Archive for April, 2019

Apple revamping Find My Friends & Find My iPhone in unified app, developing Tile-like personal item tracking – 9to5Mac

Friday, April 19th, 2019

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/17/find-my-iphone-revamp/

How Amazon’s $97 million Eero acquisition screwed employees and minted millionaires

Friday, April 19th, 2019

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale.amp

A Team At Amazon Is Listening To Recordings Captured By Alexa

Friday, April 19th, 2019

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazon-employees-listening-to-alexa-echo-recordings

What the Notre-Dame Fire Reveals About the Soul of France – The New York Times

Friday, April 19th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/world/europe/france-notre-dame-religion.html

Data.gov

Thursday, April 18th, 2019

https://www.data.gov/

Data comparisons

The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting – The New York Times

Thursday, April 18th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence | 1843

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence

Death of the calorie | 1843

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie

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This was pioneering stuff for the 1890s. Atwater eventually concluded that a gram of either carbohydrate or protein made an average of four calories of energy available to the body, and a gram of fat offered an average of 8.9 calories, a figure later rounded up to nine calories for convenience. We now know far more about the workings of the human body: Atwater was right that some of a meal’s potential energy was excreted, but had no idea that some was also used to digest the meal itself, and that the body expends different amounts of energy depending on the food. Yet more than a century after igniting the faeces of Wesleyan students, the numbers Atwater calculated for each macro­nutrient remain the standard for measuring the calories in any given food stuff. Those experiments were the basis of Salvador Camacho’s daily calorific arithmetic.
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Stanford Clears Professor of Helping With Gene-Edited Babies Experiment – The New York Times

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/health/stanford-gene-editing-babies.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur

In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners – The New York Times

Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/health/medical-scans-butterfly-iq.html