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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, right up until the moment it breaks down and leaks oil on the floor.
  
  Similarly, much of what we know about the mechanisms of consciousness come from its failure modes, such as the case of a man who can read letters but not numbers.  (Science Magazine)
  
  He could still read and write, and still perform arithmetic, but numerals other than 0 and 1 were invisible to him.  If you put an image within the space of the numeral 8 - a picture of a face, for example - that image also became invisible, even though it was perfectly recognisable in any other context.
  
  
  
• The Dragon is returning to Earth.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Fly safely, guys.  It's been a busy week up there with no less than three Mars missions sent on their way.
  
  
  
• Bootstrap Icons is a set of common icons for Bootstrap.  (GitHub)
  
  Makes sense; you don't need to use Font Awesome or some other third-party, possibly non-free icon set.  It's only provided as a collection of individual icons and not a convenient font, but it's MIT licensed so if you want to convert it you're free to do so.
  
  
  
• A Tesla engineer has reinvented the chocolate chip.  (New York Post)
  
  
  
• Google has started testing a replacement for third-party cookies.  (Engadget)