Week of 2017/10/08

[NyTimes]

• "How Facebook's Ad System Works" [nytimes]
• "As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane" [nytimes]
• "A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?" [nytimes]
• "Wolf Puppies Are Adorable. Then Comes the Call of the Wild." [nytimes]

[Links]

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast' [link]
• Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media has become a direct threat to democracy [link]
• Augmented reality? Pogue checks out 7 of the first iPhone AR apps [link]
• Oculus Connect Full Presentation 2017 [link]
• New Audi A8 2018 review - the most high-tech car ever? [link]

Week of 2017/10/01

[NyTimes]

• "Electric Honeycombs Form When Nature Gets Out of Balance" [nytimes]
• "Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers" [nytimes]

[Links]

• After Las Vegas shooting, Facebook and Google get the news wrong again [link]
• How to think about Facebook & its Algorithm [link]
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast' [link]
• Honda's new AC powerbank will keep the juice flowing in an emergency [link]
• Go ahead, try to guess what Magic Leap does based on this video [link]

Week of 2017/09/24

[NyTimes]

• "The Last Stand of the Amazon's Arrow People" [nytimes]
• "Elon Musk's Mars Vision: A One-Size-Fits-All Rocket. A Very Big One." [nytimes]
• "Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There" [nytimes]
• "Why Texas Is No Longer Feeling Miraculous" [nytimes]
• "Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain" [nytimes]

[Links]

• IKEA buys TaskRabbit to help you build furniture [link]
• In Battle for Talent, One Startup Founder Tries 'Unlimited' Pay [link]

Week of 2017/09/17

[NyTimes]

• "Facebook's Frankenstein Moment" [nytimes]
• "Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web" [nytimes]
• "Internet Giants Face New Political Resistance in Washington" [nytimes]
• "How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food" [nytimes]
• "Monsanto's New Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers" [nytimes]
• "A Down Payment With a Catch: You Must Be an Airbnb Host" [nytimes]
• "Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain" [nytimes]
• "Gin Wong, Who Designed Futuristic Buildings in Los Angeles, Dies at 94" [nytimes]

[Links]

• States flexing their power, just as our Founders intended [link]
• Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For [link]

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]