Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You - NYTimes.com

  • As society struggles with the privacy implications of wearable computers like Google Glass, scientists, researchers and some start-ups are already preparing the next, even more intrusive wave of computing: ingestible computers and minuscule sensors stuffed inside pills
  • You will — voluntarily, I might add — take a pill, which you think of as a pill but is in fact a microscopic robot, which will monitor your systems” and wirelessly transmit what is happening, Eric E. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, said last fall at a company conference. “If it makes the difference between health and death, you’re going to want this thing.

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Windows 8.1 fingerprint reader support includes option to secure folders with a finger | The Verge

  • Microsoft is also working with various OEMs to encourage them to add fingerprint readers into laptops, tablets, keyboards, and mice. "You'll begin to see these be more pervasively available just to make it that much easier to log in to Windows," says Microsoft's Stephen Rose.

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• California Debates Fracking Ban - Business Insider

  • Three separate bills to ban fracking in California have been introduced in Sacramento, as the state reckons with sitting on top of enormous shale energy deposits.
  • the bills call for separate conditional moratoriums on the practice, which involves shooting huge volumes of water down into rock formations to free up oil and gas

• Stock Buybacks Surge To Record Levels - Business Insider

  • many companies have been borrowing money to buyback massive amounts of their outstanding shares
  • Buyback announcements over the past 3 months total a record $214bn, or double the quarterly pace of actual repurchases (~$100bn)," write the analysts.
  • that's a lot of stock being pulled out of the market.

• Why Bonds Are Getting Slammed - Business Insider

  • fears that the Fed will begin to taper its bond purchases soon have risen in a big way this month
  • the central bank could begin reducing the pace of its bond purchases as soon as Labor Day if the data warranted such action.
  • If the U.S. economic data continue to improve and cause investors to push further and further into risky investments – and the Fed actually does begin to tighten monetary policy stimulus – the "safe haven" appeal appeal of the U.S. Treasury market could continue to dissipate

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