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Personal Voice in iOS 17

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Live Captions in FaceTime

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Awesome conversation I had with Mary Tresler on Voice first design.

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Facing going blind within years, Chris Maury is working on changing the way the internet sounds.

A recent interview I had on the Control Zed podcast in Australia

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Everything I read in 2015

100+ Books, 500+ Podcast episodes, and 1000+ news articles. 2015 was a busy year.

Podcasts

This past year I really got into Podcasts. The show that pushed me over the edge was Startup by Gimlet Media (paired with the Overcast app with 2.5x+ listening speed). After that I was hooked.

It’s amazing how engaging audio content can be. It’s really made me less excited about listening to regular articles with a Text to Speech voice like Siri. There is so much more information conveyed through tone and generally how people speak. Recorded conversations can be so much more information rich than plain articles.  I think there is also something to be said for the type of story telling that is done in a podcast or radio program vs. a news or online article. In general there is more depth and nuance in content on podcasts, and I’m really looking forward to listening to more in the coming year

StartUp  Podcast

Reply All

Mystery Show

Suprisingly Awesome

99% Invisbile

Radio Lab

Planet Money

Internet History Podcast

a16z

Actuality

Analysis Asia with Bernard Leong

Code Breaker

Cortex

Death, Sex & Money

The Distance

EconTalk

Emergence

Exponent

Freakonomics

Imaginary Worlds

intersection

Invisibilia

Latino USA

Liftoff

Longform

Note to Self

One Shot

The Pitch

ProPublica Podcast

Startup School Radio

Techdirt

Third coast International

Voices of VR Podcast

Vox’s the Weeds

Books

I read another 107 books this past year, many of them from long series. I’d really like to try and read more non-fiction, but it’s hard to get a good queue going. If you have any recommendations, or even better a good source for non-fiction books, please let me know.

I’m going to try and start this year off with a deep dive into books on non-visual user interfaces, so hopefully I can keep the  educational trend going.

A History of Interest Rates – Richard Sylla

Steelheart – Brandon Sanderson

Mitosis: A Reckoner’s Story – Brandon Sanderson

Firefight – Brandon Sanderson

Choosing in Groups – Michael C. Munger

The Black Count: Flory, Revolution, Betrayal – Rom Reiss

From Beirut to Jerusalem – Thomas L Friedman

David Vs Goliath – Bruce Schneier

The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson

Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson

Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson

Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson

The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson

The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell

Distraction – Bruce Sterling

Interface – Neal Stephenson

The Sound Book 0 The Science of the Sonic Wonders – Trevor Cox

Man without Words – Susan Schaller

The Sonic Boom – Tyler Gray

I, Claudius – Robert Graves

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Siusan Clarke

Shaman – Kim Stanley Robinson

Ghost Spin – Chris Moriarty

Spin Control – Chris Moriarty

Veiled – Benedict Jacka

Hidden – Benedict – Jacka

2312 – Kim Stanley Robinson

Game of Cages – Harry Connolly

The Alex Verus Novels 1-4 – Benedict Jacka

Child of Fire – Harry Connolly

Spin State – Chris Moriarty

Big Gods – Ara Norenzayan

The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson

Outlander – Diana Gabaldon

Ishmael – Daniel Quinn

The Annihilation Score – Charles Stross

So You’ve Been Publicly shamed – Jon Ronson

Predictable Revenue – Aaron Ross

Station eleven – Emily St. Mandel

You’re Never Weird on the Internet (almost) – Felicia Day

Solution Selling – Michael Bosworth

Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore

Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari

Reinventing Discovery – Michael Nieldsen

Consent of the Networked – Rebecca Mackinnon

The Filter Biubble – Eli Pariser

Diaspora – Greg Egan

A Short History of Progress – Ronald Wright

Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee

Armada – Ernest Cline

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt – Miichael Lewis

Maddadam – Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood – Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

The Story of My Life – Helen Keller

Present Shock – Gouglas Ruhkoff

Trust – Francis Fukuyama

Why Information Grows – Cesar Hidalgo

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis

The Stranger – Albert Camus

Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher

The Myth of the Garage – Dan Heath

Seveneves – Neal Stephenson

The Dresden Files 1-13 – Jim Butcher

Warlord, Inc. – Noah Raford

Scarcity: Why having too little means so much – Sendhil Mullainathan

Spies for Hire – Tim Shorrock

The Circle – Dave Eggers

The Peripheral – William Gibson

Information doesn’t want to be Free – Neil Gaiman

The Wizard’s Bane – Rick Cook

Wizardry Compiled – Rick Cook

The Utopia of Rules – Ravid Graeber

Constellation Games – Leonard Richardson

The Religious Case against Belief – James Carse

Dungeons and Dragons and Philosphy – Jon Cogburn

The Geography of Nowhere 0 James Howard Kunstler

Finite and Infinite Games – James Carse

Rendezvous with Rama 0 Arthur C Clarke

Rama II – Arthur C Clarke

Garden of Rama – Arthur C Clarke

Absolution Gap – Alastair Reynolds

Redemption Ark – Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds

The Evolutionary Void – Peter F Hamilton

The Dreaming Void – Peter F Hamilton

Songs of Earth and Power – Greg Bear

Pandora’s Star – Peter F Hamilton

Judas Unchained – Peter F Hamilton

Ancilary Justice – Ann Leckie

News Articles

This is the first time I’ve exported all of the articles I’ve read from Pocket (I didn’t realize you could until now). It’s not very useful for more than just getting a raw count (1357). It would be great to do some data visualizations with the links and meta data. Maybe some word clouds or something. Oh well, next year.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-28/why-africa-isn-t-rising

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-wants-to-see-your-internet-history-so-we-thought-it-was-only-fair-to-ask-for-hers-a6785591.html

Istanbul: Turkish cuisine at a crossroads - Al Jazeera English

Hacking the Blindness: How Visually Impaired People Use Computers to Code |

Is Santa Claus a God? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

In defense of secular Christmas - Vox

Posse of Mathematicians Bridges Number Theory and Geometry | WIRED

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/this-christmas-tune-it-all-out-20151223#ixzz3vRyPZjOi

http://www.vox.com/2015/12/24/10660766/star-wars-franchise-reboot-the-prequels

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework - 1962 (AUGMENT,3906,) -

