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How WeWork spiraled from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo

Japan’s last pagers beep for the final time https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49888869

How the world came to run on coffee http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-world-came-to-run-on-coffee/

Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49876827

Leia Vale a Pena: The Hidden Half – Michael Blastland https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/186769996423/leia-vale-a-pena-the-other-half-michael

Is “Planet 9” actually a primordial black hole? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614441/is-planet-9-actually-a-primordial-black-hole/

Putin could decide for the world on CRISPR babies https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614450/putin-could-decide-for-the-world-on-crispr-babies/

We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614443/we-cant-trust-ai-systems-built-on-deep-learning-alone/

Future of Genetically Modified Babies May Lie in Putin’s Hands https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-29/future-of-genetically-modified-babies-may-lie-in-putin-s-hands

Tit for Tat https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another

De Uber a Nubank: as empresas que valem bilhões, mas nunca registraram lucro https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/09/30/de-uber-a-nubank-as-empresas-que-valem-bilhoes-mas-nunca-registraram-lucro.ghtml

Carl Sagan e a curvatura da Terra https://www.instagram.com/tv/B2m_ROkg98N/

Eratosthenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-29/climate-change-russia-s-oil-and-gas-heartlands-are-under-threat

Stephen Fry e a história de Gutenberg https://pca.st/AUWn

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WeWork’s Problems Go Much Deeper Than Founder Adam Neumann https://www.barrons.com/articles/wework-lease-problem-51569609442

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann officially stepping down, making IPO highly unlikely https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/24/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-officially-stepping-down-making-ipo-highly-unlikely.html

WeWork proves that (venture) capitalism works https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/29/wework-proves-that-venture-capitalism-works/

This Brazilian island wants to show the way to a green future. Businesses, backed by Bolsonaro, see the next Cozumel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/this-brazilian-island-wants-to-show-the-way-to-a-green-future-businesses-backed-by-bolsonaro-want-to-make-it-the-next-cozumel/2019/09/29/09dfbdec-c377-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html

YouTube is experimenting with ways to make its algorithm even more addictive https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614432/youtube-algorithm-gets-more-addictive/

Limite de encaminhamento no WhatsApp não consegue frear desinformação na plataforma, aponta pesquisa https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/limite-de-encaminhamento-no-whatsapp-nao-consegue-frear-desinformacao-na-plataforma-aponta-pesquisa/

Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns

Tesla, Elon Musk violated labor laws, judge rules https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/27/tesla-elon-musk-violated-labor-laws-judge-rules/

People Are Already Reporting Collisions With Tesla’s Driverless Smart Summon Feature https://www.thedrive.com/news/30074/people-are-already-reporting-collisions-with-teslas-driverless-smart-summon-feature

The Church of Techno-Optimism https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/opinion/sunday/silicon-valley-techno-optimism.html

The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqECNYmM23A

All of Amazon’s New Products, Ranked by Creepiness https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/amazon-echo-products-frames-ring-creepiness.html

Turkish scientist gets 15-month sentence for publishing environmental study https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/turkish-scientist-gets-15-month-sentence-publishing-environmental-study

The Long, Strange Tale of California’s Surf Nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/opinion/sunday/surf-racism.html

Bacterial ‘striptease’ evades antibiotics https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49826085

Why Wall Street Loves Strongmen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/opinion/why-wall-street-loves-strongmen.html

These tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/

The Voynich Manuscript, Part 1 https://pca.st/d9l7RB

The Voynich Manuscript https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript_201902

Answering the Call: The Architect Behind Brazil’s Iconic “Big Ear” Phone Shelters https://99percentinvisible.org/article/answering-the-call-the-architect-behind-brazils-iconic-big-ear-phone-shelters/

Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since Census Bureau started tracking it, data shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/26/income-inequality-america-highest-its-been-since-census-started-tracking-it-data-show/

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Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since census started tracking it, data shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/26/income-inequality-america-highest-its-been-since-census-started-tracking-it-data-show/

WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism

Can WeWork survive? https://www.fastcompany.com/90408860/can-wework-survive

The Wildly Appealing, Totally Doomed Future of Work https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/why-wework-was-destined-fail/598891/

Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/wework-adam-neumann.html

Rage Against The Machine Guitarist Joins Fight To Ban Facial Recognition Technology From Music Festivals And Shows https://www.newsweek.com/rage-against-machine-guitarist-joins-fight-ban-facial-recognition-technology-music-festivals-1460902

Uber overhauls its app in ambitious bid to become ‘the operating system for your everyday life’ https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20884800/uber-app-announcement-ubereats-safety-transit-updates

Watch a drone drop drugs into a jail https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/09/25/drone-drug-drop-cuyahoga-county-jail-orig.cnn

Punjab Police cancels leaves of all cops after Pakistani drones drop weapons in state https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/punjab-drones-weapons-high-alert-police-leaves-cancelled-1603195-2019-09-25

70 countries have now experienced organized disinformation campaigns https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614438/70-countries-around-the-world-now-run-organized-disinformation-campaigns/

Limiting message forwarding on WhatsApp helped slow disinformation https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614435/whatsapp-disinformation-message-forwarding-politics-technology-brazil-india-election/#Echobox=1569506917

Quem é mesmo liberal? https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,quem-e-mesmo-liberal,70003027025

Stasi files: The world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19344978

Stasi files: German plan to transfer files sparks concern https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49847900

Prehistoric babies fed animal milk in bottles https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49813039

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As Made-To-Order DNA Gets Cheaper, Keeping It Out Of The Wrong Hands Gets Harder https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/24/762834987/as-made-to-order-dna-gets-cheaper-keeping-it-out-of-the-wrong-hands-gets-harder

Jaron Lanier Fixes The Internet https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/23/opinion/data-privacy-jaron-lanier.html

Atlas the humanoid robot shows off a new and improved gymnastics routine https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/atlas-the-humanoid-robot-shows-off-a-new-and-improved-gymnastics-routine/

Is The Universe Filled With Black Holes That Shouldn’t Exist? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/24/is-the-universe-filled-with-black-holes-that-shouldnt-exist/#35a6b774321e

The fall of Adam Neumann is the logical endpoint of Silicon Valley’s unicorn bubble https://qz.com/1715336/adam-neumanns-wework-ouster-is-the-end-of-silicon-valleys-unicorn-bubble/

Huge CERN Experiment Detects Two Extremely Rare Particle Decay Events https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-physics-experiment-has-recorded-two-instances-of-a-super-rare-kaon-decay

How WeWork’s “fiasco” could threaten Silicon Valley’s rich and powerful https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/24/20882174/wework-adam-neumann-softbank-ipo

MIT’s Media Lab under investigation https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mits-media-lab-investigated-for-alleged-environmental-regulation-violations/

There’s one crucial way tape still trounces SSDs and hard drives when it comes to storage… https://www.techradar.com/news/theres-one-crucial-way-tape-still-trounces-ssds-and-hard-drives-when-it-comes-to-storage

This Picasso painting had never been seen before. Until a neural network painted it. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614333/this-picasso-painting-had-never-been-seen-before-until-a-neural-network-painted-it/