我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

論交易

考慮到幾周前騎士資本（Knight Capital）的崩潰，不要錯過傑瑞•阿德勒（Jerry Adler）對高頻交易領域的深入研究，華爾街正競相削減毫秒級的資料傳輸時間。

連線：傑瑞阿德勒-狂怒的公牛：華爾街如何沉迷於光速交易

This movement has been gaining momentum for more than a decade. Human beings who make investment decisi*** based on their asses**ent of the economy and on the prospects for individual companies are retreating. Computers—acting on computer-generated market trend data and even newsfeeds, communicating only with one another—have taken up the slack.

論白噪聲

合唱團西夏審查了令人驚訝的白噪聲錄音範圍廣泛。

錐子：唱詩班西夏-審查白噪聲錄音

The dystopic title is correct. This is a very cold, unfeeling white noise. It has terrific bassy, rhythmic undertones however. It's not one you'd want in your regular rotation but it's nice on planes.

論美國**業

在關於將小玩意**業搬回美國的可行性的無休止的爭論中，《****》回顧了近30年，探討了日產將部分汽車組裝廠搬回田納西州的成功經驗。

《****》：比爾·弗拉西奇（Bill Vlasic）、田口裕子（Hiroko Tabuchi）和查爾斯·杜希格（Charles Duhigg）——追求日產（Nissan），科技行業的就業教訓？

But c***umer electronics are different. Though some jobs have moved to Asia, many were never here to begin with. And the biggest technology importers — like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Microsoft — are American companies. Today, many c***umers do not know or care where their **artphones are made. "Where it was built, what it means for politics, how it affects the economy," said Raymond Stata, a founder of Analog Devices, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers, "that’s not something people think about when they buy."

在掃描器上

Adrien Chen採訪了@SheboyganScan背後的多產人士，這是一個好奇的Twitter帳戶，跟蹤威斯康星州當地警方的掃描器活動。

新調查：陳德琳-推特拍

I got my first scanner for Christmas in 2004. I took it out of the box, put in batteries, turned it on, and heard a plane crash! I didn’t listen to it too much, but I noticed that a lot of interesting things never showed up in our local paper, which is woefully inadequate.

在被駭客攻擊時

在他的“數字生活被毀”幾天后，Mat Honan詳細講述了一群駭客是如何透過蘋果和亞馬遜的安全防禦系統進入他的賬戶的。

連線：Mat Honan-蘋果和亞馬遜的安全漏洞如何導致我的史詩般的駭客攻擊

But what happened to me exposes vital security flaws in several customer service systems, most notably Apple’s and Amazon’s. Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon c***iders unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple c***iders secure enough to perform identity verification. The disconnect exposes flaws in data management policies endemic to the entire technology industry, and points to a looming nightmare as we enter the era of cloud computing and connected devices.

論機器人的臨場感

瑞秋·艾瑪·西爾弗曼作為一個任意機器人、網真機器人度過了一段時間。

《華爾街日報》：雷切爾·艾瑪·西爾弗曼——我的遠端辦公機器人生活

Wherever I went, I needed a c***tant handler and guide, and the spotty wireless signal often left me stranded—the video window on my laptop in Texas frozen as the Robot Rachel in New York went dead. When a co-worker attempted to roll me into an area with better connectivity, the robot would thrash around, emitting an alarming, guttural noise that startled all in its vicinity.

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