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Want to be happier and better able to cope with stress? New research says living near a forest, even if you’re in the city makes a positive impact. Source: Living Near A Forest Will Make You Happier, Study Finds
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster Source: ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders…
Tristan Harris thinks big tech is taking advantage of us all. Can its power be used for good? Source: Smartphones Are Weapons of Mass Manipulation, and This Guy Is Declaring War on Them – MIT Technology Review
Harvard Innovation Lab startup Getaway builds collections of tiny houses on wooded plots of land just outside the city where you can go to recharge in nature. Their rentable tiny houses can be… Source: Getaway is launching new tiny house rentals in Washington DC and Boston | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
Google now has not one but two new entrants to its smart home speaker family: the larger, music-centric Google Home Max and pint-size Google Home Mini. Source: Introducing the Google Home Max and Google Home Mini
French startup OpenClassrooms is partnering with IT service company Capgemini to find and hire new people off the beaten path. This is something new for OpenClassrooms and could turn into a… Source: OpenClassrooms and Capgemini team up and launch an online apprenticeship program | TechCrunch
It’s the first camera powered by Google’s AI. Source: The Google Clips camera puts AI behind the lens – The Verge
Very rarely, an app comes along that changes your life. I want to tell you about such an app, and how it changed mine. I had nothing to do with its making; I have never installed or opened it on my… Source: Curing the incurable | TechCrunch
The nature of work is changing on a global level at a rapid pace. Sure, it’s not the first time work has been dramatically impacted by technology, but the growth of automation, robotics, AI… Source: Google commits $1 billion in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs | TechCrunch
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google—and how they got that way. Randall Stross reviews “The Four” by Scott Galloway. Source: The Four Horsemen of Big Tech – WSJ
Compared to the Full Stack Designer, we seem to be more familiar with the Full Stack Developers. So what is full stack designer exactly… Source: What is a Full Stack Designer in 2017? Will You Be One?
Today’s great innovators share fundamental traits with one another—and with those who came before them. Source: What Steve Jobs Had in Common with da Vinci | Vanity Fair
Frequent sauna bathing reduces the risk of elevated blood pressure, according to an extensive follow … Source: Frequent sauna bathing keeps blood pressure in check – Scienmag: Latest Science and Health News
A North Korean official has hinted about conducting a nuclear test at sea, which would have severe environmental consequences. Source: What Would an H-Bomb Do to the Pacific Ocean? – The Atlantic
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes. Source: The Coming Software Apocalypse – The Atlantic
The film is the first documentary in Sundance’s new Creative Distribution Fellowship Source: Jennifer Brea documented chronic fatigue syndrome so doctors would believe women – The Verge
The Next Menu imagined dinner in 30 years with jellyfish, algae, and a lot of salt Source: A night at a dystopian dinner party, eating like it’s the end of food – The Verge
Machine learning isn’t always overtly tantalizing or controversial: sometimes, it’s just … dull and useful. Source: Microsoft Is Making AI Boring, and That’s Either Great or Scary – MIT Technology Review
There is simply no evidence that either country is ever going to get its act together again, period. Source: German election: Germany and France thwarted the far right—why did the US and UK fall to them? — Quartz
Don’t trash them right away. Source: How to open your messed up files | Popular Science
How hard are you concentrating? There’s one unusual way to find out: read your hidden cognition levels using smart thermal imaging tech. Source: Thermal imaging can reveal just how hard your brain is working
It’s now more important than ever that we can trust the systems we are using to manage our data ethically. Source: We desperately need ethical algorithms – here’s why
India is shifting gears. Source: Electric vehicles: India is about to embark on the most ambitious electric-car transformation in the world — Quartz
Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines? Source: TreeHugger
Speed Queen’s simple, solid machines can last forever. Source: Best Washing Machine: American Made Speed Queen Gets Raves | Money
The iPhone X cements a growing trend of less for more. Source: Should I Buy Apple iPhone X? – The Problem With New Smartphones
When you think of speakers, if you think of them at all, you probably think of something black, boxy and not terribly big on style. There are exceptions, of course, and People People’s cool transparent speaker, launching on Kickstarter today, is one of them. Source: Gorgeous People People Transparent Speaker Launches on Kickstarter | WIRED
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