Trevor Noah Attacks Facebook For Cashing In On Your Fear And Anger
“The human impulse to get into an argument, never back down and then die before conceding a single point — Facebook figured out how to monetize that.”

June 7, 2018 at 08:09AM
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First contact: what if we find not organic life but ET’s AI? – Caleb Scharf | Aeon Essays
After centuries searching for extraterrestrial life, we might find that first contact is not with organic creatures at all.

June 7, 2018 at 07:31AM
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Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon
Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism.

June 6, 2018 at 05:49PM
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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Recreate Your Voice Within Minutes
Bloomberg sends journalist Ashlee Vance to Canada to visit with the founders of Lyrebird, who have created an AI that can “clone human voices with frightening precision.”

June 6, 2018 at 04:46PM
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Microsoft sinks a data center off the Scottish coast
The data center includes 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage.

June 6, 2018 at 04:45PM
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Japanese Engineers Have Devised This Really Unusual Way Of Putting Out A Fire
This firefighting device not only balances itself on water streams, but it can snake into places not easily accessible to firefighters.

June 6, 2018 at 02:32PM
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Google Assistant Is Asked To Play The Name Game With The Longest Word In The English Language
Antidisestablishmentarianism pneumonoultramicroscopic… forget it, we can’t even say the word, let alone play the name game with it.

June 6, 2018 at 01:34PM
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GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.

June 6, 2018 at 11:41AM
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User Agreements Are Betraying You
The user agreement has become a potent symbol of our asymmetric relationship with technology firms.

June 6, 2018 at 11:41AM
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Why energy storage is key to a global climate breakthrough
Better energy storage could overcome the biggest limitation of renewable power: Instead of using it only when the sun is out or the wind is blowing, electricity generated by renewable sources could be held for when it is most needed.

June 6, 2018 at 10:31AM
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