Reads: Google Maps's Moat, Rise of AI & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...
  1. In 2017, Key Facebook Builders Disowned Their Creation - The Verge
  2. How Facebook Rewards Polarizing Political Ads - The Verge
  3. How Genius Annotations Undermined Web Security - The Verge
  4. The invention of AI 'gaydar' could be the start of something much worse - The Verge
  5. The Kindle Changed the Book Business. Can It Change Books? - Wired
  6. The Great Tech Panic: Robots Won't Take All Our Jobs - Wired
  7. The Rise and Fall of Toronto's Classiest Con Man - The Walrus
  8. The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here - Rolling Stone
  9. The Hacker Who Cared Too Much - Rolling Stone
  10. The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI - Bloomberg
  11. The Slutty Resurgence of New York's Underground Gay Sex Parties - Jezebel
  12. Antisocial media? - TechCrunch
  13. The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine - Medium
  14. "OK Facebook"—Why Stop at Assistants? - Ars Technica
  15. How Machine Learning Could Help Change Business - Ars Technica
  16. Here are the Intriguing Toxins That Spice Up Our Favorite Holiday Dishes - Ars Technica
  17. How Mark Zuckerberg could really fix journalism - CJR
  18. You Probably Don't Know All The Ways Facebook Tracks You - Lifehacker
  19. Who Controls Your Facebook Feed - Slate
  20. Grindr and Other Gay Dating Apps Want to Create Connections Beyond the Bedroom - Slate
  21. Airports Can Be Marvels - Slate
  22. Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web - The New York Times
  23. They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals - The New York Times
  24. Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome - The New York Times
  25. Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage? - The New York Times
  26. Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered - Buzzfeed
  27. The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic
  28. What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online? - The Atlantic
  29. What Happened to Myanmar's Human-rights Icon? - The New Yorker
  30. Google Maps's Moat: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? - Justin O'Beirne

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