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1. San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-tech-free-lunch.html
2. Inovar, para ter cidades inovadoras https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,inovar-para-ter-cidades-inovadoras,70002424312
3. Grasping at Straws
   On the Pitfalls of Plastic Straw Environmentalism https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/grasping-at-straws
4. Losing Earth: The Decade We
   Almost Stopped Climate Change
5. Brasil terá aumento de mortes por ondas de calor, afirma estudo https://sustentabilidade.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-tera-aumento-de-mortes-por-ondas-de-calor-afirma-estudo,70002424589
6. Losing Earth: The Decade We
   Almost Stopped Climate Change https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
7. China could face deadly heat waves due to climate change http://news.mit.edu/2018/china-could-face-deadly-heat-waves-due-climate-change-0731

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1. Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They’re Paid For https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for
2. Reinforcement Learning
   By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603501/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-reinforcement-learning/
3. An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611724/artificial-intelligence-driven-robot-hand-spends-a-hundred-years-teaching-itself-to-rotate/
4. Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-our-intuition-about-sea_level-rise-is-wrong-rp
5. Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work On Mars https://www.wired.com/story/co2-terraforming-mars/
6. Droughts, Heat Waves and Floods: How to Tell When Climate Change Is to Blame https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/droughts-heat-waves-and-floods-how-to-tell-when-climate-change-is-to-blame/
7. Why Westerners Fear Robots And The Japanese Do Not https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/
8. Aumento do número de casas com sistema de refrigeração de ar tornará planeta mais quente https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/nytiw,aumento-do-numero-decasas-com-sistema-de-refrigeracao-de-ar-tornaraplaneta-mais-quente,70002418438

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1. The latest blockchain use case: anonymously betting on public-figure death pools https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611729/the-latest-blockchain-use-case-anonymously-betting-on-public-figure-death-pools/
2. Estufa ideológica – A ciência não previu que a era digital tornaria a questão do clima ainda mais intratável https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,estufa-ideologica,70002421303
3. For The First Time, Scientists Witness a Single Hurricane Season Change The Anatomy of a Species https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-in-action-2017-hurricane-season-changed-the-anatomy-of-lizards-in-caribbean
4. Drought Relief Is Coming. Australia’s Farmers Say It’s Nowhere Near Enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/world/australia/drought-farmers-new-south-wales.html
5. The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html
6. The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/
7. Lawmakers Can’t Ignore Facial Recognition’s Bias Anymore https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-facial-recognition-congress-bias-law-enforcement/
8. Why Brazilians are always late http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180729-why-brazilians-are-always-late
9. Scooters: Sidewalk Nuisances, Or The Future Of Local Transportation? https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28/631812255/scooters-sidewalk-nuisances-or-the-future-of-public-transportation
10. Artificial intelligence can predict your personality by scanning your eyes https://www.cnet.com/news/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-your-personality-by-looking-at-your-eyes/

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1. New Report: Uber and Lyft Riders Aren’t Giving Up Their Cars—They’re Giving Up Transit https://slate.com/business/2018/07/traffic-from-uber-and-lyft-is-choking-up-roads-heres-what-cities-can-do-about-it.html
2. Another Shipping Giant Falls Victim To Ransomware https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2018/07/26/another-shipping-giant-falls-victim-to-ransomware/#a81d4aa70d04
3. How one climate scientist combats threats and misinformation from chemtrail conspiracists https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611682/how-one-climate-scientist-combats-threats-and-misinformation-from-chemtrail-conspiracists/
4. When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/when-we-eat-or-dont-eat-may-be-critical-for-health.html
5. Amazon’s Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, A.C.L.U. Says https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/technology/amazon-aclu-facial-recognition-congress.html
6. Doubt the planet’s summers are turning hotter? Look at these two maps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/26/doubt-the-planets-summers-are-turning-hotter-look-at-these-two-maps/
7. Dads Pass On More Than Genetics in Their Sperm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dads-pass-more-genetics-their-sperm-180969760/