Fact or Fiction: #Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
http://bit.ly/12XkyHl via @sciam @lggreenemeier – Nice technology overview
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Fact or Fiction: Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping: Scientific American
July 21, 2013Nicholson Baker: Inside South Korea’s LCD Revolution : The New Yorker
July 21, 2013History of the LCD: discovery of a “light-valve” circa 1900 in Europe, to initial commericalization by RCA in the US, to large-scale production in Asia
LCD History: discovery ~1900 in Europe, init. dev. by RCA, Korean production now http://bit.ly/1bALGVV 4th State of Matter via @scilib
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/08/130708fa_fact_baker
ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY
A FOURTH STATE OF MATTER
Inside South Korea’s LCD revolution.
BY NICHOLSON BAKER
JULY 8, 2013
Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | MIT Technology Review
July 20, 2013http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516506/silicon-valley-cant-be-copied
MT @mkaplanPMP: Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley. http://bit.ly/1dKZeuR NJ was 1st attempt
Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things – NYTimes.com
July 18, 2013Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things: From 1K customers, 15 reviews & 1 bad #review http://bit.ly/15IxPqc via @zenan_liu @nytimes
QT:
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The other conclusion is that behavior online is too easily taken as a mirror of reality when it is nothing of the sort. What seems to be the voice of the masses is the voice of a self-appointed few, magnified and distorted.
“For every thousand customers, only about 15 write these reviews — and one of them is writing negative reviews of products he hasn’t bought,” Mr. Simester said. “How surprised should we be that one out of a thousand people do something we have trouble understanding?” ”
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/why-web-reviewers-make-up-bad-things/?smid=tw-nytimes
Tile
July 15, 2013Very interesting….
http://www.thetileapp.com/
EBay Uses 3-D Printing Technology to Expand The Ways That Things on its Site Can Be Made | MIT Technology Review
July 14, 2013U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement – NYTimes.com
July 13, 2013on mail covers program :
Not just electronic comm. surveilled: Tracking postal metadata similarly to NSA email snooping http://bit.ly/15oZmNs via
@michaellawcarl
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html
QT:”
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.
Together, the two programs show that postal mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail.
The mail covers program, used to monitor Mr. Pickering, is more than a century old but is still considered a powerful tool. At the request of law enforcement officials, postal workers record information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered. (Opening the mail would require a warrant.) The information is sent to the law enforcement agency that asked for it. Tens of thousands of pieces of mail each year undergo this scrutiny.
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David Pogue, The Most Prolific Technology Critic In The World, Cannot Say No – Forbes
July 13, 2013Forbes profile of @Pogue : Every year, he writes more books than he reads – wish I could write so fast! http://bit.ly/12u4YHO
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/07/01/the-most-prolific-technology-critic-in-the-world-cannot-say-no/
What Will Replace Google Reader? : The New Yorker
July 5, 2013NYer: What Will Replace #Google Reader? #Digg? Potluck? We could do better… via @shinshinuk http://bit.ly/15jpdIx
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/what-will-replace-google-reader.html
Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement – NYTimes.com
July 5, 2013#Stealth Wear… Statement. Focuses on hiding visually; what about sound & chemicals? via @GardnerCampbell, @nytimes
http://bit.ly/125fh4J
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/technology/stealth-wear-aims-to-make-a-tech-statement.html
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