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This Might Be The Best US Government Instagram Account Of All
This week, I did a round-up of some of the best US government Instagram accounts, but as several readers pointed out, I neglected to mention one very special Insta-goldmine: The TSA. We covered this treasure trove in its early days, but it’s such a gem we thought you deserved a reminder.
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Streaming No More: Project Free TV Shuts Down
Streaming video index site Project Free TV appears to have fallen off the internet. As of yesterday, visiting the domain now presents you with a single, lonely word: “Goodbye.”
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Broadway Shows Suffer Total Phone Etiquette Meltdown
This week, the theatre world and social media exploded over a man who jumped on stage at Hand to God in order to plug his charger into a (fake) on-set outlet. Then queen diva Patti LuPone snatched a phone straight out of a texting audience member’s hand and sauntered off with it. What the hell…
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Engineers Just Broke The Capacity Limit For Fibre Optic Transmission
So, that Internet apocalypse that’s going to befall us when the our fibre optic cables max out? Maybe not so much. On Thursday, engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fibre optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs.