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Issue 10
Be still my beating wrist: Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand. 💖 AI-Aided cameras mean no more car mirrors, no more blind spots.
A good heart was hard to find. However, true love, the lasting kind, is now about wrist action.
A mixed bag this week looking at a huge digital identity experiment in India. Plus take get an insider's view of how Jigsaw works in the field to combat global security threats.
Plus some links on how the meaningful content thing is working out for Marvellous Mark and the FB crew. It might seem a little snarky, that's why I balanced it out with Garfield.
📰 From the Newsroom
Be still my beating wrist: Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand. 💖
newscientist.com
AI-Aided cameras mean no more car mirrors, no more blind spots.
ieee.org
Artwork hidden under Picasso painting revealed by x-ray.
theguardian.com
The best workstation of 2018. Work in the same level of comfort you feel when at the dentist.
twitter.com
How Jigsaw tackles ISIS propaganda: Interview with Yasmin Green on technology's role in solving global security challenges.
technologyreview.com
India’s Aadhaar card is a huge digital identity experiment: How's it panning out?
howwegettonext.com
Fitbit analyzed data on 6 billion nights of sleep: Men sleep better, women sleep more, and babies never seem to sleep at all.
weforum.org
There's a Starman driving through the sky. Keep tabs on Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster's current location.
whereisroadster.com
🤖 Robots et. al.
End of the jock? Robots had their own skiing competition at the Winter Olympics. They're so cute with their little skis and cold weather gear.
engadget.com
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
Straight up cool list of tools for developers.
freecodecamp.org
swapagarwal/swag-for-dev: 😎👕🧦 A list of swag opportunities for developers.
github.com
🥇 World of WordPress
do_action: community-organised events that are focused on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence.
doaction.org
A few quick arguments on why open source is awesome: share with AI researchers today.
yoast.com
50 things to do with WordPress before you die: Should I be worried that this was suggested for me?
wpmudev.org
15+ excellent productivity tools for designers and WordPress users.
codeinwp.com
👩💻 Misc Tech
The original Gmail was Garfield mail. Some addresses are still in use and can found in Wikileaks files. 😸
gizmodo.com
Why decentralization matters.
medium.com
400 AI presentations studied: Only 6% share code. The replication crisis facing AI researchers.
sciencemag.org
You CPU keeps this site running: Salon asks ad-blocking users to opt into cryptocurrency mining. I'll take the ads, thanks.
theverge.com
The email addresses used by Russian trolls run the gamut from funny to disturbingly accurate.
mashable.com
🚍 Black Mirror mirror on the wall
What is meaningful content? Basically marketers work harder at content than your Mum.
medium.com
Proving the misnomer that friends' content is meaningful: How to torture your friends via the News Feed.
buzzfeed.com
If we could we could move Slack out of the office, that would be great. Slack growing as social platform.
vanityfair.com
👩🚀 Space
Form meets forehead: Apple employees keep walking into their new HQ’s glass walls. 🤦♀️
engadget.com
Outro
Well, that's one item off the checklist for the week. Now all I need is to get me one of those sweet Garfield email addresses.
Stay outta trouble, Chris