The Lazarus Effect

#TECHNOLOGY — The Lazarus-Effect

You might not need to throw away your broken glasses and get new ones anymore, thanks to these unique materials that can heal themselves! A video by SciShow on Freedom Today.

#TECHNOLOGY — Unwired

How WiFi really works and how you can get the most out of it. Jim Salter explains wireless networking for arstechnica.com

#TRANSPORTATION — Buckle up

Supersonic commercial flying is back on the schedule with new planes being developed as you read this. Samuel Hammond goes full throttle for niskanencenter.org

#CULTURE — The smartphone phenomenon

An in depth look at the social change brought upon us by smartphones. Adam Greenfield swiped right for longreads.com

#BUSINESS — Not slacking around

Amazon apparently considers paying a tremendous price for Slack (which we use at FTN). Frederic Filloux is exploring the sense of such an acquisition at Monday Note.

#BUSINESS — Easily spoiled

Why would Amazon want to buy Whole Foods? It fits their plan to take a cut of more economic transactions than ever. Ben Thompson explains Amazon's other big acquisition plan at stratechery.com

#AI — AI riding shotgun

Tesla's machine learning system is receiving huge amounts of data from actual driving cars to improve its collective driving skills. Tom Ward followed the signs for futurism.com

#CULTURE — Recommended reading

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces lovingly formatted, open source, and free public domain ebooks.» Exactly what it says on the package.

#DESIGN — Go, clean up your website!

There is a trend to put unnecessary crap on website. John Gruber pleads for a cleaner web at daringfireball.net

#TRANSPORTATION — On time

Personal air transportation has been a pipe dream for decades.But a new concept appears more realistic than anything before. Jack Stewart takes off for Wired.

#AI — Artificial morality

AI researcher Andrew Blake discusses the challenges ahead in creating and using artificial intelligence. Natasha Lomas reports for Techcrunch.