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/can-we-talk-for-a-minute-about-how-star-wars-podracing-1749484416

Rey's English accent in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clue about her pa

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/business/dealbook/in-arbitration-a-privatization-of-the-justice-system.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

https://medium.com/@voshart/vice-media-kit-warning-for-advertisers-25ad0600f61d

http://theantimedia.org/china-just-launched-the-most-frightening-game-ever-and-soon-it-will-be-mandatory/

Graphs in the world: Modeling systems as networks - O'Reilly Radar

The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job - The New York Times

You are your phone | ROUGH TYPE

Star Wars: The Force Awakens — what’s up with the Republic and the Resistan

Rey from Star Wars theory - Tech Insider

Product Discovery in Established Companies

Dual-Track Scrum

How Art Became Irrelevant | commentary

Why I love Industrious, and about coworking and offices more generally | Li

U.S. and Cuba at Odds Over Exodus of the Island’s Doctors - The New York Ti

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/19/10626896/star-wars-the-force-awakens-rey-mary-sue-feminist

http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/3xi17t/the_force_awakens_rey_is_a_dream_come_true/

http://brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2015/

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-beijings-south-china-sea-moves-make-sense-now-14643

CS 90SI — CS Social Good @Stanford — CS Social Good — Medium

Unlocking VR’s Potential by Focusing on UX — This Place — Medium

Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages - Facts So R

The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad | Decider | Wh

California: Self-driving cars must have driver behind wheel under DMV propo

The Micro VCs Are Coming | Mattermark

George Hotz Is Taking on Tesla by Himself

Homevoters v. the growth machine | City Observatory

Podcasting is getting huge. Here's why. - Vox

Hacking the City | New Republic

New doctors are smart and successful. So why are they so miserable? - Quart

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/15/dog-dna-study-reveals-the-extraordinary-journey-of-mans-best-friend?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience

The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases

Beth Likes Balloons - Hot Metal Bridge

Why I'm not using your open source project - NCZOnline

You could soon talk to everything in your house—and it will talk back - Qua

Microsoft releases Cortana-like speech-to-text technology to select develop

SoundHound Launches Houndify Platform To Add A Voice Interface To Other App

Dispel’s Privacy-As-A-Service Platform Keeps Your Internet Connection Secre

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami?currentPage=all

http://mic.com/articles/130331/this-arabic-programming-language-shows-how-computers-revolve-around-the-western-world#.3jx5kwGhd

Techno-social engineering is freaking insiders out / Boing Boing

The search for Apple's next big thing

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/wound-stopping-battlefield-sponge-gun-now-ok-civilians-too-n478806

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/12/flaws-basic-income-everyone.html

https://medium.com/basic-income/something-is-happening-basic-income-create-a-thons-are-here-48a8055a7010

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/10/dhs-state-halted-investigation-into-islamist-group-linked-to-san-bernardino-terrorists/

'I want to join the NSA. What do you think of that?' | US news | The Guardi

The Future Of Podcasting | TechCrunch

At US high schools, girls soccer is even more dangerous than boys wrestling

Four Fault Lines That Are Reshaping The Audio Landscape | TechCrunch

The Tail End - Wait But Why

Continuations : Capital Is No Longer Scarce

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/10/9886152/donald-trump-fascism

http://na.square-enix.com/us/blog/final-fantasy-vii-remake-psx-2015-message-yoshinori-kitase

Advocates for the blind sue Husted over voter website - The Plain Dealer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/middleeast/magdala-stone-israel-judaism.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/technology/personaltech/cant-put-down-your-device-thats-by-design.html?smid=re-share

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-computing-with-time-travel.html

Designing a New Operating System for Work — Medium

Is the Future of Music a Chip in Your Brain? - WSJ

The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop - The Daily Beast

The Smartphone Completely Changed the Refugee Crisis

You may think you learn better in a certain way. You actually don’t - Quart

Studying in the US makes the Chinese more appreciative of China - Quartz

Three Challenges For The Hearables Future | TechCrunch

Canny the Robot: Programming With Headphones - Open Research

Chomsky Was Right, NYU Researchers Find: We Do Have a “Grammar” in Our Head

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ValentinaChrysostomou/20151207/260585/Speech_Recognition_and_Storytelling_in_Plan_Be.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/us/police-chiefs-say-scrutiny-over-videos-has-radically-changed-their-work.html

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/could-facebook-be-the-next-big-platform-for-podcasts/

http://www.coha.org/cubas-dire-need-for-foreign-investment-what-it-means-to-its-developing-economy/

http://thehustle.co/hunter-moore-what-happens-when-your-nudes-go-viral

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/08/saudi-arabia-accused-of-trying-to-wreck-the-paris-climate-deal

https://medium.com/intercom-inside/messaging-is-just-getting-started-9391897fe455#.8nla5h69y

Is There a Future for the Professions? An Interim Verdict | The Good Projec

http://wesa.fm/post/it-safe-medical-residents-work-30-hour-shifts

John Kerry warns Israel on danger of PA collapse - Al Jazeera English

Games reveal the contrasting colors of accessibility / Offworld

The Full Stack — The Horror

The rise and rise of headphones: Why the set you buy isn’t just a question

Science-fictional shibboleths - Charlie's Diary

America’s super-secret court names five lawyers as public advocates | Ars T

Access Denied - The Awl

The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified - The Washington Post

The Next Page: Tina Calabro offers 10 ways the region can become more inclu

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123025158419834413

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/let-math-save-our-democracy.html?_r=0

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/people-are-complaining-that-amazon-echo-is-responding-to-ads-on-tv

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/opec-unity-shattered-as-saudi-led-policy-leads-to-no-limits/ar-AAg24DU?li=BBnbfcL

http://qz.com/566702/finland-plans-to-give-every-citizen-a-basic-income-of-800-euros-a-month/

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/noam-chomsky-the-gop-is-no-longer-a-normal-political-party-its-a-radical-insurgency/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/12/04/my-4-year-old-thinks-shes-jewish-and-its-changed-how-i-see-my-own-faith/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/fashion/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-marriage.html?_r=1&referer=

How Corporations Profit From Black Teens' Viral Content | The FADER

Android Audio Latency In-Depth: It's Getting Better, Especially With The Ne

Motus Wearable Sensors Bring Biomechanics Out Of The Lab And Into The Ball

Israel tech helps the deaf 'hear' and the blind 'see' | The Times of Israel

No, you don’t need a natural language interface | Zompist's E-Z rant page

Venture Capital Disrupts Venture Capitalq - Venture-Capital-Disrupts-Ventur

U.S. claims in Cuba: The strange battle that is exciting speculators and co

Robert Mugabe: China is doing everything that Africa’s colonizers should ha

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/12/02/professor-george-church-says-he-can-reverse-the-aging-process/

Urban Transport Without the Hot Air: confusing the issue with relevant fact

Kickstarter is Debt — Bolt Blog — Medium

The inside story on wearable electronics : Nature News & Comment

https://apple.news/AYeZo12SRQ1GkUJcRnmTx2g

https://apple.news/Agi7QX-uwSOKrO5wHMpDt4g

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqis-think-the-us-is-in-cahoots-with-isis-and-it-is-hurting-the-war/2015/12/01/d00968ec-9243-11e5-befa-99ceebcbb272_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/30/why-inequality-is-to-blame-for-the-rise-of-the-islamic-state/?postshare=5041448904775008&tid=ss_tw

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/these-congressmen-have-big-financial-stakes-industry-they-are-helping

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2015/09/24/states-go-overtime-on-budgets-hurting-programs

I Can't Let You Do That, Dave | December 2015 | Communications of the ACM

The TPP State of Play: How We Defeat the Largest Trade Deal in History | El

The 100-Hour Rule · Coding VC

Time to Bring Cuba Online - The New York Times

http://fox17online.com/2015/12/01/man-charged-with-felony-for-passing-out-fliers-in-front-of-courthouse/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/opinion/campaign-stops/bernie-sanders-your-cool-socialist-grandpa.html

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-boxes-that-can-steal-your-social-media-and-dropbox-passwords-for-the-cops

The dark alliance of global philanthropy and capitalism - Al Jazeera Englis

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/the-national-security-letter-spy-tool-has-been-uncloaked-and-its-bad/

http://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-that-no-one-talks-about/

The 4 things Google believes are key to the future of search | VentureBeat

Top Tips: Create Engaging Alexa Skills Your Users Will Love - Amazon Mobile

Psychology of boring architecture: The damaging impact of big, ugly buildin

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/opinion/black-tape-at-harvard-law.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/how-to-make-millions-of-hoverboards-almost-overnight#.dtoLNp3ddA

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-its-so-hard-to-design-arabic-typefaces/?mbid=nl_102315

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=sl&nid=14457

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/erotic-fiction-audiobooks-are-a-booming-business.html?_r=0

From Steel to Startups, Pittsburgh Tries to Cultivate an Ecosystem for Inno

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html

http://mediafilter.org/MFF/FBI.html

The Information Theory of Life | Quanta Magazine

Reputation in the Information Age - Schneier on Security

http://www.nature.com/news/graph-theory-breakthrough-tantalizes-mathematicians-1.18801

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/19/9762028/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism

How to start your first podcast - equipment, editing, publishing and more -

Plan for New Stock Exchange Stirs Furious Debate - The New York Times

Introducing Slot Filling – the easiest way to build a dialog - Api.ai

Call for an urgent rethink of the ‘health at every size’ concept

The Biggest Story In The World | Transom

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/11998922/Wikileaks-releases-audiotapes-allegedly-showing-fraud-in-Obama-and-Bush-administrations.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/paris-attacks-prompt-geopolitical-shift-in-west-1447623348

http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797

Terrorism Works

Debt Market Distortions Go Global as Nothing Makes Sense Anymore - Bloomber

BBC - Future - Is another human living inside you?

Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: The Internet Will Always Suck

http://fpif.org/the-saudis-are-stumbling-they-may-take-the-middle-east-with-them/

The Awe Delusion

IBM’s Watson shown to enhance human-computer co-creativity, support biologi

http://www.sciencealert.com/a-classic-formula-for-pi-has-been-discovered-hidden-in-hydrogen-atoms

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/us/politics/many-say-high-deductibles-make-their-health-law-insurance-all-but-useless.html

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/13/app-store-optimization-can-double-or-even-triple-mobile-app-installs-research/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/the-dream-life-of-driverless-cars.html?smid=tw-nytmag&smtyp=cur

What is Reputation? | Edge.org

The Basics | Transom

Fwd: Using Music: Jonathan Menjivar For This American Life

Improbable: The British tech startup with massive ambition | Alphr

All the names for the new digital economy, and why none of them fits - Quar

No UI Is The New UI | TechCrunch

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/tor-says-feds-paid-carnegie-mellon-1m-to-help-unmask-users/

http://bgr.com/2015/11/11/virtual-reality-games-accessory-impacto/

http://www.thenation.com/article/are-we-training-cops-to-be-hyper-aggressive-warriors/

Amino's Cool Bio Kit Is Like the Easy-Bake Oven of Bioreactors | WIRED

A 19th-century solution to the high-tech problems of the gig economy - Quar

William Gibson — Hand & Brain — Medium

We Must Protect the On-Demand Economy to Protect the Future of Work | WIRED

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/07/next-financial-crash-is-coming-imf-global-stability-report?CMP=share_btn_tw

How Not To Buy a Cruising Boat

TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations

CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach | WIRED

John Q Public, beware: The SEC's new investor rules could ruin you | Ventur

I thought the Amazon store was a terrible idea. Then I actually went there.

Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups - The Atlantic

Coliving: A Solution for Lonely Millennials? - The Atlantic

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/y-combinator-and-paul-graham-are-bad-for-the-world-part-1/

One net, one future - Al Jazeera English

Robo-advisers are here. What’s a human financial planner to do? - The Washi

How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History--And Stays Ever Relevant

Startup Playbook

Big Banks Lock Horns With Personal-Finance Web Portals - WSJ

Inside the Kitchen That Listens to Food and Cooks by Itself | WIRED

Mobile App Developers are Suffering — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hackin

LOL Nothing Matters: A defense of the internet’s absence of meaning | The N

Why This Audio Map for the Blind Offers an Open-Data Roadmap for the Countr

Fastest brain-computer-interface speller developed | KurzweilAI

Facebook: 'The goal of Messenger is to be a platform, not one app that does

http://origin-www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/putin-thinks-he-s-vladimir-the-great-condoleezza-rice-says

Hands On With Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC — Blog — John Szumski

How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk - The New York

Social Status II: Cults and Loyalty | Melting Asphalt

Big Corporate Sponsors Could Change Podcasting Forever | WIRED

Someday, Tech Will End Our Dumb Two-Party System | WIRED

Helping Refugees Isn't Just About Designing Better Shelters | WIRED

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961

Deep Learning Pioneer Pushing GPU Neural Network Limits

RECONSIDER — Medium

F*** the monoculture: How Kickstarter is putting cultural ideology above pr

Ahmed Chalabi: The real victor of the Iraq War - Al Jazeera English

Jose Marti: What the revolutionary means to Cubans - Al Jazeera English

How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Star Platforms to Create a Real Sharing E

https://thepitch.vc/b/the-podcasting-stack-used-by-the-pitch-mic-recording-gear-editing-software/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/siliconvalleys-new-philanthropy.html?_r=0&referer=http://m.facebook.com

Larry Summers: Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think ab

Jon Stewart is going to HBO - Quartz

The Dash, Bragi's in-ear assistant, wants to make you healthier and happier

Why games need to stop letting everyone save the world / Offworld

Research Blog: Computer, respond to this email.

Facebook builds a mobile app that answers spoken questions about photos wit

A socialist even a conservative could love; as Burlington mayor, Sanders wa

What Works Evanston: The Suburb That Tried To Kill the Car - POLITICO Magaz

Reddit Has Given Us the Most Insane Star Wars Theory Ever | WIRED

http://www.scottsantens.com/youtube-star-wars-future-of-work

National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed | TechCrunch

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/30/453210272/stealth-mode-built-in-monitor-not-all-body-cameras-are-created-equal

An Inside View of Language Technologies at Google | Breakthrough Analysis

It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars - Quartz

The wireless audio device market is growing 3x faster than smartphones, but

First Click: What comes after the smartphone? | The Verge

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-anti-utopian-instinct-and-election-2016/412756/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/fashion/npr-voice-has-taken-over-the-airwaves.html?referer=http://news.google.com/&_r=1

Let’s Talk About Bad Writing — Medium

Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence

Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible? - Racked

The home-chefs causing panic in restaurants - BBC News

A Mexican startup has pieced together the elusive data behind the country’s

Kit, the artificially intelligent CRM, now builds Instagram ads for you | V

Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos for the Blind on Its Own | WIRED

Design of a digital republic — Medium

The Future of Voice: What’s Next After Siri, Alexa and Ok Google | Re/code

Economists Prove That Capitalism Is Unnecessary - Forbes

The $24 Billion Data Business Telcos Don't Want to Discuss | Digital - Adve

Pixium Vision Implants Additional Patients in the European Clinical Trial o

Future of immersive gaming gear for the blind

Occupied words: On Israel's colonial narrative - Al Jazeera English

Can the US improve financial services for the poor using lessons from devel

From product design to virtual reality — Google Design — Medium

The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and pr

Live analyzing movement through machine learning – Engineering @TelenorDigi

Write Like You Talk

Japan's Voice wants to make voice-based social networking a thing | Venture

Why distributed workforces will win | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Keith

The Tech Elite's Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image | WIRED

Roko’s Basilisk: The most terrifying thought experiment of all time.

http://wesa.fm/post/9500-vacant-lots-pittsburgh-could-soon-be-ready-adoption

http://www.wirerealm.com/guides/top-10-best-portable-recorders

Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future — Medium

Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in the Brain

Faster optimization | MIT News

The Press Release Is Dead — Use This Instead | Mike Butcher

The Whistler will turn into a 'Star Wars' cantina in December

Reinventing the company | The Economist

Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? - The New York Times

The Gig Economy Can Actually Be Great for Women | WIRED

Obama administration petitions judge for no mercy in student debt bankruptc

Continuations : Why Decentralized Identity Matters: Github’s...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/09/19/the-coming-era-of-unlimited-and-free-clean-energy/?tid=trending_strip_4

JP Morgan to Grant IPO Access to Everyone | TechCrunch

Futurists Show Off the 'God Helmet' and Other Inventions | WIRED

Seeing Isn't Everything - Al Jazeera English

Terrorists torch five black Ferguson-area churches, nation yawns / Boing Bo

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/stanford-business-school-sex-scandal

Agile Failure Patterns

Alexa Fund backs France's Invoxia to expand use of Amazon's voice technolog

Raw footage of Michigan State touchdown shows football without the sugarcoa

Democrats are in denial. Their party is actually in deep trouble. - Vox

Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks | Lars Eidnes' blo

This smart hairclip translates sound to vibrations for the hearing impaired

Target Teams Up With Techstars To Create A Retail-Focused Startup Accelerat

http://www.eurasiareview.com/18102015-trans-pacific-partnership-the-view-from-china-analysis/

Tesla autopilot: The 10 most important things you need to know | VentureBea

Whales synchronize their songs across oceans, and there’s sheet music to pr

How to move forward when you have too many ideas | VentureBeat | Entreprene

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-young-woman-who-created-a-new-way-to-bust-sex-trafficking-rings

YC Continuity - Y Combinator Posthaven

We ran a private crowdfunding campaign -- and it worked | VentureBeat | Ent

Tobii reveals new eye-tracking chip and platform | GamesBeat | Games | by M

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers

Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power - Al Jazeera English

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html

Clever hack uses headphones to control Siri and Google Now remotely | The V

How the illusion of control leads you to perpetually wait for your life to

Cable News Edits Out Rousing Sanders Attack on Vapid Media Coverage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alysonkrueger/2015/10/13/this-synagogue-is-breaking-away-from-a-2000-year-old-model-and-solving-judaisms-biggest-problem/

Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole | Melting Asphalt

http://hyponymo.us/2015/08/20/play/

UN to probe the UK's deadly disability cuts - Al Jazeera English

Coming Soon From China: A $400 Million Bonanza for U.S. Startups - WSJ

Hacking is such a problem that the cost of cyber insurance is skyrocketing

The future of UI is text

Major Advance Reveals the Limits of Computation | WIRED

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?_r=1

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21672012-why-organisations-will-have-change-radically-make-work-life-balance?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/Jugglingmumsandhalodads

Tech companies should care more about customers with disabilities.

