Reads: AI Cold War, The Tonopah Gap & More

By Ravie Lakshmanan 28.10.18

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

Instagram's Fitness Influencers: Your Body Is the Content - Digg
The Boy Who Wasn't My Boyfriend - Longreads
It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then it Turned Deadly - Wired
U.S. vs. China: The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All - Wired
The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire - Bloomberg
Amazon Wants India to Shop Online - Bloomberg
A Brief History of Sci-Fi's Love Affair With the Red Planet - Literary Hub
The One Place in the U.S. Google Earth Stopped Mapping - Motherboard
Tracking User Behaviour for a Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme - Buzzfeed
The Sailors Who Hunt Garbage for Science - Gizmodo
From Public Social Media to Closed or Semi-closed Platforms for News - NiemanLab
Rewriting Life: Want to Know When You're Going to Die? - MIT Technology Review
Designer Babies: Coding Inequality into Genes - MIT Technology Review
WhatsApp's Fake News Problem Can Be Fixed Without Breaking Encryption - CJR
China's Hidden Camps - BBC
How Modern History Was Invented in India and China - Quartz
We Analyzed 8,000 of Picasso's Works - National Geographic

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