Welcome to the New Age - Weekly Reading List - December 1st, 2017

More things for less effort ... Happy holidays!

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week. Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits. Let me know if you read something I'd like ... Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading. Thanks.

Lighter Links:

'Fake Data', a Relative of 'Fake News', is Threat to Economic Stability, ECB Says. (Reuters) World's First Artificial Intelligence Politician Developed in New Zealand. (Inquisitr) 5 Fitness Apps to Work off that Thanksgiving Dinner. (MO)  This Bean-shaped Cuddle Robot is Meant to Fight Insomnia.(DailyDot) American Fighter Jets are Getting the Laser Cannons They've Always Deserved. (Wired) The Productivity Tricks of Seven Successful Entrepreneurs. (Forbes) You Can Buy a Boeing 747 Online in China. (Money) Deep Learning is Eating Software. (Petewarden) Reid Hoffman Reveals the Most Important Insight He Learned on His "Masters of Scale" Podcast. (QZ) The Power of a Weekly Marriage Meeting. (ArtOfManliness) Using Virtual Reality to Make Big Data Analysis as Immersive as Games. (SiliconAngle) Student Creates Fake News Detector Using Neural Networks.(TrendInTech) New Report Ranks Diets, and DASH-like Plans May Be Best. (FinancialSense) Time to Call the Top on Trump-Tweet Bots. (DealBreaker) Scientists Have Confirmed a Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals. (ScienceAlert) Scientists Find Brain Hormone that Triggers Fat Burning.(ScienceDaily) 5 Reasons Why We Hold on to Anger. (PickTheBrain) What Does the Fourth Industrial Revolution Look Like?(LiquidPlanner) Female Samurai Warriors Immortalized in 19th Century Japanese Photos. (OpenCulture) Musk is Preparing to Release Brain Hacking Tech, and He's Not Alone.(Futurism)

Market-Related Links

Bitcoin Attracts Opportunity Seeking High-Speed Traders.(Btcmanager) Index Fund-type Coins are about to Enter Cryptocurrency Market.(TheNextWeb)  Economic History is Dead; Long Live Economic History? (Economist) Lyft is Raising Another $500 Million. (Axios) Putin Could Be about to Send the Oil Markets into a Tailspin. (CNBC) 100 Ray Dalios. (SeekingAlpha) This Chinese Giant is Now Worth More Than Facebook. (Fortune) Who's Afraid of Index Funds? (Wall Street Journal) Blockchain Makes the World Interested in Finance's Dullest Parts.(Bloomberg) Yellen Says Fed Needs to Avoid 'Boom-bust'cycle in Economy. (AP News) Apple Talks about Self-Driving Cars. (Fortune) U.S. Oil Prices near Two-year High on Pipeline Shutdown, Falling Inventories. (Reuters) Bond Traders Start to See Crack in Fed's Resolve about Inflation.(Bloomberg) 7 Biggest ICOs Ranked by Amount Raised. (Insidermonkey) Secular Bull Takes Flight. (TheReformedBroker) Ray Dalio: Let the Best Ideas Win. (Ritholtz) Economics Isn't a Bogus Science We Just Don't Use It Correctly.(LATimes) Microsoft's Market Value Tops $500 Billion Again after 17 Years.(Reuters) 10 Biggest Defense Contractors in the World. (Insidermonkey) An Algorithm Isn't Always the Answer. (New York Times)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard