Addiction The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to TechWIRED - Condé Nast Does repeating a falsehood make it true? It seems so, at least when it comes to the myth that technology is addicting us all. While a reassessment of …
trump news update POLITICO Playbook: The Trump phone call that launched a whistleblower complaintPOLITICO - By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMANTODAY’S BIG STORY … WAPO: “Trump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say,” by Greg Miller, Ellen
Water The Man Who Makes Water From Thin Air Wins Half-A-Million Dollar PrizeForbes - Natalie ParlettaCody Friesen, associate professor at Arizona State University, has just won this year’s Lemelson-MIT prize for his innovative solar panels that create clean, fresh drinking water from air and humidity.
Google Maps AI Could Reinvent Medicine—Or Become a Patient's NightmareWIRED - Condé Nast In the 1880s, when the world-renowned Mayo Clinic was still a young fraternal surgical practice in the newish state of Minnesota, its doctors …
Wealth For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealthThe Guardian - George MonbiotIt is not quite true that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Musicians and novelists, for example, can become extremely rich by giving other people pleasure. But it does appear to be universally
U.S. Politics An unshackled Trump finally gets the presidency he always wantedPOLITICO - By NANCY COOKNo longer hemmed in by aides, Trump has bent the presidency into the mold of the Trump Organization. The China trade war, talks with the Taliban, the response to Iran after Saudi attacks, gun control,
Singularity The Seven Patterns Of AIForbes - Kathleen WalchFrom autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics applications, facial recognition, to chatbots, virtual assistants, cognitive automation, and fraud detection, the use cases for AI are many. However, regardless
Comcast Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps For $60 After Years Of Battling Comcasttechdirt.com - Tue, Sep 17th 2019 3:45am — Karl Bode A new community broadband network went live in Fort Collins, Colorado recently offering locals there gigabit fiber speeds for $60 a month with no …
Science C-Section Babies Are Missing Key Microbesscientificamerican.com - Ewen Callaway, Nature magazine How a baby is born has a profound impact on their microbiome — the community of microbes that colonize the body. That’s the finding of the largest …
Comets ‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’The Atlantic - Marina KorenThe second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is making quite an entrance. No one knows where it came from, but it’s here now. And the chase is on. Astronomers around the world
The Roots of Regulation RageThe New York TimesModern conservatives hate regulation, and the Trump administration has channeled that hatred into policy. It has scrapped or emasculated rules designed to limit everything from predatory lending to exploitative
trump news update In New Mexico, Trump Tries to Explain What He Thinks “the Hispanics” WantThe New Yorker - Amy Davidson SorkinAt a campaign rally in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, on Monday night, President Donald Trump had just finished a tribute to Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee—or “the woman
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Scraping A Public Website Doesn't Violate the CFAA, Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Holdsreason.com - Orin S. Kerr The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a groundbreaking decision today on the federal computer hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse …
Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Pythondropbox.com - Jukka Lehtosalo Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app (we are also heavy users of …
Cybersecurity Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's BuckWIRED - Condé Nast One of the trickiest things about stopping DDoS attacks is that hackers constantly develop new variations on familiar themes. Take a recent strike …
Lindsey Graham Trump Hits Back After Ally Denounces ‘Weakness’ With IranThe New York Times - Peter BakerBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — President Trump engaged in a long-distance debate over Iran with one of his closest allies on Tuesday as Republicans sought to influence the administration’s response to the attacks
Opinion Climate Change Is Not World WarThe New York TimesWhen Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced their Green New Deal proposal in February, they chose language loaded with nostalgia for of
Consciousness Creating human-like consciousness requires just four key ingredients | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Michael Graziano CONSCIOUSNESS is a slippery concept. It isn’t just the stuff in your head. It is the subjective experience of some of that stuff. When you stub your …
Science What Can Brain Scans Tell Us About Sex?The New York Times - Kim TingleyMen have a far greater appetite for sex and are more attracted to pornography than women are. This is the timeworn stereotype that science has long reinforced. Alfred Kinsey, America’s first prominent
