Tuesday, August 14, 2018

It's A Feature Not A Bug

Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.
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POKING THE BEAR
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — And Won
nytimes.com
Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.
JUST ANOTHER MORAL PANIC
How Sex Robots Could Revolutionize Marriage — For The Better
slate.com
With sexual needs outsourced to robots, marriages could become stronger than ever.
LEAVE NO TRACE?
The Vanishing City
discovermagazine.com
An archaeologist is using Burning Man — the world's biggest pop-up community — to decode humanity's past settlements.
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE
WE'RE SO SMALL
This Photo Of A Solar Coronal Mass Ejection Is Beyond Comprehension
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​The sun is incomprehensibly big, and as such, most of the things it does are also incomprehensibly big. Case in point: this coronal mass ejection.
KICKING UP DUST
The Resilient Rally Drivers Of The Egyptian Desert
roadsandkingdoms.com
Dangerous militants and anxious public officials have not dampened the Egyptian rally community's passion for desert racing.
WE'RE MELTING
Halfway To Boiling: The City At 50 Degrees Celsius
theguardian.com
It is the temperature at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air conditioners overload power grids. Once an urban anomaly, 50C is fast becoming reality.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A CASE IN POINT
Guys Drop A Massive Dart Onto A Tree Stump From 150 Feet For Shits And Gigs
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When the dive bar gets too boring, supersize everything and move the fun to a 150-foot metal tower.
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Trump Tried To Ban Top Aides From Penning Tell-All Books
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