18F — To always be shipping, you need a shipyard

California passes the country's best-ever online privacy law / Boing Boing

The Form Could Be Reborn — Medium

Sound Decision | The Verge

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2015/10/151006-energy-drink-billionaire-wants-to-power-homes-with-bikes/

American democracy is doomed - Vox

Why Clinton’s TPP opposition unnerves me - Vox

Exploring Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s massive new cyberpunk world | The Verg

This New York Times correction hilariously drives home the money-in-politic

JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president | US news

libcom.org: an introduction

Once Seed Was Planted, Chinese Headwear Fad Grew Like Weeds - The New York

How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film | The Verge

Did a Florida Principal Hypnotize Kids to Death? -- NYMag

YC Research - Y Combinator Posthaven

Cuba: A nation gets connected | Miami Herald

http://beyondthebundle.com/2015-10-06/the-one-ring/

http://uk.businessinsider.com/european-court-of-justice-safe-harbor-ruling-2015-10

What Zillow Doesn't Want You To Know - BuildZoom

Cuba’s Startup Paradox | TechCrunch

What makes a good community? | The Geekess

The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here - Forbes

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries, and

Meaning and Pointing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/09/29/putin-and-obama-clash-over-international-relations-theory/

Losing sight – Tink

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-most-important-thing-and-its-almost-a-secret.html?smid=re-share

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http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/we-now-have-a-justice-system-just-for-corporations

Saving for a Daughter but Not a Son: This Father Is Starting a Fund to Comb

Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy? | Technology |

What Old Age Is Really Like - The New Yorker

With Reid Hoffman’s Backing, Development Economists Build Segovia, A Startu

What is the Largest Collective Action, Ever?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/30/tired-of-capitalism-lets-try-basic-income/

In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study fin

Wearables are gaining widespread acceptance. Now for the real challenge - Q

Academia Pushes A New Kind of Peer Review For Research With ‘Sessions’ | Te

By the Numbers: How to Write a Long Interactive Novel That Doesn’t Suck - C

Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks

Stop Googling. Let’s Talk. - The New York Times

The VoiceOver User's Guide to 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S | AppleVis

Using The Blockchain To Fight Crime And Save Lives | TechCrunch

BBC - Future - Blindsight: the strangest form of consciousness

The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In It

http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=59994

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/british-doctors-hail-cure-for-blindness-with-successful-treatment-of-age-related-muscular-a6671106.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars

The History of Prosthetics

http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/24/the-decline-and-fall-of-american-political-debate/#.VgaHid2rACQ.reddit

https://medium.com/basic-income/why-the-pope-supports-basic-income-ec45b94829de

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/26/bedtime-story-is-key-to-literacy-says-childrens-writer-cottrell-boyce

Conservatives Hated Boehner Because of Obama -- NYMag

British Spies Named Massive Online Surveillance Program After Radiohead's "

"We used to take refugees because they were Jewish. Now, we take them becau

Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes - The Ne

Death and transfiguration | The Economist

Why Nonstop Travel In Personal Pods Has Yet To Take Off : NPR

California capitalism is starting to look a lot like Polish communism - Qua

A record number of Arctic-going vessels have permits to travel the ice-free

The Surprising Bias Of Venture Capital Decision-Making | TechCrunch

The Netflix Tech Blog: John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculu

The Cub-ler-Ross Model: How Pirates Fans Can Cope With Wild-Card Angst «

Full text of Pope Francis' speech to US Congress - Al Jazeera English

In Undertale, you can choose to kill monsters — or understand them / Offwor

This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of

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How to save online advertising | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.wpr.org/ex-cia-operative-explains-what-pop-culture-gets-wrong-about-female-spies

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The Rise of Hacktivism | Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/playstation-vr-kitchen-summer-lesson/

The Death of the Party - The New York Times

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/tower-purifies-million-cubic-feet-air-hour/?mbid=social_fb

The Zero B.S. Method To Recruiting A Killer Sales Force | Andreessen Horowi

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Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations - colah's blog

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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child - The New York Times

50 Years After the Moynihan Report, Examining the Black Family in the Age o

The Secret to Happiness May Lie in Our Relationships

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The safe, user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of t

Wand Wants to Turn Messages Into Action — Backchannel — Medium

What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at a tech company — Medium

What's in My Bag? :: What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives - Ca

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/14/chinese-economy-western-markets-china

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots | Brain Pickings

Smartphones, apps are liberating the blind and visually impaired - StarTrib

A Leader’s Guide To Deciding: What, When, and How To Decide — Medium

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-plans-launch-of-4000-satellites-to-bring-wifi-to-most-remote-locations-on-earth-10499886.html

Facebook Beware, A New Kind of Network is Forming

Future Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of Disability | Te

Tom Vanderbilt Explains Why We Could Predict Self-Driving Cars, But Not Wom

Beacons lend a helping hand to visually impaired bus passengers in Buchares

Conversational Interface to Financial Services Unveiled: North Side Lets Yo

How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution | TechCrunch

How wearable technology is changing the lives of disabled people - The Glob

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-giant-ring-like-universe.html

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books

Hey Siri, you freak me out | VentureBeat | Security | by Sindy Nanclares

This Used To Be the Future - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus

Siri-ously? A few oversights and oddities from Apple's latest keynote | Ven

IBM Watson Health Begins To Take Shape | TechCrunch

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stop-comparing-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders/

Adrian Sampson: The Apple ISA

The principles of a decentralized web

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web

Flipkart’s head of product on how to build a great startup team - Quartz

Research Blog: Crowdsourcing a Text-to-Speech voice for low resource langua

Weidlinger Associates and Thornton Tomasetti Merge, Solidifying Leadership

What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn - The New York

The unemployment problem no one is talking about and how to help fix it

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid | Harvard Magazi

Uber to Unveil Big E-Commerce Delivery Program With Retailers in the Fall |

Soon you'll be able to be a Goonie in an interactive theater experience | T

Bragi's Dash, the wireless earbuds of our dreams, aren't up and running yet

The Input app wants to be a command line for your online life | The Verge

Commoditized Wearables | TechCrunch

We’re At The Beginning Of A Venture Capital Revolution | TechCrunch

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(2) This week, I resigned from my position at Duke... - Jean-François Garié

