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Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48623914

As Polar Ice Cap Recedes, The U.S. Navy Looks North https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/730258832/as-polar-ice-cap-recedes-the-u-s-navy-looks-north

How we tune out distractions http://news.mit.edu/2019/how-brain-ignores-distractions-0612

Revealing ‘hidden’ phases of matter through the power of light https://phys.org/news/2019-06-revealing-hidden-phases-power.html

Ancient Roman Sandals and Other Footwear https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-roman-sandals-and-other-footwear-117819

The man who helped feed the world https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47643456

Duas horas por semana ao ar livre garantem boa saúde, diz estudo https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,duas-horas-por-semana-ao-ar-livre-garante-boa-saude,70002871251

minha palestra no CIAB 2019: https://youtu.be/HvO-gw6EyUk

minhas palestras gravadas: http://usina.com/u/palestras

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Russia Targets Tinder As A Warning To Facebook And Twitter https://www.wired.com/story/russia-targets-tinder-warning-facebook-twitter/

A vitória (temporária) dos ladrões https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/espaco-aberto,a-vitoria-temporaria-dos-ladroes,70002864509

Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opinion/climate-change-supercomputers.html

The new plan to remove a trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: Bury it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/12/new-plan-remove-trillion-tons-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-bury-it/?utm_term=.4fdad8da6e61

Fusion-Powered Spacecraft Could Be Just a Decade Away https://www.space.com/fusion-powered-spacecraft-could-launch-2028.html

Google News failed us, says New York Times https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/google-news-failed-us-says-new-york-times/?utm_term=.5482d9d85354

Battle of the elements: gold has gleamed through the ages https://physicsworld.com/a/battle-of-the-elements-gold-has-gleamed-through-the-ages/

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YouTube CEO apologizes to LGBTQ community after outcry https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18660473/youtube-lgbtq-susan-wojcicki-carlos-maza-steven-crowder

YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613644/youtube-is-deleting-videos-on-nazi-history-as-part-of-its-hate-speech-crackdown/

Facial recognition smart glasses could make public surveillance discreet and ubiquitous https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18659660/facial-recognition-smart-glasses-sunglasses-surveillance-vuzix-nntc-uae

Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed https://thenextweb.com/work2030/2019/06/11/ai-robots-reviewed-my-resume-unimpressed-work/

Facebook’s AI system can speak with Bill Gates’s voice https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613647/facebooks-ai-system-can-speak-with-bill-gatess-voice/

Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed https://thenextweb.com/work2030/2019/06/11/ai-robots-reviewed-my-resume-unimpressed-work/

Why is the moon flashing? A new telescope might find out. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613639/why-is-the-moon-flashing-a-new-telescope-might-find-out/

How 20th century nuclear testing can help scientists detect art forgeries https://newatlas.com/art-forgery-detection-nuclear-testing-carbon-samples/60065/

Atomic Tests Were a Tourist Draw in 1950s Las Vegas https://www.citylab.com/equity/2014/08/atomic-tests-were-a-tourist-draw-in-1950s-las-vegas/375802/

Hackers have stolen photos of travelers taken by the US border agency https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613660/hackers-have-stolen-photos-of-travelers-taken-by-the-us-border-agency/

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in a data breach https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/us-customs-border-protection-says-photos-travelers-into-out-country-were-recently-taken-data-breach/?utm_term=.89cb42d2f89c

Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/your-face-is-now-your-boarding-pass-thats-problem/?utm_term=.14d1e6857329

How to avoid facial recognition at the airport https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/how-avoid-facial-recognition-airport/?utm_term=.9ac32ab45553

Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/deepfake-pelosi-video.html

Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48588603/canada-to-ban-single-use-plastics-as-early-as-2021

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Why is the USDA downplaying good news about this Obama-era school nutrition program? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/07/why-is-usda-downplaying-good-news-about-this-obama-era-school-nutrition-program/?utm_term=.9a933080d2a8

Smash the Wellness Industry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/women-dieting-wellness.html

A Ghost of Evolution: The Curious Case of the Avocado, Which Should Be Extinct But Still Exists https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/04/avocado-ghosts-of-evolution/

Ghosts of Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWW5OuxlKec&ab_channel=It%27sOkayToBeSmart

‘Acoustic cameras’ tested in bid to cut noisy vehicles https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48564995

Anxiety and depression is the leading concern for people born after 1997. According to a major study members of generation Z have different hopes and fears to millenials https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1137419302057992192

Elon Musk’s satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/05/elon-musks-satellites-threaten-disrupt-night-sky-all-us/?utm_term=.26791531b58e

The Birth-Tissue Profiteers https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-birth-tissue-profiteers

The Economist: No Iraque, xeque de aluguel substitui Justiça https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,the-economist-no-iraque-xeque-de-aluguel-substitui-justica,70002863179

Pressure mounts on aviation industry over climate change https://phys.org/news/2019-06-pressure-mounts-aviation-industry-climate.html

Brace yourself for coming heatwaves, there are at least 27 ways they can kill you https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uoha-byf110717.php

Compound heat waves have double impact https://physicsworld.com/a/compound-heat-waves-have-double-impact/

You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613645/ai-fake-news-deepfakes-misinformation-united-nations/

A big US maker of paperless voting systems now says paper is essential https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613651/a-big-us-maker-of-paperless-voting-systems-now-says-paper-is-essential/

A Single Punctuation Mark Has Been Skewing Our Entire System of Scientific Ranking https://www.sciencealert.com/hyphens-break-our-entire-system-of-scientific-ranking-new-analysis-reveals