You might have heard of blockchain technology ⊕Just kidding. I can’t imagine anyone reading this hasn’t heard of blockchain. Just in case, here’s one layman’s introduction that Forbes Magazing published.

And the CPU bug revelations continue to be found: a fourth variation of the Meltdown-Spectre security flaws has been reveal, and is referred to as speculative store bypass.

Ah, the third rail of the academy: space.

I ran across an ambitiously titled article in the Atlantic, “The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete (Here’s what’s next)”. The title felt a bit like click-bait, but as an academic, that kind of bold pronouncement is hard to resist.

Back on April 24, I challenged myself to blog at least once per day. I kept to it for 3 weeks, but in the end the time investment got to be too much. A few of my friends and colleagues asked how it’s possible to do this; they’d tried and failed (like I had in the past) to blog regularly. Some said they couldn’t find the time, others said they couldn’t find something to write about every day.

⊕And by “ran across” I mean a friend sent it to me. I hadn’t heard of HODINKEE, but it describes itself as “a robust online magazine featuring in-depth reviews, critiques, and reports on watches of a particularly high quality.” I have an affection for mechanical watches, so I’m surprised I hadn’t noticed this before. I ran across an article in Hodinkee featuing an interview with Jony Ive on Apple, watches and design.

I’m in Chicago for work, and a group of us went to see Hamilton last night.

It’s exciting to see us cross another threshold on the way to pervasive Web-based AR/VR: last week at Google IO, Google released an experimental version of WebXR in Chrome.

In a post earlier this week I outlined some concerns I had about Google’s Cloud Anchors, specifically about what kind of data they were collecting, and what they were doing with it.

I’m a big fan of the EU’s strict electronic privacy laws, and while I haven’t read the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in detail, it’s good that at least one of the major political entities in the world is trying to codify strong protections for the rights and dignity of individuals.

⊕For those who don’t play the game, Mercy is the main healer in Overwatch, and in the backstory, she was a gifted doctor and scientist. I’m pretty happy to see the positive reception that Blizzard is getting for running a charity event to raise money for breast cancer.

How did I miss knowing about wireless debugging on iOS? You can build, depoly and debug on iOS and AppleTV without a cable! ⊕Keeping the phone charged was another reason to plug in, but with wireless charging, I just have to remember to put the phone down on the charging pad. Easy-peasy! That’s great, especially for folks like me who are doing AR development, where being tethered by a cable is a pain in the butt.

It’s looking like ARCloud news is going to be coming faster and faster. ⊕Funny story. Someone at <big name company> told me a story where they asked one of these ARCloud companies how they planned to comply with GDPR. Their response: what’s GDPR? Fantasmo just came out of stealth mode, and at least they (unlike many of the other ARCloud companies) are acknowledging that there is a need to not just crowd-source everything into one big model.