Facebook used to ‘incite offline violence’ in Myanmar, says report https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934 What The Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About Ai https://www.wired.com/story/joi-ito-ai-and-bus-routes/ Physicists measured Earth’s mass using neutrinos for the first time https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physicists-measured-earth-mass-using-neutrinos-first-time Cientistas fazem primeira tomografia da Terra com neutrinos https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,cientistas-fazem-primeira-tomografia-da-terra-com-neutrinos,70002587509 How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233 Billion by Reinventing the Toilet […]

Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46055595 You can now hire a video game coach to turn you into a Fortnite expert https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612368/i-hired-a-video-game-coach-to-give-me-the-edge-in-fortnite/ Consulting Firms Keep Lucrative Saudi Alliance, Shaping Crown Prince’s Vision https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/world/middleeast/mckinsey-bcg-booz-allen-saudi-khashoggi.html Spend “frivolously” and be penalized under China’s new social credit system https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/2/18057450/china-social-credit-score-spend-frivolously-video-games Llama blood clue to beating […]

Helium implicated in weird iPhone malfunctions https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/helium-implicated-in-weird-iphone-malfunctions/ Here’s How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events https://www.wired.com/story/new-tool-shows-how-bots-drive-conversation-for-news-events/ How Facebook Failed To Build A Better Alexa (Or Siri) https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/10/30/on-mute-how-facebook-fell-behind-on-voice-technology/#70b38213b507 Pre-existing CRISPR immunity found in 96% of humans in study https://www.fastcompany.com/90260308/pre-existing-crispr-immunity-found-in-96-of-humans-in-study Are humans immune to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing scissors? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-humans-immune-crispr-cas9-gene-scissors.html Geoengineering could stop warming but comes […]

No, Bitcoin probably won’t doom our climate—but we have no idea how much electricity it uses https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612355/no-bitcoin-probably-wont-doom-our-climate-but-we-have-no-idea-how-much/ Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object—the driver is suing https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/man-sues-tesla-says-autopilot-steered-him-into-a-stalled-car-at-80-mph/ “Schrödinger’s Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schroedingers-bacterium-could-be-a-quantum-biology-milestone/ Cientistas acham vírus da zika em macacos https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/blogs/herton-escobar/cientistas-acham-virus-da-zika-em-macacos/ The planet’s hidden climate change https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ocean-shock-warming/ A powerful […]

Is Anti-Gravity Real? Science Is About To Find Out https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/10/26/is-anti-gravity-real-science-is-about-to-find-out/#6953464a49a7 Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neganb/bitcoin-mining-could-raise-global-temperatures-by-2-c How I Lent My $4,500 Camera Kit for $95 and Had It ‘Legally Stolen’ https://petapixel.com/2018/10/29/how-i-lent-my-4500-camera-kit-for-95-and-had-it-legally-stolen/ Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/business/mini-books-pocket-john-green.html Single-use plastics ban […]

Driverless Cars Will Kill Cyclists, Warns Nature Magazine https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/10/28/driverless-cars-will-kill-cyclists-warns-nature-magazine/#51c18fc06133 Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612341/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem/ O dilema moral dos carros autônomos https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-dilema-moral-dos-carros-autonomos,70002566857 Experts are leaving Alphabet’s smart-city project over privacy concerns https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612345/experts-are-leaving-alphabets-smart-city-project-over-privacy-concerns/ Uber and Lyft are behind a sharp rise in US traffic deaths https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612346/uber-and-lyft-are-behind-a-sharp-rise-in-us-traffic-deaths/ […]

The Problem With Probiotics https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/upshot/the-problem-with-probiotics.html ‘The food supplement that ruined my liver’ https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45971416 The places that escaped the Spanish flu http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181023-the-places-that-escaped-the-spanish-flu Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45965605

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies The US is hastening its own decline in AI, says a top Chinese investor https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612224/the-us-is-hastening-its-own-decline-in-ai-says-a-top-chinese-investor/ Study: Artificial Sweeteners Toxic to Digestive Gut Bacteria https://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2018-10-01/study-artificial-sweeteners-toxic-to-digestive-gut-bacteria Gmail Is Autocompleting Entire Sentences And People Have Feelings https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/gmail-auto-complete-smart-compose-creepy-amazing Climate scientists are struggling to find the […]

Abuso em criança deixa marca no DNA https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,abuso-em-crianca-deixa-marca-no-dna,70002530059 Revolutionary ultra-thin ‘meta-lens’ enables full-color imaging https://phys.org/news/2018-10-revolutionary-ultra-thin-meta-lens-enables-full-color.html Replacing fertilizer with plant probiotics could slash greenhouse gases https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612223/forget-fertilizer-this-startup-aims-to-slash-greenhouse-gases-with-plant/ Farmers Can Now Buy Designer Microbes To Replace Fertilizer https://www.wired.com/story/farmers-can-now-buy-designer-microbes-to-replace-fertilizer/ Why Dna Is The Most Exciting Programming Language Today https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-sean-parker-alex-marson-crispr-dna-programming/ Digital Ids Are More Dangerous Than You Think https://www.wired.com/story/digital-ids-are-more-dangerous-than-you-think/

Brasileiros são o povo que mais acredita em fake news no mundo, indica Ipsos https://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/direto-da-fonte/instituicoes-fracas-fake-news-em-alta-diz-diretor-do-ipsos/ Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web ‘Fake news’ podem atrapalhar o tratamento contra o câncer de mama https://emais.estadao.com.br/noticias/bem-estar,fake-news-podem-atrapalhar-o-tratamento-contra-o-cancer-de-mama,70002524055 Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/climate/epa-trump-mercury-rule.html roda […]