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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/