Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week.

Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits.

Let me know if you read something I'd like … Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading.

Thanks.

Lighter Links:

• The No. 1 TED Talk of All Time Teaches a Critical Lesson in Intelligence (That We Often Forget). (Inc)
• Thirteen Lessons of Innovation to Guide You through 2018.(FastCompany)
• Apple Confirms It Runs ICloud on Google's Cloud, and You Shouldn't Be Surprised. (TheNextWeb)
• Elementary : a Theory of Why Some Things Do Not Exist. (TLS)
• America's Secret Ice Base Won't Stay Frozen Forever. (Wired)
• Barbara Streisand's Cloned Dog Colony is a Science Fiction Nightmare. (Inverse)
• Does a USB Drive Get Heavier as You Store More Files on It? (Sciencefocus)
• What is Malware? Everything You Need to Know about Viruses, Trojans and Malicious Software. (ZDNet)
• Trump Hides under Desk after Diet Coke Can Opens Loudly.(NewYorker – Satire)
• Bye Bye Black Box: Researchers Teach AI to Explain Itself.(TheNextWeb)
• A Video that Explains the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.(BoingBoing)
• The Feds May Be Able to Spy on Your IPhone (But You Can Easily Stop Them). (NYMag)
• Bill Gates: Cryptocurrencies Have 'Caused Deaths in a Fairly Direct Way'. (TheGuardian)
• This STD is Reportedly the Top Reason People Can't Get on the Bachelor'. (Huffington Post)
• Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology. (TheVerge)
• Inside the OED: Can the World's Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet? (TheGuardian)
• The Best Books on Military Strategy. (FiveBooks)
• Here's What You Need to Know about Malware and Phishing. (Quartz)
• Can IPhones Get Viruses? How to Detect & Remove Viruses from Your IPhone. (iPhoneLife)
• The Best VPN Services: Our 10 Favorite Vendors for Protecting Your Privacy. (ZDNet)

Market-Related Links

• The Rise of Quants in Trading and Financial Markets. (StockTwits)
• Bitcoin is Falling out of Favor on the Dark Web. (The Atlantic)
• What's next for Blockchain? (TheFinanser)
• Here's Why Predicting the Weather is Still So Difficult. (Observer)
• Podcast: Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke (Wes). (AlphaArchitect)
• Apple Continues to Dominate the Smartphone Profit Pool. (Forbes)
• How Modern Infrastructure and Machine Intelligence Will Disrupt the Industry. (Forbes)
• Stanford is Using Machine Learning on Satellite Images to Predict Poverty. (AnalyticsVidhya)
• A Model for S&P 500 Bottoms (Are We There Yet?). (Stockcharts)
• Bloomberg Narrows Down Potential Locations for Apple's Upcoming U.S. Campus. (MacRumors)
• The Amazon Headquarters Search Mystery Has Been Solved! or Has It? (ChicagoTribune)
• Spotify Files for Its Unusual IPO. (Axios)
• Malta: an Island of Secrets and Lies. (NewStatesman)
• Xi Jinping Amends China's Constitution. (Jeromecohen)
• An AI Just Beat Top Lawyers at Their Own Game. (Mashable)
• Crypto/Blockchain Safe Harbor. (Continuations)
• When Malls Saved the Suburbs from Despair. (The Atlantic)
• Welfare Versus GDP: What Makes People Better Off. (IMF)
• The Stock Market Cannot Tell Us Which Economic Policies are Best.(ValueWalk)
• Blockchain to Blockchains: Broad Adoption and Integration Enter the Realm of the Possible Tech Trends 2018. (Deloitte)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard