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“Alexa, monitor my baby.” A smart-speaker app can monitor an infant’s breathing. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614585/alexa-monitor-my-baby-a-smart-speaker-app-can-monitor-an-infants-breathing/
China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/technology/china-cryptocurrency-facebook-libra.html
The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping, unconscious people https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-pixel-4s-face-unlock-works-on-sleeping-unconscious-people/
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/science/chicxulub-asteroid-ocean-acid.html
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-the-lean-startup-method-gets-right-and-wrong
DNA-reeling bacteria yield new insight on how superbugs acquire drug-resistance https://phys.org/news/2019-10-dna-reeling-bacteria-yield-insight-superbugs.html
NordVPN confirms it was hacked https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/
How Data-Over-Sound Will Ensure A Permanently Connected IoT World https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler/2019/10/18/how-data-over-sound-will-ensure-a-permanently-connected-iot-world/#1e2fd7676343
Pro soccer players at greater risk for neurodegenerative diseases, study finds https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/pro-soccer-players-at-greater-risk-for-neurodegenerative-diseases–study-finds/2019/10/21/13f541b2-f432-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614604/quantum-supremacy-from-google-not-so-fast-says-ibm/
Military artificial intelligence can be easily and dangerously fooled https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614497/military-artificial-intelligence-can-be-easily-and-dangerously-fooled/
Smart speakers can be hijacked by apps that spy on users https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614602/smart-speakers-can-be-hijacked-by-apps-that-spy-on-users/
‘The Blob,’ A Smart Yet Brainless Organism Fit For Sci-Fi, Gets Its Own Exhibit https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771285312/the-blob-a-smart-yet-brainless-organism-fit-for-sci-fi-gets-its-own-exhibit
Gut microbiota may ‘prevent and cure’ rotavirus https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326723.php#1
Is this “one of the worst scientific scandals of all time”? https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/is-this-one-of-the-worst-scientific-scandals-of-all-time