Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great tech reads from around the web. This week, weâve got stories about the casino entrepreneur who wants to make you immortal, the NSAâs âGoogle For Voiceâ, a dive into Mars colonization, and more!
- Glenn Straub, an âindependently wealthy 68-year-old industrialist, itinerant polo player, and pugnacious real estate developerâ, has bought up a virtually brand-new hotel in Atlantic City. He plans to turn it into a casino combined with a futuristic medical facility, so that you can live (and gamble) forever. [Bloomberg]
- When we talk about colonizing Mars, itâs normally the technical issues being discussed. But should we want to go there in the first place; and if so, who should be on the front line? [Fusion]
- The NSA doesnât need to just collect all of our phone calls: it needs some way of mining the information, too. Rather than having humans sift through, the NSA developed a program for speech recognition, using machines to spit out rough transcripts of calls, and then keyword-mining, a program dubbed âGoogle For Voiceâ. [The Intercept]
- It used to be you couldnât go three clicks on the internet without a pastel-colored infographic trying to teach you something. But in the last few years, infographics have been on the downswing. And itâs not because data visualization is past its prime â" rather, corporations have snapped up all the good designers. [Fast Company]
- Donât panic, but the United States is âin the midst of a slow-motion disease disasterâ. This isnât Ebola 2.0; rather, itâs the spread of avian influenza, and itâs wreaking havoc among poultry farms. [National Geographic]
- Against the background of national discontent with our police force, there's one glimmer of hope: Fresno, California, where a long-running community policing initiative has been paying dividends. The Washington Post profiles an alternative, friendlier way to keep gangs off the streets. [Washington Post]
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