Soon, the most beautiful people in the world may no longer be human https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/08/soon-most-beautiful-people-world-may-no-longer-be-human/ The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much You Can Do. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/technology/personaltech/internet-trolls-comments.html Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked. Psychologists say it’s unethical. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/8/17664580/persuasive-technology-psychology China is using robotic doves to spy on citizens https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/china-is-spying-on-citizens-with-robotic-doves Silicon Valley should stop […]

Silicon Valley Writes A Playbook To Help Avert Ethical Disasters https://www.wired.com/story/ethical-os/ Como o uso de dados de funcionários pelas empresas está mudando o mercado de trabalho https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/vert-fut-44143874 “The Lean Startup” is an unproductive legend https://qz.com/work/1349238/the-lean-startup-is-an-unproductive-legend/ Without Sergey Brin, Google has lost its healthy fear of authoritarianism https://qz.com/1347623/without-sergey-brin-google-has-lost-its-fear-of-authoritarian-china/ Cybersecurity’s insidious new threat: workforce stress https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611727/cybersecuritys-insidious-new-threat-workforce-stress/ Does […]

Facebook pede a bancos dos EUA dados de usuários para aumentar engajamento https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,facebook-pede-a-bancos-dos-eua-dados-de-usuarios-para-aumentar-engajamento,70002434330 Facebook wants banks to hand over customers’ financial information https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611811/facebook-wants-banks-to-hand-over-customers-financial-information/ Facebook denies seeking users’ bank data https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45097040 Ontario is axing its test of universal basic income https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611797/ontario-is-axing-its-test-of-universal-basic-income/ In Physics, Beauty May Be Overrated https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/in-physics-beauty-may-be-overrated/ Climate change: ‘Hothouse Earth’ risks even if CO2 […]

Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/hospital-superbugs-are-evolving-to-survive-hand-sanitizers/ Wells Fargo says hundreds lost homes to computing ‘error’ https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/05/wells-fargo-says-hundreds-lost-homes-to-computing-error/ Our climate plans are in pieces as killer summer shreds records https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/04/world/climate-change-deadly-summer-wxc-intl/index.html Eczema is an annoying, itchy disease. Bacteria from someone else’s skin may tame it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/eczema-is-an-annoying-itchy-disease-bacteria-from-someone-elses-skin-may-tame-it/2018/08/03/73b11eb6-6a5c-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.cd75b417781e This new blockchain-based betting platform could cause Napster-size legal […]

Low levels of air pollution linked to changes in the heart https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45034972 Cearenses levam ouro, prata e bronze na Olimpíada Internacional de Química https://g1.globo.com/ce/ceara/noticia/2018/07/30/cearenses-levam-ouro-prata-e-bronze-na-olimpiada-internacional-de-quimica.ghtml CRISPR creates new species with single giant chromosome https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611759/crispr-creates-new-species-with-single-giant-chromosome/ Reddit Got Hacked Thanks To A Woefully Insecure Two-Factor Setup https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-hacked-thanks-to-woefully-insecure-two-factor-setup/ Robots are working for Sweden’s banking industry https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611744/robots-are-working-for-swedens-banking-industry/

Earth Overshoot Day https://www.overshootday.org/ WHY ARE WE SUING CVS? Homeopathy is fake medicine https://centerforinquiry.org/cvs/ Google, Seeking a Return to China, Is Said to Be Building a Censored Search Engine https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/china-google-censored-search-engine.html Google in China: Internet giant ‘plans censored search engine’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45041671 Waymo’s self-driving cars will serve as a link to public transit https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611756/waymos-self-driving-cars-will-serve-as-a-link-to-public-transit/ Uber and Lyft […]

San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-tech-free-lunch.html Inovar, para ter cidades inovadoras https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,inovar-para-ter-cidades-inovadoras,70002424312 Grasping at Straws On the Pitfalls of Plastic Straw Environmentalism https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/grasping-at-straws Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change Brasil terá aumento de mortes por ondas de calor, afirma estudo https://sustentabilidade.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-tera-aumento-de-mortes-por-ondas-de-calor-afirma-estudo,70002424589 Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped […]

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They’re Paid For https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for Reinforcement Learning By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603501/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-reinforcement-learning/ An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611724/artificial-intelligence-driven-robot-hand-spends-a-hundred-years-teaching-itself-to-rotate/ Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong […]

The latest blockchain use case: anonymously betting on public-figure death pools https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611729/the-latest-blockchain-use-case-anonymously-betting-on-public-figure-death-pools/ Estufa ideológica – A ciência não previu que a era digital tornaria a questão do clima ainda mais intratável https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,estufa-ideologica,70002421303 For The First Time, Scientists Witness a Single Hurricane Season Change The Anatomy of a Species https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-in-action-2017-hurricane-season-changed-the-anatomy-of-lizards-in-caribbean Drought Relief Is Coming. Australia’s Farmers […]