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  Autoimmune Diseases

  A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

  The Atlantic - Olga Khazan

  Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems. About 65 million years ago, shortly after the time of the dinosaurs, a new critter popped up on the evolutionary scene. This “scampering as

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  Biology

  Your Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think

  The Atlantic - Arthur C. Brooks

  These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured almost inaudibly

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  Google Translate

  Google defeats shareholders on ‘Dragonfly’ censored search in China

  TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker

  A shareholder resolution aimed at halting Google’s efforts to bring a censored version of its search engine to China has failed. Shareholders tabled a resolution to demand Google put the brakes on its

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  Trevor Noah

  From Pain and Tragedy to Global Empire: How Trevor Noah Became the Busiest Man in Comedy

  hollywoodreporter.com

  Replacing Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' seemed like a suicide mission, but nearly four Trump-filled years in, the biracial South African star has …

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  Beto O'Rourke

  These Donors Helped Give Beto O'Rourke A Historic Start. They're Disappointed With What Happened Next.

  buzzfeednews.com - Molly Hensley-Clancy

  Some of the people who helped get Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign off to an electric start are frustrated by what they’ve seen since. And a few …

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  Plastic

  Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America's dirty secret

  Guardian US - Erin McCormick, Bennett Murray , Carmela Fonbuena , Leonie Kijewski, Gökçe Saraçoğlu , Jamie Fullerton, Alastair Gee and Charlotte Simmonds

  What happens to your plastic after you drop it in a recycling bin? According to promotional materials from America’s plastics industry, it is whisked off to a factory where it is seamlessly transformed

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  iMessage

  Google is finally getting an Android version of iMessage. It's called Chat

  CNN - By Shannon Liao, CNN Business

  New York (CNN Business) — Google is bringing its version of iMessage to Android. Starting in the UK and France later this month, people with Android phones will be able to opt into the new texting service,

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  YouTube Kids

  YouTube executives reportedly mulling over removing all children’s content from main site

  The Verge - Julia Alexander

  Google executives are reportedly discussing whether to remove all children’s videos from the site and have them exist solely on the standalone YouTube Kids app, according to a new Wall Street Journal The

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  Watermelon

  Surprise, Watermelon Is So Much Healthier Than You Thought

  Real Simple - Sharon Feiereisen

  Watermelon is not only delicious, it’s also super healthy. Watermelon is sweet, refreshing, and tastes delicious in everything from cocktails to …

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  Long-form Journalism

  The hired guns of Instagram

  Vox - Kaitlyn Tiffany

  When Kimberly Matte captions an Instagram post “suns out, guns out, buns out,” she mostly means it. The sun may be out, but she’s inside. Her buns are definitely out, because she’s wearing a lime-green

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  Facebook Messenger

  Facebook’s Calibra is a secret weapon for monetizing its new cryptocurrency

  The Verge - Nick Statt

  Facebook’s announcement this morning of a new cryptocurrency, Libra, and the nonprofit association that will oversee it raises questions about the future of global banking and Facebook’s role in it. But

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  Lifestyle (UK)

  The 14 things you need to know before you go vegan

  The Guardian - Sirin Kale

  More and more of us are going vegan. The environmental and ethical case for a diet free of all animal products, including meat, fish, dairy and eggs, is compelling. According to research from the University

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  Long-form Journalism

  Bodies in Seats

  The Verge - Casey Newton

  Content warning: This story contains descriptions of violent acts against people and animals, accounts of sexual harassment and post-traumatic stress disorder, and other potentially disturbing content.

