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Deepmind’s Losses And The Future Of Artificial Intelligence https://www.wired.com/story/deepminds-losses-future-artificial-intelligence/

NYC has hired hackers to hit back at stalkerware https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614168/nyc-hires-hackers-to-hit-back-at-stalkerware/

A teen video app is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614147/a-teen-video-app-is-the-latest-battlefield-in-the-kashmir-conflict-tiktok-article-370/

Climate change or just crazy weather? How improving tools make it easier to tell. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614162/heat-waves-climate-change-extreme-weather-attribution-hurricanes-droughts-climate-model/

Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4

Human-size ‘monster’ penguin species discovered in New Zealand https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/human-sized-monster-penguin-species-discovered-new-zealand-n1042231

Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this medieval mystery? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/14/why-do-people-keep-convincing-themselves-theyve-solved-this-medieval-mystery/

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Colombia fines Uber more than $629,000 for obstructing regulatory visit https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-colombia-idUSKCN1V21RO

Our Cells Are Filled With ‘Junk DNA’ — Here’s Why We Need It http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/08/13/what-is-junk-dna-genome-introns/#.XVPpx-hKiUk

Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/13/nvidia-breaks-records-in-training-and-inference-for-real-time-conversational-ai/

Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614143/nvidia-just-made-it-easier-to-build-smarter-chatbots-and-slicker-fake-news/

Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614144/googles-algorithm-for-detecting-hate-speech-looks-racially-biased/

North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614149/north-korea-is-funding-its-weapons-program-with-stolen-cryptocurrency/

Increasing humidity, driven in part by climate change, is making even modest heat waves unbearable https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/13/increasing-humidity-driven-part-by-climate-change-is-making-even-modest-heat-waves-unbearable/

China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html

A Brief History of Typography & Typefaces https://www.ashworthcreative.com/blog/2014/07/brief-typography-typefaces/

Incredible Stanford study discovers thousands of novel proteins produced by human microbiome https://newatlas.com/new-small-protein-discovery-gut-microbiome-bacteria-stanford/60995/

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible https://phys.org/news/2019-08-meteorite-life-earth.html

Why is left-handedness so rare? It comes down to these 2 words https://www.fastcompany.com/90389355/why-is-left-handedness-so-rare-it-comes-down-to-these-2-words

The Anthropocene Is a Joke https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/

Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times. It’s not normal. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/lightning-struck-near-north-pole-why-strange/

The U.S. Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28678829/microwave-drones-midair/

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Pompeii archaeologists uncover ‘sorcerer’s treasure trove’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49325627

10 Amazing Archaeological Finds Discovered In Pompeii https://listverse.com/2019/08/12/10-amazing-archaeological-finds-discovered-in-pompeii/

100 anos do fascismo: ‘O perigo atual é que democracia vire repressão com apoio popular’, diz historiador https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-47686939

Uber falls to all-time low as investors grow more skeptical https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/uber-stock-falls-to-all-time-low-as-investors-grow-more-skeptical.html

We Wanted to Know How Online Radicalization Was Changing the World. We Started With Brazil. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/reader-center/brazil-youtube-radicalization.html

U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html

U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/europe/russia-nuclear-accident-putin.html

Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident https://time.com/5649826/russia-nuclear-accident/

Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614076/next-generation-entrepreneurs-senior-planet/#Echobox=1565618696

The White House wants to regulate social-media moderation https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614139/the-white-house-wants-to-regulate-social-media-moderation/

Section 230, the law that created the modern internet, explained https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614141/section-230-law-moderation-social-media-content-bias/

A planetary telescope would use Earth’s atmosphere as a giant lens https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614069/a-planetary-telescope-would-use-earths-atmosphere-as-a-giant-lens/

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Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s?

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332420-900-have-we-found-the-true-cause-of-diabetes-stroke-and-alzheimers/#ixzz5wNlwBr9z

How medieval monks are revealing our universe’s secrets https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-medieval-monks-are-revealing-our-universes-sec/p07jljv5?playlist=universal-wonders

Study: Most YouTube videos on climate change deny its existence https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/08/10/study-most-youtube-videos-on-climate-change-deny-its-existence/

Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons https://www.wired.com/story/acoustic-cyberweapons-defcon/

Why smartphones are no longer driving the search for ‘blue gold’ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49265455

Kenya’s Pokomo people ask the British to return what was stolen: Their source of power https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/09/kenyas-pokomo-people-ask-british-return-what-was-stolen-their-source-power/

Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800979/check-point-canon-eos-80d-dslr-malware-ransomware-cybersecurity

The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528) http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/the-very-first-written-use-of-the-f-word-in-english-1528.html

A ameaça da reentrada de lixo espacial https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,a-ameaca-da-reentrada-de-lixo-espacial,70002962654

‘My entire scalp was on fire’: A doctor repeatedly insisted she had a tension headache. Something more serious was going on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/medical-mysteries/my-entire-scalp-was-on-fire-a-doctor-repeatedly-insisted-she-had-a-tension-headache-something-more-serious-was-going-on/2019/08/09/378526e8-a008-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html

The Techlash Has Come to Stanford
Even in the famed computer science program, students are no longer sure they’d go to work for Facebook or Google (and definitely not Palantir). https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/stanford-tech-students-backlash-google-facebook-palantir.html

The Birth of the Semicolon https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/01/the-birth-of-the-semicolon/

The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48850490

The White House Readies Draft of Executive Order That Could Break the Internet https://gizmodo.com/the-white-house-readies-draft-of-executive-order-that-c-1837110097