October 2017

I started collecting ER bills. The American Hospital Association started warning its members.

https://www.vox.com

The Family That Built an Empire of Pain

https://www.newyorker.com

Portuguese non-neutral ISP shows us what our Trumpian internet will look like

https://boingboing.net

Are There Optical Communication Channels in Our Brains?

https://www.technologyreview.com

Andrew Ng Has a Chatbot That Can Help with Depression

https://www.technologyreview.com

Cory Doctorow: Demon-Haunted World

http://locusmag.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 10/28/2017

We May Have Just Been Visited By An Interstellar Comet

https://lightsinthedark.com

A newly discovered moon tunnel could be the perfect place for a colony, scientists say

https://www.washingtonpost.com

Burger King | Bullying Jr.

Dear Seattle | A letter from Brian Schmetzer

In Kabul, first evening soccer match in nearly four decades defies Taliban attacks

https://www.washingtonpost.com

ARM CEO: Tech Industry Must Build an Immune System to Prevent a Cybercrime Pandemic

https://spectrum.ieee.org

Map of computer science

We May Have Just Been Visited By An Interstellar Comet

https://lightsinthedark.com

Warp Speed Comparison

Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant

https://machinelearning.apple.com

It takes just $1000 to track someones's location with mobile ads

https://www.wired.com

Burger King | Bullying Jr.

In Kabul, first evening soccer match in nearly four decades defies Taliban attacks

https://www.washingtonpost.com

When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy

https://www.nytimes.com

A newly discovered moon tunnel could be the perfect place for a colony, scientists say

https://www.washingtonpost.com

Dear Seattle | A letter from Brian Schmetzer

Why haven’t we had alien contact? Blame icy ocean worlds

https://www.sciencemag.org

Blue Origin conducts first test of BE-4 engine

http://spacenews.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 10/21/2017

Big news: For the first time, astronomers detect gravitational waves from two neutron stars crashing together!

http://www.syfy.com

Google parent Alphabet looks to restore cell service in Puerto Rico with Project Loon balloons

https://techcrunch.com

SpaceX seeks FCC approval to test satellite communications system in Seattle area

https://www.geekwire.com

A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity — and it Could be the Solution to World Hunger

https://futurism.com

Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Pollution Causes 9 Million Premature Deaths a Year

https://www.technologyreview.com

U.N. puts out a global call for payloads to ride on SNC’s Dream Chaser space plane

https://www.geekwire.com

Dimming of Tabby’s Star likely caused by something less sexy than aliens

https://arstechnica.com

Boeing offers a $2 million prize for a working jetpack

https://www.engadget.com

What It Will Take for the World to Keep Getting Better

https://singularityhub.com

Finding Your Roots - The Impression

http://www.pbs.org

Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

KRACK! Wifi's go-to security, WPA2, is fatally flawed, and will probably never be patched in many places

https://boingboing.net

Big news: For the first time, astronomers detect gravitational waves from two neutron stars crashing together!

http://www.syfy.com

SpaceX seeks FCC approval to test satellite communications system in Seattle area

https://www.geekwire.com

A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity — and it Could be the Solution to World Hunger

https://futurism.com

Google parent Alphabet looks to restore cell service in Puerto Rico with Project Loon balloons

https://techcrunch.com

Typhoon-proof Wind Turbine

https://hackaday.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 10/14/2017

The Worst Loss In The History Of U.S. Men’s Soccer

https://fivethirtyeight.com

Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think

https://motherboard.vice.com

Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song

https://www.technologyreview.com

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer (Official)

We Built the Saturn V

https://www.airspacemag.com

Implementing Ethereum trading front-runs on the Bancor exchange in Python

https://hackernoon.com

Our Vision for Mercury Protocol

https://medium.com

Implementing Ethereum trading front-runs on the Bancor exchange in Python

https://hackernoon.com

Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song

https://www.technologyreview.com

Armchair Analyst: No excuses, no good outcomes, now what's the plan?

https://www.mlssoccer.com

The Worst Loss In The History Of U.S. Men’s Soccer

https://fivethirtyeight.com

In Real Life #BeStrong

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer (Official)

Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think

https://motherboard.vice.com

Securing a Raspberry Pi

https://www.schneier.com

iFixit’s iPhone 8 teardown finds a smaller battery and lots of glue

https://arstechnica.com

Billions of devices imperiled by new clickless Bluetooth attack

https://arstechnica.com

The computer hack that saved Apollo 14

We Built the Saturn V

https://www.airspacemag.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 10/7/2017

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers

https://www.nytimes.com

NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council

https://www.theverge.com

Airbus to challenge SSL, Orbital ATK with new space tug business

http://spacenews.com

Are These Giant Neurons the Seat Of Consciousness in the Brain?

https://singularityhub.com

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones

https://www.schneier.com

NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council

https://www.theverge.com

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones

https://www.schneier.com

Email Tracking

https://www.schneier.com

Here’s what to expect from Trump’s space council meeting this week

https://arstechnica.com