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Friday, January 31, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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