We have liftoff on Apollo 11! At 9:32 am on July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin launched atop a massive Saturn V rocket on their historic journey to the Moon: s.si.edu/3zbRq92

Saturn V rocket launching. The rocket has just began to move upward, with a small cloud of smoke and flame beginning to appear at the bottom.

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again to discuss Microsoft facing the wrath of Khan over its Activision buy. twit.tv/shows/tech-new The US appeal is on, which surprised many, but the UK appears to be dithering. And the FTC is looking a lot more muscular of late.

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The Microsoft Activision merger has taken another step forward in finally happening. However, the FTC has filed an appeal after losing its battle in court. Iain Thomson of The Regi…

Reminded by Google that it's been a year since my last UK journo pub session, an epic night that ended with Peter playing us out at closing time on the accordion.

An announcement on BART. "Please do not ride your scooter at full speed along the platform." But slow is OK? Also, looks like someone's in need of a reboot.

Or as Samuel Johnson put it "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

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Covid inquiry set to finally gain access to Johnson’s old mobile phone

Former PM’s allies say he has confirmed the pin number for the device using government records

So The Sun is getting outraged over the Huw Edwards 'scandal'. Maybe they might want to look through their own archives.

Ah, the conversation was somewhat salty. Another

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Kettle podcast is out.

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What is Elon Musk's xAI? We discuss in this Kettle podcast

With xAI, second time's the charm, eh, Elon?

This thread is wonderful. Nature finds a way. Birds are using anti-wildfowl spikes as nesting material and to repel predators. Bonus video of a very determined cockatoo demolishing a line of obstructions to its patch.

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But now the ultimate finding, as we discovered that there are birds who build their nest using anti-bird spikes!!

Today we published a paper describing this behaviour: the ultimate adaption to city life!

Did a fascinating interview on video game history archives and how we could lose a lot of key code. theregister.com/2023/07/11/cla Future historians would have a field day with the gaming data from the first generation of Homo Digitalis. The info shouldn't be lost to the DMCA.

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Almost all classic video games are 'critically endangered'

Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians

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