Here’s an Alexa Idea I Actually Like https://gizmodo.com/heres-an-alexa-idea-i-actually-like-1832896525 The advent of cheap, renewable hydrogen is nigh https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/renewable-hydrogen-could-be-competitive-in-a-decade-researchers-say/ The Ring Doorbell could have been hacked to show fake images, security experts find https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18243296/ring-doorbell-hacked-fake-images-security-experts Scientists Have Beaten Elon Musk to a Fake News Solution, And It’s Gaining Traction https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-beaten-elon-musk-to-a-fake-news-solution-and-it-s-gaining-traction This AI lets you deepfake your voice to […]

Big Tech Isn’t The Problem With Homelessness. It’s All Of Us https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isnt-the-problem-with-homelessness-its-all-of-us/ Microsoft Ceo Defends Army Contract For Augmented Reality https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-ceo-defends-army-contract-augmented-reality/ Microsoft staff: Do not use HoloLens for war https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47339774 The OxyContin catastrophe highlights a big failure in policy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-oxycontin-catastrophe-highlights-a-big-failure-in-policy/2019/02/25/b72dc184-391a-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html Evidence for man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’: scientists https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-temperatures-idUSKCN1QE1ZU Trump Calls For America To […]

These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-tops-italy-as-world-s-healthiest-nation-while-u-s-slips Projeto quer proibir deputado de fazer ‘live’ https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/coluna-do-estadao/projeto-quer-proibir-deputado-de-fazer-live/ Baleia Jubarte é encontrada em área de mata na praia do Marajó, no Pará https://g1.globo.com/pa/para/noticia/2019/02/22/baleia-jubarte-e-encontrada-em-area-de-mata-na-praia-do-marajo-no-para.ghtml Four New DNA Letters Double Life’s Alphabet https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/four-new-dna-letters-double-lifes-alphabet/ Bill Gates Says The Textbook Is Dying. Is He Right? https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/02/23/bill-gates-says-the-textbook-is-dying-is-he-right/#2d7946855ed0 Finally, We Know What Killed Sea […]

Why humans have evolved to drink milk http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-when-did-humans-start-drinking-cows-milk Report: Trump Wants Guy Who Compared Climate Science to the Holocaust to Head Climate Panel https://earther.gizmodo.com/report-trump-wants-guy-who-compared-climate-science-to-1832775121 China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612997/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/ Income inequality is rising so fast our data can’t keep up https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/21/income-inequality-is-rising-so-fast-our-data-cant-keep-up/?utm_term=.9a791afa2eca Don’t Abolish Billionaires https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/opinion/billionaires-innovation.html India Threatens a New […]

After New York City’s War With Amazon, Uber Could Be Next https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/nyregion/uber-nyc-deblasio.html Travel Back to 1990 With the Original World Wide Web Browser https://gizmodo.com/travel-back-to-1990-with-the-original-world-wide-web-br-1832730788 AI fake face website launched https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47296481 Child abuse images being traded via secure apps https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47279256 A UK parliamentary committee has accused Facebook of being “digital gangsters” https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612981/a-uk-parliamentary-committee-has-accused-facebook-of-being-digital-gangsters/ Once hailed as unhackable, […]

Gene therapy first to ‘halt’ most common cause of blindness https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47226987 CRISPR gene editing makes stem cells ‘invisible’ to immune system https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-crispr-gene-stem-cells-invisible.html Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber http://news.mit.edu/2019/lobster-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubber-0219 Machine learning is contributing to a “reproducibility crisis” within science https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612982/machine-learning-is-contributing-to-a-reproducibility-crisis-within-science/ What if you could diagnose endometriosis with a tampon? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612905/what-if-you-could-diagnose-endometriosis-with-a-tampon/ Could hackers ‘brainjack’ […]

AI is reinventing the way we invent https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612898/ai-is-reinventing-the-way-we-invent/ OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/ What Did Opportunity’s ‘last Words’ Actually Mean? https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/editorial/what-did-opportunitys-last-words-actually-mean/ The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612975/ai-natural-language-processing-explained/ China is using facial recognition to track millions of Muslim citizens wherever they go https://qz.com/1552708/china-is-using-facial-recognition-to-track-millions-of-muslim-citizens-wherever-they-go/ Branco […]

Facebook x Alemanha https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,facebook-x-alemanha,70002721904 The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/14/us-government-facebook-are-negotiating-record-multi-billion-dollar-fine-companys-privacy-lapses/?utm_term=.e0427ee8ed6f Researchers Made an AI Whose Performance Increases if They Let It Sleep And Dream https://www.sciencealert.com/neural-networks-performance-increases-if-they-re-allowed-to-sleep-and-dream The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don’t Need Renewables https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/14/the-real-reason-they-hate-nuclear-is-because-it-means-we-dont-need-renewables/#20db6591128f Opinion | Is the […]

When will we have flying cars? Maybe sooner than you think. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612891/when-will-we-have-flying-cars-maybe-sooner-than-you-think/ Hybrid planes could shorten the leap to all-electric 737s https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612934/how-hybrid-planes-could-shorten-the-leap-to-all-electric-737s/ How India’s single time zone is hurting its people https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359 NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/science/opportunity-rover-mars-map.html This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612897/this-is-why-ai-has-yet-to-reshape-most-businesses/ Philadelphia will feel like Memphis […]

Ar Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform—call It Mirrorworld https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/ A Neuroscientist Explores The Biology Of Addiction In ‘Never Enough’ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/12/693814827/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-biology-of-addiction-in-never-enough Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart Apple reportedly demanding a staggering 50 percent of revenue with ‘Netflix for news’ subscription https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18222281/apple-news-subscription-service-50-percent-cut-publishers-media-deal You Can Add […]