I’m a public defender. It’s impossible for me to do a good job representing

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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/sep/24/trump/

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/clinton-2016-has-never-made-sense-for-democrats/401597/

Carbon dioxide capture by a novel material that mimics a plant enzyme | Kur

AI authors crowdsourced interactive fiction | KurzweilAI

Amazon wants to know everything about you by having a robot talk to you - Q

The dangerous idea that life is a story – Galen Strawson – Aeon

Why Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Will Evolve Together, by

A Merging of Minds – and Molecules | HHMI.org

Breaking the Mold : Longreads Blog

Welcome to the Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Se

http://deadline.com/2015/09/stephen-colbert-jeb-bush-contest-late-show-video-1201513103/

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150901/22404532138/vice-news-employees-charged-with-terrorism-turkey-because-they-used-encryption.shtml

Siri Drives Apple CarPlay (Review) | TechCrunch

Edenworks Is Building The Future Of Food On Urban Rooftops | TechCrunch

“We Just Think Cartoon Animals are Cool” — ART   marketing — Medium

Equity Hours: Sweat Equity Made Easy | Startup Marketing Expertise

Take a Wittgenstein class: He explains the problems of translating language

http://www.techinsider.io/elon-musk-talks-fossil-fuels-with-wait-but-why-2015-8

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/nsa-boss-encrypted-software-needs-government-backdoors/

How agile development is bringing a new, responsive era of marketing | Vent

When it comes to refugees, terminology matters - Al Jazeera English

Maybe This Global Slowdown Is Different - Bloomberg View

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http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/08/24/what-should-be-purpose-of-american-power/if2b

IBM Watson Tone Analyzer – new service now available - BlueMix Dev

Rethinking Work - The New York Times

Why the Koch Brothers Will Pour All Their Money Into Making Bernie Sanders

Lessons After College · @jasdev

Official Google Blog: Android Wear now works with iPhones

Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

http://atimes.com/2015/08/welcome-to-the-trade-deal-wars-escobar/

The Uber-ization of porn - The Washington Post

Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Def

Thinking too much: self-generated thought as the engine of neuroticism: Tre

Let’s Abolish Social Science | The Smart Set

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/

Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead | FiniCulture

The V.C.s of B.C. - The New York Times

Here’s how ethical business can be good business, too - Quartz

How I stopped worrying and learned to love 'neckbuds' | The Verge

Linear Algebra: What matrices actually are | No Layman Left Behind

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Two Ways Of Writing About Sex Work

The Real Life of a Sugar Daddy | GQ

This is how science can finally start to fix itself - Quartz

Screw Texting. It's Time to Pick a Universal Messaging App | WIRED

Your Job As a Founder Is to Create Believers - startup thoughts

Peter Thiel on what works at work - The Washington Post

The Upside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley - The New York Times

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Bitcoin comes to Cuba. Could it help end the country’s crazy two-currency s

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Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED

HandUp’s new gift cards let you help the homeless without having to give th

Platform Cooperativism: a worker-owned Uber for everything - Boing Boing

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https://medium.com/@nath_leigh/low-skilled-humans-need-not-apply-the-growth-quality-and-polarization-of-new-jobs-9e41049b863c

Staff Exodus, Pressure From Microsoft, Apple Hit Google Now | Re/code

Juxtapoz Magazine - Juxtapoz Exclusive: An Interview with Banksy about Dism

Future technologies must be designed to free us from our screen addiction -

Minimum-wage debate heats up in Pennsylvania | PublicSource

http://www.dwavesys.com/blog/2015/08/announcing-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer

http://www.bookwormblues.net/2015/08/19/guest-post-greg-hickey-on-the-popularity-of-dystopian-film-and-its-effect-on-dystopian-literature/

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How '90s graphics shaped the bleak future of Deus Ex | The Verge

Samsung, MIT find way to make batteries with ‘indefinite’ lifetime – The Ko

Second Measure Launches, Offering Powerful Live Data Analysis Of Public/Pri

Stop calling it “female Viagra”—Addyi won’t affect women the way the little

Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox - Ben's Blog

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/18/maybe-hillary-clinton-just-isnt-a-very-good-candidate/

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/18/bernie-sanders-is-running-as-much-against-the-corporate-media-as-he-is-against-hillary-clinton/

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Meet Trail Life USA, Conservatism's Answer to the Boy Scouts

My One Wish For All Startup Employees | Bothsides of the Table

The man behind Venmo wants to turn the operating system from “Her” into a r

The End of the Internet Dream? — Backchannel — Medium

I thought Microsoft wasn't relevant anymore. Then I installed Windows 10 |

Here's what's going on with Soylent's lead and cadmium controversy | The Ve

How to Talk to Little Girls | Lisa Bloom

A corporate watchdog says Soylent contains unsafe levels of lead and cadmiu

20 of the Most Useless Dungeons & Dragons Spells Ever

Gene therapy cures blindness by replacing vision cells in eyes - New Scient

New model describes cognitive decision making as the collapse of a quantum

Helping Siri hear you in a party | KurzweilAI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/14/congress-is-trying-to-make-it-harder-to-know-how-the-economy-is-doing/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bankruptcy-and-economic-stagnation-mass-layoffs-worldwide-as-corporate-mergers-near-new-record/5469467

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Fake customer service rep trolls complainers of Target's new gender neutral

Cuba Looks for Edge Over Caribbean Rivals With Online Study of U.S. Tourist

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Huge explosion in Tianjin, China

Carnegie Mellon, GE Ventures bringing robotics accelerator program to Pitts

Integration Over Invention - Convox Blog

Every city wants to create its own Silicon Valley. This is bad for innovati

#BlackLivesMatter protesters kept out of Hillary Clinton event

Forget Sykes-Picot. It’s the Treaty of Sèvres That Explains the Modern Midd

Stand-Up Comics Have to Censor Their Jokes on College Campuses - The Atlant

Research Blog: The neural networks behind Google Voice transcription

Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president — in a most unconventional way -

Gene Therapy Makes Near-Blind Patients See by Strengthening Neural Connecti

Animating clothes is tricky, unless you teach animations to dress themselve

For sale in Spanish 'paradise': entire villages. Cheap. - CSMonitor.com

Photos: Cornel West and other protesters are arrested as Ferguson enters a

Cubans Know That the Island's Tourism Boom Will Leave Some Behind – Skift

Facebook, Google, and Twitter band together to battle child pornography | T

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A Universal Basic Income is my Generation’s Moonshot | Union Square Venture

Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley’s Attention - WSJ

The Beginning of the End of the TV Industrial Complex

Israel Continues Crackdown on Jewish Extremist Network

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Apple puts Environment VP Lisa Jackson in charge of boosting accessibility

This girls thoughts on 'The Friendzone' are spot on.

