Week of 2017/05/08

[NyTimes]

• "Why You Should Learn to Say 'No' More Often" [nytimes]
• "Obama Defends Affordable Care Act, but Leaves Trump Out of It" [nytimes]
• "Forget Taxes, Warren Buffett Says. The Real Problem Is Health Care." [nytimes]
• "Hackers Find Celebrities' Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains" [nytimes]
• "Emma Watson Wins MTV's First Gender-Neutral Acting Prize" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The reign of the $100 graphing calculator required by every US math class is finally ending [link]
• NHS hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack [link]

Week of 2017/05/01

[NyTimes]

• "Email Attack Hits Google: What to Do if You Clicked" [nytimes]
• "Hacker Leaks Episodes From Netflix Show and Threatens Other Networks" [nytimes]
• "CNN Refuses Trump Campaign's 'Fake News' Ad" [nytimes]
• "The Wrong Way to Fix Student Loans" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security [link]
• Meet Relive, a startup that uses data to turn your outdoor activities into 3D animated videos [link]
• 8,400 new Android malware samples every day [link]

Week of 2017/04/23

[NyTimes]

• "Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)" [nytimes]
• "The March for Science: What You Need to Know" [nytimes]
• "Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims" [nytimes]
• "Remembering the World's Oldest Person, in the Objects She Left Behind" [nytimes]
• "Misty Copeland and Sally Field on the Social Significance of Their Success" [nytimes]
• "No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car" [nytimes]
• "As Rains Ease in the West, Cacti Shine Brighter Than Ever" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search [link]
• Echo Look, Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant [link]
• My Wife Thinks I'm Crazy for Talking to Google All Day. Here's Why I Don't Care [link]

Week of 2017/04/16

[NyTimes]

• "Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove" [nytimes]
• "Mark Zuckerberg Sees Augmented Reality Ecosystem in Facebook" [nytimes]
• "Vacation's Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week" [nytimes]
• "A New Exoplanet May Be the Most Promising Yet in Search for Signs of Life" [nytimes]
• "The World's Most Beautiful Mathematical Equation" [nytimes]
• "Where Did All the Black Teachers Go?" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Rise of Subscriptions and the Fall of Advertising [link]
• Android Geo-Location Spyware Installed By Up To 5 Million Users [link]
• The augmented reality gold rush is afoot [link]

Week of 2017/04/09

[NyTimes]

• "The Return of Lorde" [nytimes]
• "Yes, You Can Lose Your Airplane Seat, Once You've Taken It" [nytimes]
• "Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say" [nytimes]
• "To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old" [nytimes]
• "The World's Most Beautiful Mathematical Equation" [nytimes]
• "Why You Shouldn't Walk on Escalators" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Italy's Struggling Economy Has World's Healthiest People - Bloomberg [link]
• Crafty prisoners hid DIY computers, committed identity theft [link]
• Amazon's Jeff Bezos constantly reminds his workers about the biggest enemy: 'Irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline.' [link]

Week of 2017/04/02

[NyTimes]

• "Tesla Has Something Hotter Than Cars to Sell: Its Story" [nytimes]
• "The Online Ad Industry Is Undergoing Self-Reflection. That's Good News." [nytimes]
• "Jerks and the Start-Ups They Ruin" [nytimes]
• "Reasons Not to Dismiss GPS Devices for Your Car" [nytimes]
• "To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old" [nytimes]

[Links]

• 50 grand challenges for the 21st Century [link]
• Apple fans, Android world scramble to patch Broadcom's nasty drive-by Wi-Fi security hole [link]
• Formula 1: A technical deep dive into building the world’s fastest cars [link]
• Commodity Ransomware Is Here [link]

Week of 2017/03/26

[NyTimes]

• "Self-Driving Cars Could Offer Older Adults Chance to Age in Place" [nytimes]
• "Banks and Tech Firms Battle Over Something Akin to Gold: Your Data" [nytimes]
• "Little Tropical Fish With a Big, Venomous Bite" [nytimes]
• "Wonders of a Marine National Monument" [nytimes]
• "Waking From Hibernation, the Hard Work of Spring Begins" [nytimes]
• "Can Trump Change Libel Laws?" [nytimes]
• "He Turned His Home Into a Reality Television Show" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Watch SpaceX relaunch the first rocket it landed on a barge (update: it was a success) [link]
• 'Rock Band VR' is the dorkiest game ever and I love it [link]
• Ikea is getting into home automation with a new smart hub [link]

Week of 2017/03/19

[NyTimes]

• "In Silicon Valley, a Voice of Caution Scolds a High-Flying Uber" [nytimes]
• "Taxi Center Woos Drivers With Perks. Uber Center Offers Even More." [nytimes]
• "Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful - but What Exactly Do They Want?" [nytimes]
• "A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions" [nytimes]
• "How a Water Bear Survives, Even When It's Dry" [nytimes]
• "Bonds That Combat the Isolation of Military Life" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How Tyler Brule has extended Monocle beyond simply a magazine for the jet set [link]
• The Consequences of Bad Typography [link]
• Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network [link]

Week of 2017/03/12

[NyTimes]

• "In Silicon Valley, a Voice of Caution Scolds a High-Flying Uber" [nytimes]
• "Taxi Center Woos Drivers With Perks. Uber Center Offers Even More." [nytimes]
• "A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck" [nytimes]
• "In Rural Michigan, Harvesting Sounds Instead of Soybeans" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Austin is fine without Uber and Lyft ... until it isn't [link]
• Google Home is playing audio ads for Beauty and the Beast [link]

Week of 2017/03/05

[NyTimes]

• "Trump's Wiretapping Claims Puncture Veneer of Presidential Civility" [nytimes]
• "Statue of Girl Confronts Bull, Captivating Manhattanites and Social Media" [nytimes]
• "Building a Road Map for the Self-Driving Car" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries [link]
• Stock options are really complicated [link]
• Trump adviser spoke with DNC hacker during the campaign [link]