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Finding Lena, The Patron Saint Of Jpegs https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/
So far 2019 has set 33 records for heat, but none for cold https://www.newscientist.com/article/2192369-so-far-2019-has-set-33-records-for-heat-but-none-for-cold/
Here’s how you’ll feel if you quit Facebook for a month https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612868/heres-how-youll-feel-if-you-quit-facebook-for-a-month/
The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/31/doorbells-have-eyes-privacy-battle-brewing-over-home-security-cameras/?utm_term=.737c848ee302
US prisons are building biometric databases of their inmates’ voices https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612867/us-prisons-are-building-biometric-databases-of-their-inmates-voices/
A new Harry Potter–themed cryptocurrency is like a more private version of Bitcoin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612863/a-new-harry-potterthemed-cryptocurrency-is-like-a-more-private-version-of-bitcoin/
Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzvxv/criminals-hackers-ss7-uk-banks-metro-bank
The Wild Experiment That Showed Evolution in Real Time https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/unprecedentedly-thorough-evolution-experiment/581521/
Forget everything you know about 3D printing — the ‘replicator’ is here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9
The Risks of Advanced AI Are Real. We Need to Act Before It’s Too Late, Warn Experts https://www.sciencealert.com/the-risks-of-advanced-artificial-intelligence-are-real-we-need-to-act-now
Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR https://www.newscientist.com/article/2192461-virus-lurking-inside-banana-genome-has-been-destroyed-with-crispr/
What Impossible Meant to Feynman http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/what-impossible-meant-to-feynman