Enquêter sur l’environnement est particulièrement dangereux dans les pays du Sud. Cibles privilégiées de puissants intérêts économiques et politiques, les journalistes vivant dans des pays en développement sont en climat hostile et meurent souvent en silence, loin des phares médiatiques occidentaux. https://gijn.org/2021/09/15/francais-enquete-environnement-risques/
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Liberdade e pluralismo dos meios de comunicação social: lançamento do projeto de monitorização da propriedade dos meios de comunicação social A Comissão deu hoje início ao programa Euromedia Ownership Monitor (Monitor da propriedade dos meios de comunicação social), financiado pela UE. O monitor, coordenado pela Universidade Paris-Lodron de Salzburgo, proporcionará uma base de dados por país com informações sobre a propriedade dos meios de comunicação social, e avaliará sistematicamente os quadros jurídicos pertinentes e identificará possíveis riscos para a transparência da propriedade dos meios de comunicação social. Este novo instrumento irá contribuir para as avaliações políticas e regulamentares e iniciativas destinadas a apoiar a liberdade e o pluralismo dos meios de comunicação social. O instrumento vai identificar quem detém a propriedade dos meios de comunicação social, tornando mais visíveis os potenciais problemas de concentração destas empresas e aumentando, assim, a compreensão do mercado dos meios de comunicação social. O montante do apoio da UE ao projeto é de um milhão de euros, com uma duração até setembro de 2022. Além disso, será publicado um segundo convite à apresentação de propostas nas próximas semanas. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/call-proposals-media-ownership-monitor “EurOMo – Euromedia Ownership Monitor” é o nome do novo projeto do CECS que procura monitorizar a propriedade dos média a nível europeu. http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/entrevista-novo-projeto-do-cecs-coordenado-por-elsa-costa-e-silva/
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As apps mais usadas

Fonte: The World’s Most Used Apps, by Downstream Traffic
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The startup music platform AiMi is using AI to help human DJs generate an endless stream of unique electronic music. https://www.axios.com/aimi-artificial-intelligence-music-playlists-57891c7e-8636-4a11-9725-02c8eb4187cc.html
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Highlights • A comprehensive granular account of the rate of technological change. • Predicted improvement rates for 1757 domains containing 97.2% of US patent system. • Improvement rates are not uniformly distributed across and within categories. • Fastest improving domains are predominantly software-related. • Online system for searching domains and improvement rates based on keywords. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733321000950
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Starting in 2030, California will require all light-duty autonomous vehicles that operate in the state to emit zero emissions. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, SB 500 represents the latest effort by the state to limit the sale of new internal combustion vehicles with an eye towards reducing greenhouse emissions. https://www.engadget.com/california-zero-emissions-autonomous-vehicles-2030-162009922.html
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Olhar para um futuro tecnológico

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what if we could express a photographic vision in an algorithm we could use when capturing images? https://www.peterkrantz.com/2021/algorithmic-photography/
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it’s impossible to represent a round object on a flat surface without imposing some major distortions. But the concept has perhaps never been as clearly or amusingly demonstrated as in this stop-motion animation from 1947. https://aeon.co/videos/there-are-many-ways-to-make-a-flat-map-of-the-world-each-of-them-a-unique-distortion
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These excerpts reflect mounting caseloads and vaccination progress. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/the-covid-19-pandemic-in-visuals/
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will bar "mega-retailers" like Amazon, from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas https://interestingengineering.com/amazon-has-to-disclose-how-its-algorithms-judge-workers-per-a-new-california-law
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The monastery seemed to back the two monks’ assessment, if not their acts of zealotry. “The waves are very harmful for health, and they wanted to act for the well-being of humanity,” a spokeswoman for the monks told regional newspaper Le Progres. But she said the arson was “an isolated act and an error of youth”. The pair are 39 and 40 years old. https://www.thelocal.com/20210922/two-french-monks-charged-with-torching-5g-mobile-network-masts/
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Big Data – the availability of diverse amounts of information from internal and external processes – is set to drive innovation and profits within the manufacturing sector. But are all factories set up to gain from it? https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/who-is-most-likely-to-prosper-from-big-data/
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Technology, telecoms and social media companies should take more responsibility for stopping scams as the problem reaches “epidemic proportions”, the UK’s biggest building society has warned. Cases of authorised push-payment fraud, where victims are persuaded to pay money into a criminal’s account, have risen sharply since the Covid pandemic began, with banks last week revealing that losses from such scams were up by 71% in the first half of the year. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/sep/27/scam-epidemic-big-tech-firms-must-join-fight-says-nationwide-chief
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Google's 23rd Birthday https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-23rd-birthday Google Turns 23: Here Are 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Internet Giant https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/google-turns-23-here-are-10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-google-2555079 Today's Google Doodle Celebrates 23 Years of the Search Engine https://www.newsweek.com/september-27-2021-doodle-23-years-google-anniversary-celebrate-search-engine-internet-1632862
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Potenciais sucessos e fraquezas da inteligência artificial