The first ever photograph of light behaving as both a particle and wave.

Valve announces VR headset called Vive in partnership with HTC

greece government setting up basic income

Do Black Holes Destroy Information?

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Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

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How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at las

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The Anchor Chair Is Not Worth Saving: "The news was no less subjective when

Russian science is amazing. So why hasn’t it taken over the world? We shoul

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9 things I wish I'd known before I became a stay-at-home mom

This Incredible Hospital Robot Is Saving Lives. Also, I Hate It

U.S. creates new agency to lead cyber threat tracking

A failed attempt to sail across the Atlantic.

Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says

http://gizmodo.com/wearable-tech-in-1922-was-a-radio-inside-your-top-hat-512972829

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-a-lone-hacker-shredded-the-myth-of-crowdsourcing-d9d0534f1731

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Regin Malware Unmasked as NSA Tool after SPIEGEL Publishes Source Code

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Martin Petersen: "What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis

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http://avc.com/2015/01/more-on-seed-rounds/

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/01/the-second-crypto-war-and-the-future-of-the-internet/

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The Argumentative Jew

Tech's High Barrier to Entry for the Underprivileged

What it's like to drive Saudi Arabian princesses around

The People's PRISM

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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/hands-on-with-hololens-making-the-virtual-real/

NSA spyware codenamed DROPOUTJEEP can spy on every Apple iPhone

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/14/7166849/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership

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How the rise of a mega solar panel farm shows us the future of energy

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40% of British families ‘too poor to play a part in society’

Physics of Earphones and How to Buy

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Is College the New High School?

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All the Books I read in 2014

64 Books. Whew. It looks like I beat my record from last year (58). This year was very heavy on Charles Stross, who I really enjoy reading. That said, I feel like this year was much lighter on educational non-fiction. I'll have to correct that this year, so if you have any recommendations, please send them my way!

May favorite booklast year was definitely The Slow Regard of Silent things by Patrick Rothfuss. It is one of the most unique and original books I've read. Period. It is definitely worth a read, and I will recommend it to everyone. The only caveat is that you must read the Name of the Wind before starting it.

Other books of note are the Mistborn and WWW trilogies. Both are very enjoyable and provide a lot to chew on.

What were your favorite books you read in  2014?

Here is the list in chronolical order (most recent last):

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

Influx - Daniel Suarez

Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

Shards of Honor - Louis McMaster Bujold

Count Zero - William Gibson

The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfson

Accelerando - Charles Stross

The Economic Origins of the Territorial State - Scott Abrasion

Singularity Sky - Charles Stross

Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patterson, et al.

Ringworld - Larry Niven

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piety

Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger

No Place to Hide - Glenn Greenwald

Venture Deals - Brad Feld

The Hard Thing about Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow - Tad Williams

Otherland: River of Blue Fire - Tad Williams

Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass - Tad Williams

Otherland: Sea of Silver Light - Tad Williams

Dictator’s Dilemma - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Rogues - George R.R. Martin et al.

The End of the Suburbs - Leigh Gallagher

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations - Jacob Soll

The Family Trade - Charles Stross

The Hidden Family - Charles Stross

The Clan Corporate - Charles Stross

The Merchants’ War - Charles Stross

The Revolution Business - Charles Stross

The Trade of Queens - Charles Stross

The Puzzle Palace - James Bamford

Playing the Whore - Melissa Gira Grant

Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross

The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross

Down on the Farm - Charles Stross

Equoid - Charles Stross

Overtime - Charles Stross

The Apocalypse Codex - Charles Stross

Phases Chart - Charles Stross

The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross

Halting State - Charles Stross

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Reamde - Neal Stephenson

Announce Boys - Neil Gaiman

The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

Political Order and Political Decay - Francis Fukuyama

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Rule 34 - Charles Stross

The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss

The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke

The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace

Feudal Society Volume 1 - Marc Bloch

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson

Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson

The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark - Don Thomas

WWW: Wake - Robert J Sawyer

WWW: Watch - Robert J Sawyer

WWW: Wonder - Robert J Sawyer

Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction - Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel

The Martian - Andy Weir

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Visit Original Link

Recording of this passed week's Mission Possible Radio show where I talk about Voice Dream Reader.

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AudioBlur: Text To Speech headline reader for NewsBlur

I spent some time this weekend working on speechifying the NewsBlur RSS feed reader. I ran into a few issues with conflicting keyboard commands and ran into a brick wall with Chrome's support for SpeechSynthesis... 

The code below only supports speaking article headlines. I'm still working on being able to read the article text as well...

https://gist.github.com/Cmaury/3abb0470491ef1af63d0 You can cut and paste this into the Javascript console in Chrome when visiting newsblur.com. I'll make it into a chrome extension as soon as I make some more progress.

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Conversant Labs builds audio-only applications for the blind and visually impaired. The company is one of the start-ups in the current cycle at AlphaLab, a leading accelerator in the country.

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36oz of pure Café Bustelo espresso. Proud proud moment.

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Visit Original Link

I was interviewed earlier this week on the Talking Information Center's radio show: Mission Possible.  TIC is an organization and radio station dedicated to creating content for people with print impairments; they provide services such as reading the newspaper over the radio. Take that Sandy Rivers.

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Here is the audio from my talk at CSUN 2014 - Screen Readers: their limitations and possible improvements.

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CSUN 2014

A week from this wednesday I'll be speaking at the 29th International Technology and people with Disabilities conference in San Diego.

The talk will focus on the limitations of traditional screen readers, and how we can start to move beyond them.

Screen Readers are amazing tools for making computers and mobile devices minimally accessible, but the standard which we set for our tools should be much, much higher.

We should be creating applications and experiences that go beyond plain accessibility and focus instead on usability.

Stay tuned more more updates from the Conference. I'll be posted slides from the talk...once I've made them.

