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YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS!

Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry - Vox

FLIPPY’S FAM!

Meet Blue: The Cheap and Manipulative (in a Good Way) Robot | WIRED

Toyota's basketball robot is more accurate than Steph Curry - Business Insider

TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY!

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

China Is Installing “AI Guards” in Prison Cells

A Sticker Can Trick Teslas Into Steering Toward Oncoming Traffic

This Robot Reads the Bible to Old People in Nursing Homes

DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Teams of Robots Compete to Explore Underground Worlds

Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good

MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath

Hackers used stickers to fool a Tesla, highlighting the risks of AI - Vox

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Manipulate Medical Images Well Enough To Kill People

The rise of the killer robots – and the two women fighting back | World news | The Guardian

EU publishes guidelines on developing ethical AI - The Verge

How Robots, IoT And Artificial Intelligence Are Changing How Humans Have Sex

A Boston Dynamics robot is now a warehouse worker

A powerful spyware app now targets iPhone owners | TechCrunch

Deep Brain Stimulation For Depression, Mood Disorders Could Be Ethically Fraught

CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS!

5G and the Health Effects of Cell Phones | WIRED

NYC declares emergency over measles outbreak, mandates vaccinations | Ars Technica

Read the Best Parts of Alex Jones's 159-Page Deposition About Pepe the Frog - Motherboard

JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA | Salon.com

Trump's 'Witch Hunt' Claims Aren't Conspiracy Theories - The Atlantic

The suspect in Nipsey Hussle's killing has been arrested. That won't stop speculation about his death.

THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS

Genetic Astrology: When Ancient DNA Meets Ancestry Testing

More help needed for those who feel cursed, possessed, says exorcist – Catholic Philly

Why is Amazon Prime using astrology to sell you its products?

BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM

Researchers find a way to use CRISPR Cas-9 on reptiles

Just Like Cops Snared The Golden State Killer, We Tried To Track Down BuzzFeed Employees From Their DNA

FDA Warns Virginia Lab for Illegally Marketing Unproven Genetic Tests

New DNA 'shredder' technique goes beyond CRISPR's scissors

SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON

UK to unleash internet safety czar on Google, Facebook, Twitter - CNET

Facebook to use AI to stop telling users to say hi to dead friends | Technology | The Guardian

Facebook bans half-dozen Canadian pages under extremism, hate policy - National | Globalnews.ca

Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender - Algorithmic prejudice

What Are Instagram Class Accounts? - The Atlantic

Facebook axed its bird-size internet drones before they even flew

Australia Proposes Bill to Stop “Weaponization” of Social Media


BECAUSE SCIENCE!

Scientists build a machine to generate quantum superposition of possible futures

Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal

UFOs are time machines from the future, professor claims | Fox News

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

Scientists are about to unveil the first images of a supermassive black hole - The Verge

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