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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-03-18 08:36 pm

[NEWS] Sox tech links: Venezuela power, Argentina agriculture, AI writing, Google, Buttegieg, HIV


  • Wired reports on the daunting scale of the Venezuela power failure, and the sheer difficulty of restoring the network.

  • The Inter Press Service looks at the possibility for Argentina to enjoy improved agricultural circumstances come climate change.

  • CBC reports on how artificial intelligences can be used to create frightfully plausible fake news.

  • Axios notes the sheer density of information that Google has on its users.

  • CityLab reports on the policies hopeful presidential candidate Pete Buttegieg would bring in relating to the automation of work.

  • Wired takes a look at the second reported HIV cure and what it means.