Gesellschaft

• German power sector: coal and nuclear down, renewables up in 2017
  A look back at renewable energies in Germany in 2017
• Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US-elections
  Crazy. I didn’t even know the Dutch were involved in Cyber Thingies
• The Follower Factory
  A detailed investigation by the New York Times on the Twitter bots ecosystem. It can only be by Twitter’s choice to be so reluctant in bot detection; there are so obvious pattern!
• The Google Lunar X Prize’s Race to the Moon Is Over. Nobody Won.
  Haven’t heard about the X Prize in quite some time. Now I know why.

Umwelt

• 2017 Was One of the Hottest Years on Record. And That Was Without El Niño.
  One memorable quote by Rachel Licker from the end of the article: »It’s startling to know there are individuals on the brink of adulthood who have spent their entire lives in a climate that, largely due to human activity, is vastly different from the one their parents experienced growing up«

Technologie

• The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed
  About digital pop-up stores, re-selling Chinese stuff directly to ad-targeted customers
• How we made the microprocessor
  The Intel 4004