Deep learning could reveal why the world works the way it does https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613502/deep-learning-could-reveal-why-the-world-works-the-way-it-does/ How AI could save lives without spilling medical secrets https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613520/how-ai-could-save-lives-without-spilling-secrets/ This Is Why Mars Is Red And Dead While Earth Is Blue And Alive https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/14/this-is-why-mars-is-red-and-dead-while-earth-is-blue-and-alive/#2cabe2ad395b Spider Uses Web As Slingshot To Ensnare Prey, Scientists Find https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/723201654/spider-uses-web-as-slingshot-to-ensnare-prey-scientists-find Adobe Tells Users They Can Get […]

CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/co2-in-the-atmosphere-just-exceeded-415-parts-per-million-for-the-first-time-in-human-history/ WhatsApp discovers ‘targeted’ surveillance attack https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48262681 Rússia espalha fake news para influenciar eleições europeias, dizem investigadores https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,russia-espalha-fake-news-para-influenciar-eleicoes-europeias-dizem-investigadores,70002826241 Apollo rocks showed how the moon was made, and now they’re about to solve more mysteries https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/apollo-rocks-showed-how-the-moon-was-made-and-now-theyre-about-to-solve-more-mysteries/2019/05/12/e3919a16-6de5-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html?utm_term=.a834d5cc9c84 Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever […]

Uber’s IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/11/uber-ipo-example-of-silicon-valley-era-of-mediocrity.html Congratulations to Uber, the Worst Performing IPO in U.S. Stock Market History https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-uber-the-worst-performing-ipo-in-us-1834681882 Uber decepciona em estreia na Bolsa https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,uber-decepciona-em-estreia-na-bolsa,70002824143 Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributors to San Francisco’s growing traffic problem https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613510/uber-and-lyft-are-the-biggest-contributors-to-san-franciscos-traffic-problem/ Solve’s 2019 Global Challenges are open for […]

FIRE MARK ZUCKERBERG https://www.firemarkzuckerberg.com/ It’s Time to Break Up Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html Facebook’s co-founder is making a terrible argument about online speech https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18540407/facebook-co-founder-chris-hughes-op-ed-break-up-online-speech-first-amendment-problems Facebook ‘auto-generated’ extremist video https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48217827 Inside Facebook, the second-class workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/inside-facebook-second-class-workers-who-do-hardest-job-are-waging-quiet-battle/ How Corporate Delusions of Automation Fuel the Cruelty of Uber and Lyft […]

Open-Plan Offices Literally Make You Stupid, According to Harvard https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/open-plan-offices-literally-make-you-stupid-according-to-harvard.html Estudo mostra por que devemos explicar benefícios de alimentos a crianças https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,estudo-mostra-por-que-devemos-explicar-beneficios-de-alimentos-a-criancas,70002821515 Corridors https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zcx “RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/baltimore-city-government-hit-by-robbinhood-ransomware/ Genetically Tweaked Viruses Just Saved A Very Sick Teen https://www.wired.com/story/genetically-tweaked-viruses-just-saved-a-very-sick-teen/ Britain Just Went a Week Without Coal For the First Time in […]

Samsung’s 512GB microSD is a huge storage upgrade that’s cheaper than ever https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531448/samsung-512gb-microsd-storage-sale-amazon Social media effect ‘tiny’ in teenagers, large study finds https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48147378 Vikings Casually Left Graffiti All Over Europe https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/06/viking-graffiti/ Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/show-dont-tell/ Global renewables growth has stalled—and that’s terrible news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613498/global-renewable-growth-has-stalled-and-thats-terrible-news/ Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful […]

Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All The Way Into Your Bloodstream https://www.wired.com/story/sunscreen-chemicals-soak-all-the-way-into-your-bloodstream/ Start-Ups Hoping to Fight Climate Change Struggle as Other Tech Firms Cash In https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/business/carbon-removal-technology-start-ups.html Artificial Intelligence Can Now Copy Your Voice: What Does That Mean For Humans? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/05/06/artificial-intelligence-can-now-copy-your-voice-what-does-that-mean-for-humans/#7b4d2fdd72a2 ‘Tesla dream’ is dead as investors face ‘Tesla reality’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/tesla-dream-dead-investors-now-face-tesla-reality-market-watcher.html Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, […]

Leonardo’s ‘claw hand’ stopped him painting https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48151105 The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188 Nature loss: Report to show scale of ‘silent crisis’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48160456 Scaling solutions for the developing world http://news.mit.edu/2019/d-lab-design-for-scale-0505 A história dos “pisos de caquinhos em São Paulo” http://www.saopauloinfoco.com.br/piso-de-caquinhos-sp/ Computational models for the evolution of […]

A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-yuval-noah-harari/ New type of dementia identified https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48092570 The power of music: Vicky McClure’s dementia choir https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48124591 Gravitational waves hunt now in overdrive https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48137011 LIGO may have spotted a black hole-neutron star merger https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/ligo-may-have-spotted-a-black-hole-neutron-star-merger/ Deep Solar Minimum Fast-Approaching: Cosmic Rays Continue To Rise http://www.thegwpf.com/deep-solar-minimum-fast-approaching-cosmic-rays-continue-to-rise/ What Jane Jacobs […]

The Uber I.P.O. Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/uber-ipo.html France’s fascinating ‘wine treatment’ http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190501-frances-fascinating-wine-treatment The Dutch art investigator on a mission to recover stolen works of art. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05bvyy5 Antiquities looted in Syria and Iraq are sold on Facebook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47628369 A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-yuval-noah-harari/ Facebook’s redesign is pretty, […]