Lifelike systems

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Too big to fail? Tech's decade of scale and impunity

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/26/too-big-to-fail-techs-decade-of-scale-and-impunity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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'The attention economy is in hyperdrive’: how tech shaped the 2010s

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/nov/22/attention-economy-in-hyperdrive-how-tech-shaped-2010s-oliver-burkeman?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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Humans put into suspended animation for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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Computer generated linguistic content

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Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/09/doomism-new-tactic-fossil-fuel-lobby?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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Brazil's flat Earthers to get their day in the sun

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/06/brazil-flat-earth-conference-terra-plana?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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Labour calls for halt to Google's acquisition of Fitbit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/29/labour-calls-for-halt-to-googles-acquisition-of-fitbit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

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In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis | Rebecca Solnit

Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. We need to break its stranglehold on us, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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Image of the Week - September 16, 2019

CIL:38814 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/38814

Description: A scanning electron color-enhanced image showing a clump of prostate cancer cells.

Authors: Annie Cavanagh

Licensing: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)

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Milk? Sugar? Microplastics? Some tea bags found to shed billions of particles

Amount is significantly higher than the estimated amount of microplastics particles consumed by a person in an entire year

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Why it's dangerous to liken DNA to computer code

The lure of bioengineering is obvious but we should be wary of bugs

Risk of biological coding, once the change is in the wild it may have horrific consecuences and no way to undo the change.

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I watched this TED Talk and thought you would find it interesting.

Laura Robinson: The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor

https://go.ted.com/CyVa

How the ocean breaths

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Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator

Exclusive: Job has left some ‘addicted’ to extreme material and pushed others to far right

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Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities

Engineer who quit over military drone project warns AI might also accidentally start a war

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New tech to help disabled people

Latest developments in the pipeline for those struggling with mobility, sight, hearing or speech

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The Honeybee Brain | Dr. Andrew Barron

Andrew Barron, a leading expert on animal cognition, discusses how the brains of honeybees can provide a model for studying diverse intelligences. Dr. Barron...