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31.		The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017 (googleblog.com)
		164 points by amaks on Jan 11, 2018 \| 6 comments
32.		The Great Garfield Car Window Toy Craze (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
		40 points by curtis on Jan 12, 2018 \| 39 comments
33.		The Death of a Civil Servant (believermag.com)
		55 points by pepys on Jan 12, 2018 \| 2 comments
34.		Neurology in Ancient Faces (2001) [pdf] (nih.gov)
		27 points by benbreen on Jan 10, 2018
35.		Social Media: Making Us Dumber? (nytimes.com)
		236 points by pratap103 on Jan 12, 2018 \| 107 comments
36.		Half of the US government's financial assets are student loans (finimize.com)
		353 points by lxm on Jan 12, 2018 \| 269 comments
37.		New 'emotional' robots aim to read human feelings (techxplore.com)
		33 points by dnetesn on Jan 11, 2018 \| 10 comments
38.		We Used Broadband Data We Shouldn’t Have (fivethirtyeight.com)
		284 points by Amorymeltzer on Jan 9, 2018 \| 94 comments
39.		Real World Crypto 2018 (iacr.org)
		119 points by altro on Jan 12, 2018 \| 27 comments
40.		Intel Security Issue Update: Initial Performance Data Results for Client Systems (intel.com)
		86 points by taspeotis on Jan 12, 2018 \| 40 comments
41.		Mothers who regret having children are speaking out (macleans.ca)
		284 points by gerbilly on Jan 12, 2018 \| 454 comments
42.		How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers (cloverhealth.com)
		150 points by dsil on Jan 12, 2018 \| 127 comments
43.		In the eating disorder unit (lrb.co.uk)
		85 points by fern12 on Jan 11, 2018 \| 37 comments
44.		A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace (nytimes.com)
		67 points by fspeech on Jan 12, 2018 \| 17 comments
45.		Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms (medium.com/oquidave)
		162 points by oquidave on Jan 12, 2018 \| 145 comments
46.		Google Plans to Vet YouTube Premium Video Content (bloomberg.com)
		37 points by tareqak on Jan 11, 2018 \| 22 comments
47.		Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past (theguardian.com)
		71 points by lnguyen on Jan 10, 2018 \| 28 comments
48.		How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland (slate.com)
		197 points by anarbadalov on Jan 12, 2018 \| 115 comments
49.		The Eternal Mainframe (2013) (winestockwebdesign.com)
		55 points by winestock on Jan 12, 2018 \| 12 comments
50.		Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom (newstatesman.com)
		78 points by Petiver on Jan 11, 2018 \| 61 comments
51.		The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict (dmagazine.com)
		59 points by ALee on Jan 12, 2018 \| 34 comments
52.		With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World (quantamagazine.org)
		34 points by sohkamyung on Jan 12, 2018 \| 2 comments
53.		Cierge – passwordless authentication (pwdless.github.io)
		94 points by zeveb on Jan 11, 2018 \| 62 comments
54.		McCarthy Math (habs.sdf.org)
		36 points by geocar on Jan 12, 2018 \| 6 comments
55.		How to botch TLS forward secrecy (2013) (imperialviolet.org)
		35 points by yankcrime on Jan 11, 2018 \| 5 comments
56.		Economics is overdue for a quantum revolution (aeon.co)
		54 points by tg180 on Jan 9, 2018 \| 34 comments
57.		The problem of game developers receiving abusive messages (medium.com/morganjaffit)
		153 points by guildwriter on Jan 11, 2018 \| 166 comments
58.		Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions (gizmodo.com)
		115 points by MBCook on Jan 12, 2018 \| 98 comments
59.		The Marriott Family's Civil War (washingtonian.com)
		48 points by lxm on Jan 10, 2018 \| 47 comments
60.		Community Spotlight — InstaSaber (fritz.ai)
		34 points by hwoolery on Jan 12, 2018 \| 7 comments
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