Week of 2017/09/10

[NyTimes]

• "It Distracted Us. It Gave Us Uber. It Made Selfies a Thing." [nytimes]
• "At the Apple Keynote, Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves" [nytimes]
• "Apple Unveils iPhone X and 8 Models as It Upgrades TV Set-Top Box" [nytimes]
• "Nestle Targets High-End Coffee by Taking Majority Stake in Blue Bottle" [nytimes]
• "In 'Coco,' Bringing the Land of the Dead Back to Life" [nytimes]
• "Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost." [nytimes]

[Links]

• Screw My iPhone, I Just Want The New Apple Watch [link]
• Are publishers making money on Facebook? "Not really," a new report finds [link]
• The early history of HP calculators [link]

Week of 2017/09/03

[NyTimes]

• "Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million Customers" [nytimes]
• "Chief Executives See a 'Sad Day' After Trump's DACA Decision" [nytimes]
• "Shared Bikes Bring Chinese a 'Monster-Revealing Mirror'" [nytimes]
• "Inside New York City's Priciest Rentals" [nytimes]
• "Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How-to build a Raspberry Pi touch screen car computer [link]
• Airbus Perlan Mission II Soars Into History, Sets New World Record for Glider Altitude [link]

Week of 2017/08/20

[NyTimes]

• "As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check" [nytimes]
• "Dear iPhone: Here's Why We're Still Together After 10 Years" [nytimes]
• "Foiling, a Pastime Worthy of Silicon Valley" [nytimes]
• "The Rise of the Fidget Spinner and the Fall of the Well-Managed Fad" [nytimes]
• "Gut Bacteria Can Fluctuate With the Seasons" [nytimes]
• "Corey E. Thomas of Rapid7 on Why Companies Succeed or Fail" [nytimes]

[Links]

• California continues to lead the US in renewable energy [link]
• Twitter's dilemma: What to do with Trump [link]
• MakerStudio ARKit [link]

Week of 2017/08/13

[NyTimes]

• "The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It's Here" [nytimes]
• "Matthew Prince of Cloudflare on the Dangers of Fast Growth" [nytimes]
• "A Perfume Devotee in the Land of French Fragrance" [nytimes]

[Links]

• A Dozen Things I've Learned from Georges Doriot (the Founder of the Modern VC industry) [link]
• Trump has huffed and puffed, with little to show for it [link]
• Twitter's dilemma: What to do with Trump [link]
• Build an Autonomous R/C Car with Raspberry Pi [link]

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]