Archive for December, 2016

The Great A.I. Awakening – The New York Times

Sunday, December 18th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html?_r=0

Samsung Galaxy S7 | Verizon Wireless

Sunday, December 18th, 2016

can use w/ microSD
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Expand the phone’s 32GB memory+++ up to eight times with a 256GB microSD card. “}}

https://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s7/

Chemists Discover Why the Nose Is Hypersensitive to Sulfur Odors – Scientific American

Sunday, December 18th, 2016

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemists-discover-why-the-nose-is-hypersensitive-to-sulfur-odors/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_HLTH_NEWS

Google Wifi Review: The Best Mesh-Network Router Available

Sunday, December 18th, 2016

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/12/google-wifi-review.html?mid=twitter_nymag

Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion accounts | TechCrunch

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts/

Big Data’s Mathematical Mysteries | Quanta Magazine

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematical-mysteries/

The Pangenome: Are Single Reference Genomes Dead? | The Scientist Magazine(R)

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

The #Pangenome: Are Single Reference Genomes Dead? YES!
http://www.The-Scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47510/title/The-Pangenome–Are-Single-Reference-Genomes-Dead-/ Division into conserved/core & dispensable/variable genes

Why Elephants Don’t Get Cancer—and What That Means for Humans

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

Why Elephants Don’t Get Cancer – many TP53 copies
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/16/researchers-studying-elephants-improve-cancer-treatment-380822.html Result of #Peto’s Paradox: More cells don’t lead to more disease
see dog species

NIH discusses curbing lab size to fund more midcareer scientists | Science | AAAS

Friday, December 16th, 2016

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/nih-discusses-curbing-lab-size-fund-more-midcareer-scientists

Trump Ignoring the CIA Is Bad for National Security | WIRED

Monday, December 12th, 2016

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/trump-cia-national-intelligence-briefings/?mbid=social_twitter