O campo da inteligência artificial (IA) teve um progresso notável nos últimos cinco anos e está a causar um impacto real no mundo das pessoas, instituições e cultura. A capacidade dos programas de computador de executarem tarefas sofisticadas de processamento de imagem e de linguagem, problemas centrais que impulsionaram esta disciplina desde o seu nascimento […]
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News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021 https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/09/20/news-consumption-across-social-media-in-2021/
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Da visão de um mundo com AI aos robôs que não podem ser "falsificados", no
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A Farfetch e o Castro Groupo realizam hoje a cerimónia de apresentação pública do Fuse Valley. O projeto consiste num vale tecnológico assinado pelo gabinete do arquiteto dinamarquês Bjarke Ingels e tem conclusão prevista para 2025. https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/fuse-valley-vale-tecnologico-de-escritorios-inovadores-e-apresentado-hoje/ https://castro-group.pt/projects/fuse-valley/
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“They use a computer one way, and we use a computer another way. That’s where the problem is starting.” https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
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A Proposal to leverage Article 17 to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2021/09/23/a-proposal-to-leverage-article-17-to-build-a-public-repository-of-public-domain-and-openly-licensed-works/
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O problema do lixo electrónico com as Bitcoin

Investigadores na revista Resources, Conservation and Recycling chamam-lhe “Bitcoin’s growing e-waste problem“. A abordagem não é sobre quanta energia é usada pelas criptomoedas ou se consome mesmo muita energia – o consumo já é maior este ano do que no total de 2020 e são gastos actualmente 110 Terawatts/hora por ano ou 0,55% da produção […]
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O Tribunal Geral nega provimento ao recurso da Altice Europe contra a decisão da Comissão que lhe aplicou duas coimas no montante total de 124,5 milhões de euros no âmbito da aquisição da PT Portugal No entanto, decreta a redução de 6,22 milhões de euros do montante da coima relativa ao incumprimento da obrigação de notificar a concentração à Comissão https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-09/cp210160pt.pdf
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Comunicado do Conselho de Ministros de 23 de setembro de 2021 5. Foi aprovada uma proposta de lei de autorização legislativa, a submeter à Assembleia da República, que autoriza o Governo, a legislar designadamente em matéria de direitos de autor e direitos conexos, com o intuito de transpor, para a ordem jurídica interna, a da Diretiva 2019/790 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, relativa aos direitos de autor de direitos conexos no mercado único digital. 6. Foi aprovada uma proposta de lei de autorização legislativa, a submeter à Assembleia da República, que autoriza o Governo a legislar em matéria de direitos de autor e direitos conexos, com o intuito de transpor a Diretiva (UE) 2019/789 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, que estabelece normas sobre o exercício dos direitos de autor e direitos conexos aplicáveis a determinadas transmissões em linha dos organismos de radiodifusão e à retransmissão de programas de televisão e de rádio. https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc22/governo/comunicado-de-conselho-de-ministros?i=445
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"85% dos utilizadores inquiridos em Portugal utilizam estas ferramentas diariamente para pesquisar informação: 43% numa frequência de 1 a 5 vezes por dia e 28% mais de 10 vezes por dia. [H]á gerações que estão mais à vontade com a pesquisa online do que outras. Os Baby Boomers são a geração que mais desconhece estas dicas de otimização (72%), seguindo-se a Geração X (61%), enquanto a Geração Z e os Millenials são as únicas faixas etárias a manifestarem mais conhecimento do que desconhecimento destes truques: 58% e 57% revelam que sabem como otimizar a sua pesquisa, respetivamente". https://portugal.googleblog.com/2021/09/como-pesquisam-os-portugueses.html Estudo contou com 607 inquiridos (54% do sexo feminino), sem data do inquérito.
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If AI is the problem, is debiasing the solution? https://edri.org/our-work/if-ai-is-the-problem-is-debiasing-the-solution/ The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in all areas of public life have raised many concerns about the harmful consequences on society, in particular the impact on marginalised communities. EDRi's latest report "Beyond Debiasing: Regulating AI and its Inequalities", authored by Agathe Balayn and Dr. Seda Gürses, argues that policymakers must tackle the root causes of the power imbalances caused by the pervasive use of AI systems. In promoting technical ‘debiasing’ as the main solution to AI driven structural inequality, we risk vastly underestimating the scale of the social, economic and political problems AI systems can inflict.
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Company behind website says it takes the issue seriously, but moderators say problems persist https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/misinformation-alberta-reddit-unmanageable-moderators-1.6179120
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The NHS AI Lab Skunkworks team runs short-term projects to investigate the use of AI for improving efficiency and accuracy in health and care. https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/ai-lab/ai-lab-programmes/skunkworks/ai-skunkworks-projects/
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Num cenário global de perda há 11 anos consecutivos, Portugal continua estável nas liberdades

