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The second-generation Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm is your best option.
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https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/20/the-best-smart-smoke-alarm/
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January 28, 2017Wearables Could Soon Know You’re Sick Before You Do | WIRED
January 25, 2017#Wearables Could Soon Know You’re Sick Before You Do
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/wearables-know-youre-sick/ Early indications of inflammation from @SnyderShot’s Fitbit
The Billion Dollar Pharma Startup that Silicon Valley Has Totally Missed
January 21, 2017The…Pharma Startup…Silicon Valley Has Totally Missed
http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/01/06/this-millennial-wants-to-build-the-berkshire-hathaway-of-biopharmaceutical-companies-can-he-pull-it-off/ Run by QVT alum; focuses on better incentivizing scientists
We still don’t really know how bicycles work
January 20, 2017We still don’t really know how #bicycles work
http://www.NewStatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work Still rides upright with special wheels cancelling gyroscopic effect
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“The most definitive analysis came exactly a century later. It involved an experimental bicycle that had all its gyroscopic effects cancelled out by a system of counter-rotating wheels. The effort of building such a strange contraption was worth it: the resulting paper was published the prestigious journal Science.
The publication plunged bicycle dynamics back into chaos. It turns out that taking into account the angles of the headset and the forks, the distribution of weight and the handlebar turn, the gyroscopic effects are not enough to keep a bike upright after all. What does? We simply don’t know. Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics.”
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Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion accounts
January 10, 2017Yahoo discloses #hack of 1 billion accounts
http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts/ Seems the scale of this affects a large fraction of all Internet users
How to empty the ketchup bottle every time | The Economist
January 6, 2017How to empty the ketchup…every time
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711015-and-improve-power-plants-too-how-empty-ketchup-bottle-every-time super slippery surfaces might enable #microfluidics by thermocapillary motion
Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal – NYTimes.com
January 3, 2017Worried About…#Privacy? Download Signal http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/technology/personaltech/worried-about-the-privacy-of-your-messages-download-signal.html V. strong endorsement from @NYTimes. Perhaps useful for protecting sources
America’s Top Spy James Clapper and the Future of Cyberwar and Surveillance | WIRED
December 28, 2016America’s Top Spy James Clapper
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/james-clapper-us-intelligence/ He drives around DC in a black, armored SUV w/ its own satellite dish. Wow!
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Clapper’s life is a whirl of video teleconferences and nondescript spaces—subterranean briefing rooms, flatscreen-lined command centers, and eavesdropping-proof chambers called sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs (pronounced “skiffs” in spookspeak). His armored, antenna-topped black SUV—more tank than car—even has a satellite dish to keep Clapper in secure contact wherever he’s driving around DC. When he travels, a special team converts a hotel room into a secure communications suite. His digital hearing aids are regularly checked by security to ensure that no foreign adversary is listening, and his counterintelligence team dumbs down the iPads he uses to brief the president in the Oval Office so that they can’t transmit or eavesdrop.
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The Great A.I. Awakening – The New York Times
December 26, 2016The Great AI Awakening
http://www.NYTimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html Quick history of #DeepLearning & its dramatic success in translation. Is med. diagnosis next?
Now flattered to have had 2 Hinton alumni in my lab…!
Can You Tell if These Objects Are Real or Rendered?
December 26, 2016Can You Tell if These…Are…Rendered?
https://www.Wired.com/2016/12/skrekkogle-still-life/ @Skrekkogle makes the real appear simulated. Implications for photo evidence
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“The Norwegian design studio Skrekkogle played this game with Still File, a series of photos that look like renderings but aren’t. Instead of manipulating pixels on a screen, studio founders Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Zamudio-Tveterås created and photographed sets that look like scenes made with 3-D rendering software. “It’s a weirdly elaborate process,” Vedeler says.
In particularly cool photo, they 3-D printed three wildly distorted teapots, gave them a flat finish, and glued them to the background before photographing them as a surrealist scene. In another, they placed a marble, a plastic cone, and a wood-lined cube atop checkered paper lacquered with acrylic. The camera’s flash reflected the checkerboard pattern onto the objects, creating a false sense of depth.”
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