Biologists checked out this NBA player’s DNA for clues to his immense height https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612014/biologists-checked-out-this-nba-players-dna-for-clues-to-his-immense-height/

Uber hopes a new font will symbolize its turnaround https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/12/uber-new-typeface/

Uber Accused of Saving $500 Million a Year by Cheating Drivers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/uber-accused-of-saving-500-million-a-year-by-cheating-drivers

And the Emmy goes to: Cassini’s Grand Finale https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7232

This Canadian Town is Coughing Up Bitcoin After Ransomware Attack https://www.ccn.com/this-canadian-town-is-coughing-up-bitcoin-after-ransomware-attack/

Scientists Study Barn Owls To Understand Why People With ADHD Struggle To Focus https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/11/644992109/can-a-barn-owl-s-brain-explain-why-kids-with-adhd-can-t-stay-focused

Transparent Reasoning: How MIT Builds Neural Networks that can Explain Themselves https://towardsdatascience.com/transparent-reasoning-how-mit-builds-neural-networks-that-can-explain-themselves-3aea291cd9cc

MIT taught a neural network how to show its work https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/09/12/mit-taught-a-neural-network-how-to-show-its-work/

How Do We Know Recent Climate Changes Are Caused By Humans? https://kottke.org/18/09/how-do-we-know-recent-climate-changes-are-caused-by-humans

experimente a audible de graça por um mês: http://usina.com/u/audible

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A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gene-mutation-humans-optimal-long-distance.html

A Massive Floating Boom Is Supposed To Clean Up The Pacific. Can It Work? https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work

Safe artificial intelligence requires cultural intelligence https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/safe-artificial-intelligence-requires-cultural-intelligence/

Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California Would Already Have 100% Clean Power https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/11/had-they-bet-on-nuclear-not-renewables-germany-california-would-already-have-100-clean-power/#e0601a1e0d44

How California could affordably reach 100 percent clean electricity https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611987/how-california-could-affordably-reach-100-percent-clean-electricity/

The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-last-of-the-universes-ordinary-matter-has-been-found-20180910/

Dark matter clusters could reveal nature of dark energy https://phys.org/news/2018-09-dark-clusters-reveal-nature-energy.html

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3 things to expect from Global Climate Change Summit https://www.kcra.com/article/3-things-to-expect-from-global-climate-change-summit/23072410

DARPA Next-Generation Neurotechnology and breakthroughs from Neuralink and Open Water Red light scanner https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/darpa-next-generation-neurotechnology-and-breakthroughs-from-neuralink-and-open-water-red-light-scanner.html

Dozens of iOS apps surreptitiously share user location data with tracking firms https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/dozens-of-ios-apps-surreptitiously-share-user-location-data-with-tracking-firms/

Discovered: Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks https://phys.org/news/2018-09-optimal-magnetic-fields-suppressing-instabilities.html

Bursting people’s political bubbles could make them even more partisan https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/07/bursting-peoples-political-bubbles-could-make-them-even-more-partisan/?utm_term=.5e0bdfa0d13d

Hackers Can Steal A Tesla Model S In Seconds By Cloning Its Key Fob https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-steal-tesla-model-s-seconds-key-fob/

Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/climate/methane-emissions-epa.html

How to convince someone global warming is real? Play this game https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-convince-someone-global-warming-real-play-game-n907226

meu review do Antifrágil https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/176817296043/antifr%C3%A1gil-por-nicholas-nassim-taleb

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“Move fast and break things” is broken https://qz.com/1380490/move-fast-and-break-things-is-broken/

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

Wall Street’s embrace could break Bitcoin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611981/wall-streets-embrace-could-break-bitcoin/

Anti-aging medicine is so hot even this controversial idea has investors https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611980/anti-aging-medicine-is-so-hot-even-this-controversial-idea-has-investors/

Security News This Week: Ibm Made Cops A Tool To Search Surveillance Video By Skin Color https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-made-cops-a-tool-to-search-surveillance-video-by-skin-color/

How to drink from the enormous lakes in the air http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180821-climate-change-may-force-us-to-conjure-water-from-thin-air

Por que o Brasil continuou um só enquanto a América espanhola se dividiu em vários países? https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-45229400

Should Pluto be allowed back in the planet club? https://newatlas.com/pluto-planet-definition-study/56255/

She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel. A half-century later, she’s won a $3 million prize. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/08/she-made-discovery-man-got-nobel-half-century-later-shes-won-million-prize/?utm_term=.2257f15dd3ca

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Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Threat to Elections https://gizmodo.com/facebook-twitter-execs-admit-failures-warn-of-overwhe-1828829221

Can you turn CO2 on Mars into sugar? NASA will give $1 million to the person who can. https://bigthink.com/brandon-weber/think-you-can-turn-co2-on-mars-into-sugar-nasa-will-offer-1-million

Researchers to Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Africa for First Time https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-to-release-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-in-africa-for-first-time/

More people are taking Facebook breaks and deleting the app from their phones https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17822736/facebook-break-delete-app

Google Turns 20: How An Internet Search Engine Reshaped The World https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17823490/google-20th-birthday-anniversary-history-milestones

The ‘deep web’ may be 500 times bigger than the normal web. Its uses go well beyond buying drugs https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/beyond-the-valley-understanding-the-mysteries-of-the-dark-web.html

Google launches new search engine to help scientists find the datasets they need https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17822562/google-dataset-search-service-scholar-scientific-journal-open-data-access

Genes are key to academic success, study shows https://phys.org/news/2018-09-genes-key-academic-success.html

Facebook, Twitter ‘too slow’ to tackle meddling https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45420175

Theranos is finally shutting down https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17822680/theranos-shutdown-elizabeth-holmes-blood-test-health-science

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