Portugal consegue 96 em 100 pontos no índice da Freedom House relativo à “Freedom on the Net 2021“, a mesma classificação obtida no ano passado. Finlândia, Noruega e Suécia lideram com 100 pontos. O relatório considera que as liberdade civis estão em geral protegidas em Portugal e as preocupações focam-se na corrupção, alguns constrangimentos legais […]
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No próximo dia 28 de setembro assinala-se o World News Day . Mais de 300 redações por todo o mundo estarão unidas para salientar o papel vital do jornalismo na credibilidade e notícias baseadas em factos sobre a emergência climática global. https://apimprensa.pt/2021/09/world-news-day-em-portugal/#dearflip-df_14229/3/
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The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal investigation https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039 What the Wall Street Journal Got Wrong By Nick Clegg, Vice President of Global Affairs, Facebook https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/what-the-wall-street-journal-got-wrong/
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Fear of cannibalization delayed the digital transformation of many media, who failed to grasp the benefits of the internet https://thefix.media/2021/09/13/the-myth-of-cannibalization-in-the-media-still-persists-text-video-and-audio-can-all-work/
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A Norwegian company has come up with a radically different design for offshore wind turbines that could help the world achieve its renewable energy goals. https://www.axios.com/new-design-for-offshore-wind-farm-has-lots-of-fans-a935cdbe-321e-4e1b-a578-e5c821f3ceb2.html
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Publicado o Relatório de Avaliação da Estratégia TIC 2020 https://tic.gov.pt/pt/web/tic/-/publicado-o-relatorio-de-avaliacao-da-estrategia-tic-2020 Aprovada a Estratégia para a Transformação Digital da Administração Pública 2021-2026 e o respetivo Plano de Ação Transversal para a Transformação Digital 2021-2023 https://tic.gov.pt/pt/web/tic/-/aprovada-a-estrategia-para-a-transformacao-digital-da-ap-21--3
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I Must Not Tell Lies: desinformação e teorias da conspiração

Patrocínio:
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‘Point of Preview' com Fernando Alfaiate, Líder da Estrutura Missão Recuperar Portugal, responsável pela gestão do PRR https://www.apdc.pt/iniciativas/agenda-apdc/point-of-preview-com-fernando-alfaiate
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Da IA ao "estranho mundo" dos simuladores
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the partnership will involve closer alignment of regional policies and actions, and greater integration of the militaries and the defence industries of the three allies. The three also intend to work together on cyberwarfare and on artificial intelligence capabilities. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/15/australia-nuclear-powered-submarines-us-uk-security-partnership-aukus
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As startups com maior potencial em Portugal e outras coisas que já podia ter lido hoje

“Europe’s 100 hottest young scaleups of 2021“: Portugal Apesar da “polémica” sobre a inovação, quanto investiu o Estado em I&D em 2020? Afinal, o que disse a presidente da Comissão Europeia no discurso sobre o estado da União já tinha sido antecipado Como é que os decisores políticos asseguram ter conhecimento quando dele necessitam? Não, […]
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Foi aprovado o decreto-lei que desenvolve o sistema alternativo e voluntário de autenticação eletrónica dos cidadãos, denominado Chave Móvel Digital (CMD). De forma a simplificar o processo de adesão, autenticação e assinatura com CMD, são disponibilizadas novas formas de adesão à distância, através de dispositivo móvel, mediante aplicação com recurso a biometria, e de videoconferência, mediante prévia confirmação de identidade. https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc22/governo/comunicado-de-conselho-de-ministros?i=444
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Percurso digital nacional único monitorizado por Bruxelas

