Interesting Links: April 6, 2019

Interesting content from my RSS feed:

1. An AI smartwatch that detects seizures - A TED talk by MIT's Rosalind Picard discusses how her AI research on measuring emotions led to FDA approval for a smart watch that she hopes will reduce deaths from SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in EPilepsy). Behind stroke, SUDEP is the second leading neurological cause of lost life hours.
2. Microsoft’s Windows 10 May 2019 Update rollout to begin next week - The update will be broadly available in late May, but testers will start receiving it next week. Users have the option to opt out of the feature update, and continue getting security updates.
3. Millions of Facebook Users' Personal Info Was Posted Publicly On Amazon Servers - Researchers at cybersecurity firm, UpGuard, found hundreds of thousands of publicly available databases in the Amazon cloud from past and present Facebook partners. The databases contain millions of personal records with things like phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and even passwords. Until recently, Facebook shared this data freely with partners.
4. Now Amazon plans to launch a massive constellation of more than 3,000 internet satellites - 3,000 satellites layered at 3 different altitudes could provide Internet access to more than 95% of the world's population. The project needs regulatory approval, and the company would need to show its plans to avoid adding to the problem of "space debris".
5. Airbnb guest found hidden surveillance camera by scanning Wi-Fi network - The camera was in the home's living room, and it's not clear whether it was set to record. Airbnb banned the host, but only after repeated contacts.
6. Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization - The first documentation that objects with rhythms tend toward synchronization was in 1665, but it wasn't described mathematically until 1967. After being simplified in 1974, the model has been applied to such disparate things as: "neurons, fireflies, pacemaker cells, starlings in flight, reacting chemicals, alternating currents and myriad other real-world populations of coupled 'oscillators.'" In 2001, however, the model was found to be incomplete, and theorists still don't fully understand why.
7. Do humans have a ‘ghost’ ancestor? Artificial intelligence thinks so. - In addition to Neanderthal and Denisovan species, statistical researchers have inferred that some of our genes come from a 3rd, undiscovered, species of prehistoric human.
8. STEEM How mobile phones are helping farmers grow bigger harvests - @seven09 writes about a mobile app called, MyAgro, that is lowering risk for farmers who save their money for seeds in the unbanked regions of the world.
9. How Evolutionary Theory Can Help Us Understand Language - Glenn Hadikin discusses his research in the area of lexical priming, noting that we select our language based upon where we heard it. We tend to repeat novel words and phrases from people we like, and not from those we don't. In today's divided society, it leads me to wonder if some of our language might also be diverging.
10. Space: The Final Illusion - Lee Smolin believes that the Quantum theory of gravity will enable theoretical physicists to move beyond statistical understandings of quantum behavior to detailed descriptions, and that it will enable them to see cause and effect acting directly between far-distant objects.

Thanks to steemrss from @philipkoon, @doriitamar, and @torrey.blog for the Steem RSS feeds.

Please feel welcome to discuss any of those links in the comments.