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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: In a new first for the company, Amazon will begin blocking sideloaded apps on Fire TV devices that are determined to provide access to pirated content, according to The Sun. While Amazon has a long history of blacklisting apps, it has previously done so only to stop users from bypassing its Fire TV home screen with custom launchers or to prevent malicious apps. This new app blocking marks the first time Amazon has actively restricted Fire TV users from accessing pirated content, primarily to aid copyright…

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: It’s fair to say that few of us now mar­vel at mov­ing walk­ways, those stan­dard infra­struc­tur­al ele­ments of such util­i­tar­i­an spaces as air­port ter­mi­nals, sub­way sta­tions, and big-box stores. But there was a time when they astound­ed even res­i­dents of one of the most cos­mopoli­tan cities in the world. The inno­va­tion of the mov­ing side­walk demon­strat­ed at the Paris Expo­si­tion of 1900 (pre­vi­ous­ly seen here on Open Cul­ture when we fea­tured Lumière Broth­ers footage of that peri­od) com­mand­ed even Thomas Edis­on’s atten­tion. As Pale­o­fu­ture’s Matt Novak…