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This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing

Mar12
by on March 12, 2019 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


I used to get so damn excited about apps. I spent hours downloading ridiculous flashlights and mind readers and guessing games, but then, I plateaued. Little blew me away. Thankfully, something amazing has arrived on the scene: Music Meetup. Reported on by supchina, it’s an app that connects six strangers to sing a song. It works like this: people log onto the app and hear a user-sung clip of a big tune. After that, they have to sing the succeeding verse. An AI then rates the quality of this warbling, giving the individual a thumbs-up or thumbs-down depending on their…

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If May’s Brexit deal passes tonight, she’ll have 21 months to build a tech-powered Irish border

Mar12
by on March 12, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK


The Irish backstop is the biggest obstacle preventing Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement from squeaking through parliament. This legal instrument means that, should the UK fail to secure a deal that would permit an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the former would remain in the European Union’s (EU) customs area and large parts of the single market. This is unpalatable for the hard Eurosceptics in the Conservative party, who want to see the UK make a clean break from the EU. It’s also opposed by the Northern Irish Unionist party currently propping up Theresa May’s…

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4 cryptocurrency Twitter takes you really need to read

Mar12
by on March 12, 2019 at 11:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Twitter is where the hottest of cryptocurrency and blockchain takes live and die. It’s where founders fling shit at one another over seemingly arbitrary disagreements, and it’s where the most flamboyant of pundits flex their wit. So, let’s recap some of the most important and interesting Twitter threads from the past weekend, you know, for knowledge. 1. We need to be realistic about how painful forking is Instead of calling a fork a “scheduled protocol upgrade” I’d love for developers to acknowledge reality and call it “risky and painful process of everyone updating their nodes at once and we’re not sure if…

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