Some Onions Were Too Sexy For Facebook

An error in Facebook’s automated system rejected a user’s picture of onions for being “overtly sexual.” The BBC reports: The Seed Company by EW Gaze, in St John’s, Newfoundland, had wanted to post a seemingly innocent advert for Walla Walla onion seeds on Facebook. But to their surprise, it was rejected for being “overtly sexual.” In a statement on Wednesday, the…

Cloudflare Launches Workers Unbound, the Next Evolution of Its Serverless Platform

Cloudflare today announced the private beta launch of Workers Unbound, the latest step in its efforts to offer a serverless platform that can compete with the likes of AWS Lambda. TechCrunch reports: The company first launched its Workers edge computing platform in late 2017. Today it has “hundreds of thousands of developers” who use it, and in the last quarter alone,…

Forbes Raves Upcoming Linux Desktop Will ‘Embarass’ Windows 10 and macOS

Forbes senior contributor Jason Evangelho dedicated a whole article to a coming update for one Chinese-domestic Linux distribution: If you haven’t been paying attention to a little Linux desktop distribution called Deepin, it’s time to put it on your radar. Nevermind that Huawei chose Deepin to ship on their MateBook laptop lineup. Nevermind that Deepin Cloud Sync [for system settings] is…

See Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula

The Lagoon – aka M8 – is the largest and brightest nebula, or cloud in space, in the vicinity of the Teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/the-lagoon-nebula-messier-8…