Week of 2015/02/15

[NyTimes]

• "Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker" [nytimes]
• "Researcher Discovers Superfish Spyware Installed on Lenovo PCs" [nytimes]
• "Photoshop at 25: A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World" [nytimes]
• "Natarajan Chandrasekaran of Tata Consultancy Services: Making a Habit of Accountability" [nytimes]
• "It's Buggy Out There" [nytimes]
• "On Tinder, Taking a Swipe at Love, or Sex, or Something, in New York" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple [link]
• What It's Like to Try Magic Leap's Take on Virtual Reality [link]
• Watch what castAR's projected augmented reality can do [link]
• My Private Solar System [link]

Week of 2015/02/08

[NyTimes]

• "Facebook Takes Its Hardware Designs to a Giant Scale" [nytimes]
• "Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever" [nytimes]
• "Consumer Protection Agency Seeks Limits on Payday Lenders" [nytimes]
• "Can We Reverse-Engineer the Environment?" [nytimes]
• "Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate" [nytimes]
• "Hooked on the Freewheeling Podcast 'Serial'" [nytimes]
• "At The Times, a Critic and Champion of Media" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Flipboard finally brings its social news reader to the web [link]
• Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy sounds like an Orwellian nightmare [link]
• Why Is My Smart Home So Fucking Dumb? [link]

Week of 2015/02/01

[NyTimes]

• "New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers" [nytimes]
• "Why Google Glass Broke" [nytimes]
• "$3 Tip on a $4 Cup of Coffee? Gratuities Grow, Automatically" [nytimes]
• "In Delicate Dance With Gravity, Downhill Racers Are Soothed by Cacophony" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Never trust a corporation to do a library's job [link]
• The owner of Helvetica and Times New Roman just bought some emoji [link]
• Phishers Pounce on Anthem Breach [link]
• Citing Tax Fraud Spike, TurboTax Suspends State E-Filings [link]

Week of 2015/01/25

[NyTimes]

• "How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" [nytimes]
• "China Further Tightens Grip on the Internet" [nytimes]
• "Tech Giants Invest in New Dreams of Grandeur" [nytimes]
• "Unease for What Microsoft's HoloLens Will Mean for Our Screen-Obsessed Lives" [nytimes]
• "Uber's Business Model Could Change Your Work" [nytimes]
• "Speck of Interstellar Dust Obscures Glimpse of Big Bang" [nytimes]
• "Ratings Now Cut Both Ways, So Don't Sass Your Uber Driver" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Bill Gates doesn't get why we're not worried about super intelligent AI [link]
• The dark side of 'sharing economy' jobs [link]
• Your BMW just downloaded a security patch [link]
• Technology Is Going To Make Truck Drivers Obsolete in A Decade, Report Says [link]

Week of 2015/01/18

[NyTimes]

• "Scientists Work to Contain Modified Organisms to Labs" [nytimes]
• "Kristin Muhlner of NewBrand Analytics: The Upside of Being Replaceable" [nytimes]
• "For SkyMall, It All Seemed So Cool at Six Miles High" [nytimes]
• "Among the Disrupted" [nytimes]
• "Marissa Mayer's Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time." [nytimes]

[Links]

• Drug-laden drone crashes near US-Mexico border [link]
• Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here [link]

Week of 2015/01/11

[NyTimes]

• "Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are for Hire Online" [nytimes]
• "Technology Has Made Life Different, but Not Necessarily More Stressful" [nytimes]
• "Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College" [nytimes]
• "Study Highlights Silicon Valley's Powerful Economic Mix" [nytimes]
• "Silicon Valley Turns Its Eye to Education" [nytimes]

[Links]

• IBM Launches z13 -- Most Powerful & Secure System Ever Built [link]
• Swiss Turmoil Hints at Future Lehman Moments [link]
• Elon Musk Will Build A Hyperloop Track For Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests [link]
• Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet [link]

Week of 2015/01/04

[NyTimes]

• "How My Mom Got Hacked" [nytimes]
• "CES: Security Risks From the Smart Home" [nytimes]
• "Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory" [nytimes]
• "When Mark Zuckerberg Likes a Book, Sales Soar" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Tech Trends 2015 [link]
• Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt Ends 25-Year Drug Drought [link]
• I Rode 500 Miles in a Self-Driving Car and Saw the Future. It's Delightfully Dull [link]
• Former HTC execs unveil smart scooter with hot-swappable batteries [link]
• The Smart, Angry Home [link]

Week of 2014/12/28

[NyTimes]

• "Sony Cyberattack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm" [nytimes]
• "Silicon Valley's Mirror Effect" [nytimes]
• "The Scoreboards Where You Can't See Your Score" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Stop Making 'Workaholics' a Dirty Word [link]
• With limited oversight, the wealthy get a charitable tax break [link]
• What Just Happened? [link]
• Lizard Kids: A Long Trail of Fail [link]
• Rolex Submariner Watchmaking Demonstration [link]

Week of 2014/12/21

[NyTimes]

• "For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet" [nytimes]
• "North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet" [nytimes]
• "Sugar Season. It's Everywhere, and Addictive." [nytimes]
• "The Hemiparasite Season" [nytimes]

[Links]

• FAA's new drone safety campaign reminds you not to be stupid [link]
• Tesla Roadster 3.0 Package [link]
• 6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car [link]
• Your smartphone is changing the way your fingers work [link]

Week of 2014/12/14

[NyTimes]

• "Throwing Money at Start-Ups in Frenzy to Find the Next Uber" [nytimes]
• "Google's Detractors Take Their Fight to the States" [nytimes]
• "In Big Data, Shepherding Comes First" [nytimes]
• "Aaron Sorkin: Journalists Shouldn't Help the Sony Hackers" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Elon Musk's hyperloop is actually making progress [link]
• Is OnDeck Capital the Next Generation of Lender or Boiler Room? [link]
• Handwriting vs typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard? [link]
• PocketQube kits make it easier for amateurs to build their own satellites [link]