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Ethereum thinks it can change the world. It’s running out of time to prove it. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612507/ethereum-thinks-it-can-change-the-world-its-running-out-of-time-to-prove-it/

The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-recklessness-of-the-self-driving-car-industr-1831027948

It’s Time to Plan for How Quantum Computing Could Go Wrong, Say Entrepreneurs and Physicists https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-plan-for-how-quantum-computing-could-go-wro-1831075632

All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612586/all-automated-hiring-software-is-prone-to-bias-by-default/

New York’s new wage law for Uber drivers is a lesson for cities around the world https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612584/new-yorks-new-wage-law-for-uber-drivers-is-a-lesson-for-cities-around-the-world/

Could light bring us superfast mobile broadband indoors? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-46289650/could-light-bring-us-superfast-mobile-broadband-indoors

Project to make ground-based telescopes ‘three times sharper than Hubble’ https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/project-to-make-ground-based-telescopes-three-times-sharper-than-hubble

O mundo entrou em guerra pelo 5G https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-mundo-entrou-em-guerra-pelo-5g,70002645323

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Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/19/17246152/google-selfish-ledger-patent-applications

Google’s Selfish Ledger Is An Unsettling Vision Of Silicon Valley Social Engineering https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-schemed-against-its-users-1830916368

Bereaved mother criticises Facebook over baby ads https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46543324

Urban waterways are under siege by a new invasive species: e-scooters https://www.fastcompany.com/90279331/people-are-throwing-bird-and-lime-scooters-into-rivers-and-lakes

Uber was “hell-bent on stifling competition,” new lawsuit alleges https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/uber-was-hell-bent-on-stifling-competition-new-lawsuit-alleges/

Viking Sword Discovered all the way in Turkey https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/12/viking-sword-discovered-in-turkey/

‘Planet of the chickens’: How the bird took over the world https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46506184

Opinion: The Central Dogma of Mitochondrial Genetics Needs Rewriting https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/opinion–the-central-dogma-of-mitochondrial-genetics-needs-rewriting-65204

Anti-robot vigilantes in Arizona try to scare off Waymo’s self-driving cars https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/12/12/anti-robot-vigilantes-in-arizona-try-to-scare-off-waymos-self-driving-cars/

Here’s Your Proof That We Landed On The Moon, Steph Curry https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/12/12/heres-your-proof-that-we-landed-on-the-moon-steph-curry/#b3fd52249d9b

Gridlock in the sky https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-faa-air-traffic/

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Uber manager in March: “We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/uber-exec-warned-of-rampant-safety-problems-days-before-fatal-crash/

Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html

Facebook’s role in the French protests has polarized observers https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18135273/yellow-vest-facebook-france-protests

We Finally Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-what-killed-the-sea-life-in-the-world-s-deadliest-mass-extinction

Here’s how Lyft envisions self-driving cars communicating with pedestrians https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/lyft-self-driving-car-communication-patent/

What’s eating this 400-year-old painting? A whole ecosystem of microbes https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/whats-eating-this-400-year-old-painting-a-whole-ecosystem-of-microbes/

How Apollo 8 Astronauts took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photograph https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46514930/how-apollo-8-astronauts-took-the-famous-earthrise-photograph

Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46516033

Extreme Events “Virtually Impossible” without Warming https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-events-virtually-impossible-without-warming/

Earth’s cold storage is melting. Here’s what’s oozing out. https://www.popsci.com/whats-inside-earths-permafrost

Warming in Arctic Raises Fears of a ‘Rapid Unraveling’ of the Region https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/climate/arctic-warming.html

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Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

Primeira missão brasileira no Egito prepara escavação de tumba milenar https://www.estadao.com.br/infograficos/cidades,brasileiros-no-egito,945449

Puzzle solving ‘won’t stop mental decline’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46507024

It’s Official: Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space https://gizmodo.com/its-official-voyager-2-has-entered-interstellar-space-1830981729

Justiça do DF bloqueia R$ 2 milhões de dono de site que vende dados pessoais de brasileiros https://g1.globo.com/df/distrito-federal/noticia/2018/12/11/justica-do-df-bloqueia-r-2-milhoes-de-dono-de-site-que-vende-dados-pessoais-de-brasileiros.ghtml

Learning The Results of a DNA Test Could Actually Change The Way Your Body Works https://www.sciencealert.com/how-hearing-the-results-of-a-dna-test-could-actually-change-the-way-your-body-works

Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth’s Surface https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-lift-lid-on-massive-biosphere-of-life-hidden-under-earth-s-surface

Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon—hundreds of times more than humans https://phys.org/news/2018-12-life-deep-earth-totals-billion.html

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The Key To A Long Life Has Little To Do With ‘good Genes’ https://www.wired.com/story/the-key-to-a-long-life-has-little-to-do-with-good-genes/

“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid http://news.mit.edu/2018/liquid-silicon-store-renewable-energy-1206

MIT engineers repurpose wasp venom as an antibiotic drug http://news.mit.edu/2018/repurpose-wasp-venom-antibiotic-drug-1207

Trump administration resists global climate efforts at home and overseas https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-resists-global-climate-efforts-at-home-overseas/2018/12/09/b94a9ef0-fa41-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

How the Mysteries of the Vatican Secret Archives Are Being Revealed by Artificial Intelligence http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/how-the-mysteries-of-the-vatican-secret-archives-are-being-revealed-by-artificial-intelligence.html

The privacy risks of compiling mobility data http://news.mit.edu/2018/privacy-risks-mobility-data-1207

Universal income vs. the robots: Meet the presidential candidate fighting automation https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612558/universal-income-vs-the-robots-meet-the-presidential-candidate-fighting-automation/

Amazon “automated machine” punctures bear spray can, 24 employees hospitalized https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/amazon-automated-machine-punctures-bear-spray-can-24-employees-hospitalized/