Fill Your Pocket (Episode 1)
A weekly series where i will select a number of articles from around the web about different fields of interest so that you can save them into your (pocket) app.
If you don’t know pocket check there website , I believe it’s a must for anybody who loves to read as it makes reading _especially long articles which will represent most of the articles here_ a more pleasant experience , however you can just bookmark the articles in your preferred browser.
Tech :
The resignation of “ellen pao” the interim CEO of “reddit” has sparkled a lot of interest into the website’s major identity problem and the rising anger of its users over the new rules which led to ellen’s resignation.
- “Aliens in the valley” The complete history of Reddit, the Internet’s front page . (mashable.com)
- “Reddit is a failed state” The front page of the internet is run by warlords . (theverge.com)
- “Reddit’s sound and fury” Every Reddit revolt burns hot and burns out fast . (theverge.com)
- “Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech” . (theverge.com)
“hacking team” a security company that made many deals with third world countries and even the FBI to provide them with programs to hack into people’s personal computers and mobile phones has been hacked and a 400 gb of data were published including many security holes that the team used.
- “Hacking Team Shows the World How Not to Stockpile Exploits” . (wired.com)
- “Flash. Must. Die.” . (wired.com)
Other tech related articles.
- “The Web We Have To Save” . (medium.com)
- “The rise of the new Crypto War” . (dailydot.com)
- “You Need to Speak Up For Internet Security. Right Now.” (wired.com)
Science & space :
NASA’s “new horizons” probe finally reached its destination at the edge of our solar system after 9 years of its departure from earth.
Other science & space related articles :
- “Is the Multiverse science?” (medium.com)
- “The Superplant That May Finally Topple the Rubber Monopoly” . (wired.com)
- “How the brain perceives time” . (sciencenews.org)
Random Topics :
A 3 parts series on sleep , dreaming and wakefulness .
- “Why Can’t We Fall Asleep?” . (newyorker.com)
- “The Work We Do While We Sleep” . (newyorker.com)
- “The Walking Dead” . (newyorker.com)
A very long but beautiful read about how EA (Electronic Arts) has changed throughout its 33 years history of building video games.
- “How ea lost its soul” . (polygon.com)
Another multiple pages long read about “Elon Musk” an entrepreneur who disrupted multiple industries with his creative ideas .
- “Go Fever: The Interstellar Odyssey of Elon Musk” . (businessweekme.com)
An article about WikiLeaks the website that is a home of millions of classified leaked documents that reveal how politics , economy and nation-wide surveillance are run.
- “Recapping wikileaks the bold and frivolous moves- of a radical organization” . (hopesandfears.com)
Old But Gold :
In this section i’m going to post some interesting articles that i saved into my pocket account across nearly 2 years ,although they might contain some old data but i think they have a lot of value.
- “If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet” . (wired.com)
- “The internet mystery that has the world baffled” . (telegraph.co.uk)
- “Sean Parker: Philanthropy for Hackers” (wsj.com)
- “How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else” . (wired.com)
Feel free to suggest new articles in the comments section and recommend the series if you like it :) .
