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Heat camera at tourist attraction spots woman’s breast cancer https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/23/health/thermal-imaging-breast-cancer-scli-intl-scn/index.html

NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-send-a-probe-to-the-hellish-surface-of-venus/

The warming climate is making baby sea turtles almost all girls https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/the-warming-climate-is-turning-baby-sea-turtles-one-gender/2019/10/21/d571f3fe-e3a6-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html

Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force https://gizmodo.com/raytheon-delivers-first-anti-drone-laser-weapon-to-u-s-1839284326

This Is Why The Speed Of Gravity Must Equal The Speed Of Light https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/10/24/this-is-why-the-speed-of-gravity-must-equal-the-speed-of-light/#38474fbb2fc0

The FTC has banned a company from selling stalkerware for the first time https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614614/the-ftc-has-banned-a-company-from-selling-stalkerware-for-the-first-time/

All languages, however different, convey information at the same rate

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Slow walking at 45 ‘a sign of faster ageing’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982

Scientists Program CRISPR to Fight Viruses in Human Cells https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-program-crispr-to-fight-viruses-in-human-cells/

WeWork Staff, Facing Job Cuts, Express Outrage at Founder Payout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/wework-staff-facing-job-cuts-express-outrage-at-founder-payout

A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-power-law-keeps-the-brains-perceptions-balanced-20191022/

Google just launched a handful of clever apps to help you spend less time on your phone https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928613/google-digital-wellbeing-experiments-unlock-clock-we-flip-morph-post-box-desert-island

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Katie Price, Lauren Goodger and Georgia Harrison Instagram posts banned https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50124719

A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/

Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life https://www.quantamagazine.org/plate-tectonics-may-be-essential-for-life-20180607/

First drug that can slow Alzheimer’s dementia https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50137041

Blood pressure pills ‘work better at bedtime’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50122964

How heat waves harm pregnant women and newborns https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614611/how-heat-waves-harm-pregnant-women-and-newborns/

Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614605/sorryorganic-farming-is-actually-worse-for-climate-change/

How We Could Prevent a Global Rice Shortage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eESFjTxFr8

As Seas Rise And Rivers Flood, Communities Look For A Way Out https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/degrees-of-change-migration/

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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