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O futuro do trabalho – Lado B https://www.hsm.com.br/o-futuro-do-trabalho-lado-b/

Rats will devour your car https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/13/rats-will-devour-your-car/

Reconhecimento facial no Metrô pode ter ‘consequências desastrosas’, alertam advogados https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/reconhecimento-facial-no-metro-pode-ter-consequencias-desastrosas-alertam-advogados/

A snowman-shaped space rock is teaching us how planets form https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615208/a-snowman-shaped-space-rock-is-teaching-us-how-planets-form/

A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/13/climate/manila-san-francisco-sea-level-rise.html

What happened to winter? Jet stream science explains unseasonable warmth in U.S. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/what-happened-winter-jet-stream-science-explains-unseasonable-warmth-u-n1136136

We should stop sending humans into space to do a robot’s job https://qz.com/1666726/we-should-stop-sending-humans-into-space/

The full extent of World War II damage to Big Ben has only just been discovered https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/13/uk/big-ben-restoration-wwii-damage-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

‘Ghost’ DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805237120/ghost-dna-in-west-africans-complicates-story-of-human-origins

The Bayesian Trap https://youtu.be/R13BD8qKeTg

Why Space Over South America is Deadly for Satellites https://youtu.be/w-nfF7bK34Y

Antarctic island hits record temperature of 20.75C https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51500692

Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet http://news.mit.edu/2020/smart-diaper-rfid-notify-caregiver-0214

Antarctic ice melt could push sea levels to rise 1.5 metres by 2100
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2233619-antarctic-ice-melt-could-push-sea-levels-to-rise-1-5-metres-by-2100/#ixzz6DvQdB5N7

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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

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