Russia Targets Tinder As A Warning To Facebook And Twitter https://www.wired.com/story/russia-targets-tinder-warning-facebook-twitter/ A vitória (temporária) dos ladrões https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/espaco-aberto,a-vitoria-temporaria-dos-ladroes,70002864509 Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opinion/climate-change-supercomputers.html The new plan to remove a trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: Bury it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/12/new-plan-remove-trillion-tons-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-bury-it/?utm_term=.4fdad8da6e61 Fusion-Powered Spacecraft Could Be Just a Decade Away […]

YouTube CEO apologizes to LGBTQ community after outcry https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18660473/youtube-lgbtq-susan-wojcicki-carlos-maza-steven-crowder YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613644/youtube-is-deleting-videos-on-nazi-history-as-part-of-its-hate-speech-crackdown/ Facial recognition smart glasses could make public surveillance discreet and ubiquitous https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18659660/facial-recognition-smart-glasses-sunglasses-surveillance-vuzix-nntc-uae Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed https://thenextweb.com/work2030/2019/06/11/ai-robots-reviewed-my-resume-unimpressed-work/ Facebook’s AI system can speak with Bill Gates’s voice […]

Why is the USDA downplaying good news about this Obama-era school nutrition program? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/07/why-is-usda-downplaying-good-news-about-this-obama-era-school-nutrition-program/?utm_term=.9a933080d2a8 Smash the Wellness Industry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/women-dieting-wellness.html A Ghost of Evolution: The Curious Case of the Avocado, Which Should Be Extinct But Still Exists https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/04/avocado-ghosts-of-evolution/ Ghosts of Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWW5OuxlKec&ab_channel=It%27sOkayToBeSmart ‘Acoustic cameras’ tested in bid to cut noisy vehicles https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48564995 Anxiety and depression is […]

Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/06/microsoft-discreetly-wiped-its-massive-facial-recognition-databa/ Google lança iniciativas de incentivo ao jornalismo no Brasil https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,google-lanca-iniciativas-de-incentivo-ao-jornalismo-no-brasil,70002859578 We’ve seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232330-200-weve-seen-signs-of-a-mirror-image-universe-that-is-touching-our-own/ Industrial methane emissions are underreported, study finds http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/06/industrial-methane-emissions-are-underreported-study-finds Creative thinking: Researchers propose solar methanol island using ocean CO₂ https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/creative-thinking-researchers-propose-solar-methanol-island-using-ocean-co%e2%82%82/ PUB to deploy Singapore’s […]

Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/ Earth Overshoot Day is July 29 https://www.overshootday.org/ Amazon’s helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/ Ancient Galaxy in the ‘Sea Serpent’ Has More Dark Matter Than Expected https://www.space.com/sea-serpent-galaxy-dark-matter-markarian-1216.html Astronomers Just Solved The Bizarre Mystery of […]

Mud ball meteorites rain down in Costa Rica https://earthsky.org/space/mudball-meteorite-fall-aguas-zarcas-costa-rica-2019 Climate Change Could End Human Civilisation as We Know It by 2050, Analysis Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/by-2050-climate-change-could-alter-human-civilisation-as-we-know-it Lawmaker Slams Epa Chief For Not Knowing Co2’s Percentage Of The Atmosphere https://dailycaller.com/2015/07/09/lawmaker-slams-epa-chief-for-not-knowing-co2s-percentage-of-the-atmosphere/ The ‘Great Dying’ Nearly Erased Life On Earth. Scientists See Similarities To Today https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729341362/the-great-dying-nearly-erased-life-on-earth-scientists-see-similarities-to-today D-Day: 10 things you […]

On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/youtube-pedophiles.html Breaking up Big Tech will be really hard to do—here’s why https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613617/breaking-up-big-tech-will-be-really-hard-to-do/ BNDES testa ‘Waze do dinheiro público’ em áreas polêmicas https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,bndes-testa-waze-do-dinheiro-publico-em-areas-polemicas,70002853983 Companies See Climate Change Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/climate/companies-climate-change-financial-impact.html Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” […]

Do doctors even want the Apple Watch’s health features? https://mashable.com/article/how-doctors-really-feel-about-apple-watch-health-features/ After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/opinion/tiananmen-square-china.html Now AI easily erases the Tiananmen Square massacre from online memory https://www.fastcompany.com/90355806/now-ai-easily-erases-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-from-online-memory Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48489002 Morse code revolutionized communications 175 years ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/morse-code-revolutionized-communications-175-years-ago/2019/05/31/08f1a2c0-7cd1-11e9-8ede-f4abf521ef17_story.html Why are so many doctors burning out? Tons of real […]

Fisher-Price invented a popular baby sleeper without medical safety tests and kept selling it, even as babies died https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-fisher-price-invented-a-popular-baby-sleeper-without-safety-tests-and-kept-it-on-the-market-even-as-babies-died/2019/05/30/78c2707a-7731-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html O que a Apple vai anunciar? https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-que-a-apple-vai-anunciar,70002850621 Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there’s data to prove it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/30/twitter-hurting-intelligence-not-smart-study/?utm_term=.f42b77cad344 IBM Sells Face Recognition Surveillance to a Dictatorship: Report https://gizmodo.com/ibm-sells-face-recognition-surveillance-to-a-dictatorsh-1835101881 Uber’s First Earnings Report After I.P.O.: $1 […]

Why Facebook is right not to take down the doctored Pelosi video https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613592/facebook-pelosi-video-misinformation-censorship-free-speech/ Would you recognise yourself from your data? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48434175 WHO Redefines Burnout As A ‘Syndrome’ Linked To Chronic Stress At Work https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/28/727637944/who-redefines-burnout-as-a-syndrome-linked-to-chronic-stress-at-work North Face tried to scam Wikipedia to get its products to the top of Google search https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644158/north-face-wikipedia-hack-leo-burnett-top-imagens Apple’s latest defense of […]