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The Verge spoke to Ryan Stoa, law professor at Concordia University, about his book Craft Weed. Stoa believes Big Marijuana is not inevitable, and the future of marijuana agriculture could be small and sustainable.
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https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-11-21/tablet
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Three people with paralysis participating in the BrainGate clinical trial, an effort that includes Brown University researchers, chatted with family and friends, shopped online and used other tablet computer applications, all by just thinking about pointing and clicking a mouse.
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https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q4/major-natural-carbon-sink-may-soon-become-a-carbon-source.html
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Until humans can find a way to geoengineer ourselves out of the climate disaster we’ve created, we must rely on natural carbon sinks, such as oceans and forests, to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. These ecosystems are deteriorating at the hand of climate change, and once destroyed they may not only stop absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, but start emitting it.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/workplace-microchipping-next-gen-id/
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Put down your keycard! More and more people are turning to implanted RFID chips as their choice of workplace identification. Should we be worried about a world in which employees get microchipped? Meet the companies working in this field and the man who predicted it all back in 1998.
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Is much-heralded nuclear fusion finally ready to fulfil its promise of abundant energy for all?
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing
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https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/google-quayside-toronto-smart-city/
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Local organizers in Toronto have united to push Google out of their government.
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https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/14/designer-babies-and-their-babies-where-ai-and-genomics-could-take-us/#sm.001yb29jm13dsfjd103ou324mad3c
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As we unlock the genetics of ourselves, it's not going to be about just healthcare. It's ultimately going to be about who and what we are as humans.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nasa-canada-moon-orbit-1.4905039
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The head of the U.S. space agency said today he wants to see Canadian astronauts walking on the moon before long — part of a first step toward the farther reaches of space.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/kevin-systrom-social-media-needs-to-be-policed.html
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Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom said it's important for the future of the world that social media companies be policed well and take their issues of misinformation and harassment seriously. In particular, Systrom highlighted "deepfakes," which are highly-believable doctored videos that are beginning to make their way onto social services.
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Our hyper-connected world might be protecting us against devastating plagues.
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China is making leaps and bounds in developing its artificial sun, known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by operating nuclear fusion reaction at temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius, according to the Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Monday.
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Scientists are urging the Australian government to protect the diminishing water supply to southern Australia.
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Demilitarization of the Korean border is part of a September agreement to reduce tensions, but critics say the North should do more towards the removal of its nuclear weapons first.
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Prevent critics slam Reading for labelling mainstream academic text as extremist
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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/11/why-millions-of-lasers-on-a-chip-could-be-the-future-of-lidar/
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Lidar startup Ouster gave us an exclusive in-depth look at its technology.
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The Food and Drug Administration plans to pull flavored e-cigarettes from most convenience stores and gas stations and requiring strict age verification controls for online sales, according to senior FDA officials.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/08/health/cigarette-tobacco-use-study/index.html
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Cigarette use among American adults is at the lowest it's been since the CDC started collecting data on the issue in 1965, according to a report released Thursday.