Is This Real Life?: Morning Report 01/03/14
"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." - Jim Morrison
Pictured Above: Heliskiing.
Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:
- Bitcoin Wow, You're a Big Boy Now: San Francisco-based hedge fund is hiring a crypto-trader, specific to the volatile currency that has seen its stock pulled this way and that. [Motherboard]
- Keeper of Secrets, Defender to Your Domain: Though password consolidation has already taken up space on our wrists, there may be a more intuitive shortcut to signing on. [New Scientist]
- PINO: Facebook messages prove to be "private" in name only. [Ars Technica]
- Snap, Crackle, Pop: Snapchat's bubble on the point of breaking, but its doing its best to shore up against the leak. [TechCrunch]
- The Neverending Story: NSA building a quantum computer that would be able to crack most encryption, making its hardware hacking unit completely unnecessary. [WaPo]
- Is This Real Life?: A world where the virtual and the, well, real collide. But is this simply another big bang disruption? [New Scientist, Wired]
- You Take That Back!: Controversy is where controversy happens and these Wikipedia articles saw the most tense back-and-forth editing. [MIT Technology Review]
- X's and O's: The game plan for going viral. Bill Gates's year in review. And the NFL playoffs, as pop culture. [Fast.Co Design, The Gates Notes, GQ]
- High Art: Drugs, up close, microscopically close. [Fast.Co Create]
Also, did you know... The word "ski" has its origins in the Norwegian word skíð, which means a piece of wood. [Wikipedia]