Welcome to this week ’s variation of Reading List , Gizmodo ’s hebdomadal aggregation of the net ’s good technical school stories . This week , we explore hackathon culture , glimpse the final 24-hour interval of World War Two , and weigh the encroachment of technology on music .
Hackathons are a big part of the technical school inauguration world , and they have a strange polish all their own . It ’s more about connecting and competing than starting actual company or even do tangible money . [ The Atlantic ]
Someone just spent $ 55,000 to buy a telegram containing the final exchange between Hitler and his 2d in bidding as Nazi Germany collapsed , but before that , the document was almost lost to chronicle . [ Washington Post ]
euphony streaming service may change our music listening habits — they drive listeners toward what ’s pop , and they all but dismiss Hellenic music , for instance — but they ’re just the latest in a long serial of technologies that impact how we feel euphony . [ The New Yorker ]
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