Archive for the 'tech' Category

Roommates on Mars – The New Yorker

May 13, 2015

Moving to Mars http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/moving-to-mars Simulating multi-year space flights on Mauna Loa. Morphing astronauts from test pilots to sea voyagers

Annals of Exploration APRIL 20, 2015 ISSUE
Moving to Mars
Preparing for the longest, loneliest voyage ever.
BY TOM KIZZIA

Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time

May 9, 2015

Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/banjo-raises-100-million-to-detect-world-events-in-real-time Will their global "crystal ball" notice this tweet?

10x

April 23, 2015

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477383

also
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477383
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Feb 27;43(4):e23. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1252. Epub 2014 Dec 3.
Allele-specific copy number profiling by next-generation DNA sequencing. Chen H1, Bell JM2, Zavala NA2, Ji HP2, Zhang NR3.

perhaps related?

Moore’s law turns 50: Ever more from Moore | The Economist

April 22, 2015

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21648683-microchip-pioneers-prediction-has-bit-more-life-left-it-ever-more-moore

Google To Favor ‘Mobile-Friendly’ Sites In Search

April 18, 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/17/google-search-update_n_7085642.html

An Art Auction for Computer Code – The New Yorker

April 12, 2015

An Art Auction for Computer #Code
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/beautiful-code
Wonder if RSA in 4 lines of perl
(http://gerstein.info/fun/perl-rsa.big.gif) would fetch a good bid?

Smart Ring Tapped Asia as #1 Practical Wear | Kamel Mobile Product Blog

March 29, 2015

Smart Ring Tapped Asia as #1 Practical Wear https://kamelmobile.com/blog/smart-ring-tapped-asia-as-practical-wear #iphone, #iwatch, now iring…eventually iearring & ifillings for teeth

One Woman’s Drive to Revolutionize Medical Testing – The New Yorker

March 6, 2015

Blood, Simpler http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler
One woman’s drive to upend medical testing. No more filling vials at the doctors, just a finger prick

Great profile
Annals of Innovation DECEMBER 15, 2014 ISSUE
BY KEN AULETTA

https://www.theranos.com/

We Know How You Feel – The New Yorker

March 4, 2015

We Know How You Feel http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/know-feel
#Emotion-recognition software. Next step beyond #Adwords, looking for smiles instead of clicks

Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait.
BY RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN

Six takeaways from that epic Jony Ive profile

March 2, 2015

6 takeaways from that epic…Ive profile http://mashable.com/2015/02/17/jony-ive-new-yorker-profile/ Perhaps peaking at $APPL’s 3k SF design nexus reveals too much, esp on watch