Week of 2018/04/08

[NyTimes]

• "I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes." [nytimes]
• "YouTube Is Improperly Collecting Children’s Data, Consumer Groups Say" [nytimes]
• "The Failures of Anti-Trumpism" [nytimes]
• "Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day" [nytimes]
• "All by Itself, the Humble Sweet Potato Colonized the World" [nytimes]
• "It's the Latest in Conservation Tech. And It Wants to Suck Your Blood." [nytimes]

[Links]

• Elon Musk agrees robot glut slowed Model 3 production [link]
• Twenty Books That Shaped My Unconventional Life [link]
• We're On The Brink of a New Era of Innovation, Will You Survive it? [link]
• Ever Wonder Why Volvos Are So Safe? [link]

Week of 2018/04/01

[NyTimes]

• "Stock Markets Tumble Amid Worries Over Tech Firms and Trade Tensions" [nytimes]
• "With Sinclair, We Have Trump TV. America Doesn't Need More." [nytimes]
• "Tesla's Manufacturing 'Hell' Won't Slow Down Electric Cars" [nytimes]
• "Why Laundromats Are the Hot New Place to Hang Out in Hong Kong" [nytimes]
• "Wrong Flag Flying: Wall Street Greets Spotify With Swiss Banner" [nytimes]
• "This Gun Maker Wanted Safe Guns" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet [link]
• SpaceX reaches the promised land of launching every two weeks [link]
• Robert Mercer's Secret Adventure as a New Mexico Cop [link]

Week of 2018/03/25

[NyTimes]

• "Fatal Tesla Crash Raises New Questions About Self-Driving System" [nytimes]
• "The Self-Driving Car Industry's Biggest Turning Point Yet" [nytimes]
• "Are You Really in Love if It's Not on Instagram?" [nytimes]
• "Stock Markets Tumble Amid Worries Over Tech Firms and Trade Tensions" [nytimes]
• "Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?" [nytimes]
• "Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say with Threats" [nytimes]
• "In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy" [nytimes]
• "Insects Flew Before Anything Else Did. So How Did They Get Their Wings?" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet [link]
• Emmanuel Macron Talks to WIRED About France's AI Strategy [link]

Week of 2018/03/18

[NyTimes]

• "Kevin's Week in Tech: Zuckerberg's Answers to Privacy Scandal Raise More Questions" [nytimes]
• "In the Age of Amazon, Toys 'R' Us and Other Bankruptcies Test Private Equity's Playbook" [nytimes]
• "How Democracy Can Survive Big Data" [nytimes]
• "At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me" [nytimes]
• "'Lean In': Five Years Later" [nytimes]
• "Thanks for Not Sharing! My Fine Dining Isn't Your Fork Orgy" [nytimes]
• "On the Road With the World's Greatest Hitchhiker" [nytimes]
• "Should Some Species Be Allowed to Die Out?" [nytimes]
• "How Exercise Can Keep Aging Muscles and Immune Systems 'Young'" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Music On The Move [link]
• Inside Google's plan to build a smart neighborhood in Toronto [link]
• John Oliver's gay rabbit book parody outsells Mike Pence's original on Amazon [link]

Week of 2018/03/11

[NyTimes]

• "Tech Leaders Are Growing Up (Again). That's a Good Thing." [nytimes]
• "Photos From Student Walkouts Around the Nation" [nytimes]
• "The Sublime and Scary Future of Cameras With A.I. Brains" [nytimes]
• "How Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal Disrupts His Daily Routine" [nytimes]
• "Letter of Recommendation: Celsius" [nytimes]
• "Vive le Croissant!" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Stephen Hawking, cosmology's brightest star, dies aged 76 [link]
• Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin [link]
• Inside Google's plan to build a smart neighborhood in Toronto [link]
• How to Be an Artist, According to Georgia O'Keeffe [link]
• Look, no lithium! First rechargeable proton battery created [link]

Week of 2018/02/18

[NyTimes]

• "Why We May Soon Be Living in Alexa's World" [nytimes]
• "Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City" [nytimes]
• "To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You" [nytimes]
• "The WeWork Manifesto: First, Office Space. Next, the World." [nytimes]
• "A Chinese Mystery: Who Owns a Firm on a Global Shopping Spree?" [nytimes]
• "These Goldfish Are 70 Percent Organic" [nytimes]
• "Christopher Bailey Takes a Final Walk Down the Burberry Runway" [nytimes]
• "The Boys Are Not All Right" [nytimes]
• "No Country for Young Men With AR-15s" [nytimes]

[Links]

• A Harvard professor thinks that tech's true power comes from design [link]
• Elon Musk just shared the first images of new SpaceX satellites that could change the internet [link]
• What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns [link]
• United Airlines, Delta are latest big names to cut ties with NRA [link]

Week of 2018/02/04

[NyTimes]

• "Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today" [nytimes]
• "Pelosi Holds House Floor to Advocate for 'Dreamers.' For 6 Hours and Counting." [nytimes]
• "It's Time to End the Scam of Flying Pets" [nytimes]
• "What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn" [nytimes]
• "FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered." [nytimes]
• "A Girl Scout Sold 300 Boxes of Cookies Near a Marijuana Shop" [nytimes]
• "Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The Falcon Heavy launch brought me to tears [link]
• Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? [link]
• This AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don't Have To [link]

Week of 2018/01/28

[NyTimes]

• "Tackling the Internet's Central Villain: The Advertising Business" [nytimes]
• "Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care" [nytimes]
• "The Real Burning Man" [nytimes]
• "Xerox, an Innovator Hit by Digital Revolution, Cedes Control to Fujifilm" [nytimes]
• "Uber's New Training Wheels: Testing Bike Sharing in San Francisco" [nytimes]
• "Britain Was a Pioneer in Outsourcing Services. Now, the Model Is 'Broken.'" [nytimes]
• "Car Navigation Systems Plot a Course Forward Against Phone Apps" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video [link]
• How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel [link]
• Mac Malware of 2017 [link]

Week of 2018/01/21

[NyTimes]

• "Tesla's Pay Deal to Keep Elon Musk: All or Nothing" [nytimes]
• "Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future" [nytimes]
• "Yes, They've Cloned Monkeys in China. That Doesn't Mean You're Next." [nytimes]
• "Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It" [nytimes]
• "Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class" [nytimes]
• "Using Drones and Netflix in the Andes, but Sidestepping Google Maps" [nytimes]
• "In an Israeli Cave, Scientists Discover Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa" [nytimes]
• "No Passport or Ticket: How a Woman Evaded Airport Security and Flew to London" [nytimes]
• "For Jerry Brown, the Face of California's Old Order, the Ranch Is Calling" [nytimes]

[Links]

• DuckDuckGo adds tracker blocking to help curb the wider surveillance web [link]
• Trump imposes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines in first major trade action of 2018 [link]
• Steve Jobs Knew How to Write an Email. Here's How He Did It [link]

Week of 2018/01/14

[NyTimes]

• "Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say" [nytimes]
• "Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not" [nytimes]
• "While You Were Sleeping" [nytimes]
• "Learning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies" [nytimes]
• "Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West's Recycling" [nytimes]
• "Crowdsourcing the Commute" [nytimes]
• "Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions [link]
• Airbnb cuts half of San Francisco listings as new laws kick in [link]