[NEWS] Four science and technology links: Internet, Neanderthals, dinosaurs, global warming

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• André Staltz argues the triumvirate of Google, Facebook, and Amazon is ending the free Internet.


• Sarah Kaplan notes research suggesting Neanderthals were outmatched not by human capabilities so much as by numbers.


• VICE notes a study looking at exactly how, 65 million years ago, triggered a mass extinction ending the dinosaurs.


• Heat records for summers around the world are set to be shattered, thanks to global warming.