Inside the kids-only rehab that treats video games like cocaine https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/d80d46eb-253d-4b99-ba60-caca6858d757 Treatment for climate change surprisingly inexpensive, study finds https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoengineering-treatment-stratospheric-aerosol-injection-climate-change-study-today-2018-11-23/ An electric plane with no moving parts has made its first flight https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612451/an-electric-plane-with-no-moving-parts-has-made-its-first-flight/ Engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts https://techxplore.com/news/2018-11-first-ever-plane.html AI can’t just play video games all day if it’s ever going to […]

Cosmology Is In Crisis Over How To Measure The Universe https://www.wired.com/story/cosmology-is-in-crisis-over-how-to-measure-the-universe/ Blockchain Is Especially at Risk for Quantum Attacks, Scientists Warn https://gizmodo.com/blockchain-is-especially-at-risk-for-quantum-attacks-s-1830567357 Quantum computers put blockchain security at risk https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07449-z How the brain switches between different sets of rules http://news.mit.edu/2018/cognitive-flexibility-thalamus-1119 Mileva Einstein: A desconhecida história da física brilhante que não ganhou crédito por seu trabalho […]

A Vaccine for Depression? http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/a-vaccine-for-depression Heat Your Home Or Business With A Mining Rig https://bitcoinist.com/heat-your-home-or-business-with-a-mining-rig/ Here’s what a manufacturing skills gap of more than 2 million people will look like https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612425/heres-what-a-manufacturing-skills-gap-of-more-than-2-million-people-will-look-like/ Tim Cook explains why Apple accepts billions from Google despite privacy concerns https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/18/tim-cook-axios-interview-why-apple-accepts-billions-from-google.html The American Dream Is Alive. In China. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html Next stop, MarsInside […]

Driverless cars will lead to more sex on the road, study says https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/driverless-cars-will-lead-more-sex-road-study-says-n936801 Google accused of ‘trust demolition’ over health app https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46206677 Google gobbling DeepMind’s health app might be the trust shock we need https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/14/google-gobbling-deepminds-health-app-might-be-the-trust-shock-we-need/ Privacy advocates sound the alarm after Google grabs DeepMind UK health app https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/14/18094874/google-deepmind-health-app-privacy-concerns-uk-nhs-medical-data When the Tech Mythology Collapses https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/facebook-google-amazon-and-collapse-tech-mythology/575989/ Damage […]

Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html An Incredibly Fast ‘Dark Matter Hurricane’ Is Blowing Past Earth Right Now https://www.sciencealert.com/apparently-there-s-a-dark-matter-hurricane-blowing-past-earth-right-now The British Military Is Launching a Major Test of Unmanned Vehicles and Surveillance Drones https://gizmodo.com/the-british-military-is-launching-a-major-test-of-unman-1830425460 The face-mapping technology raising fears about fake news https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-46200018/the-face-mapping-technology-raising-fears-about-fake-news How machine learning systems sometimes surprise us https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/how-machine-learning-systems-sometimes-surprise-us/ […]

Counting The Bugs And Bacteria, You’re ‘Never Home Alone’ (And That’s OK) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/12/666933600/counting-the-bugs-and-bacteria-youre-never-home-alone-and-thats-ok Amazon’s Alexa might be a key witness in a murder case https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/12/18089090/amazon-echo-alexa-smart-speaker-privacy-data An Ultra-Short History Of The Entire Universe https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/11/12/an-ultra-short-history-of-the-entire-universe/ Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal in Finland https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46178940 Identificado fármaco que elimina vírus da febre amarela e chikungunya https://jornal.usp.br/ciencias/ciencias-biologicas/identificado-farmaco-que-elimina-virus-da-febre-amarela-e-chikungunya/ Russian Trolls […]

How chimpanzees reveal the roots of human behaviour http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20181101-how-chimpanzees-reveal-the-roots-of-human-behaviour Don’t Want To Fall For Fake News? Don’t Be Lazy https://www.wired.com/story/dont-want-to-fall-for-fake-news-dont-be-lazy/ O conforto da crença https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-conforto-da-crenca,70002601351 Vaccines – The importance of the herd and social media https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pzl37 AI is not “magic dust” for your company, says Google’s Cloud AI boss https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612394/ai-is-not-magic-dust-for-your-company-says-googles-cloud-ai-boss/ These news anchors are professional […]

An ode to Carl Sagan https://medium.com/swlh/an-ode-to-carl-sagan-575f609a4b05 China’s giant transmission grid could be the key to cutting climate emissions https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612390/chinas-giant-transmission-grid-could-be-the-key-to-cutting-climate-emissions/ Tim Berners-Lee Wants a ‘Magna Carta’ to Save The Modern Internet. He’s Way Too Late. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24790593/tim-berners-lee-internet-magna-carta/ Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible? https://phys.org/news/2018-11-replaying-tape-life.html Growing the future: High-tech farmers are using LED lights in ways […]

Sorry, this strange space rock was not sent by aliens to save us https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/06/sorry-this-strange-space-rock-was-not-sent-by-aliens-save-us/?utm_term=.e4b602ae3fae Brasil cai para última posição em ranking sobre prestígio do professor https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-cai-para-ultima-posicao-em-ranking-sobre-prestigio-do-professor,70002593574 Internet freedom around the world has fallen for the 8th year in a row https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612377/internet-freedom-around-the-world-has-fallen-for-the-8th-year-in-a-row/ Após recusa, Zuckerberg é pressionado a depor em comitê internacional https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,apos-recusa-zuckerberg-e-pressionado-a-depor-em-comite-internacional,70002592532 Bug covered ‘bionic […]

Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612375/using-wi-fi-to-see-behind-closed-doors-is-easier-than-anyone-thought/ I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html Mining For Bitcoin Can Require More Energy Than Actually Mining https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24737137/bitcoin-mining-more-energy-traditional-mining/ Why Chinese Artificial Intelligence Will Run The World https://interestingengineering.com/why-chinese-artificial-intelligence-will-run-the-world A life-saving gene drug could hold families hostage with […]