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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