Week of 2016/09/18

[NyTimes]

• "U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars" [nytimes]
• "Can Tesla's Autopilot Be Trusted? Not Always" [nytimes]
• "How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers?" [nytimes]
• "Apple Opens the iMessage Door, and the Ephemera Rushes In" [nytimes]
• "'Trust Your Gut' Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says" [nytimes]
• "What I Learned From Executing Two Men" [nytimes]
• "Adblock Plus, Created to Protect Users From Ads, Opens the Door" [nytimes]

[Links]

• GoPro takes to the sky with new Karma Drone, gimbal, and Hero 5 & Hero 5 Session Cameras [link]
• How to build a robot that "sees" with $100 and TensorFlow [link]
• Flywheel's phone-based taxi meter arrives in NYC [link]
• When Blind People Do Algebra, The Brain's Visual Areas Light Up [link]

Week of 2016/09/11

[NyTimes]

• "How Did G.M. Create Tesla's Dream Car First?" [nytimes]
• "Our Reporter Goes for a Spin in a Self-Driving Uber Car" [nytimes]
• "Russian Hackers Leak U.S. Star Athletes’ Medical Information" [nytimes]
• "The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet" [nytimes]
• "No Driver? Bring It On. How Pittsburgh Became Uber's Testing Ground" [nytimes]
• "Magnets for Drinkers and Porn Watchers, Wi-Fi Kiosks Will Lose Internet Browsers" [nytimes]

[Links]

• A little S.F. personal injury case threatens 'most important law' on the Internet [link]
• Apple Just Launched a Radically Futuristic New Device. It Isn’t an iPhone. [link]
• Leica Sofort Instant Camera [link]

Week of 2016/08/21

[NyTimes]

• "Quake Exposes Italy's Challenge to Retrofit Its Architecture" [nytimes]
• "A Cheaper Airbag, and Takata's Road to a Deadly Crisis" [nytimes]
• "Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp to Share Some Data With Facebook" [nytimes]
• "Apple Software Vulnerability Is Linked to Intrusions" [nytimes]
• "One Star Over, There Might be Another Earth" [nytimes]
• "Cycling Matches the Pace and Pitches of Tech" [nytimes]
• "Taking a Stand at Standing Rock" [nytimes]
• "Why'd You Do That? How The Times Decides to Send News Alerts" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016 [link]
• How Startup Options (and Ownership) Works - Andreessen Horowitz [link]

Week of 2016/08/14

[NyTimes]

• "In the U.S., VW Owners Get Cash. In Europe, They Get Plastic Tubes." [nytimes]
• "A Charming Alternative Universe of You, Your Friends and No News" [nytimes]
• "What a Nice Vacation You're Having" [nytimes]
• "Glamping Adds a Touch of Luxe to the National Parks" [nytimes]
• "On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany" [nytimes]
• "Social Security Retreats From Cellphone-Based Online Security" [nytimes]
• "Matt and Ross Duffer Discuss 'Stranger Things,' a Nightmare on '80s Street" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Uber's first self-driving cars will start picking up passengers this month [link]
• How most of them work and spread? [link]
• SpaceX succesfully launches another satellite, brings home another rocket [link]

Week of 2016/08/07

[NyTimes]

• "Why It's Not Enough Just to Be Disruptive" [nytimes]
• "London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones" [nytimes]
• "Report Envisions Bitcoin's Technology at the Heart of Global Finance" [nytimes]
• "Arianna Huffington Steps Down as Huffington Post Editor in Chief" [nytimes]
• "Meet the Greenland Shark. It Could Be the Longest-Living Vertebrate." [nytimes]
• "Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans" [nytimes]
• "The Science of Humming to Draw Snails From Their Shells" [nytimes]
• "Growing Comb Jellies in the Lab Like Sea-Monkeys" [nytimes]

[Links]

• ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices [link]
• I Just Drove 8 Hours on Tesla Autopilot and Lived to Tell The Tale [link]
• An Emergency Network built on .. Land Cruisers? [link]
• Oh Good: A New Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens [link]
• A Denver Suburb Bets Big on Free Lyft Rides to Light Rail [link]

Week of 2016/07/31

[NyTimes]

• "Yahoo and the Online Universe According to Verizon" [nytimes]
• "Uber and Rival Didi Chuxing to Combine in China" [nytimes]
• "Seattle, With Its Needle, Is Turning Into a Space Center" [nytimes]
• "California Company Gets Approval to Put Robotic Lander on Moon" [nytimes]
• "Tesla Faults Brakes, but Not Autopilot, in Fatal Crash" [nytimes]
• "Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer" [nytimes]
• "Study Finds Chinese Students Excel in Critical Thinking. Until College." [nytimes]
• "Seymour Papert, 88, Dies; Saw Education's Future in Computers" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Hey Siri [link]
• Forget Tornadoes. Rain Bombs Are Coming for Your Town [link]
• Theranos Had a Chance to Clear Its Name. Instead, It Tried to Pivot [link]

Week of 2016/07/24

[NyTimes]

• "Clinton Campaign Computers Are Said to Be Hacked, Apparently by Russians" [nytimes]
• "'Dictator Trump': Clinton’s Portrayal Aims at the Left and Right" [nytimes]
• "Tesla Faults Brakes, but Not Autopilot, in Fatal Crash" [nytimes]
• "F.C.C. Backs Swedish Company to Run American Phone Routing System" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Flying Aquila: Early lessons from the first full-scale test flight and the path ahead [link]
• Master Plan, Part Deux [link]
• Serverless computing on DC/OS with Galactic Fog [link]

Week of 2016/07/10

[NyTimes]

• "Unity Technologies, Maker of Pokemon Go Engine, Swells in Value" [nytimes]
• "After 300 Years of Collecting, Nearly 12,000 Amazon Tree Species Found" [nytimes]
• "How Private Equity Found Power and Profit in State Capitols" [nytimes]
• "Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Either You Manage Me or I Manage You" [nytimes]
• "Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal" [nytimes]
• "A Start-Up Shies Away From the Gig Economy" [nytimes]
• "Live Streaming Breaks Through, and Cable News Has Much to Fear" [nytimes]
• "The Agony of the Digital Tease" [nytimes]
• "As Online Video Surges, Publishers Turn to Automation" [nytimes]

[Links]

• This Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders [link]
• A Chinese hacking group is making $500,000 per day from the trojan it created [link]
• Facebook explains censorship policy for Live video [link]

Week of 2016/07/03

[NyTimes]

• "Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature" [nytimes]
• "In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve" [nytimes]
• "A Sad Day for Punchers: BlackBerry to Discontinue Its Last Keyboard Phone" [nytimes]
• "On the Hunt, 'Where Warm Waters Halt,' for a $2 Million Treasure" [nytimes]
• "Learning From Healthy Bears (You Mean We Should Hibernate?)" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Apollo-11, AGC Source Code [link]
• A Chinese hacking group is making $500,000 per day from the trojan it created [link]
• Is Facebook ready for live video’s important role in police accountability? [link]
• EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control [link]

Week of 2016/06/26

[NyTimes]

• "Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says" [nytimes]
• "Kleiner Perkins Raises $1.4 Billion With Two Funds" [nytimes]
• "Palantir Buyback Plan Shows Need for New Silicon Valley Pay System" [nytimes]
• "Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Teachers" [nytimes]
• "Lethal Buzzers: America's Six Most Dangerous Mosquitoes" [nytimes]
• "While Limited, Wi-Fi-First Phones Are a Good, Frugal Bet" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The World's Most Efficient Languages [link]
• How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics [link]