Category: Link post

Here’s links and comments on what I enjoyed reading this week. 1. DNA joins the surveillance society. This week police arrested a 72 year old man accused of 51 rapes and 12 murders between 1974 and 1986. He was tracked down using DNA site GEDmatch. How this works is you get your DNA results from a major… Continue reading Saturday Links 28-Apr-2018: DNA joins the surveillance society, voting for status, music streaming, seagoing Neanderthals

Here’s my favorite reads from this week, with comments. 1. Apple Customers love iPhone X, except for Siri. Ben Bajarin at Creative Strategies published an ungated version of their iPhone survey, and no surprise people love the new interface. That is, the replacement of the home button with a swipe based interface, and unlock using… Continue reading Saturday Links 21-Apr-2018 iPhone X survey, humans at sea, Huang’s law, housing, humans versus megafauna

Here’s comments and links on what I enjoyed reading this week. 1. Facebook Facebook Facebook. The 2018 deluge continues. Which aspects seemed underreported? I’d say: A. Only a vocal minority care about privacy. B. Hence privacy is weaponized in a proxy war for what people really care about — Facebook’s power over news and which… Continue reading Saturday Links 14-Apr-2018: Facebook, China Tech fusing with government, Birds see magnetic fields, Media a side hustle for tech giants

Here’s what I most enjoyed reading this week. 1. End of Windows. An excellent play-by-play analysis by Ben Thompson on how Satya Nadella has shifted Microsoft away from it’s (massively successful) past, and towards it’s only realistic future. One where Windows is treated as a legacy business. link

Here’s links to what I enjoyed reading this week, and why.

It’s Saturday once again, and a lot of interesting stuff came out this week. So here’s what I liked and why.

Commentary and links on what I found interesting to read this week. 1. Middle Stone Age Tools 320k years old. Homo erectus (our ancestors) used Ascheulean stone hand axes. These are big pear shaped rocks for cutting and pounding. Whereas Homo sapiens used more advanced stone tools, termed Middle Stone Age. These include spear tips,… Continue reading Saturday Links 17-Mar-2018 Human tools 320k years old, Children and paychecks, Drake plays Fortnite, astronaut DNA

It’s Saturday. So here’s a list of what I found most interesting to read this week, prefaced by why I liked it.

1. President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. Xi abolishing the decades old China communist party rule for term limits is undoubtedly the biggest news of the past week. New York Times piece is pretty good.

1. Chris Dixon Why Decentralization Matters. Dixon in top form. He covers how the decentralized internet of the 1980-2000s was built on open protocols. But then the internet became centralized in the current 2000-present era, under companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon. Then posits how decentralization will happen again under a new set of protocols built… Continue reading Saturday Links 24-Feb-2018 (part 2). Decentralized crtyponetworks, Neatherthal art, STEM Women, Magic Leap becoming Segway