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A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties of Dark Energy Particle https://gizmodo.com/a-new-experiment-narrows-potential-properties-of-dark-e-1837414439

Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Corporate Strategy? https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielshapiro1/2019/08/19/can-artificial-intelligence-generate-corporate-strategy/#6882e41e559f

The Truth About Faster Internet: It’s Not Worth It https://www.wsj.com/graphics/faster-internet-not-worth-it/

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

The people policing the internet’s most horrific content https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49393858

Ransomware Attack Hits 22 Texas Towns, Authorities Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/texas-ransomware.html

YouTube Plans to End Targeted Ads on Videos Aimed at Kids https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-20/youtube-plans-to-end-targeted-ads-to-kids-to-comply-with-ftc

Two French tourists face up to six years in jail for taking sand from a Sardinian beach https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/08/20/two-french-tourists-face-up-six-years-jail-taking-sand-sardinian-beach/

Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10,000 Verdicts in Denmark https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/europe/denmark-cellphone-data-courts.html

Earth’s inner core is doing something weird https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/earths-inner-core-spinning-surprisingly-slow-nuclear-tests-reveal/

Beware The Epiphany-Industrial Complex https://www.wired.com/story/beware-the-epiphany-industrial-complex/

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Facebook and Twitter are cracking down on Chinese propaganda accounts https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614192/facebook-and-twitter-are-cracking-down-on-chinese-propaganda-accounts/

What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614080/what-if-aging-werent-inevitable-but-a-curable-disease/

Why we lie about being retired https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48882195

Scientists extract hydrogen gas from oil and bitumen, giving potential pollution-free energy https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientists-hydrogen-gas-oil-bitumen.html

China Attacks Hong Kong Protesters With Fake Social Posts https://www.wired.com/story/china-twitter-facebook-hong-kong-protests-disinformation/

Bees Are Dropping Dead in Brazil and Sending a Message to Humans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/bees-are-dropping-dead-in-brazil-and-sending-a-message-to-humans

Eduard Pernkopf: The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49294861

Parable of the Polygons – This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world. https://ncase.me/polygons/

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A 400-year-old Japanese temple just introduced a robotic priest https://mashable.com/video/japan-robot-priest/

Study finds key gut immune molecule links obesity, the microbiome, and metabolic disorders https://newatlas.com/fat-diet-immune-iga-microbiome-inflammation-obesity/61111/

The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/18/quantum-revolution-is-coming-chinese-scientists-are-forefront/

YouTube x professor https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,you-tube-x-professor,70002972077

Three Years Later, the French Solar Road Is a Total Flop https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a28720252/french-solar-road-failure/

How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/science/nasa-flat-earth.html

Mice and mind blowing maths https://pca.st/405H

Don’t count on having kids if you freeze your eggs https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614077/mothers-journey-egg-freezing-parenthood/

The world’s top deepfake artist is wrestling with the monster he created https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614083/the-worlds-top-deepfake-artist-is-wrestling-with-the-monster-he-created/

The transhumanists who want to live forever https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614078/transhumanists-live-forever/

Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics https://phys.org/news/2019-08-arctic-sea-ice-microplastics.html

Devastating Banana Fungus Arrives In Colombia, Threatening The Fruit’s Future https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/16/751499719/devastating-banana-fungus-arrives-in-colombia-threatening-the-fruits-future

These rare superdeep diamonds exposed Earth’s primordial secrets https://www.slashgear.com/these-rare-superdeep-diamonds-exposed-earths-primordial-secrets-15587400/

Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/16/mathematicians-need-doctor-style-hippocratic-oath-says-academic-hannah-fry

Candida auris: The new superbug on the block bbc.com/news/health-49170866

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Most Metabolism Boosters Are BS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEgfikSzFfQ

Satellites show Brazil’s deforestation has only gotten worse since Bolsonaro took office https://qz.com/1685037/brazils-bolsonaro-cant-hide-amazon-deforestation-from-satellites/

Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet https://phys.org/news/2019-08-young-jupiter-smacked-head-on-massive.html

New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/14/new-data-breach-has-exposed-millions-of-fingerprint-and-facial-recognition-records-report/#7ae3f2f346c6

Biostar security software ‘leaked a million fingerprints’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49343774

Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051

South America’s Glaciers May Have a Bigger Problem Than Climate Change https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-14/south-america-s-glaciers-may-have-a-bigger-problem-than-climate-change

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Deepmind’s Losses And The Future Of Artificial Intelligence https://www.wired.com/story/deepminds-losses-future-artificial-intelligence/

NYC has hired hackers to hit back at stalkerware https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614168/nyc-hires-hackers-to-hit-back-at-stalkerware/

A teen video app is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614147/a-teen-video-app-is-the-latest-battlefield-in-the-kashmir-conflict-tiktok-article-370/

Climate change or just crazy weather? How improving tools make it easier to tell. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614162/heat-waves-climate-change-extreme-weather-attribution-hurricanes-droughts-climate-model/

Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4

Human-size ‘monster’ penguin species discovered in New Zealand https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/human-sized-monster-penguin-species-discovered-new-zealand-n1042231

Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this medieval mystery? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/14/why-do-people-keep-convincing-themselves-theyve-solved-this-medieval-mystery/