Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 31, 2020

New social media platform promises to connect people with influencers in high-cost online communities; Andrew Yang calls for standardization of cryptocurrency laws and regulations in the US; A look at the ambiguous nature of Jack Dorsey's decentralized social media initiative; A curious retracted paper with four dead authors; and a Steem essay describing reasons for a corporate network security audit

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 30, 2020

LocalBitcoins reportedly suspended accounts without warning in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia; Researchers report an immune discovery that may treat many or all forms of cancer; The difficulty of documenting non-reproducible systems; A TED talk argues that humans and AI systems should work together on solving problems; and a Steem post reporting that the coronavirus has been cultured in a lab

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 29, 2020

SpaceX stock offerings incentivize employees; More about the automated dog training system; An argument that the risk from the Three Mile Island accident was exaggerated, and led to overreactions from regulators and society; An argument that surveillance is comprised of identification, correlation, and discrimination, and people who focus on facial recognition are missing the bigger picture. ; and a Steem essay describing the Tachyon Protocol for improved Internet privacy and performance

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 28, 2020

A discussion of the critical nature of human performance in complex software systems; Introducing the concept of Robotic Process Automation (RPA); GM revitalizing a factory that was nearly shuttered for use in manufacturing electric and autonomous vehicles; Reengineering viruses to cure bacterial infections; and Steem-based discussions of the Wuhan Coronavirus and a related Prevent/Cure/Treat framework for dealing with health issues

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 27, 2020

A recently recovered civil war era bottle may have been used as a "witch bottle"; Research team says Mt. Vesuvius eruption may have melted Roman brains into glass; NASA astronauts preparing for SpaceX crewed mission, maybe as soon as April; A physician says he's skeptical of recent study finding that human body temperatures are getting lower; and a Steem essay argues that decentralization brings true ownership and reduces opportunities for planned obsolescence

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 26, 2020

IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos; Report claims that the AI leader in 2030 will obtain world dominance for the century; Researchers use genetic manipulation to reverse age-related decline in mouse brains; Internal mobility, changing jobs within an organization, is a growing trend in business; and a Steem essay describing a collaborative effort to 3D print incubators for Mason Bees

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 25, 2020

A Youtube explanation of P vs. NP, computer science's biggest mystery; A TED talk covering indoor vertical farming, aka controlled environment agriculture; Youtube channels for cats. Really.; States sue feds over online plans for 3D printed guns; and a Steem photo competition entry with 25 high quality iguana photos

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Six design principles behind a Steem blog series

This post describes some of the blogging design principles that have emerged for a series of blog posts during the course of a 10 month effort

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 24, 2020

Psychologists are better at experimentally reducing empathy than boosting it; Verizon launches privacy-focused Internet search engine, but journalists are skeptical; Major volcanic eruption possible from the Phillippines' Taal volcano; Using smart LEDs to provide protection from unwanted photography; and a "rubber egg" experiment as a home-schooling activity

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 23, 2020

PinePhone: Linux-powered smart phone, begins shipping for $150; International journalist, Glenn Greenwald, charged with cybercrimes in Brazil; Researchers introduce metric for quantifying scientific rigor and transparency; Facebook's AI can navigate without a map; and a Steem essay describing conservation efforts that make use of unmanned drones

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 22, 2020

Computation in the brain is more complex than previously known; An argument against altruism in business; An optical illusion may help with treatment of OCD; Google's DeepMind team brings insight to the brain's internal reward mechanism; and a Steem proposal by @openseed that offers a step towards "tokenizing the web"

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 21, 2020

A company that sells social-media photograph searches to law enforcement; Controversy in nutrition science over links between red meat and cancer; Supply chain transparency as an environmental tool; Frontier Communications is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; and a Steem essay describing a study of Nigerian clay for use as oil drilling mud

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 20, 2020

Towards artificial neural networks (ANNs) with innate skills; Unusual immune cells found in brains of people with autism; A TED talk argues that drug prices are high because patent reform is needed; SpaceX crew dragon capsule passes its last testing milestone prior to manned flight; and a Steem post makes recommendations for online photo-editing web sites

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 19, 2020

IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos; A discussion of the impact of fake personas on political discourse and democracy; An AI system that can measure student engagement; WWII pilot remains recovered and identified from a D-Day crash site; and a Steem post with an embedded video recording of wild monkeys in South Africa

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 18, 2020

Researchers find that generalists innovate before specialists; A pigeon-bot flies with real feathers; A hardware device self-assembles at the nano scale and enables smaller and more efficient neural networks; Virginia man arrested for participation in dozens of "swatting" attacks; and a Steem post with two recipes for home-made deodorant

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 17, 2020

How to stimulate knowledge sharing in an organization; An article suggests that AI may be on the cusp of a new AI winter; Google to end Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022; Questioning the relationship between blue light and sleep; and a Steem essay discussing the use of coal as an energy source

