Interesting Links: April 11, 2019

Business, News, Science, Technology, or whatever gets my attention.

Straight from my RSS feed:

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The top-10 from my 1000+ daily headlines. I filter them so you don't have to.

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1. These are the 10 highest-paying entry-level jobs in tech - Data Scientist is #1. Data scientist, developer, and product manager jobs all start at more than $100k.
2. Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch - A TED talk by Keith Kirkland, CEO of Wearworks, on his product development research with wearable technology and the sense of touch. His product helped a blind person run 15 miles of a NYC marathon with no sited assistance, but it is not intended solely for people with visual impairments.
3. How to blow the whistle on your employer - Legal experts offer advice, and say, “You can do this confidentially [and] anonymously, and you can benefit financially.” However, many past whistle blowers say they wouldn't do it again.
4. Western Union Partners With Crypto Wallet for Cross-Border Transfers - Western Union and Coins.ph are in an agreement to enable cross-border payments to the Phillipines. This is an attempt to service the estimated 10 million fillipinos who live or work outside of the Phillipines.
5. Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits - It managed to land safely after catching up with its own 20mm rounds and being struck in the fuselage.
6. Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter - The genetically altered monkeys did better on intelligence tests, and their brains also took longer to develop. The researcher says that apes and humans are too closely linked for this type of research, but chimpanzees are far enough removed on the evolutionary ladder. However, this type of research would probably prohibited in the US or EU.
7. Researchers Show There Is A Simple Way To Induce Synesthesia In People With Normal Perception - Sit in the dark for five minutes, then perform a visualization task. According to the researchers, 60% of subjects who did this experienced synesthesia, which is (loosely) the sensation of perceiving input from one sensory pathway as if it came through a different one - perceiving numbers or sounds as colors, for example.
8. We've Found a Quicker Way to Multiply Really Big Numbers - David Harvey reports on research by himself and colleague, Joris van der Hoeven. The work has not yet completed peer review, but the authors believe they have found a way to multiply spectacularly large numbers in n log(n) time, which is conjectured to be the best possible performance. The method uses fast fourier transforms (FFTs) in 1,729 dimensions. Unfortunately, so far the method is only proved to work with numbers that are so "ludicrously large" as to have no practical use. The researchers hope it can be tailored down to numbers with billions or trillions of digits, at which point it would be useful for computational mathematicians.
9. STEEM Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets Soon To Be Served In High-End Restaurants - @doitvoluntarily writes about the current state of lab grown meat. Existing obstacles include high cost and opposition from ranchers and other incumbents, who are seeking regulatory barriers to entry. However, lab grown meet has seen adoption in China, and India, and is expected to become available in high-end restaurants in the US.
10. A New Way to Detect Parkinson’s—by Smell - A woman noticed the scent from her husband and was able to recognize it in others. Now researchers are working on duplicating the ability in diagnostic tests.

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