- Why Did Google Pay $400 Million for DeepMind? by Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review January 2014
- NSA and GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn to hack Belgian cryptography professor by David Meyer, GigaOM February 2014
- Here’s how British intelligence used LinkedIn and Slashdot to dupe telecoms workers by David Meyer, GigaOM 2013
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25945931
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-end-of-the-tank-the-army-says-it-doesnt-need-it-but-industry-wants-to-keep-building-it/2014/01/31/c11e5ee0-60f0-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
- Researchers Develop “Envy-Free” Algorithm for Settling Disputes from Divorce to Inheritance, NYU February 2014
- Evidence Emerges That Google’s Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All, The Physics arXiv Blog on Medium February 2014
- Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle' by Michael Booth, The Guardian January 2014
- New project will allow users to live forever as virtual avatar by Anthony Cuthbertson, ITProPortal.com February 2014
- The future of jobs: The onrushing wave, The Economist
- Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University and a much-read blogger, writes in his most recent book, “Average is Over”, that rich economies seem to be bifurcating into a small group of workers with skills highly complementary with machine intelligence, for whom he has high hopes, and the rest, for whom not so much.
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber , Strike! 2013
- Are humans prepared for the ‘second machine age’? by Leslie Hart, Al Jazeera America January 2014
- "racing against the machine was not a winning strategy, but racing with machines, collaborating with machines, was a winning strategy"
- mention of freestyle chess
- makes one wonder about the result of (machine learning driven?) analysis of the meta-game in freestyle chess
- Termite tactics show robots how to build without a plan by Clive Cookson, February 2014 FT.com
- Windows 8 UX designer on Metro: "It is the antithesis of a power user" by Steven Johns, Neowin February 2014
- Institutions et enseignants face au tsunami des MOOCs, ParisTech Review February 2014
- Bitcoin Lacks the Properties of a Real Currency by David Yermack, MIT Technology Review February 2014
- Film reconstructs tragedy of Samsung employee, KoreaHerald.com January 2014
- Egypt interim government resigns unexpectedly, BBC News February 2014
- Wikipedia:The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, shuts down by Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica February 2014
- Blockchain’s Response to Apple, Blockchain.info Team Blog February 2014
- Out in the Open: This Farmbot Makes Growing Food as Easy as Playing Farmville, Wired Enterprise for Wired.com February 2014
- Chinese man first to sue government over smog, Haaretz via Reuters February 2014
- Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry: Freight by Isaac Arnsdorf, Bloomberg February 2014
- Leaked: Just before Bitcoin catastrophe, MtGox dreamed of riches by Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica February 2014
- Cellular’s open source future is latched to tallest tree in the village by Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica Februrary 2014
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