Two long-time Android apps that I used to use a lot bit the dust recently: Hipmunk, the airfare aggregator is just dead. Tapingo, the skip-the-line-order-ahead app for campus dining, has been subsumed into the Borg that is Grubhub. (Weirdly, most people around here pronounced it “tap-ingo” while I perhaps wrongly said “tap-n-go”. Guess that’s totally academic now.)
Coincidence? Or have we reached a new stage in the lifecycle of even established apps?
Apparently, the earthquake between Jamaica and Cuba this afternoon was so strong (7.7!) it shook up parts of Miami. Various tall buildings downtown were evacuated as a safety precaution.
I didn’t feel a thing in my third-floor office in Coral Gables.
Graphical Real-Time Map of Confirmed Cases of Coronavirus: Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases (by JHU CSSE)
Above as of Jan 27, 2020 9 am EST. The map is real-time in the sense that it’s updated when new info is provided by authorities. It can also be adjusted to show any country or city, and a timeline and scale of contagion.
Heard from my office – no idea who the speakers were.
Voice1: “This printer must be Jamaican.”
Voice2: “What?”
Voice1: “It’s always jammin!”
Certainly offers a whole new world of meanings to rasterizing…
A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms (NY Times). We predicted this, and lots more where it came from.
Admittedly, it was pretty obvious.
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