Week of 2013/12/01

[NyTimes]

• "Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95" [nytimes]
• "As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500" [nytimes]
• "After Snowden Revelations, a Changed World for Journalists" [nytimes]
• "Dear Internet, Thank You for Introducing Us" [nytimes]
• "The Allure of the Print Book" [nytimes]
• "Out of Print, Maybe, but Not Out of Mind" [nytimes]
• "Amazon Floats the Notion of Delivery Drones" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound [link]
• This Popular Flashlight App Has Been Secretly Your Sharing Location And Device ID [link]
• Salesforce responds to hackathon controversy by awarding $1M to the runner-up [link]

Week of 2013/11/24

[NyTimes]

• "Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter a City" [nytimes]
• "A Rise in Attention and Price for Cryptocurrencies" [nytimes]
• "Drones Offer Journalists a Wider View" [nytimes]
• "Mario Tries to Rescue His Console" [nytimes]
• "Danger Lurks in That Mickey Mouse Couch" [nytimes]
• "Invasion of the Annual Reviews" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Forget about the NSA for a minute: The internet of things could kill the little white lie [link]
• Nissan Leaf passes autonoumous driving test on Japanese highway [link]

Week of 2013/11/17

[NyTimes]

• "More Freedom on the Airplane, if Nowhere Else" [nytimes]
• "In a North Face Jacket, a Reversible Appeal" [nytimes]
• "A Start-Up That Wants to Be the 'Anti-Yelp'" [nytimes]
• "Jess Lee of Polyvore, on the Value of Simplicity" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug's $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing [link]
• Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi [link]
• Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber [link]

Week of 2013/11/10

[NyTimes]

• "Elon Musk's Next Blue Sky Idea" [nytimes]
• "Amazon Web Services Gets Personal and Pretty" [nytimes]
• "Postal Service to Make Sunday Deliveries for Amazon" [nytimes]
• "Switzerland's Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber [link]
• Little Data: How do we query personal data? [link]
• Asciinema [link]

Week of 2013/11/03

[NyTimes]

• "Twitter as the Yin to Facebook's Yang" [nytimes]
• "Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Twitter's Big Day: Why Zero Profits Make for a Great IPO [link]
• How Jack Dorsey approached the payments market: As a buyer [link]
• One Potential Problem With Geoengineering: Less Rain [link]
• Apple: "Our Business Does Not Depend On Collecting Personal Data" [link]
• 9 Foundational Software and Services for Startups [link]

Week of 2013/10/27

[NyTimes]

• "N.S.A. Said to Tap Google and Yahoo Abroad" [nytimes]
• "Adobe Hacking Attack Was Bigger Than Previously Thought" [nytimes]
• "On the Road to Autonomous, a Pause at Extrasensory" [nytimes]
• "Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How To Avoid CryptoLocker Ransomware [link]
• The Role Of Personal Chemistry In Investment Selection [link]
• Harrison Ford Pierces Jimmy Fallon's Ear [link]

Week of 2013/10/20

[NyTimes]

• "LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream for Attackers'" [nytimes]
• "Allegation of U.S. Spying on Merkel Puts Obama at Crossroads" [nytimes]
• "Apple Exploits Microsoft Hesitation on Office" [nytimes]
• "Senator Raises Questions About Protecting Student Data" [nytimes]
• "What's That Smell? Exotic Scents Made From Re-engineered Yeast" [nytimes]
• "Ma'am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service [link]
• Compete to win the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon [link]
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks [link]
• Ask forgiveness, not permission [link]

Week of 2013/10/13

[NyTimes]

• "Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements" [nytimes]
• "Extracting a Toll From a 'Patent Troll'" [nytimes]
• "Bolstering a Phone's Defenses Against Breaches" [nytimes]
• "Should You Eat Chicken?" [nytimes]

[Links]

• I Just Used Square Cash To Pay A Contractor $500 [link]
• Inside GitHub's Super-Lean Management Strategy -- And How It Drives Innovation [link]
• First Drone Conference Takes Off [link]
• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [link]

Week of 2013/10/06

[NyTimes]

• "Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements" [nytimes]
• "And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'" [nytimes]
• "Deciding Who Sees Students' Data" [nytimes]
• "Mugged by a Mug Shot Online" [nytimes]
• "A Conversation With Lavabit's Founder" [nytimes]
• "Governing by Blackmail" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers [link]
• Dropcam's new camera is crystal clear -- and it's learning, too [link]
• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [link]

Week of 2013/09/29

[NyTimes]

• "Twitter Discloses Its I.P.O. Plans" [nytimes]
• "Our Democracy Is at Stake" [nytimes]
• "Walmart Slumber Party" [nytimes]
• "Where Indie Game Producers Come Out to Play" [nytimes]
• "It's Easy to Say 'I Need This.' It's Harder to Find Solutions." [nytimes]
• "Jonathan Klein of Getty Images, on Useful Critiques" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Facebook is building a $120 million town for employees [link]
• Rethinking Ray Ozzie [link]
• How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font [link]