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EU backs away from proposed five-year facial recognition ban https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/11/european-commission-facial-recognition-guidelines/

Climate change models predicted ocean currents would speed up — but not this soon https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/climate-change-models-predicted-ocean-currents-would-speed-not-soon-n1135176

Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-batchelors-law-of-turbulence-20200204/

The Only Water on Earth Without Life https://youtu.be/_eFPaeeh-Ys

There Are Rivers in the Sky Drenching the U.S. Because of Climate Change https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-11/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-drenching-the-u-s-because-of-climate-change

‘The intelligence coup of the century’
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

Deforested parts of Amazon ’emitting more CO2 than they absorb’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51464694

The Last Time Democracy Almost Died https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-last-time-democracy-almost-died

Construção de hidrelétrica pela Etiópia ameaça controle do Egito sobre o Nilo https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,construcao-de-hidreletrica-pela-etiopia-ameaca-controle-do-egito-sobre-o-nilo,70003193455

A Fast Radio Burst 500 Million Light Years Away Is Repeating Every 16 Days. Here’s What We Know https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2020/02/11/a-fast-radio-burst-pulses-with-a-regular-beat-hinting-at-its-cause/#14b7c251506b

The latest USB-C chargers are apparently more powerful than Apollo 11’s computer https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/11/21133119/usb-c-anker-charger-apollo-11-moon-landing-guidance-computer-more-powerful

Government’s Paper Coffee Cups Too Dirty To Be Recycled https://nltimes.nl/2020/02/10/governments-paper-coffee-cups-dirty-recycled

Why sequencing the human genome failed to produce big breakthroughs in disease https://theconversation.com/why-sequencing-the-human-genome-failed-to-produce-big-breakthroughs-in-disease-130568

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“ENTRE RIOS” – a urbanização de São Paulo https://youtu.be/Fwh-cZfWNIc

ACLU rejects Clearview AI’s facial recognition accuracy claims https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/10/aclu-rejects-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-claims/

Iceberg that’s twice the size of Washington cleaves off Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, in a sign of warming https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/10/iceberg-thats-twice-size-washington-cleaves-off-pine-island-glacier-antarctica-sign-warming/

‘You’re a good dog’: Robo-pup helps people with dementia https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-51400415/you-re-a-good-dog-robo-pup-helps-people-with-dementia

Roaring jet stream powers British Airways flight from New York to London in under 5 hours, an unofficial record https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/09/british-air-record-flight-speed-atlantic/

Beyond Identical or Fraternal: 6 Rare Types of Twins https://youtu.be/bpWJNSBQo0k

Voyager 2 comes back online, 11.5 billion miles from home https://newatlas.com/space/voyager-2-back-online/

Federal Bill Seeks to Make Companies Responsible for Plastic Waste https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/recycling-law.html

Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/jules-vernes-voyages-extraordinaires.html

Our sun will never look the same again thanks to two solar probes and one giant telescope https://www.space.com/three-big-missions-spotlight-the-sun.html

Nine “tipping points” where a changing climate could push parts of the Earth system into abrupt or irreversible change. https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-nine-tipping-points-that-could-be-triggered-by-climate-change

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We don’t let 1 person control the water for 2.5 billion people.
We don’t let 1 person control electricity for 2.5 billion people.
Why do we let 1 man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people?
Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor!
https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1225165480782110721

Elon Musk tweets out #DeleteFacebook, adding simply, “it’s lame” – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/09/elon-musk-tweets-out-deletefacebook-adding-simply-its-lame/

Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared? https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-detect-fear-face-you-scared/

Como apps de entrega estão levando pequenos restaurantes à falência https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-51272233

Is fair lithium from Chile possible? https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/02/08/is-fair-lithium-from-chile-possible/

Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51438845

The Government Uses ‘Near Perfect Surveillance’ Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/dhs-cell-phone-tracking.html

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘Goop Lab’ is horrible. The medical industry is partly to blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/08/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-lab-is-horrible-medical-industry-is-partly-blame/

Virus Fallout From Singapore Meeting Spreads Across Europe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-09/virus-fallout-from-singapore-conference-spreads-across-europe

Antarctica appears to have broken a heat record https://phys.org/news/2020-02-antarctica-broken.html

How can the solar cycle threaten technology on Earth? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615144/how-can-the-solar-cycle-threaten-technology-on-earth/

NASA: A second, unreported glitch could have wrecked Boeing’s Starliner https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615161/nasa-a-second-unreported-glitch-could-have-wrecked-boeings-starliner/

