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