Top Tech & Science News Weekly (Week 1)
Tags: webdev, news, programming, opensource
Published: 2021-12-12 00:19:55

This is the first weekly list of top content collected from [hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/) and other sources about tech, science, privacy, and other interesting news.

## TECH

[Tailwind 3.0 released with big changes.](tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v3)

[Blender 3.0 released](https://news.itsfoss.com/blender-3-0-release/)

[Is Web3 anything?](https://www.chris-granger.com/2021/12/09/is-web3-anything/)

[Great review on Bash use and shortcuts.](https://www.blockloop.io/mastering-bash-and-terminal/)

[Intresting. El Salvador president makes Bitcoin the official currency along with US dollar.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/06/bitcoin-city-el-salvador-nayib-bukele/)

[Russia blocks Tor and other related restrictions.](https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-ratchets-up-internet-crackdown-with-block-privacy-service-tor-2021-12-08/
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[What an AWS outage would mean for the world and should AWS be relied on?](https://qz.com/2099940/the-aws-outage-shows-the-internet-relies-too-much-on-amazon/)

[Modernize Wikipedia UX browser extension.](https://www.modernwiki.app/)

[EU pushing open source software for security and best interest of the public.](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6649)

## PRIVACY

[Chrome’s new Manifest V3 restricts extension capabilities and weakens privacy functionality of extensions.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening)

[Apple’s new do not track button. Does Apple really protect your privacy?](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211209/06403948085/increasingly-obvious-apples-do-not-track-button-is-privacy-theater.shtml)

[Is discord spyware?](https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html)

## SCIENCE

[New study claims that crows are self-aware and the article outlines why this is and it has to do with the density and size of neurons in the crows.](bigthink.com/neuropsych/crows-higher-intelligence/)

[BBC Gears discovered in ancient Greek device that calculates the cosmos.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqlJ50zDgeA)

[New eye drops can apparently temperately fix blurred vision for some by dilating pupils](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vuity-eye-drops-fda-approved-blurred-vision-presbyopia/#app)

[Study finds a group of neurons responsible for encoding and interpreting memories. Possible location for causing schizophrenia or psychosis in misinterpreting memories as reality.](https://neurosciencenews.com/human-memory-formation-19757/)

[Personality altering parasite found in cats may effect up to 80% of humans.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/)

[Slow wave sleep found to improve memory recall](https://www.livescience.com/little-known-sleep-stage-may-be-creative-sweet-spot)

## OTHER

[Why facts don’t change minds](https://jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds)

[Genius idea to remove YouTube recommendations with ad blocker.](https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol)

[Discussion. What could it be like 100 years from now?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29515353)

[Someone make a no-code site that makes apps.](https://simitless.com/en/)

Comments welcome. What articles do you think should have been mentioned this week or that you found intresting? What do you think about any of the listed articles?