April 2017

Cassini's First Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Insulin prices spike by 1123%, sending parents to the black market to keep their kids alive

https://boingboing.net

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/29/2017

China and Europe to build a base on the moon and launch other projects into space

https://www.independent.co.uk

Apple Hires Top Google Satellite Executives for New Hardware Team

https://www.bloomberg.com

Uber’s app fingerprinted iPhone hardware, breaking App Store rules 

https://arstechnica.com

The Boring Company

Predator at the Chessboard

http://www.chesstactics.org/

The Boring Company

China and Europe to build a base on the moon and launch other projects into space

https://www.independent.co.uk

Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets - Smarter Every Day 153

His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone | TED Talk

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Paul Allen Foundation announce $35M plan to support homeless families

http://www.geekwire.com

SpaceX Static Fire spy sat rocket and prepare to test Falcon Heavy core

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com

Apple Hires Top Google Satellite Executives for New Hardware Team

https://www.bloomberg.com

Uber’s app fingerprinted iPhone hardware, breaking App Store rules

https://arstechnica.com

Sounders 3 - LA Galaxy 0

http://www.sounderatheart.com

Predator at the Chessboard

http://www.chesstactics.org/

Rotating Moon from LRO

Inside an Intergalactic Video Game, a Search for Real Alien Worlds

https://www.technologyreview.com

The Pale Blue Dot - Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/22/2017

Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

http://waitbutwhy.com

The first decade of augmented reality

http://ben-evans.com

The world’s two most powerful telescopes are glorious—and vulnerable

https://arstechnica.com

Sounders join Bayern Munich, Real Madrid in wearing ocean-plastic kits

http://www.sounderatheart.com

Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi | official trailer (2017)

Bill O'Reilly has an emotional meltdown on Inside Edition.

Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

http://waitbutwhy.com

Tesla driver says Model S ‘saved his life’ after walking away unscathed from a crash ~500-ft down a hill

https://electrek.co

The world’s two most powerful telescopes are glorious—and vulnerable

https://arstechnica.com

Sounders join Bayern Munich, Real Madrid in wearing ocean-plastic kits

http://www.sounderatheart.com

Apple has a secret team working on the holy grail for treating diabetes

http://www.cnbc.com

The first decade of augmented reality

http://ben-evans.com

USAFacts

http://usafacts.org/

EFF Releases Spying on Students Ed Tech Report

https://www.eff.org

This Drone Is on a Mission to Rid Your City of Dog Poop

https://singularityhub.com

This contact lens could someday measure blood glucose and other signs of disease

http://www.kurzweilai.net

Brothers Win XPrize for “Star Trek”-Inspired Tricorder

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi | official trailer (2017)

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/15/2017

14,000-year-old village unearthed on B.C. island by UVic student

http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca

Washington state’s new 8 megawatt-hour flow battery is the largest of its kind

https://arstechnica.com

First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture

https://www.nextplatform.com

New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges

https://www.washingtonpost.com

Ride in Boeing Starliner atop a ULA Atlas V in this 360 Launch Experience

Sounders vs Whitecaps FC - Born in '74.

http://www.soundersfc.com

Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten

http://www.bbc.com

NASA Missions Provide New Insights into "Ocean Worlds" in Our Solar System

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

A Close-Up Look at the Catastrophic Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef

https://e360.yale.edu

Yuri Gagarin First Orbit and space flight around the Earth, April 12th 1961

Is ‘Strange Beasts’ a Preview of the Sad (Augmented) Reality Ahead of Us?

https://singularityhub.com

New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges

https://www.washingtonpost.com

14,000-year-old village unearthed on B.C. island by UVic student

http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca

United States, Canada and Mexico declare intention to submit unified bid to host 2026 FIFA World Cup

http://www.ussoccer.com

Ride in Boeing Starliner atop a ULA Atlas V in this 360 Launch Experience

First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture

https://www.nextplatform.com

Washington state’s new 8 megawatt-hour flow battery is the largest of its kind

https://arstechnica.com

Space start-ups get their 'Shark Tank' moment

http://www.latimes.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/8/2017

All Systems Are Go! Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Powers On for the First Time

http://beyondearth.com

Tesla delivers a record number of vehicles during the first quarter 2017: ~25,000

https://electrek.co

OpenAI Just Beat Google DeepMind at Atari With an Algorithm From the 80s

https://singularityhub.com

Seattle's tunnel machine Bertha breaks through nearly 4 years later

http://www.king5.com

This tiny electric jet startup thinks it can reinvent regional air travel

http://www.theverge.com

OpenAI Just Beat Google DeepMind at Atari With an Algorithm From the 80s

https://singularityhub.com

This tiny electric jet startup thinks it can reinvent regional air travel

http://www.theverge.com

Apple To Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs From SoCs

http://www.anandtech.com

Life after soccer: The struggle for players to find peace in retirement

http://www.fourfourtwo.com

All Systems Are Go! Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Powers On for the First Time

http://beyondearth.com

Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?

https://arstechnica.com

Seattle's tunnel machine Bertha breaks through nearly 4 years later

http://www.king5.com

Cars and second order consequences

http://ben-evans.com

Tesla delivers a record number of vehicles during the first quarter 2017: ~25,000

https://electrek.co

Richmond firm backed by VC Tim Draper plans to fly test versions of giant amphibious cargo drone over San Pablo Bay this summer

http://www.siliconbeat.com

Stan Draws Spaceships Episode 2 Part 2: Falcon and Skylon

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket wins NAA Collier award

https://www.cnet.com

Sounders 0 - Atlanta 0

http://www.soundersfc.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/1/2017

SpaceX conducts historic Falcon 9 re-flight with SES-10 – Lands booster again

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com

Blue Origin teases more images of its New Shepard capsule

https://arstechnica.com

Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

https://techcrunch.com

A list of known asteroid close approaches to Earth

https://twitter.com

CisLunar railroad

https://twitter.com