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 16, 2020

The largest-ever nuclear fusion test in space, and the impact it had on Hawaii; Microsoft Edge officially moves to Chromium; Windows 7 has reached End of Life; Windows users, patch your system now; and a Steem essay describing a new, lighter weight, 18-Carat gold material

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 15, 2020

An argument that 5G wireless security has fundamental weaknesses; A response to Linus Torvalds' post about ZFS on Linux; A machine can keep livers alive - outside the body - for seven days; US Navy says releasing classified documents about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) could jeopardize national security; and a Steem essay with suggestions for pursuing a career in information technology

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 14, 2020

AI means that businesses need to reinvent themselves; 10 principles for US AI regulation; Fatty tongues contribute to sleep apnea symptoms; An argument that shark-conservation scientists need to continue collecting data from dead sharks; and a Steem essay describing life with tinnitus and some possible ways to improve it

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 13, 2020

Artificial intelligence brings improvement to cancer surgeries; The average American body temperature has been dropping since the 1860s; Researchers find the preservation mechanism for Britain's oldest brain; Cancer research in dogs is producing knowledge for dogs and humans; and a Steem post with a video of a shooting star flying through the Northern Lights

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 12, 2020

The US announces a new particle accelerator for 2030; Deploying drones in fruit orchards; Teaching database design in a world of uncertainty; IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos; and a Steem essay describing a Prevent, Solve, Manage framework for dealing with problems

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 11, 2020

A TED talk arguing that dinosaurs rose to evolutionary prominence because of efficient lungs; Linus Torvalds says, "Don't use ZFS."; AI improvements driven by qauge theory, from physics; The World Health Organization retracts opioid guidance; and a Steem photo-essay depicting the harvesting of Mason Bee cocoons

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 10, 2020

A TED talk describing Estonia's digital government; NASA planet-hunting space telescope finds potentially habitable world; How to find your own tiny meteorite; Nobel winning economist, Paul Krugman, reveals the reach of Internet scams; and a Steem tutorial to create a javascript calculator

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Reed's Law: The Law of the Pack

What is Reed's Law, and how does it apply to Steem?

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives

-Game of Thrones

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 9, 2020

A software bug causes Boeing 737 display screens to go blank when landing on certain runways; A discussion of the potential for indomitable AI; Crossfit wins $4 million in court for retracted journal article; A faceless therapy robot for senior citizens; and a Steem essay running through many of the "reveals" at CES2020

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Managing Expectations: Questioning Metcalfe's Law

Conventional wisdom suggests that cryptocurrency value follows Metcalfe's Law, increasing in proportion to the square of the number of users (or wallets). A 2006 article from IEEE Spectrum, Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong, calls that claim into question.

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 8, 2020

Intel's 17.3" foldable laptop; An argument that a market-based solution is needed for online data and privacy; An IT executive pleads guilty to wire fraud after being accused of running a fake business; Recent progress in understanding the physiology of memories; and a Steem post arguing for a space station around the moon

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 7, 2020

A UCONN researcher wants to go backwards in time; Samsung's new TV rotates from horizontal to vertical; A new blockchain app illuminates the coffee supply chain; 3,500 ancient copper coins were returned from the US to Mexico; and a Steem essay describing the architecture of artificial neural networks

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 6, 2020

Data suggests that computing will continue to dominate STEM employment for the foreseeable future; Walmart is rolling out an ad platform to compete with Amazon; China's satellite geo-location system will be completed during 2020; An argument that state-actors will ramp up their cyber-espionage activities during 2020; and a Steem essay discussing the utility of foldable and bendable device screens

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Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 5, 2020

The IEEE Spectrum weekly selection of awesome robot videos; An essay arguing that the history of artificial intelligence (AI) begins no later than 1912; A chrome extenstion that's stealing crypto keys and login passwords; A new paper suggests that the quantum Internet should be built in space; and a Steem essay discusses the benefits and drawbacks of modern technology

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An Invitation for "Early Adopters" in the Delaware Valley

First posted on beta.steemit.com in the Delaware Valley Life community.


This is an open invitation for people who live, work, study, worship or spend other time in the Delaware Valley region of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware or Maryland:

• Are you curious about blockchain and cryptocurrency but wary of risking your money on speculative technologies?


• Are you tired of having your online presence conscripted by the big-tech giants who profit by harvesting your social media content yet give you no compensation?


• Do you want to help the next generation of tech jobs to emerge and thrive in the Delaware Valley?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, please read further.

Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 4, 2020

Unexplained drones in the night-time skies over Colorado and Nebraska; Homeowners call police on their robotic vacuum; A TED talk argues that co-conspirators are useful when challenging the status quo; Discussing the impact of Internet permanence on the young; and a Steem essay reporting on the potential use of LSD for Alzheimer's treatment

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