Friday, December 30, 2016

What's Hot on the Blog 12/30

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Tesla - the video couldn't be embedded in the article but there's a link and it's astounding since the car clearly anticipated an accident before the driver could see it coming

Convenience - NFC is the technology which permits using your credit card or cellphone by waving it at a checkout register or similar but it's not as secure as it seems

Thanks - in part absurdity and in part testing to verify whether ads have been removed from Ithaka links on Twitter (they have)

The Novelty - people talk a great deal about privacy but there's not much of it with law enforcement, spies, etc.  The same people likely go nuts over the prospect of medical genome information being accessible for research purposes, etc.  The article presents some science on the benefits of such research.

Lookit That - a tiny satellite is launched from a special robotic arm on the ISS

Everything - the tidy up of the physical desktop has worked out splendidly plus yielded a mystical set of LEDs

Human Toughness - about surviving in Tibet for tens of thousands of years but why would anyone go there when it's such a brutal place.  Genomic research traces when people moved to Tibet and it's surprisingly interesting.

The Russians - the ongoing comedy of Russian hacking

What's Hot

Must Haves - only of interest for Mac users and Glenn Fleishman made some excellent suggestions for the ten best utilities.  The article lists some of them which are considered vital on my own machine and links back to Fleishman's article.

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