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Google Spent Years on a Secret Plan to Dominate This $830 Billion Industry, and Nobody Even Noticed https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/google-spent-years-on-a-secret-plan-to-dominate-this-830-billion-industry-nobody-even-noticed.html

Tesla’s Model 3 autopilot mode was activated seconds before a fatal crash https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613549/teslas-model-3-autopilot-mode-was-activated-seconds-before-a-fatal-crash/

Grocery bills can predict diabetes rates by neighborhood https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613518/grocery-bills-can-predict-diabetes-rates-by-neighborhood/

Turning one greenhouse gas into another could combat climate change https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613556/turning-one-greenhouse-gas-into-another-could-combat-climate-change/

Move Over, San Andreas: There’s An Ominous New Fault In Town https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andreas-fault/

Fighting Ebola When Mourners Fight the Responders https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-congo.html

Google has been tracking nearly everything you buy online — see for yourself with this tool https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-history-gmail-email-receipts

Tomorrow The Definition of The Kilogram Will Change Forever. Here’s What That Really Means https://www.sciencealert.com/tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-here-s-what-that-really-means

This Yellow Egyptian Glass Was Forged by a Meteorite Impact 29 Million Years Ago https://www.space.com/yellow-egyptian-glass-made-by-meteorite-impact.html

A simple watt balance for the absolute determination of mass https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9120/48/5/601/pdf

Now Ocean Plastics Could Be Killing Oxygen-Making Bacteria https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-plastics-bacteria/

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A nova oposição digital https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,a-nova-oposicao-digital,70002832011

Cientista brasileira cria ‘caneta’ que detecta câncer durante cirurgia https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,cientista-brasileira-cria-caneta-que-detecta-cancer-durante-cirurgia,70002832324

The doctor who invented 18 medical devices https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48132022

Snakebites: Like having my hand smashed by a hammer’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48281557

The NYPD uses altered images in its facial recognition system, new documents show https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627548/nypd-facial-recognition-altered-faces-privacy

Koalas declared “functionally extinct” https://inhabitat.com/koalas-declared-functionally-extinct/

livro Speed of Trust https://amzn.to/2JOggTh

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podcast sobre produtos x hype: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07012sf

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Could facial recognition cut crime? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-48228677/could-facial-recognition-cut-crime

Instagram blocks vaccine hoax hashtags https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48227377

Hackers interrupt Israeli Eurovision webcast with faked explosions https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48280902

Christchurch attacks: Facebook curbs Live feature https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48276802

Tesla’s trumpeted solar shingles are a flop https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613541/teslas-trumpeted-solar-shingles-are-a-flop/

Planetary scientists unravel mystery of Egyptian desert glass https://phys.org/news/2019-05-planetary-scientists-unravel-mystery-egyptian.html

MPs ask Instagram chiefs about suicide poll https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48279410

US says it will not join Christchurch Call against online terror https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48288353

Breakthrough in new material to harness solar power https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190514081554.htm

White House launches tool to report censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18626785/white-house-trump-censorsip-tool-twitter-instagram-facebook-conservative-bias-social-media

Romans May Have Repaired Roads with Molten Iron https://www.archaeology.org/news/7656-190515-pompeii-iron-roads

Tutankhamun’s meteoric iron dagger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger

Planetary scientists unravel mystery of Egyptian desert glass https://phys.org/news/2019-05-planetary-scientists-unravel-mystery-egyptian.html

New York Proposal Would Ban Face Recognition Surveillance By Landlords https://gizmodo.com/new-york-proposal-would-ban-face-recognition-surveillan-1834795531

Why San Francisco’s ban on face recognition is only the start of a long fight https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613536/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco-surveillance-privacy-private-corporate-interests/

Celebrity biohacker Josiah Zayner is under investigation for practicing medicine without a license https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613540/celebrity-biohacker-josiah-zayner-is-under-investigation-for-practicing-medicine-without-a/

Facebook is cracking down on live-streaming with bans for rule breakers https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613538/facebook-is-cracking-down-on-live-streaming-with-bans-if-anyone-breaks-its-rules/

These flexible solar cells bring us closer to kicking the fossil-fuel habit https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613524/these-flexible-solar-cells-bring-us-closer-to-kicking-the-fossil-fuel-habit/

Harvard shames itself: fires faculty deans at Winthrop house because students object to one of them taking Harvey Weinstein as a client https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/harvard-shames-itself-fires-faculty-deans-at-winthrop-house-because-students-object-to-one-of-them-taking-harvey-weinstein-as-a-client/

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Deep learning could reveal why the world works the way it does https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613502/deep-learning-could-reveal-why-the-world-works-the-way-it-does/

How AI could save lives without spilling medical secrets https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613520/how-ai-could-save-lives-without-spilling-secrets/

This Is Why Mars Is Red And Dead While Earth Is Blue And Alive https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/14/this-is-why-mars-is-red-and-dead-while-earth-is-blue-and-alive/#2cabe2ad395b

Spider Uses Web As Slingshot To Ensnare Prey, Scientists Find https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/723201654/spider-uses-web-as-slingshot-to-ensnare-prey-scientists-find

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

Why some climate scientists are saying no to flying https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/05/why-some-climate-scientists-are-saying-no-flying

Exxon Predicted 2019’s Ominous CO2 Milestone in 1982 https://earther.gizmodo.com/exxon-predicted-2019-s-ominous-co2-milestone-in-1982-1834748763

San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48276660

Estonia: How boom-time Baltic republic embraced far right https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48264637

Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/dont-visit-your-doctor-in-the-afternoon.html

Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&ab_channel=LastWeekTonight

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