Week of 2017/08/06

[NyTimes]

• "As Boeing Goes, So Goes the Stock Market" [nytimes]
• "In China, Designer Goods Delivered to Your Doorstep" [nytimes]
• "When It Comes to Transit, Does Anybody Know Where We're Going?" [nytimes]
• "Britain Turns to Chinese Textbooks to Improve Its Math Scores" [nytimes]
• "Need Models for Your Party? There's an App for That" [nytimes]
• "It's Better to Swim Alone, Yet Together, if You're a Salp" [nytimes]

[Links]

• A Conversation with Raymond Loewy, the Father of Industrial Design [link]
• When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism [link]
• Build an Autonomous R/C Car with Raspberry Pi [link]
• How Successful People Make Decisions Differently [link]

Week of 2017/07/30

[NyTimes]

• "The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA's Voyager Probes Across the Universe" [nytimes]
• "Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States" [nytimes]
• "Utility Helps Wean Vermonters From the Electric Grid" [nytimes]
• "Britain to Ban New Diesel and Gas Cars by 2040" [nytimes]
• "Finland Has a Sports Screw Loose" [nytimes]
• "In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos" [nytimes]
• "When Life on Earth Was Nearly Extinguished" [nytimes]

[Links]

• A Comparison of Distributed Machine Learning Platforms [link]
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? [link]
• A Lesson In Drone Photography [link]

Week of 2017/07/16

[NyTimes]

• "Arks of the Apocalypse" [nytimes]
• "Teenagers Recorded a Drowning and Laughed, but They Won't Be Charged" [nytimes]
• "Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are" [nytimes]
• "Frances Gabe, Inventor of the Self-Cleaning House, Dies at 101" [nytimes]
• "Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win a Fields Medal, Dies at 40" [nytimes]
• "An Experiment in Zurich Brings Us Nearer to a Black Hole's Mysteries" [nytimes]
• "Get Ready for the Internet of Louis Vuitton Things" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Autonomous driving will bring forced obsolescence to cars [link]
• Amazon Prime and other Subscription Businesses: How do you Value a Subscriber? [link]
• Just add an iPhone to experience AR with Mira's $99 headset [link]

Week of 2017/07/09

[NyTimes]

• "The Phone Is Smart, but Where's the Big Idea?" [nytimes]
• "What We Lose When the World Moves On From Email" [nytimes]
• "Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA" [nytimes]
• "Apple Opens Data Center in China to Comply With Cybersecurity Law" [nytimes]
• "'Alexa, Where Have You Been All My Life?'" [nytimes]
• "CERN Physicists Find a Particle With a Double Dose of Charm" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Scientists are about to change what a kilogram is. That's massive. [link]
• The giant undersea rivers we know very little about [link]
• Wimbledon 2017: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament [link]
• Inside the Bentley Woodshop [link]

Week of 2017/07/02

[NyTimes]

• "Disbelief as Trump Posts a Video of Him 'Wrestling' CNN" [nytimes]
• "Independent Press Is Under Siege as Freedom Rings" [nytimes]
• "Why Some Men Don't Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good" [nytimes]
• "Apple Disrupts Silicon Valley With Another Eye-Catcher: Its New Home" [nytimes]
• "Volvo, Betting on Electric, Moves to Phase Out Conventional Engines" [nytimes]
• "Why Fog Lamps Are Starting to Disappear" [nytimes]
• "Video Review: A Family-Friendly Ferrari, for the Family of Means" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Scientists are about to change what a kilogram is. That's massive. [link]
• The giant undersea rivers we know very little about [link]
• Amazon images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand' [link]
• What It Actually Costs to Open a Restaurant in San Francisco [link]

Week of 2017/06/25

[NyTimes]

• "Alexa, What Happens if the Echo Has a Screen? You Get This Review" [nytimes]
• "In Advertising Paradise, Reality Is Just a Conversation Away" [nytimes]
• "A Street Fight Among Grocers to Deliver Your Milk, Eggs, Bananas" [nytimes]
• "Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Pogue, Levy, Baig, and Mossberg on what it was like to review the first iPhone 10 years ago [link]
• Switching to Grayscale Is the Perfect iPhone Trick to Combat Distraction [link]
• How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide [link]

Week of 2017/06/11

[NyTimes]

• "Whole Foods Deal Shows Amazon's Prodigious Tolerance for Risk" [nytimes]
• "The Decline of the Baronial C.E.O." [nytimes]
• "NASA's Newest Class of Astronauts Is Ready to Hit the Pool" [nytimes]
• "Finland Works, Quietly, to Bury Its Nuclear Reactor Waste" [nytimes]
• "Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels" [nytimes]
• "Lorde Learns She Can't Party Away Her Melancholy on 'Melodrama'" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Divide and conquer: How Microsoft researchers used AI to master Ms. Pac-Man [link]
• Apple Is Trying To Make Your iMessages Even More Private [link]
• Apple undercuts Facebook in the augmented reality platform war [link]

Week of 2017/06/04

[NyTimes]

• "Ariana Grande Brings Message of Defiance to Concert for Manchester Victims" [nytimes]
• "Glaring Clues Led to N.S.A. Contractor in Criminal Leak Case" [nytimes]
• "The Digital Bystander: A Citizen's Duty When the Assault Is Online" [nytimes]
• "Apple Customer Data in China Was Sold Illegally, Police Say" [nytimes]
• "Ponzi Scheme Meets Ransomware for a Doubly Malicious Attack" [nytimes]
• "The Biggest, Strangest 'Batteries'" [nytimes]
• "Mr. Trump: Stop Tweeting and Go Back to Bed" [nytimes]
• "How Cold Brew Changed the Coffee Business" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Adam Savage Builds the LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V! [link]
• The Insane Tech That Make America's Cup Yachts Fly on Water [link]
• Intelligent Tracking Prevention [link]
• List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots [link]

Week of 2017/05/21

[NyTimes]

• "NASA Spacecraft Finds a Chaotic Dance of Storms at Jupiter's Poles" [nytimes]
• "California Engages World, and Fights Washington, on Climate Change" [nytimes]
• "Where Nestle Guzzles Water, Locals Doubt Claims of Negligible Impact" [nytimes]
• "The Rise of the Fat Start-Up" [nytimes]
• "Amazon Sets Up Shop in the Heart of the Publishing Industry" [nytimes]
• "The Science Behind the Flamingo's One-Legged Stance" [nytimes]
• "Lisa Su on the Art of Setting Ambitious Goals" [nytimes]
• "4-Year-Olds Don't Act Like Trump" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Simple math is why Elon Musk's companies keep doing what others don't even consider possible [link]
• Curiosity May Be Vital for Truly Smart AI [link]
• 1Password adds a 'travel mode' to keep your passwords safe at the border [link]

Week of 2017/05/15

[NyTimes]

• "'The Internet Is Broken': @ev Is Trying to Salvage It" [nytimes]
• "Netflix Defends Strategy at Cannes: 'The Culture Is Changing'" [nytimes]
• "Washington Post, Breaking News, Is Also Breaking New Ground" [nytimes]
• "Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future" [nytimes]
• "First Came the Hydrogen Cars. Now, the Refilling Stations." [nytimes]
• "Ladybugs Pack Wings and Engineering Secrets in Tidy Origami Packages" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt [link]
• The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus [link]
• Google wants AI to manage my relationships, and that might be a good thing [link]
• Mercedes-Benz is building cars that know the road better than you do [link]
• Apple's New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership [link]