Week of 2013/05/12

[NyTimes]

• "Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services" [nytimes]
• "Lawmakers Show Concerns About Google's New Glasses" [nytimes]
• "More Clients Ask Questions of Bloomberg" [nytimes]
• "Real Estate or Utility? Surging Data Center Industry Blurs Boundaries" [nytimes]
• "In Big-Dollar Philanthropy, (Your Name Here) vs. Anonymity" [nytimes]
• "Saying Goodbye to Titles, and Hello to Responsibility" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz [link]
• Two strategies: The Washington Post vs. The NYT [link]
• You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence [link]

Week of 2013/05/05

[NyTimes]

• "Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals" [nytimes]
• "In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme" [nytimes]
• "Hackers Retrieve Personal Data in Washington State" [nytimes]
• "Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal: Keep Out" [nytimes]
• "The Apprentices of a Digital Age" [nytimes]
• "Brain, Interrupted" [nytimes]
• "Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I." [nytimes]
• "A Child's Wild Kingdom" [nytimes]
• "When Attackers Become Defenders, Innovation Is Lost" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Elon Musk and David Sacks Depart Fwd.us, Mark Zuckerberg's Political Action Group [link]

Week of 2013/04/28

[NyTimes]

• "In Venture Capital Deals, Not Every Founder Will Be a Zuckerberg" [nytimes]
• "In Online Video, Street Cred vs. Quality" [nytimes]
• "In-Room Entertainment Turns Away From TV" [nytimes]
• "Where the Artists Are the Superheroes" [nytimes]
• "One Big Workbench" [nytimes]
• "Measuring The Benefits Of Tech Tools" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The Google Now dilemma: Yes, it's kind of creepy -- but it's also incredibly useful [link]
• Are Older Programmers More Knowledgeable? [link]
• Wash. Hospital Hit By $1.03 Million Cyberheist [link]

Week of 2013/04/21

[NyTimes]

• "The Future of Driving" [nytimes]
• "With Tablets, Businesses Ring Up at More Fanciful Cash Registers" [nytimes]
• "In Hacking, A.P. Twitter Feed Sends False Report of Explosions" [nytimes]
• "The Flattening of Design" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The future of TV, according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings [link]
• Introducing Personalized Navigation [link]

Week of 2013/04/14

[NyTimes]

• "There's Something About Smartwatches" [nytimes]
• "Start-Up Lets Users Track Who Tracks Them" [nytimes]
• "Mentors Are Good. Sponsors Are Better." [nytimes]
• "Finding Purpose in Tunneling Through Granite" [nytimes]

[Links]

• You Lookin' at Me? Reflections on Google Glass. [link]
• Why good storytelling helps you design great products [link]

Week of 2013/04/07

[NyTimes]

• "Chief Tries to Infuse Yahoo With a Start-Up's Spirit" [nytimes]
• "Engineering Serendipity" [nytimes]
• "Facebook Grabs for Your Phone. What Gives?" [nytimes]
• "Teacher Knows if You've Done the E-Reading" [nytimes]
• "No TV? No Subscription? No Problem" [nytimes]
• "For the High Seas, a Better Floating Computer" [nytimes]
• "First, Make Sure Your Idea Works on a Small Stage" [nytimes]
• "How a Leafy Folk Remedy Stopped Bedbugs in Their Tracks" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Editorial: Self-driving cars FTW, but not for everybody [link]
• Exploding Art: da Vinci Code of Another Sort [link]

Week of 2013/03/31

[NyTimes]

• "Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy" [nytimes]
• "The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind" [nytimes]
• "Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business" [nytimes]
• "Little Accountability for Directors, Despite Poor Performance" [nytimes]
• "A Slice of London So Exclusive Even the Owners Are Visitors" [nytimes]
• "Who Made That Learjet?" [nytimes]

[Links]

• It's no Facebook Phone: Home looks nice but could have limited impact [link]
• Facebook and Apple: it's complicated [link]
• So what's it really like to use Project Glass? Take a look [link]

Week of 2013/03/24

[NyTimes]

• "Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt" [nytimes]
• "Attacks Used the Internet Against Itself to Clog Traffic" [nytimes]
• "As Apps Race to Car Dashes, Walking a Line on Safety" [nytimes]
• "BioShock's Latest: Civil War in a City in the Sky" [nytimes]
• "Instagram and the New Era of Paparazzi" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Privacy 101: Skype Leaks Your Location [link]
• Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See [link]

Week of 2013/03/17

[NyTimes]

• "Reading, Writing and Video Games" [nytimes]
• "Smart Drones" [nytimes]
• "Technology That Serves to Enhance, Not Distract" [nytimes]
• "Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks" [nytimes]
• "Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles" [nytimes]
• "The Doctor Is in (Well, Logged in)" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Massive bot network is draining $6 million a month from online ad industry, says report [link]
• The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub [link]

Week of 2013/03/10

[NyTimes]

• "Algorithms Get a Human Hand in Steering Web" [nytimes]
• "Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software" [nytimes]
• "Looking for a Lesson in Google's Perks" [nytimes]
• "Keep Calm and Carry On ...Buying" [nytimes]
• "More Units Going Up in a Snap" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How OpenStack upended the private cloud market overnight [link]
• Google kills Google Reader, will go offline on July 1, 2013 [link]
• Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams [link]