Here is the full length documentary “The thinking game”. It tells the story of AI development and Demis Hassabis. If you played Theme Park or Black and white, you know about him without knowing it.
Solving how proteins fold is an under-appreciated breakthrough. The story about how it was done and how it was gifted to the world is even less appreciated.
Here is a way to make mp3 out of news articles. It allows me to reduce browsing time and listen to news while I do something else, such as being in the lab. This looks like a lot, but once you get the hang of it, it is very fast.
Open the news articles of interest. It there are many command-click to open them in separate tabs.
Simplify formatting and get rid of commercials by entering reader mode Cmd-Shift-R.
Here is a site where you give your email and it checks whether it has been obtained by a data breach in some company. You can then go to that service and change your password.
Hopefully the service itself is not a way to get your email…
Have you heard of the argument that you have nothing to hide so big corporations might as well use your internet browsing history and track your activity online?
Log in to Google on your browser and have a look at who Google thinks you are, by logging into their adssetings page, which is supposed to help change what ads are shown to you.
If you dare.
If you like reading on paper, or find proof-reading working better on paper, or like the idea of making booklets that kind of stay together without binding as a consequence of them being folded, you will enjoy Cheap Impostor.
Cheap Impostor is a mac program that allows to print in half the size of A4, and lays out the pages so they fit in booklet created by folding the printed pages in two.
It also makes printing cards easy.
If you have an international lifestyle and often transfer money between currencies, you will be interested to know about Transferwise.
It is a company that allows to transfer money with the standard exchange rate, instead of the cheating one that banks use. They still make money by retaining a commission, but it works out much cheaper than a bank. It was started by the founder of another innovative company you may have heard of, Skype.
The way it works is that they never make a conversion, they keep multiple currencies from their users and transfer money between currencies when they have both available. It is still fast and well communicated.