Week of 2014/04/06

[NyTimes]

• "An Adaptation From 'Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,' by Michael Lewis" [nytimes]
• "Sacrificing Sense for Speed in Markets" [nytimes]
• "Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data" [nytimes]
• "Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines" [nytimes]
• "Security Flaw Could Reach Beyond Websites to Digital Devices, Experts Say" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital [link]
• Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding [link]
• Land Rover Invents the Invisible Hood [link]
• Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season. Here's Why [link]

Week of 2014/03/30

[NyTimes]

• "Nest Labs Stops Selling Its Smoke Detector" [nytimes]
• "Virtual Reality, Perfect for an Immersive Society" [nytimes]
• "Sweeping Away a Search History" [nytimes]
• "'Silicon Valley,' Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO" [nytimes]
• "With Fire TV, Amazon Seeks a Beachhead in the Living Room" [nytimes]

[Links]

• So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent [link]
• The free gadget that Amazon hopes will compel you to order more stuff - lots more stuff [link]
• Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season. Here's Why [link]

Week of 2014/03/23

[NyTimes]

• "Name-Calling in the Virtual Playground" [nytimes]
• "Early Supporters of Oculus VR Denounce Facebook Buyout" [nytimes]
• "Swiss Watchmakers Skeptical of Digital Revolution" [nytimes]
• "Smartphones, the Disappointing Miracle" [nytimes]
• "The Dollar Value of an Extra Year of Life" [nytimes]
• "Consortium Wants Standards for 'Internet of Things'" [nytimes]
• "Don Knauss of Clorox, on Putting Your Followers First" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The Most Effortless and Effective Outsourcing System I've Used [link]
• Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs' brutal response after getting a Google employee fired [link]
• Sources: Credit Card Breach at California DMV [link]

Week of 2014/03/16

[NyTimes]

• "Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies" [nytimes]
• "New Social App Has Juicy Posts, All Anonymous" [nytimes]
• "Tesla Fights for a Place to Park" [nytimes]
• "Spring Cleaning Who Has Access to Your Data" [nytimes]
• "Learning From Legos" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Self-driving cars are coming soon and will revolutionize cities and society [link]
• Apple Designer Jonathan Ive on What's Next [link]
• The Two Words Steve Jobs Hated Most [link]
• Design for Everyday Life [link]

Week of 2014/03/09

[NyTimes]

• "As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future" [nytimes]
• "Silicon Valley's Youth Problem" [nytimes]
• "Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report" [nytimes]
• "Who Made That Progress Bar?" [nytimes]
• "Jeff Lawson of Twilio: When Ideas Collide, Don't Duck" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Tesla - To the People of New Jersey [link]
• uberX Eliminates Ridesharing Insurance Ambiguity [link]
• MtGox data hacked and published, complete with Bitcoin wallet-stealing malware [link]

Week of 2014/03/02

[NyTimes]

• "The Housing Market With Nowhere to Go (but Up)" [nytimes]
• "After Debit Card Fraud, a Chicago Bank Feels Its Customers' Frustration" [nytimes]
• "When Start-Ups Don't Lock the Doors" [nytimes]
• "Making Cloud-Computing Systems More Efficient" [nytimes]
• "Examining a Generation Tied to Smartphones" [nytimes]
• "A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA" [nytimes]
• "Lisa Falzone of Revel Systems on the Thrill of Entrepreneurship" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Faster, Leaner, Smarter, Better Data Centers [link]
• Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping [link]
• papers-we-love [link]

Week of 2014/02/23

[NyTimes]

• "British Spies Said to Intercept Yahoo Webcam Images" [nytimes]
• "Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy" [nytimes]
• "Google Pays for the Ride" [nytimes]
• "T-Mobile Turns an Industry on Its Ear" [nytimes]
• "Phone, Meet Tablet. That's Phabulous." [nytimes]

[Links]

• How Steve Perlman's "Revolutionary" Wireless Technology Works [link]
• Apple Details Touch ID And The A7's Secure Enclave In Updated iOS Security Document [link]
• The PowerPot V: Charging your devices with fire [link]

Week of 2014/02/16

[NyTimes]

• "The Other Big Winner in the WhatsApp Deal: Your Wallet" [nytimes]
• "Some Bot to Watch Over Me" [nytimes]
• "The Plus in Google Plus? It's Mostly for Google" [nytimes]
• "Send a Payment With Square Cash, the Service That's Free, for Now" [nytimes]
• "Wireless System Could Offer a Private Fast Lane" [nytimes]
• "Is the Universe a Simulation?" [nytimes]
• "This Phone Is Great, Till It’s Time to Add Apps" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App [link]
• Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp [link]
• Rinspeed imagines the Tesla Model S as a self-driving 'living room on wheels' [link]

Week of 2014/02/09

[NyTimes]

• "Bitcoin Exchange Struggles" [nytimes]
• "For Wearable Computers, a New User Interface Challenge" [nytimes]
• "How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction" [nytimes]
• "A Huge Solar Plant Opens, Facing Doubts About Its Future" [nytimes]
• "Stripe and Square Face Complexity Abroad" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Binge-viewing House of Cards season 2: I survived Frank Underwood [link]
• You Won't Believe How Much Money We Wasted On Bad Hires In 2013 [link]
• Zipcar, Uber And The Beginning Of Trouble For The Auto Industry [link]

Week of 2014/02/02

[NyTimes]

• "CVS Vows to Quit Selling Tobacco Products" [nytimes]
• "Keeping Swindlers Out of Your Bank and Brokerage Accounts" [nytimes]
• "Heat System Called Door to Target for Hackers" [nytimes]
• "Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps" [nytimes]
• "User Growth for Twitter Starts to Slow, and Stock Dips" [nytimes]
• "Building a Better Battery" [nytimes]
• "When Your App Is in the Cloud" [nytimes]
• "Give the Data to the People" [nytimes]
• "It's Him, Not Her" [nytimes]
• "In the End, It All Adds Up to – 1/12" [nytimes]

[Links]

• V2V: Cars Communicating to Prevent Crashes, Deaths, Injuries [link]
• It's Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map [link]
• This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers [link]