Among the things I learned this week:
* The data collection and storage implementations that Mercedes uses for its F1 cars. (Courtesy: Nathan Matisse/Ars Technica).
* Chengdu is the center of Chinese hip hop. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)
* Colin Powell was against the tear-down-this-wall line in Reagan’s 1987 Berlin speech. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)
Among the things I learned this week:
* AVG Innovation Labs developed a clever way to leverage the same technology that does facial and image recognition, so that faces are automatically blurred. This could protect a degree of privacy while letting the others sell/advertise their experiences. (Courtesy: AVG Innovation Labs)
* More than 40,000 millionaires left France between 2000 and 2014. (Courtesy: Michael Stothard/FT)
* The Confucius family tree is the longest lasting and most documented lineage. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* At the F.B.I., the Sept. 11 plot officially remains an open case. (Courtesy: Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane/NYT)
* A second video of my participation in demolition derby exists. (Courtesy: SA)
* Instant noodle sales by volume fell by 12.5 percent last year. (Courtesy: The Economist)