Bobby's Reading List - Week 10, 2013

It's less offensive, but weirder, than you think...

Quit overreacting to automated advertising

Hackers steal Bitcoins, of course

Siri is murdering search.

Brain implants!

Bobby's Reading List - Week 8, 2013

If you have a good pitch, you might get a (pair?) google glass...

3Doodler is a hand held tool for artisanal 3d Printing

A kind of dumb alarmist story about the ways Netflix is using data to guide their content

Mexico's guerilla telecommunications networks

CHINESE HACKER DRILL...

...FOR REAL THIS TIME!

Bobby's Reading List - Week 7, 2013

Raytheon's Spook Google, RIOT, is pretty cool.

Get Malinese news from a talking cat

Computers are better at diagnosing illness than doctors.

Replacing fences with cow guidance implants

Digital rube goldberg machine: Exercise or your food will rot

Bobby's Reading List - Week 6, 2013

Man/Chatbot collaborative screenwriting.

Educating children for their future as the slave technicians of the robot overlords

GPS is a military technology, and intentionally crippled in consumer models. OpenPS could be an open alternative.

OMNI has posted old issues to Archive.org, includng William Gibson's short stories

British military pays $193,750 per drone for tiny helicopters with cameras onboard. Seems reasonable?

Impatient? Skip to 19:00.

Bobby's Reading List - Week 5, 2013

Robots

Roboy, the humanoid robot that is creepy even by the standard of creepy humanoid robots

People hesitate to "kill" robots

$50 surveilance drones

People that build robots for a living are not afraid of losing their jobs to robots

Hivemind

Crowdsourced Dating

Hacks

Pepperspray Camera