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]

Week of 2014/01/26

[NyTimes]

• "As Facebook Turns 10, Zuckerberg Wants to Change How Tech Industry Works" [nytimes]
• "Latest Sites of Breaches in Security Are Hotels" [nytimes]
• "Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps" [nytimes]
• "Investigating 'The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets'" [nytimes]
• "Lawsuit Questions Square's Start-Up Story" [nytimes]
• "It's Him, Not Her" [nytimes]
• "Jody Greenstone Miller, on Not Overselling the Job Ahead" [nytimes]

[Links]

• 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder: The Future of the Hypercar! [link]
• Google paid $4B for patents: why the Motorola deal worked out just fine [link]

Week of 2014/01/19

[NyTimes]

• "For the Love of Money" [nytimes]
• "Building Toward the Home of Tomorrow" [nytimes]
• "Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet’s Tactics" [nytimes]
• "Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming House" [nytimes]
• "Yale Students Tangle With University Over Website" [nytimes]
• "Girish Navani, on Why Titles Don't Matter" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Debunking Princeton [link]
• Macintosh 128K Teardown [link]
• Your Sensored Life: An Expanded View of Quantified Self [link]

Week of 2014/01/12

[NyTimes]

• "The Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality" [nytimes]
• "Shooting for the Moon, Google Hopes to Own the Future" [nytimes]
• "Beats Music Enters Online Streaming Market" [nytimes]
• "Workers at an Amazon Warehouse Reject Forming a Union" [nytimes]
• "Goodnight. Sleep Clean." [nytimes]
• "If I Had a Hammer" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Security lags in protecting Internet-connected appliances [link]
• VC Pitches In A Year Or Two [link]
• A third of registered cabbies in San Francisco are now driving an Uber, Sidecar or Lyft [link]

Week of 2014/01/05

[NyTimes]

• "Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows" [nytimes]
• "The Next Data Privacy Battle May Be Waged Inside Your Car" [nytimes]
• "Wolfram Wants to Connect the Internet of Things" [nytimes]
• "Stop Asking Me for My Email Address" [nytimes]
• "A Makeover for Maps" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The best of CES 2014 [link]
• How to get the most out of Apple's Siri on your iPhone or iPad [link]

Week of 2013/12/29

[NyTimes]

• "For 2014, Tweet Less, Read More" [nytimes]
• "Apple Says It Is "Unaware" of N.S.A. iPhone Hack Program" [nytimes]
• "I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results" [nytimes]
• "Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He’s Rich" [nytimes]
• "The Year That Will Be" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Can Do vs. Can't Do Cultures [link]
• 2013: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year for the Tech Industry [link]
• 2013: The Best Long Reads of the Year [link]
• Questions I'm asking in interviews [link]

Week of 2013/12/22

[NyTimes]

• "Babes in a Digital Toyland: Even 3-Year-Olds Get Gadgets" [nytimes]
• "Into the Bitcoin Mines" [nytimes]
• "Agreement Reached to Cut Power Use by Cable Devices" [nytimes]
• "Alan Turing, Enigma Code-Breaker and Computer Pioneer, Wins Royal Pardon" [nytimes]
• "Free Facebook, Common Globally, Finally Comes to American Mobile Phones" [nytimes]
• "As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You" [nytimes]
• "A Lot Changes in Tech Over Four Years and 1,000 Blog Posts" [nytimes]

[Links]

• 3 semis, 65 countries, 36 tons: Shipping my Kickstarter [link]
• Learn to think big [link]
• Google's Location History Browser Is A Minute-By-Minute Map Of Your Life [link]