music sounds so bad on phones today: Multiple layers of compression are trying to squeeze a symphony through a connection optimized for voice.
Taking digital justice into their own hands in Detroit.
Forty percent of Detroit's population has no internet access. These activists took digital justice into their own hands, hacking up a wireless connection to the tallest building in three poorer neighborhoods.
Eat your dinner guests.
ISIS has yet to claim responsibility for the attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt that killed 305. 1/17 TIME says it didn’t offer “Man of the Year” to Mr. Trump, as Mr. Trump claims. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is worth over $100 billion, thanks to Black Friday. 2/
Introducing the self-driving wheelchair.
An exciting application of autonomous vehicle technology: self-driving wheelchairs (for the many who require assistance to use their power wheelchairs). From an opinion piece in WIRED: For those of us with mobility challenges, a wheelchair is our car. It may travel slower, using pathways other than the open road,
Halfway between Blue Monday and Black Friday.
Your Headlines newsletter will be off for the next two days, and will return on Saturday, stuffed with dressing and deeply discounted smart TVs. After Zimbabwe's government had already begun the impeachment process, Robert Mugabe announced he would resign as president, ending 37 years of rule. 1/20
There’s probably a moral here.
Putin hugs Assad during a rare meeting at a resort on the Black Sea. He promised to call Trump to let him know how it went. 1/16 Justice Department takes “a surprisingly tough stance” in its attempt to stop AT&T Inc.’s takeover of Time Warner Inc.
Sandals with socks and your special touch.
This one's for the pop-culture buffs: famed photographer Martin Parr demonstrates that he's an adult who enjoys coloring books, especially his own.
The 2018 Tournament of Books Long List
Here they are: our favorite, Rooster-worthy novels from 2017. A few weeks from now we'll narrow these down to our final list for the 2018 Tournament of Books presented by Field Notes.
This week has taken its toll on me.
US-led airstrikes in Iraq have killed many more civilians than we hear about—31 times more, in fact. Here’s the story of one man who found out why his family was targeted. 1/16 Cards Against Humanity buys land on the US-Mexico border, hoping to thwart Mr.