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  Andrea Valdez

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  “A diminished Denver Post is better than no Denver Post; a diminished Miami Herald is better than no Miami Herald.” Yippee.

  

  How far have newspaper revenues fallen? Keep an eye on Gannett’s financial report Wednesday

  poynter.org - Rick Edmonds

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  "How can you give consent about accepting risks if you don’t even know what they are?”

  

  The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

  WIRED - David Dobbs

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market—and the US Has No Plan

  WIRED - Susan Crawford

  China is on track to deploy high-capacity fiber-optic cable across much of Eurasia and lock out American companies. The US sorely needs a way to …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  Is it okay for parents to act as the narrator of their children's lives?

  

  When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online

  The Atlantic - Taylor Lorenz

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Texas Forever

  

  Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide

  texasmonthly.com - Skip Hollandsworth

  It was a Sunday afternoon, August 7, 2016, the temperature a pleasant 78 degrees, as ten-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  Following a Tuna from Fiji to Brooklyn—on the Blockchain

  WIRED - Louise Matsakis

  Startups—and big companies like IBM and Walmart—are betting that blockchain technology will change how goods travel around the world. I had just …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  WIRED’S Predictions for Bots, Blockchains, Crispr, and More

  WIRED - Wired.com Staff

  You're not working in VR or watching robotrucks rumble down the highway yet. But the future is coming, and we should be ready. Sometimes the future …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work

  WIRED - Nitasha Tiku

  Employees at Google are protesting a Pentagon contract. But there are few signs of unrest over defense-related deals at Amazon and Microsoft. For …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  “than one of these dumb things”

  

  I Used a 'Human Uber' Surrogate to Do My Job for Me

  VICE - Brian McManus

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Travel

  

  Ride-Hailing Is Way Bigger Than Uber—And Everyone Wants a Piece

  WIRED - Aarian Marshall

  The ride-hailing game isn't just big, it's important—which is why companies like Sony and Bosch are joining the fray. It’s the question on the lips of …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Laudable Longreads

  

  Worst Roommate Ever

  New York Magazine - William Brennan

  Alex Miller’s spare room had been on Craigslist for two weeks when, last March, she got the call she’d been waiting for. The man at the other end …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Travel

  

  Airlines Know the Fastest Way to Board Planes—But They Can't Dare Try It

  WIRED - Alex Davies

  United's latest experiment with the boarding procedure could make things better—but it's no revolution. Maybe you don’t think you and your favorite …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  Olympic Curling Is Longform Television at Its Finest

  WIRED - Michael Calore

  Within the sports culture of more, bigger, and faster, the epically slow winter sport of curling is an entrancing watch. The first time I watched an …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  'Olympic Destroyer' Malware Hit Pyeongchang Ahead of Opening Ceremony

  WIRED - Andy Greenberg

  Researchers at Cisco Talos detail a new piece of disruptive, highly infectious malware with a clear target: the Pyeongchang Olympics IT …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell

  WIRED - Nicholas Thompson Fred Vogelstein

  How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all. One day in late February …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  What’s the Hardest Move in Ice Dancing? Twizzles

  WIRED - Angela Watercutter

  Olympians make things look easy when they're not. But the hardest parts of their jobs aren't always what you think. Often, for non-athletes, watching …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  Norovirus Is a Terrible Gut Bug. The Olympics Could Make It Worse

  WIRED - Adam Rogers

  South Korean Olympics officials are dealing with an outbreak of norovirus among security personnel. If it spread to athletes, it could be very, very …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  The Security Savants Protecting the Winter Olympics

  WIRED - Eric Adams

  You may not know the Diplomatic Security Service, but you'll be glad its agents started preparing for these Games years ago. When the world’s …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  Inside the Olympics Opening Ceremony World-Record Drone Show

  WIRED - Brian Barrett

  The Pyeongchang opening ceremonies included a performance by 1,218 drones working in concert—a new world record. The opening ceremony of any Olympics …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  Figure Skating's Quintuple Jump: Maybe Impossible, Definitely Bonkers

  WIRED - Robbie Gonzalez

  As recently as a few years ago, a quintuple jump seemed out of the question. Today? Not so much. Here's what it would take. When American figure …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en WIRED Olympics

  

  Esports Zerg-Rush the Olympics—But Can They Ever Become Official Events?

  WIRED - Phuc Pham

  An Olympic-affiliated tournament. Gamers carrying the torch. Are these real progress for esports, or just feints? Two days before the opening ceremony …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Journalism

  

  Newsweek Editors Blast Exec to His Face: ‘What You're Doing Is Bulls**t. You Don't Understand Journalism.’

  The Daily Beast - Maxwell Tani

  During a private meeting with editors this week, a top Newsweek executive blamed his own journalists for the magazine’s recent turmoil and refused to …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  Talk About a Hyperloop: The Rise of the Longform GIF

  WIRED - Nate Goldman

  Size and time limits are a thing of the past—and the creations that have emerged redefine the very way we communicate online. When Jason Walter first …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Journalism

  

  Step Behind the Scenes of the Frantic, Madcap Birth of Wired

  WIRED - Wired

  Imagine a time before smartphones. Before iBooks. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and even the mighty Google. A world without web browsers, when …

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Journalism

  

  From Expensing Yachts to Chasing The Onion: I Watched the Newsweekly Die From the Inside

  POLITICO - By MATTHEW COOPER

  Newsweek is in shambles. Time moved to Des Moines. Is it my fault? Matthew Cooper was a senior writer at Newsweek and is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and Washingtonian. It was 3 a.m.

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos, Says They're Nonconsensual

  VICE - Samantha Cole

  In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm, the deepfakes community briefly turned to Pornhub, a porn site that gets over 75 million

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Journalism

  

  Los Angeles Times owner sells paper to local billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, ending a long-troubled relationship

  The Washington Post - Paul Farhi

  The past few months have been particularly chaotic at the Times, with rapid turnover in the paper’s top ranks and a major clash between management and journalists over a proposal to have more non-staffers

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Journalism

  

  There's a problem with YouTube's new anti-propaganda initiative

  Mashable - Rachel Kraus

  YouTube is attempting to stem the ugly ooze of propaganda and conspiracy theories on its platform with what can be best described as a misleading Band-Aid. On Friday, Google-owned YouTube announced it's

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en The Future Is Now

  

  Exclusive: Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle

  National Geographic - Watch a preview for "Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings."

  A vast, interconnected network of ancient cities was home to millions more people than previously thought. In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya archaeology, researchers have identified

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  Andrea Valdez

  flipeado en Laudable Longreads

  

  Talking Basement-Dwellers With Jordan Peterson, Reddit’s New Favorite Philosopher

  New York Magazine - Max Read

  “Why not sit in your mother’s basement and eat Cheetos and play video games and watch pornography?” Jordan Peterson asks me. For the record, he means …