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1. In an internal memo, the White House considered whether to simply ‘ignore’ federal climate research https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/23/in-an-internal-memo-the-white-house-considered-whether-to-simply-ignore-federal-climate-research/
2. Hackers infect 500,000 consumer routers all over the world with malware https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hackers-infect-500000-consumer-routers-all-over-the-world-with-malware/
3. The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery/
4. What will GDPR mean for you? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067zrz4
5. Risk of water shortages for England warns Environment Agency http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44215418
6. How many taxis does a city need? http://news.mit.edu/2018/minimum-vehicle-fleet-rider-demand-0523

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1. Missing microbes ’cause’ childhood cancer http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44199844
2. Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology https://www.aclunc.org/blog/amazon-teams-law-enforcement-deploy-dangerous-new-face-recognition-technology
3. Few Rules Govern Police Use Of Facial-Recognition Technology https://www.wired.com/story/few-rules-govern-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/
4. NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/nasas-em-drive-is-a-magnetic-wtf-thruster/

NASA’s ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Tested—Here Are the Results https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/nasa-emdrive-impossible-physics-independent-tests-magnetic-space-science/

5. BMW cars found to contain more than a dozen flaws http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44224794
6. Microsoft also has an AI bot that makes phone calls to humans https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379508/microsoft-xiaoice-chat-bot-phone-call-demo
7. ‘Ultra-fast charging battery’ tech secures $20 million investment from British oil giant BP https://electrek.co/2018/05/22/ultra-fast-charging-battery-tech-storedot-investment-oil-giant-bp/

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• After Meltdown And Spectre, Another Scary Chip Flaw Emerges https://www.wired.com/story/speculative-store-bypass-spectre-meltdown-vulnerability/
• Singapore’s measures to reduce short-sightedness http://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-44158727/singapore-s-measures-to-reduce-short-sightedness
• The “True” Human Diet
  From the standpoint of paleoecology, the so-called Paleo diet is a myth https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-true-human-diet/
• More Artists Are Writing Songs In The Key Of Ai https://www.wired.com/story/music-written-by-artificial-intelligence/
• Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach? http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/artificial-intelligence-writes-a-piece-in-the-style-of-bach.html
• Astronomers Spot Potential “Interstellar” Asteroid Orbiting Backward around the Sun https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-spot-potential-interstellar-asteroid-orbiting-backward-around-the-sun/
• The Cybersecurity 202: We surveyed 100 security experts. Almost all said state election systems were vulnerable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2018/05/21/the-cybersecurity-202-we-surveyed-100-security-experts-almost-all-said-state-election-systems-were-vulnerable/5b0189b030fb0425887995e2/

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• Sequelas de diabete são contidas por terapia com células-tronco e químio http://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,sequelas-de-diabete-sao-contidas-por-terapia-com-celulas-tronco-e-quimio,70002311933
• The Thing Inside Your Cells That Might Determine How Long You Live https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/science/nucleolus-cells-aging.html
• Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/19/17246152/google-selfish-ledger-patent-applications
• The Ebola superhighway: Why the new outbreak terrifies public health authorities http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/388401-the-ebola-superhighway-why-a-new-outbreak-terrifies-public-health
• Hundreds of Apps Can Empower Stalkers to Track Their Victims https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/technology/phone-apps-stalking.html
• A New World’S Extraordinary Orbit Points To Planet Nine https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine/
• Deadly Nipah virus claims victims in India http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44193145