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Facebook’s morale problem is getting worse https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128267/facebook-morale-uk-parliament-emails-privacy-competition

The Problem With Banning Pornography on Tumblr https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/tumblr-adult-content-pornography-ban.html

Google, Apple, Facebook face world-first encryption laws in Australia https://www.cnet.com/news/australia-passes-encryption-assistance-access-laws-facebook-google-twitter-apple-amazon/

A.I. as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/business/economy/artificial-intelligence-hiring.html

Predictim Claims Its AI Can Flag ‘Risky’ Babysitters. So I Tried It on the People Who Watch My Kids. https://gizmodo.com/predictim-claims-its-ai-can-flag-risky-babysitters-so-1830913997

De cirurgia a comprimido: a difícil busca da cura da obesidade https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/nytiw,de-cirurgia-a-comprimido-a-dificil-busca-da-cura-da-obesidade,70002631868

Galileo satellites prove Einstein’s Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yet https://phys.org/news/2018-12-galileo-satellites-einstein-relativity-theory.html

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Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway https://gizmodo.com/facebook-was-fully-aware-that-tracking-who-people-call-1830884585

The secret Facebook documents have just been published by British Parliament https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-documents-six4three-case-published-british-parliament-2018-12

Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users’ data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/05/facebook-allegedly-offered-advertisers-special-access-users-data-activities-according-documents-released-by-british-lawmakers/

Mark Zuckerberg’s Biggest Problem: Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebooks-tensions-zuckerberg-sandberg

‘Mais que inovar, é importante fazer as perguntas certas’, diz diretor do MIT https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,mais-que-inovar-e-importante-fazer-as-perguntas-certas-diz-diretor-do-mit,70002633443

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-2018.html

Scientists may have solved the great mystery of dark matter https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-may-have-solved-the-great-mystery-of-dark-matter/

The Indian restaurants that serve only half a glass of water https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46451834

Bizarre ‘dark fluid’ with negative mass could dominate the universe – what my research suggests https://theconversation.com/bizarre-dark-fluid-with-negative-mass-could-dominate-the-universe-what-my-research-suggests-107922

Waymo’s So-Called Robo-Taxi Launch Reveals A Brutal Truth https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-self-driving-taxi-service-launch-chandler-arizona/

The ‘weird events’ that make machines hallucinate http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181204-why-we-should-worry-when-machines-hallucinate

New attack could make website security captchas obsolete https://techxplore.com/news/2018-12-website-captchas-obsolete.html

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How Facebook Groups sparked a crisis in France https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18119777/yellow-vest-france-facebook-groups-gilets-jaunes

Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo finds Google personalizes search results even for logged out and incognito users https://betanews.com/2018/12/04/duckduckgo-study-google-search-personalization/

Royal Dutch Shell ties executive pay to carbon reduction https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46424830

Can a brand create a ‘sonic identity’ from light bulbs? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46425420

Three Ways Quantum Physics Affects Your Daily Life https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2018/12/04/three-ways-quantum-physics-affects-your-daily-life/#31a7654a44b7

New York Adopts Nation’s First Pay Floor for Uber, Lyft, and Other Rideshare Drivers https://gizmodo.com/new-york-adopts-nations-first-pay-floor-for-uber-lyft-1830856350

A Foreboding Similarity in Today’s Oceans and a 94-Million-Year-Old Catastrophe https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/suffocating-oceans/550415/

Fishermen Sue Big Oil For Its Role In Climate Change https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/12/04/671996313/fishermen-sue-big-oil-for-its-role-in-climate-change

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Why the world is becoming more allergic to food https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46302780

MPs’ fury over Mark Zuckerberg ‘no-show’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46357359

A Sleeping Tesla Driver Highlights Autopilot’s Biggest Flaw https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-sleeping-driver-dui-arrest-autopilot/

Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’ https://www.recode.net/2018/12/3/18123225/amazon-google-facebook-antitrust-monopoly-franklin-foer-world-without-mind-book-kara-swisher-decode

Your smartphone’s AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612499/your-smartphones-ai-algorithms-could-tell-if-you-are-depressed/

BBC newsreader ‘speaks’ languages he can’t https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-46104437/bbc-newsreader-speaks-languages-he-can-t

Why don’t birds get lost? They may have mastered quantum mechanics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/09/why-dont-birds-get-lost-they-may-have-mastered-quantum-mechanics/

Chinese scientist who claimed gene-editing success now missing: report https://thehill.com/policy/technology/419462-chinese-scientist-who-claimed-gene-editing-success-now-missing-report

The Baltic Sea offers a preview of what’s to come with global warming https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-baltic-sea-offers-a-preview-of-whats-to-come-with-global-warming/2018/11/29/f52f470a-95c3-11e8-818b-e9b7348cd87d_story.html

Bill Gates Shares the 5 Best Books He Read This Year http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5468986/bill-gates-best-books-2018

21 lições para o século 21, por Yuval Noah Harari https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/179897629393/21-li%C3%A7%C3%B5es-para-o-s%C3%A9culo-21-por-yuval-noah-harari

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In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/world/asia/gene-editing-babies-china.html

Why Are Taxi Drivers in New York Killing Themselves? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-suicide-nyc.html