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Facebook x Alemanha https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,facebook-x-alemanha,70002721904

The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/14/us-government-facebook-are-negotiating-record-multi-billion-dollar-fine-companys-privacy-lapses/?utm_term=.e0427ee8ed6f

Researchers Made an AI Whose Performance Increases if They Let It Sleep And Dream https://www.sciencealert.com/neural-networks-performance-increases-if-they-re-allowed-to-sleep-and-dream

The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don’t Need Renewables https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/14/the-real-reason-they-hate-nuclear-is-because-it-means-we-dont-need-renewables/#20db6591128f

Opinion | Is the Green New Deal a Leftist Fantasy? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opinion/the-argument-green-new-deal-brexit.html

An AI that writes convincing prose risks mass-producing fake news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612960/an-ai-tool-auto-generates-fake-news-bogus-tweets-and-plenty-of-gibberish/

Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612957/predictive-policing-algorithms-ai-crime-dirty-data/

Archaeologists in Pompeii Find Fresco of Narcissus in ‘Extraordinary’ Condition https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/world/europe/pompeii-narcissus-fresco.html

Pompeii: Narcissus fresco uncovered by archaeologists https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47244338

How Vinyl Records Are Made: A Primer from 1956 http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/how-vinyl-records-are-made.html

Super gonorrhoea: Why the STI could become untreatable https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-47247186/super-gonorrhoea-why-the-sti-could-become-untreatable

What are the biggest threats to humanity? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47030233

Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/climate/switzerland-glaciers-climate-change.html

Here Come the Malicious USB Cables https://www.tomshardware.com/news/malicious-usb-cables-wi-fi-controller,38603.html

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When will we have flying cars? Maybe sooner than you think. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612891/when-will-we-have-flying-cars-maybe-sooner-than-you-think/

Hybrid planes could shorten the leap to all-electric 737s https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612934/how-hybrid-planes-could-shorten-the-leap-to-all-electric-737s/

How India’s single time zone is hurting its people https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/science/opportunity-rover-mars-map.html

This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612897/this-is-why-ai-has-yet-to-reshape-most-businesses/

Philadelphia will feel like Memphis by 2080, and other insights from climate models https://qz.com/1549125/philadelphia-will-feel-like-memphis-by-2080-and-other-insights-from-climate-models/

This Scary Map Shows How Climate Change Will Transform Your City https://www.wired.com/story/this-scary-map-shows-how-climate-change-will-transform-your-city/

A cell-killing strategy to slow aging passed its first test this year https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612943/a-cell-killing-strategy-to-slow-aging-passed-its-first-test-this-year/

Parkland school turns to experimental surveillance software that can flag students as threats https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/13/parkland-school-turns-experimental-surveillance-software-that-can-flag-students-threats/?utm_term=.24d1df4b4970

Japan turns to tech to cut long working hours https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-47209793/japan-turns-to-tech-to-cut-long-working-hours

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Ar Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform—call It Mirrorworld https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/

A Neuroscientist Explores The Biology Of Addiction In ‘Never Enough’ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/12/693814827/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-biology-of-addiction-in-never-enough

Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart

Apple reportedly demanding a staggering 50 percent of revenue with ‘Netflix for news’ subscription https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18222281/apple-news-subscription-service-50-percent-cut-publishers-media-deal

You Can Add Sudden-Acceleration Attacks to the List of Electric Scooter Dangers https://gizmodo.com/you-can-add-sudden-acceleration-attacks-to-the-list-of-1832562198

An AI system competed against a human debate champion. Here’s what happened. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18222392/artificial-intelligence-debate-ibm-san-francisco

More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612880/more-than-26-million-people-have-taken-an-at-home-ancestry-test/

Russia considers ‘unplugging’ from internet https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426

Google and Microsoft warn investors that bad AI could harm their brand https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18220050/google-microsoft-ai-brand-damage-investors-10-k-filing

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Maduro importa inteligência artificial da China criada para controle social https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,maduro-importa-inteligencia-artificial-da-china-criada-para-controle-social,70002714682

A shockingly large majority of health news shared on Facebook is fake or misleading https://www.fastcompany.com/90301427/a-shockingly-large-majority-of-health-news-shared-on-facebook-is-fake

Trump has a plan to keep America first in artificial intelligence https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612926/trump-will-sign-an-executive-order-to-put-america-first-in-artificial-intelligence/

Self-Driving Cars Are Headed Toward An Ai Roadblock https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17530232/self-driving-ai-winter-full-autonomy-waymo-tesla-uber

Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown ‘Ghost’ Ancestor in The Human Genome https://www.sciencealert.com/artificial-intelligence-identifies-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome

135 Million Reasons To Believe In A Blockchain Miracle https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/2019/02/09/135-million-reasons-to-believe-in-a-blockchain-miracle/#cb3583f3b450

Unvaccinated teens are fact-checking their parents — and trying to get shots on their own https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/10/unvaccinated-teens-are-fact-checking-their-parents-trying-get-shots-their-own/?utm_term=.45cba753403a

The web has grown up, but browsers haven’t. It’s time for a reboot https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/web-browsers-are-broken/

Brasil lidera aumento das pesquisas por temas de saúde no Google https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-lidera-aumento-das-pesquisas-por-temas-de-saude-no-google,70002714897

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There’s No Good Reason To Trust Blockchain Technology https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

It now costs more to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132162-900-it-now-costs-more-to-make-bitcoin-than-the-cryptocurrency-is-worth/

Someone Uploaded Child Pornography to a Blockchain Ledger, and It’s Almost Impossible to Delete https://gizmodo.com/someone-uploaded-child-pornography-to-a-blockchain-ledg-1832398480

Amid a wave of injuries, Irish exchange student is latest person killed in e-scooter accident https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/05/amid-wave-severe-injuries-irish-exchange-student-becomes-latest-person-killed-electric-scooter-accident/?utm_term=.03a2fb070320

Bounty hunters tracked people secretly using US phone giants’ location data https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612907/bounty-hunters-tracked-people-secretly-using-us-phone-giants-location-data/

Undeniable warming: The planet’s hottest five years on record in five images https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/02/06/undeniable-warming-planets-hottest-five-years-record-five-images/

Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3b3dg/big-telecom-sold-customer-gps-data-911-calls

Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/why-am-i-seeing-this-ad/

Seguradoras de NY podem usar rede social para avaliar clientes http://www.sindsegsp.org.br/site/noticia-texto.aspx?id=31137

Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/technology/artificial-intelligence-drug-research-deepmind.html