Week of 2018/06/04

[NyTimes]

• "In the World of Cryptocurrency, Even Good Projects Can Go Bad" [nytimes]
• "Booking With Airbnb? Here's Your Survival Guide" [nytimes]

[Links]

• 'He would be an incredible president': Steve Kerr is US sport's voice of reason [link]
• Lightform Projected AR Platform [link]
• Apple announces a very international group of Apple Design Award winners [link]
• Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic [link]
• Uber keeps on truckin' as Freight expands nationwide [link]
• The Nissan Recon is the Camper Van You Don't Know You Want [link]
• A Beginner's Guide to Blockchain Programming [link]

Week of 2018/05/27

[NyTimes]

• "Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not" [nytimes]
• "18 Hours and 45 Minutes: Longest Commercial Flight Returns to Service" [nytimes]
• "Pret A Manger, U.K. Sandwich Chain, Is Sold to Food Giant JAB" [nytimes]
• "Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination" [nytimes]
• "Breathe Deep: How the Antarctic Sea Spider Gets Oxygen" [nytimes]

[Links]

• China just invited the world to its space station [link]
• Can the world's largest rewilding project restore Patagonia's beauty? [link]
• Herrera investigates Uber, Lyft over driver pay and benefits - City Attorney of San Francisco [link]
• San Francisco Announces Next Steps in Regulating Shared, Powered Scooters [link]

Week of 2018/05/20

[NyTimes]

• "U.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules" [nytimes]
• "Getting a Flood of G.D.P.R.-Related Privacy Policy Updates? Read Them" [nytimes]
• "Thanks, Meghan Markle, We Needed That" [nytimes]
• "Who Spends $140,000 on a CryptoKitty?" [nytimes]
• "Is This the World's Most Diverse National Park?" [nytimes]
• "A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska's Inside Passage" [nytimes]

[Links]

• This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean [link]
• Orlando Police Testing Amazon's Real-Time Facial Recognition [link]
• San Francisco Announces Next Steps in Regulating Shared, Powered Scooters [link]
• Apple now lets you download a copy of all the data it has on you [link]

Week of 2018/05/13

[NyTimes]

• "Google's File on Me Was Huge. Here's Why It Wasn't as Creepy as My Facebook Data." [nytimes]
• "In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?" [nytimes]
• "A Helicopter on Mars? NASA Wants to Try" [nytimes]
• "How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway Into Crisis" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The revolution won't wait: AI enthusiasm rises, but adoption lags [link]
• Why the GDPR email deluge, and can I ignore it? [link]
• I let Gmail's new AI write my pointless emails for me [link]
• Google Duplex parodies show off the potentially creepy side of Assistant’s latest trick [Video] [link]
• A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard [link]

Week of 2018/05/06

[NyTimes]

• "Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities" [nytimes]
• "Who Strikes Fear Into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager, Europe's Antitrust Enforcer" [nytimes]
• "It's Not Just Hybrids: Pickup Trucks and Sedans Have Gotten More Efficient, Too" [nytimes]
• "'Shell-Shocked' in Hawaii: How Lava Overran a Neighborhood" [nytimes]
• "How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway Into Crisis" [nytimes]
• "Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can't." [nytimes]
• "Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who's Guarding It?" [nytimes]
• "This Fungus Borrowed From Ancient Bacteria to Defy Gravity" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Apple took 8 days to give me the data it had collected on me. It was eye opening. [link]
• Why the GDPR email deluge, and can I ignore it? [link]
• The HP-35 [link]
• Tesla Solar Roof: 8 Things You Don't Realize Until You Own One [link]
• The revolution won't wait: AI enthusiasm rises, but adoption lags [link]

Week of 2018/04/22

[NyTimes]

• "How a Common Beetle May Offer Deep Insights Into Evolution" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Google's Sergey Brin warns of the threat from AI in today's 'technology renaissance' [link]
• Ford's decision to kill most of its cars was inevitable [link]
• The Signing Machine by Jaquet Droz [link]

Week of 2018/04/15

[NyTimes]

• "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit" [nytimes]
• "When Mr. Gates Went to Washington" [nytimes]
• "Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do List" [nytimes]
• "You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves." [nytimes]
• "Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Artificial Intelligence - The Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet [link]
• Palantir Knows Everything About You [link]
• 'The most significant development since the safety belt' [link]

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]