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Dash in ear headphones enable audio augmented reality

There is a lot to be said about the possibilities for always on, always listening ear buds (see my previous post on Her). This Kckstarter is the first potential product that gives us a hint about we may experience in the next generation of consumer gadgets. More thoughts on this later.

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Her dumb user-interface

In Spike Jonze’ Her, before we ever meet  OS One(Scarlett Johansson), we are introduced to Joaquin Phoenix’ unnamed, dumb non-sentient operating system. Using the same hardware piece, Phoenix issues voice commands to the near future version of Siri. Less annoying and more useful, this interface is much more likely to become a reality in the near future that the more prominently featured OS One. We see Phoenix control his music, check his email, and hear recent news items, all through conversational commands. there’s no having to down the home button like Siri, or saying “Okay, Google.” The process is so smooth and effortless, it just melts into the background of the movie, just like the rest of the technology in the movie. It’s so close to how our voice-based UI's will behave in the next few years that the movies technology designer KK Barrett  deserves some serious kudos. That said, there are a few interaction missteps that will leave us looking back at the movie and comparing its UI to Geocities or Windows 8. “Email from, email from, email from...” Before reading every new email message, we hear “Email from.” Anyone sitting in the audience who regularly receives more than 5 emails a day is cringing. The context is already clear; every new item is already understood to be an email message. There is no reason to repeat it. There are no cues to communicate the state of the UI The app never tells you when it’s done talking. Is there more? Is it thinking? There is no way of knowing unless there is some audio cue. The same goes for the times that Phoenix issues a command. Sometimes we hear a pause, and sometimes we hear a confirmation tone. Inconsistencies aside, audio-based applications need to be communicating state to the user in the same way that visual ones do today. Speech Rate As we become accustomed to interacting with devices using Text to Speech, we are going to speed up the rate that our apps speak to us. Over time, slower speech interfaces are going to feel like browsing the internet on a dial-up connection. Check out this video of someone who has used Text to speech based interfaces for years. It’s mnd-boggling that someone can understand an application speaking that fast (~950 wpm). These are pretty small critiques, but it’s important to think about as owe move away from touch screens towards more wearable devices. The sooner we can move away from the current interactions with Siri and Glass, the better.

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The professionalization of the Entreprenurial class: The future of the Accelerator, Angel, Acqui-hire ecosystem

There is a phenomenal series of essays from Venkatesh Rao over at Forbes.com which discusses the domestication of the tech entrepreneur: Entrepreneurs are the new labor The articles are over a year and a half old, but they are still exceedingly relevant. As the economy continues to to produce 20 somethings with college educations and no significant job prospects, there will continue to be an influx of people wanting to be come entrepreneurs. Understanding how the growing waves of these so called tech-entrepreneurs incorporate themselves into the economy is extremely important and by no means a settled matter. In Part III of his essay, Rao recognizes the importance of this issue asking:

how might the new laborer-entrepreneur class moving through the acqui-hiring pipeline evolve into a new institution that is recognized as legitimate rather than criticized as a corrupted parody of entrepreneurship?

He sees a continuation of the current accelerators > angel > acqui-hire progression as a new acceptable norm rather than the graceful failure that is seen as today. While these institutions will continue,I don’t necessarily think that we will see regulatory reinforcement of this trend benefiting the acquirers like Facebook, Google, etc. More likely we will see organizations arise that reduce the transaction costs at each of these stages. And the transaction costs are indeed high in both time and money. Raising a round of funding can take 3-4 months and 5 figures in legal fees.  These costs are reasonable given the current model, but if you were to compare these costs to how existing firms bring products to market, they immediately seem unreasonable. If we’re talking about entrepreneurs becoming the new labor, we’re talking about minimizing the risk in the system and creating a repeatable, low transaction cost process for creating tech-products.  The accelerators > angel > acqui-hire model doesn’t completely address these issues. There are firms that are beginning to internalize many of the functions that we currently see being carried out by different actors in the accelerators > angel > acqui-hire ecosystem. The best examples are German Venture Capital firms like Springstar and Rocket Internet.1 Both of these organizations internalize many of the functions that are carried out by separate entities in the US: They provide their own capital, they have their own pool of engineers, marketers, and business types, and they recruit entrepreneurs out of the various business schools across the country. While the market forces that created these firms are different than those in Silicon Valley or the US more broadly, they have created a model for what a de-risked technology innovation ecosystem could look like. In this model, execution risk is all but eliminated, and the only concern is product risk. By limiting the role of the entrepreneur to simply that of idea generator and general manager, the balance of power is very clearly shifted to the capital—the so-called entrepreneurs in the German system get a much smaller ownership stake than is common in the US—and the role of the entrepreneur is much more similar to that of hired labour. The professionalization of the entrepreneur in the US is likely to happen in a similar fashion.2 While many will continue to progress up the career ladder by participating in accelerator programs, these incubator programs are going to resemble their german style counter parts more and more. Each new accelerator class will act as a hiring bootcamp to fill out the ranks of the incubators internal capacity for marketing, design, and engineering, while the successful companies will be able to take advantage of these services. The transition of the tech entrepreneur from idolized cowboy to mere product manager will be complete when institutions of higher education being to offer under graduate majors in entrepreneurship. These programs are likely to have close relationships with the regional incubator offering internship opportunities across all job descriptions of the start up not replaced by online services. Rao is absolutely right in saying that entrepreneurs are the new labor force. The next step in this evolution will bring firms organizing around this labor supply and building companies that can compete with the current tech giants in repeatedly bringing novel and very different products to market. 1 - It’s also interesting to note that both of these firms are very strong at international expansion, each having 20+ international offices. This is a feat that not even Silicon Valley has been able to achieve. 2 - Shops like Thinktiv  re already beginning down this path. While their services are somewhat different. It’s easy to see them going down this path as they produce successful products/companies.

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Gentrification May Actually Be Boon To Longtime Residents

New studies suggest low-income people are less likely to leave transitioning communities, not more.

This is such a relevant topic given current events. I wonder how much gentrification  is uniform across cities? I'd imagine that what is currently going on in San Francisco is different than what has happened in DC or Cleveland.

It's a very interesting and important topic, definitely worth more than just the knee jerk reaction that Gentrification is 100% evil (a view that I have definitely held).