Google may be the first US tech company to move UK data outside of the EU, but it will not be the last. newstatesman.com/science-tech/p…

Rod Nicholls Namaste, there is your unroll: Thread by Carl T. Bergstrom: 1. A very short thread on the power of data graphics and scientific communication. Roughly a… threadreaderapp.com/thread/1235865…. Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

How appropriate! Well done #OFC20

Time to switch off your phone ? ... UK to use mobile data to track people’s whereabouts during coronavirus crisis | E&T Magazine eandt.theiet.org/content/articl…

The “inverted dot com crash” will leave no industry immune - dot com companies come to the rescue in a lockdown, but the market is still crashing. lightcounting.com/light-trends/t…

Not muting your mic is the new reply all

12.9” iPad Pro 2020 Teardown: What does the LiDAR scanner look like? Spoiler: not as much resolution as FaceID but still cool. youtu.be/xz6CExnGw9w via YouTube

And here’s the result: time series of mobility according to Google data. As I understand it their methodology isn’t entirely clear, but this suggests wide variation in countries’ levels of ‘lockdown’… ft.com/content/3a6541…

Brilliant. 👏

Why are Britain's banks and officials blaming EU State Aid rules for impeding Britain's economic response to #COVID19, and what does it tell you about the way this country works? A short thread, based on my The Times and Sunday Times column this morning thetimes.co.uk/article/28d45b…

So here's the single biggest reason they'd not spin Amazon Web Services off: Before expenses, Amazon had operating income of $3.989 billion. $3.075 billion of that came from AWS. After expenses, their operating income is $2.535 billion. "Cloud company with a gift shop" indeed.

Sweden tames its ‘R number’ without lockdown | The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/sweden…

Keep democracy alive in the UK ... Oppose the shutting down of the online Parliament. Please sign & RT this petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep… via 38 Degrees

'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts | Politics | The Guardian. 🤷‍♀️ theguardian.com/science/2020/j…

You're going to ruin someone's Christmas @Hermesparcels ! 😡😥 Parcel tracking details appear completely fictitious with fake updates timestamped 3pm being uploaded a before 9am, no delivery attempts for 3 days, impossible to connect anyone. Bunch of thieves!!!

Huge fir tree blown down on Fosse Way in Stow-on-the-Wold (Sheep St junction) missing cars and historic Wraggs Row by a couple of metres. #Cotswolds #Gloucestershire #Eunice #Storm #StormEunice

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Ah, surprised people missed this excellent photo.

Rishi Sunk has said that this year's public sector pay awards have been agreed in full but with no new or additional funding to cover them. There is literally no economic sense in this whatsoever. A short thread...