Apple Turns Publisher - Apple's transformation into a media conglomerate gains another stage. Texture as a part of News makes sense. As Facebook pulls back from news content to avert the PR disaster around Russian bots, Apple can put a publisher-centric model into play that isn't as gameable by garbage stories.

Making The Web Truly Global - Tim Berners-Lee isn't shy about speaking out. He makes some solid points about the consolidation of the internet into the domain of just a few companies. He's also pushing to help spread access to the Internet and making it more affordable. It's nice to see a techno-utopian who isn't doing it to shill a product.

The New I Don't Own A TV - In a stunning combination of smugness and stupidity, the NYT tech journalist writes a long think piece about "unplugging" despite the fact he could be easily fact-checked publicly. There's a lot of hand-wringing about the effects of social media, most of it missing the point about how and why social media enables bad information to spread. This type of self-aggrandizing pap is only going to make it worse.

3D Printing Coming Of Age - 3D printing a whole house isn't going to arrive at the next exurb subdivision near you. Instead, this is going to make construction in the developing world much quicker and cheaper. Scaled down manufacturing is going to likely be a massive revolution, but it's going to develop in projects like this that reach places current tech doesn't serve well.

Nine Speaks - It always felt strange that Christopher Eccelston kept so much distance from Doctor Who after he left, but this article sheds some light on the executive politics at work. He also shares his distaste for Thor: The Dark World and GI Joe. The former underused him to a criminal degree.

Captain Emo And The Avengers - Movies With Mikey runs down why the Marvel Universe works. It's simpler than you think, but something the other studios refuse to replicate. He highlights some rather high profile failures to replicate the model.

More AI Chimera Work - AI as a supplement for existing work seems to be the most prominent application currently. In The Pipeline analyzes a paper where an AI was used to predict efficacy of pharmaceutical compounds.