This is definitely going to speed things up in this area.

https://qz.com/1064679/a-new-t-shirt-sewing-robot-can-make-as-many-shirts-per-hour-as-17-factory-workers/

Patent troll pays up.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/kaspersky-lab-turns-the-tables-forces-patent-troll-to-pay-cash-to-end-case/

Well that's just cool.

Well, there you go. Computers are good tools, to a point.

http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/do-laptops-help-learning-look-only-statewide-school-laptop-program#stream/0

Politics uncertainty

https://www.axios.com/trumps-political-uncertainty-risks-an-american-brain-drain-2474420200.html

Heads up on that automated car wash.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxe33/car-wash-hack-can-smash-vehicle-trap-passengers-douse-them-with-water

M. C. Escher models 3D printed

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/personal/EscherForReal/

Here's an article you will find very interesting if you use google.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/

A math teacher who loved what he did, for a very long time.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/19/541163173/paul-miller-loved-teaching-math-so-much-that-he-did-it-for-nearly-80-years

Android 8 Oreo is here, I just wish we could update all our old phones.

https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

Intel new cpus are launched.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile

Interesting article on counterfeit chip

http://www.righto.com/2017/08/inside-fake-ram-chip-i-found-something.html?m=1

Backdoor found in network management products

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/powerful-backdoor-found-in-software-used-by-100-banks-and-energy-cos/

Best food run ever!

This is just too ridiculous when it comes to adapters. I don't know about you but I prefer the built-in ports myself.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-dongles-2017-8?international=true&r=UK&IR=T/#9-mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-99-9

Google play malware

http://fortune.com/2017/08/13/malware-google-play-android-surveillance/

Beware of this type of scam.

https://petapixel.com/2017/08/11/fell-victim-1500-used-camera-lens-scam-amazon/

Intel 8th generation cpus will be introduced August 21

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/media-alert-introducing-new-8th-gen-intel-core-processor-family/

This is scary

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/07/tiny-meat-loving-marine-creatures-eat-teenagers-legs-at-melbourne-beach?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=238271&subid=23615832&CMP=ema_632

Cybersecurity

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345337-wannacry-hero-chills-security-community

The brothers behind stripe's online payment systems

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup