Every day, The New York Times’s staff scours the Web for interesting and peculiar items.
Here’s what we noticed today:
If the New iPhone Has Biometrics, Can It Be Hacked?
Wired | Unlike keys or passwords, fingerprints aren’t a secret. You leave them everywhere you touch. - Jenna Wortham
The Cowboy of the N.S.A.
Foreign Policy | Inside Gen. Keith Alexander’s all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine.(Subscription required.)  - Ashwin Seshagiri
The Data Factory Lets Tech Giants widen the Wealth Gap
TechCrunch | Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist, says tech executives aren’t just rich, their handiwork eviscerates the middle class. - Somini Sengupta
Facebook Pushes Back October Start of Video Ads
Advertising Age | Everyone is worried about how Facebook users will react to video ads in their news feeds. - Vindu Goel
Extracting Editable Objects From a Single Photo
YouTube | With modest human interaction, it’s now possible to extract three-dimensional images from ordinary two-dimensional photographs. - Quentin Hardy
The Once-Bright Future of Color E-Paper
Engadget | No answers here on whatever happened to the promise of color electronic ink readers. But it explains the industry. - Damon Darlin
The Internet Must Go
Theinternetmustgo.com | A new online “documentary†takes a Daily Show-style swipe at net neutrality. - Amy O’Leary
Remodeling the Internet as One Giant Computer
Wired | DotCloud, a San Francisco start-up, wants to build a computer the size of the Internet. - Ashwin Seshagiri
TechCrunch Disrupt Kicks Off With ‘Inappropriate Presentations’
Valleywag | TechCrunch’s hackathon was marred on Sunday by what editors called presentations that were misogynistic. - Ashwin Seshagiri