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  Facebook

  Facebook Unveils Cryptocurrency Libra in Bid to Reshape Finance

  The Wall Street Journal. - Jeff Horwitz

  Move is the most ambitious effort yet to take blockchain payments mainstream Facebook Inc. FB -1.45% unveiled plans to launch a cryptocurrency in a move that could diversify its business from advertising

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  Technology

  BuzzFeed News Is Part of a Union Wave at Digital Media Outlets

  The New York Times - By MARC TRACY

  Expertise in the language of the internet is part of what has made BuzzFeed a digital giant. Now members of the website’s news staff are using their fluency in digital culture to pressure their employer

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  Taxes

  What To Teach Your Adult Child About Money

  Forbes - Next Avenue

  When my oldest daughter graduated from college, I was amazed to discover that she had never taken an economics or finance class. Her education helped her secure a prestigious job doing medical research,

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  Music Videos

  Andy Grammer - "Don't Give Up On Me" [Official Video from the Five Feet Apart Film]

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  Mezzo-Soprano

  What's My Voice Type? - What Are The Different Singing Voice Types

  choirly.com - +Olga Banis

  If you’re looking for a more detailed voice classification system (lyric, dramatic, coloratura etc.), read about the German Fach system. Every singer …

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  World Economic Forum

  David Attenborough’s worried about this ocean threat - and it’s not plastic

  weforum.org - Emma Charlton

  If the ocean was an economy, it would be the seventh largest in the world. But instead of fostering it as a resource, humans are jeopardising its …

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  Technology

  Meet TezLab, the Fitbit for Tesla vehicles

  TechCrunch - Kirsten Korosec

  Some of the best real-time insights into Tesla and its global fleet of electric vehicles — outside the confines of its Silicon Valley headquarters — might be through the lens of TezLab, a tiny upstart

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  Gear & Gadgets

  Roli’s Lumi is an advanced light-up keyboard that makes learning piano easy

  TNW - Napier Lopez

  Anyone can learn to play the piano, but it takes dedication. People tend to give up not because it’s too difficult, but because they get bored practicing so much they don’t actually get to make any music.

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  iOS

  Guardian Firewall is the first true privacy-protecting firewall for iOS

  Cult of Mac - Charlie Sorrel

  Guardian Firewall claims to be the first proper firewall app for iOS. It works by routing all the network connections from your iPhone or iPad through a VPN, and then filtering out privacy-invading trackers

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  This ingenious new iPhone app is a powerful way to foil data snoops

  Fast Company - By Glenn Fleishman

  The apps on your phone may shuttle data off to third parties–maybe even in violation of Apple policies. Guardian Mobile Firewall is arriving to stop them. Will Strafach is best known for being an early

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  CRISPR

  New, Alternative CRISPR Enzyme Could Make Genetic Edits More Precise

  Popular Science - Alexandra Ossola

  The first alternative of what will likely be many to come The CRISPR genetic editing technique targets a series of repeated DNA sequences found in the genetic code of all sorts of organisms, from bacteria

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  Facebook Messenger

  Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance

  The Guardian - Kari Paul in San Francisco

  Facebook has announced a digital currency called Libra that will allow its billions of users to make financial transactions across the globe, in a move that could potentially shake up the world’s banking

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  Samsung

  Samsung asks QLED TV owners to run a virus scan

  Mashable - PCMag

  If you own a smart TV, chances are you've hooked it up to the internet in order to access popular apps such as Netflix. But by doing so, you're also taking a risk, as your TV might get infected with malware.

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  WarnerMedia

  J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot may sign an exclusive deal with AT&T’s WarnerMedia for $500 million

  The Verge - Julia Alexander

  AT&T’s WarnerMedia is reportedly close to securing J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Pictures in a $500 million exclusivity deal, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Deadline, The Los Angeles

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  Science

  Why Do Dogs Look So Sad?

  The Atlantic - Haley Weiss

  Two specialized muscles give them a range of expression that wolves eyes’ lack. Dogs, more so than almost any other domesticated species, are desperate for human eye contact. When raised around people,

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  Geek

  Enormous Python Eats Entire Crocodile in Terrifying Swamp Photos

  Geek - By Genevieve Scarano

  A kayaker came across a horrifying sight when he spotted a massive python chowing down on an entire crocodile after the reptile squeezed it to death …

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  Pizza

  Domino's will use self-driving vehicles to deliver pizza in Houston

  Engadget - Jon Fingas

  Domino's is determined to make autonomous pizza delivery a practical reality. The chain has unveiled plans to deliver pies to "select" Houston customers later in 2019 using Nuro's self-driving R2 vehicle.