We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/ The real reason Father Christmas wears red and white https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46619012 Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46364179 The fat-burning heart-rate zone is a myth: How exercise and weight loss really work https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/the-fat-burning-heart-rate-zone-is-a-myth-how-exercise-and-weight-loss-really-work/2018/12/17/548ea93a-fc8e-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html 2018 Was The Year That Tech […]

China launched more rockets into orbit in 2018 than any other country https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612595/china-launched-more-rockets-into-orbit-in-2018-than-any-other-country/ How much money would you want to quit Facebook for a year? Most people say $1,000. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612645/how-much-money-would-you-want-to-quit-facebook-for-a-year-most-people-say-1000/ China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612598/chinas-tech-giants-want-to-go-global-just-one-thing-might-stand-in-their-way/ Female black journalists and politicians get sent an abusive […]

Ações do Facebook caem 7% com novo escândalo de uso indevido de dados https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,acoes-do-facebook-caem-7-com-novo-escandalo-de-uso-indevido-de-dados,70002652657 Procurador de Washington D.C. processa Facebook por caso Cambridge Analytica https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,procurador-de-washington-dc-processa-facebook-por-caso-cambridge-analytica,70002652359 Why Should Anyone Believe Facebook Anymore? https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-data-sharing-privacy-investigation/ Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148 The First Cross-Country, Autonomous-Car Trip Is an Ethical […]

Amphibian that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46614138 Machine learning-detected signal predicts time to earthquake https://phys.org/news/2018-12-machine-learning-detected-earthquake.html Gravity is mathematically relatable to dynamics of subatomic particles https://phys.org/news/2018-12-gravity-mathematically-dynamics-subatomic-particles.html Police are testing face recognition tech on London’s streets this week https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612636/police-are-testing-face-recognition-tech-on-londons-streets-this-week/ Lyft’s plan to win the transportation wars: Put designers in charge https://www.fastcompany.com/90281009/lyfts-plan-to-win-the-transportation-wars-put-designers-in-charge Google isn’t […]

Why China’s electric-car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan, and Germany in the dust https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612566/why-chinas-electric-car-industry-is-leaving-detroit-japan-and-germany-in-the-dust/ The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/science/plate-tectonics-continents-earth.html Google desiste de colaborar com a China em busca: https://digital.estadao.com.br/search?query=google&newspapers=2025&start=2018-12-18&stop=2018-12-18&hideSimilar=1&hideSnippets=0 Uso de água no País deve crescer 24% até 2030 https://brasil.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,uso-de-agua-no-pais-deve-crescer-24-ate-2030,70002649926 Google says it won’t sell face recognition for […]

10 reasons why Finland’s education system is the best in the world https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/10-reasons-why-finlands-education-system-is-the-best-in-the-world It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/ US ballistic missile systems have very poor cyber-security https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-ballistic-missile-systems-have-very-poor-cyber-security/ Nova divisão política ocidental opõe o urbano e o rural https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,nova-divisao-politica-ocidental-opoe-o-urbano-e-o-rural,70002648649 In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’ changed the […]

Ethereum thinks it can change the world. It’s running out of time to prove it. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612507/ethereum-thinks-it-can-change-the-world-its-running-out-of-time-to-prove-it/ The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-recklessness-of-the-self-driving-car-industr-1831027948 It’s Time to Plan for How Quantum Computing Could Go Wrong, Say Entrepreneurs and Physicists https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-plan-for-how-quantum-computing-could-go-wro-1831075632 All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612586/all-automated-hiring-software-is-prone-to-bias-by-default/ New York’s new […]

Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/19/17246152/google-selfish-ledger-patent-applications Google’s Selfish Ledger Is An Unsettling Vision Of Silicon Valley Social Engineering https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-schemed-against-its-users-1830916368 Bereaved mother criticises Facebook over baby ads https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46543324 Urban waterways are under siege by a new invasive species: e-scooters https://www.fastcompany.com/90279331/people-are-throwing-bird-and-lime-scooters-into-rivers-and-lakes Uber was […]

Uber manager in March: “We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/uber-exec-warned-of-rampant-safety-problems-days-before-fatal-crash/ Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html Facebook’s role in the French protests has polarized observers https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18135273/yellow-vest-facebook-france-protests We Finally Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-what-killed-the-sea-life-in-the-world-s-deadliest-mass-extinction Here’s how Lyft envisions self-driving cars […]

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html Primeira missão brasileira no Egito prepara escavação de tumba milenar https://www.estadao.com.br/infograficos/cidades,brasileiros-no-egito,945449 Puzzle solving ‘won’t stop mental decline’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46507024 It’s Official: Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space https://gizmodo.com/its-official-voyager-2-has-entered-interstellar-space-1830981729 Justiça do DF bloqueia R$ 2 milhões de dono de site que vende […]