Innovation She Was a Top Google Engineer. Now She Has an Urgent Warning About Something Most People Never Think OfInc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.This is a story with a common beginning, an atypical outcome, and potentially enormous stakes. It involves a former Google engineer who worked on one of Google's most controversial projects: Project Maven,
Elon Musk A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Findobserver.com - Sissi Cao From NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, it’s every space institute’s and tech billionaire’s dream to return to the …
Surveillance Data that once was ignored is now supercharging surveillanceAxios - Kaveh Waddell Until now, the vast majority of information collected about us has remained untouched — there was just too much to make sense of it all. What's …
Amazon Rainforest Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming BurnsThe New Yorker - Bill McKibbenWhat if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels? I’m skilled at eluding the fetal crouch of despair—because I’ve been working on climate change for thirty I’ve
Albert Einstein Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Leah Crane Try as we might, we just can’t prove Einstein wrong. One prediction of his theory of general relativity is that black holes are simple objects – and …
Leadership The five-minute email rule completely transformed the way I workFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonThis editor has a rule to spend no more than five minutes on an email. Here’s how she makes it work. We’re all drowning in email. And if you’re spending 15 minutes on every reply, no productivity system
Mosquitoes Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularlyfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski On its surface, the plan was simple: gene-hack mosquitoes so their offspring immediately die, mix them with disease-spreading bugs in the wild, and …
Hong Kong I’ve Been Waiting for a Song Like ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ My Whole LifeThe New York TimesHONG KONG — First came the goose bumps. Then came the tears running down my face. Standing on the second floor balcony of one of Hong Kong’s biggest shopping malls last Thursday night, I turned away from
The Arts Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and SongsThe New York Times - By JAMES GAVINTo watch a show by the singer-dancer Daniela Mercury, one of Brazil’s biggest stars for nearly 30 years, is to plunge into a pulsing, hyperenergized fantasia of her hometown, Salvador da Bahia, arguably
Apple Watch Revolutionary iPhone tech that took 5 years to develop was just abandoned by Apple after only 4 yearsbgr.com - Zach Epstein There’s no question whatsoever that 3D Touch is the most underappreciated technologies Apple has introduced in the past decade, but that’s no one’s …
Opinion Trump Is Cornered by the Saudi Drone AttacksBloomberg - Timothy L. O'Brien A small squadron of drones — and possibly cruise missiles — penetrated Saudi Arabia’s air defenses on Saturday, laying waste to a significant, …
Tom HigleyIndie Music The Private Side of Jazz Music, Through the Eyes of a Blue Note Co-FounderThe New Yorker - Richard Brody
Tom HigleyAlgorithms Biological learning curves outperform existing ones in artificial intenature.com - Herut Uzan, Shira Sardi, Amir Goldental, Roni Vardi, Ido Kanter
Tom Higley Everyone’s an Idiot, Except Donald TrumpThe New York Times - By GAIL COLLINS and BRET STEPHENS
Tom HigleyKamala Harris Kamala Harris shines in commanding Democratic debate performanceCNN - By Fredreka Schouten, CNN
Tom HigleyHeart Health How calcium in coronary arteries can predict future heart healthMedical News Today - By Lauren Sharkey
Tom Higley Robert De Niro: Robert Mueller, We Need to Hear MoreThe New York Times - By ROBERT DE NIRO
Tom HigleyU.S. Politics Hickenlooper proposing staggered federal minimum wage hikesAssociated Press - By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Tom HigleyWorkflow Slack launches Workflow Builder for businesses to make apps without codeVentureBeat - Khari Johnson
Tom Higley Have We Really Entered The Anthropocene? This Researcher Says It Doesn't ExistScienceAlert - MATTHEW ADAMS
Tom HigleyUnited Airlines On a United Airlines Flight, I Did Something I'd Been Warned Not To Do. I May Never RecoverInc Magazine - Chris Matyszczyk
Tom HigleyHomelessness New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90% (and saved a fortune) by giving homeless people homesboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
Tom Higley Big data is being reshaped thanks to 100-year-old ideas about geometryThe Conversation UK - Ittay Weiss
Tom HigleyNASA NASA celebrates Earth’s incredible natural beauty with free photo bookDigital Trends - Trevor Mogg
Tom Higley “Blood Water Paint,” A Portrait of the Renaissance Artist Who Fought the PatriarchyThe New Yorker - Natasha Tripathi
Tom Higley To Grow, Shift From Focusing on Employee Performance to Employee GrowthInc Magazine - Inc. Magazine
Tom Higley Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers”The New Yorker - Alex Ross
Tom Higley Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95The New York Times - By BARRY GEWEN
Tom Higley How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover
