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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/

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Colombia fines Uber more than $629,000 for obstructing regulatory visit https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-colombia-idUSKCN1V21RO

Our Cells Are Filled With ‘Junk DNA’ — Here’s Why We Need It http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/08/13/what-is-junk-dna-genome-introns/#.XVPpx-hKiUk

Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/13/nvidia-breaks-records-in-training-and-inference-for-real-time-conversational-ai/

Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614143/nvidia-just-made-it-easier-to-build-smarter-chatbots-and-slicker-fake-news/

Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614144/googles-algorithm-for-detecting-hate-speech-looks-racially-biased/

North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614149/north-korea-is-funding-its-weapons-program-with-stolen-cryptocurrency/

Increasing humidity, driven in part by climate change, is making even modest heat waves unbearable https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/13/increasing-humidity-driven-part-by-climate-change-is-making-even-modest-heat-waves-unbearable/

China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html

A Brief History of Typography & Typefaces https://www.ashworthcreative.com/blog/2014/07/brief-typography-typefaces/

Incredible Stanford study discovers thousands of novel proteins produced by human microbiome https://newatlas.com/new-small-protein-discovery-gut-microbiome-bacteria-stanford/60995/

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible https://phys.org/news/2019-08-meteorite-life-earth.html

Why is left-handedness so rare? It comes down to these 2 words https://www.fastcompany.com/90389355/why-is-left-handedness-so-rare-it-comes-down-to-these-2-words

The Anthropocene Is a Joke https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/

Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times. It’s not normal. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/lightning-struck-near-north-pole-why-strange/

The U.S. Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28678829/microwave-drones-midair/