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1. Earth Overshoot Day https://www.overshootday.org/
2. WHY ARE WE SUING CVS? Homeopathy is fake medicine https://centerforinquiry.org/cvs/
3. Google, Seeking a Return to China, Is Said to Be Building a Censored Search Engine https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/china-google-censored-search-engine.html
4. Google in China: Internet giant ‘plans censored search engine’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45041671
5. Waymo’s self-driving cars will serve as a link to public transit https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611756/waymos-self-driving-cars-will-serve-as-a-link-to-public-transit/
6. Uber and Lyft offered to bail out struggling taxi drivers, but New York City said no https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17639656/uber-lyft-bailout-nyc-taxi-drivers-cap
7. Scientists Develop A Strain Of Genetically Modified Rice That Neutralizes HIV http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-develop-a-strain-of-genetically-modified-rice-that-neutralizes-hiv/
8. San Francisco Squalor: City Streets Strewn With Trash, Needles And Human Feces https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634626538/san-francisco-squalor-city-streets-strewn-with-trash-needles-and-human-feces
9. Data-mining medieval text reveals medically bioactive ingredients https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611751/data-mining-medieval-text-reveals-medically-bioactive-ingredients/

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1. San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-tech-free-lunch.html
2. Inovar, para ter cidades inovadoras https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,inovar-para-ter-cidades-inovadoras,70002424312
3. Grasping at Straws
   On the Pitfalls of Plastic Straw Environmentalism https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/grasping-at-straws
4. Losing Earth: The Decade We
   Almost Stopped Climate Change
5. Brasil terá aumento de mortes por ondas de calor, afirma estudo https://sustentabilidade.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-tera-aumento-de-mortes-por-ondas-de-calor-afirma-estudo,70002424589
6. Losing Earth: The Decade We
   Almost Stopped Climate Change https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
7. China could face deadly heat waves due to climate change http://news.mit.edu/2018/china-could-face-deadly-heat-waves-due-climate-change-0731

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1. Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They’re Paid For https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for
2. Reinforcement Learning
   By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603501/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-reinforcement-learning/
3. An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611724/artificial-intelligence-driven-robot-hand-spends-a-hundred-years-teaching-itself-to-rotate/
4. Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-our-intuition-about-sea_level-rise-is-wrong-rp
5. Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work On Mars https://www.wired.com/story/co2-terraforming-mars/
6. Droughts, Heat Waves and Floods: How to Tell When Climate Change Is to Blame https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/droughts-heat-waves-and-floods-how-to-tell-when-climate-change-is-to-blame/
7. Why Westerners Fear Robots And The Japanese Do Not https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/
8. Aumento do número de casas com sistema de refrigeração de ar tornará planeta mais quente https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/nytiw,aumento-do-numero-decasas-com-sistema-de-refrigeracao-de-ar-tornaraplaneta-mais-quente,70002418438

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1. The latest blockchain use case: anonymously betting on public-figure death pools https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611729/the-latest-blockchain-use-case-anonymously-betting-on-public-figure-death-pools/
2. Estufa ideológica – A ciência não previu que a era digital tornaria a questão do clima ainda mais intratável https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,estufa-ideologica,70002421303
3. For The First Time, Scientists Witness a Single Hurricane Season Change The Anatomy of a Species https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-in-action-2017-hurricane-season-changed-the-anatomy-of-lizards-in-caribbean
4. Drought Relief Is Coming. Australia’s Farmers Say It’s Nowhere Near Enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/world/australia/drought-farmers-new-south-wales.html
5. The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html
6. The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/
7. Lawmakers Can’t Ignore Facial Recognition’s Bias Anymore https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-facial-recognition-congress-bias-law-enforcement/
8. Why Brazilians are always late http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180729-why-brazilians-are-always-late
9. Scooters: Sidewalk Nuisances, Or The Future Of Local Transportation? https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28/631812255/scooters-sidewalk-nuisances-or-the-future-of-public-transportation
10. Artificial intelligence can predict your personality by scanning your eyes https://www.cnet.com/news/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-your-personality-by-looking-at-your-eyes/