‘Ignored and trivialized’: Experts warned Australian government before catastrophic blazes https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ignored-trivialized-experts-warned-australia-government-catastrophic-blazes-n1132326

Why Facts Don’T Change Our Minds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities in 2003 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51431087

The Age of Decadence https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/sunday/western-society-decadence.html

New Solar Orbiter mission will give an unprecedented look at our sun https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/07/world/solar-orbiter-mission-scn/index.html

What happens to all the old wind turbines? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51325101

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

Leia, Vale a Pena: Knowledge resistance, por Mikael Klintman https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/190684364993/leia-vale-a-pena-knowledge-resistance-por

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Massive cancer genome study reveals how DNA errors drive tumor growth https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/massive-cancer-genome-study-reveals-how-dna-errors-drive-tumor-growth

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1907-7

Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes https://www.nature.com/collections/afdejfafdb

Landmark study to transform cancer treatment https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51391151

Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence https://www.quantamagazine.org/computers-evolve-a-new-path-toward-human-intelligence-20191106/

Sea-level rise is accelerating along US coasts https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/481462-sea-level-rise-is-accelerating-along-us-coasts

Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s massive ocean currents https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/global-warming-speeding-earth-s-massive-ocean-currents

Rapid Permafrost Collapse Is Underway, Disintegrating Landscapes And Our Predictions https://www.sciencealert.com/permafrost-collapse-is-speeding-climate-change-according-to-a-new-study

CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos https://gizmodo.com/ceo-of-creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-says-h-1841461190

YouTube demands Clearview AI stop scraping its videos for facial recognition database https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21124172/youtube-clearview-ai-cease-and-desist

Anti-Solar Cells Could Generate Electricity at Night https://www.universetoday.com/144898/anti-solar-cells-could-generate-electricity-at-night/

Variant of photovoltaic power could generate 24 hours a day https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/variant-on-photovoltaic-power-could-generate-24-hours-a-day/

Draft Executive Order Would Give Trump a New Target: Modern Design https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/arts/design/trump-modern-architecture.html

What the brain really thinks about forever chemicals https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-brain-chemicals.html

Permafrost is thawing so quickly in the Arctic it’s leaving sinkholes https://www.cbsnews.com/news/permafrost-thawing-arctic-climate-change-sinkholes/

Scientists solve structure enabling cyanobacteria to thrive in low light https://phys.org/news/2020-02-scientists-enabling-cyanobacteria.html

The world’s oceans are speeding up — another mega-scale consequence of climate change https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/05/worlds-oceans-are-speeding-up-another-mega-scale-consequence-climate-change/

Self-Driving Mass Transit Arrives on American Streets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/self-driving-mass-transit-arrives-on-american-streets

no roda e avisa: o que é muito mais inovador que um Tesla? https://rodaeavisa.com/o-que-e-muito-mais-inovador-que-um-tesla/

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PAGO POR CLIQUE
A promessa de trabalho remoto da era digital se transformou numa servidão contemporânea https://tab.uol.com.br/edicao/servidao-digital/

ESPECIAL | GUERRA DAS ÁGUAS
RIOS MORTOS
Tocantins, um rio que deixou de correr no Brasil Central: entenda este e outros conflitos pela água no País https://www.estadao.com.br/infograficos/politica,rios-mortos,1063349

How shrubs can help solve climate change https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200203-the-south-african-plant-fighting-climate-change

De quem é a história? https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,de-quem-e-a-historia,70003185269

Samples from famed 19th century voyage reveal ‘shocking’ effects of ocean acidification https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/plankton-shells-have-become-dangerously-thin-acidifying-oceans-are-blame

NASA’s MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2020/mars-layers-and-rifts

Weird clumps of air that disrupt radio signals found on Mars
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232185-weird-clumps-of-air-that-disrupt-radio-signals-found-on-mars/#ixzz6D4u5ZZqU

The Coronavirus Is a Threat to the Global Drug Supply https://www.wired.com/story/the-coronavirus-is-a-threat-to-the-global-drug-supply/

Trump’s new trade deal is disastrous for the planet https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/perspectives/usmca-environment-sierra-club/index.html

New ransomware doesn’t just encrypt data. It also meddles with critical infrastructure https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/new-ransomware-intentionally-meddles-with-critical-infrastructure/

Anti-Semitic sculpture to remain on German church https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51380171

Gandhi’s Killer Evokes Admiration as Never Before https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/world/asia/india-gandhi-nathuram-godse.html

This Turkish Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt https://youtu.be/4p9EI6cRB0c

Breakthrough creates tough material able to stretch, heal and defend itself https://phys.org/news/2020-02-breakthrough-tough-material-defend.html