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Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

Elizabeth Warren says it’s time to break up Big Tech https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613096/elizabeth-warren-says-its-time-to-break-up-big-tech/

Facebook proves Elizabeth Warren’s point by deleting her ads about breaking up Facebook https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/11/18260857/facebook-senator-elizabeth-warren-campaign-ads-removal-tech-break-up-regulation

Thousands of people are protesting Russia’s new internet bill https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613102/thousands-of-people-are-protesting-russias-new-internet-bill/

There’s a new way to break quantum cryptography https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613079/theres-a-new-way-to-break-quantum-cryptography/

Jupiter or Earth? https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144643/jupiter-or-earth

A terrible constancy: the physics of wars https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/a-terrible-constancy-the-physics-of-wars

Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458

The Secrets Of The Extraordinary Human Skeleton https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-secrets-of-the-extraordinary-human-skeleton/

The World Wide Web — not the internet — turns 30 years old https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30th-anniversary-of-the-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history

o Guia dos Perplexos http://guiadosperplexos.tv

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There’s probably another planet in our solar system https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613060/theres-probably-another-planet-in-our-solar-system/

What is ‘superadobe’? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190228-what-is-superadobe

Shark DNA could help cure cancer and age-related illnesses in humans http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-47291697

The teenage millionaire hacker http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47407609

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Incredible Experiment Gives Infrared Vision to Mice—and Humans Could Be Next https://gizmodo.com/incredible-experiment-gives-infrared-vision-to-mice-and-1832940986

7 years ago, Google set out to find what makes the ‘perfect’ team — and what they found shocked other researchers https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/what-google-learned-in-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html

Using Landmine Detectors, Meteorite Hunt Turns Up 36 Space Rocks in Antarctica
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These Twins Have Strange Semi-Identical DNA, in Only The Second Case Ever Discovered https://www.sciencealert.com/the-dna-of-these-twins-is-semi-identical-and-is-only-the-second-case-ever-discovered

Gene Editing Is Trickier Than Expected—but Fixes Are In Sight https://www.wired.com/story/precise-gene-editing-is-trickier-than-expected-but-fixes-are-in-sight/

This Viral Therapy Could Help Us Survive The Superbug Era https://www.wired.com/story/this-viral-therapy-could-help-us-survive-the-superbug-era/

The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-hipster-effect-why-anti-conformists-always-end-up-looking-the-same/

The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/climate/fish-climate-change.html

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Here’s an Alexa Idea I Actually Like https://gizmodo.com/heres-an-alexa-idea-i-actually-like-1832896525

The advent of cheap, renewable hydrogen is nigh https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/renewable-hydrogen-could-be-competitive-in-a-decade-researchers-say/

The Ring Doorbell could have been hacked to show fake images, security experts find https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18243296/ring-doorbell-hacked-fake-images-security-experts

Scientists Have Beaten Elon Musk to a Fake News Solution, And It’s Gaining Traction https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-beaten-elon-musk-to-a-fake-news-solution-and-it-s-gaining-traction

This AI lets you deepfake your voice to speak like Barack Obama https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613033/this-ai-lets-you-deepfake-your-voice-to-speak-like-barack-obama/

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019 https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/

The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-running-out-of-breath-scientists-warn/

SEC Says Tesla Chief Elon Musk’s Tweets Violated Court Settlement https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/698008458/sec-says-tesla-chief-elon-musks-tweets-violated-court-settlement

Report: Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide to Cope With Job [Updated] https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-moderators-are-routinely-high-and-joke-1832870719

We Don’t Actually Know What’s Going to Happen to Clouds https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/could-climate-change-make-clouds-disappear-clouds-maybe.html

The loss of clouds could add another 8 °C to global warming https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613016/the-loss-of-clouds-could-add-another-8-c-to-global-warming/

Life probably can’t exist on quite as many planets as we once thought https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613003/life-probably-cant-exist-on-quite-as-many-planets-as-we-once-thought/