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Colombia fines Uber more than $629,000 for obstructing regulatory visit https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-colombia-idUSKCN1V21RO
Our Cells Are Filled With ‘Junk DNA’ — Here’s Why We Need It http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/08/13/what-is-junk-dna-genome-introns/#.XVPpx-hKiUk
Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/13/nvidia-breaks-records-in-training-and-inference-for-real-time-conversational-ai/
Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614143/nvidia-just-made-it-easier-to-build-smarter-chatbots-and-slicker-fake-news/
Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614144/googles-algorithm-for-detecting-hate-speech-looks-racially-biased/
North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614149/north-korea-is-funding-its-weapons-program-with-stolen-cryptocurrency/
Increasing humidity, driven in part by climate change, is making even modest heat waves unbearable https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/13/increasing-humidity-driven-part-by-climate-change-is-making-even-modest-heat-waves-unbearable/
China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html
A Brief History of Typography & Typefaces https://www.ashworthcreative.com/blog/2014/07/brief-typography-typefaces/
Incredible Stanford study discovers thousands of novel proteins produced by human microbiome https://newatlas.com/new-small-protein-discovery-gut-microbiome-bacteria-stanford/60995/
Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible https://phys.org/news/2019-08-meteorite-life-earth.html
Why is left-handedness so rare? It comes down to these 2 words https://www.fastcompany.com/90389355/why-is-left-handedness-so-rare-it-comes-down-to-these-2-words
The Anthropocene Is a Joke https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/
Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times. It’s not normal. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/lightning-struck-near-north-pole-why-strange/
The U.S. Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28678829/microwave-drones-midair/