A Comissão Europeia pretende definir um caminho único para os países europeus, monitorizar a sua transição digital e estabelecer em cada país um European Digital Infrastructure Consortium. O quadro de referência (“framework”) para a governança digital deve ser formalmente apresentado esta quarta-feira, 15 de Setembro, após o discurso sobre o Estado da União pela presidente […]
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Facebook has repeatedly found that its photo-sharing app is harmful to a significant percentage of teenagers, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday. The Journal cited internal Facebook studies over the past three years that examined how Instagram affects its young user base, with teenage girls being most notably harmed. The company is in the process of making a version of Instagram for kids. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/facebook-documents-show-how-toxic-instagram-is-for-teens-wsj.html
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In August, 32 faculty and 117 research scientists, postdocs, and students at Stanford University, long one of the biggest players in AI, declared that there has been a “sweeping paradigm shift in AI”. They coined a new term, “Foundation Models” to characterize the new paradigm, joined forces in a “Center for Research on Foundation Models”, and published the massive 212-page report “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models.” Although the term is new, the general approach is not. https://thegradient.pub/has-ai-found-a-new-foundation/
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This Compendium of International Organisation’s Practices gathers the experiences of some 50 IOs with different mandates, members and institutional frameworks to draw lessons for international rulemaking. It examines the diversity of instruments in the international rulemaking ecosystem; describes trends and challenges; and discusses how to strengthen the implementation and evaluation of international instruments, ensure efficient stakeholder engagement, and maximise opportunities for co-ordination across IOs. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/compendium-of-international-organisations-practices_846a5fa0-en
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Kennedy, Scooby-Doo e outras coisas que já podia ter lido hoje

Qual é a “estranha relação” entre a morte de Robert F. Kennedy a 5 de Junho de 1968 e a estreia de “Scooby-Doo, Where are You!” a 13 de Setembro de 1969? PRIVACIDADES The True Costs of ‘National Security’: Twenty years after 9/11, it’s time to set America’s priorities and spending based on reason instead […]
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Custos e lucros de uma empresa nos EUA

Fonte: What Does it Cost to Run Big Business?
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To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers: “In many cases, more research is not always the answer. The real gap may in fact be in testing, transferring, implementing or communicating existing research,” said Ingrid Petersson, director general of FORMAS, the Swedish research council for sustainable development. “We can’t afford to have a fund and forget system, where funders of research leave the scene when the grants are approved.” https://sciencebusiness.net/climate-news/news/better-science-communication-needed-deliver-green-transition
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No seguimento da criação da Tarifa Social de Internet, que visa permitir às camadas mais desfavorecidas da população uma conectividade mais acessível à Internet, a ANACOM veio propor uma conectividade mínima de 10Mbps de download e 1 Mbps de upload, com volume de dados mensal de 12 GB. Estas características de conectividade, que se aplicam também a ligações de Internet fixa (de casa), fazem da Tarifa Social de Internet uma conectividade de segunda categoria e falham no cumprimento dos objectivos da medida. https://www.direitosdigitais.pt/comunicacao/noticias/133-tarifa-social-de-internet-deve-ser-uma-ligacao-digna-nao-uma-internet-dos-pobrezinhos
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Estonian Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Andres Sutt proposed the introduction of NATO-like expenditure rules for cybersecurity spending of the private and public sector to close the investment gap and tackle cyber threats. https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/estonia-proposes-nato-like-expenditure-rule-for-cybersecurity/
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Artist and Computer

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A progressive report on the Digital Services Act (DSA) adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament in July is the first major improvement of the draft law presented by the European Commission in December. MEPs expressed support for default protections from tracking and profiling for the purposes of advertising and recommending or ranking content. Now the ball is in the court of the leading committee on internal market and consumer protection (IMCO), which received 1313 pages of amendments to be voted in November. EDRi's member Panoptykon Foundation explores if the Parliament would succeed in adopting a position that will contest the power of dominant online platforms which shape the digital public sphere in line with their commercial interests, at the expense of individuals and societies. https://edri.org/our-work/can-the-eu-digital-services-act-contest-the-power-of-big-techs-algorithms/
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Facebook VP of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, teased a reveal of the glasses by showing off what looks like a point-of-view recording feature while on vacation with Zuckerberg. You don’t actually see the glasses themselves in the video, though. https://uploadvr.com/facebook-ray-ban-smartglasses-details-soon/
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Apple is gearing up to roll out iOS 15 later this year. The company plans to roll it out to several of its devices, going all the way back to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. This will make Apple the only smartphone OEM to offer seven years of software updates to its devices. That’s a remarkable feat, considering that only a couple of OEMs on the Android side promise three years of OS upgrades and four years of security updates. To bridge this gap, the EU proposed a new law earlier this year that would force all smartphone OEMs to offer up to five years of security updates for their devices and deliver reasonably priced spare parts for the same duration. https://www.xda-developers.com/germany-smartphone-makers-7-years-software-updates/
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sítio na internet que agrega, organiza e referencia recursos de apoio à educação para os media https://blogue.rbe.mec.pt/apresentacao-e-abertura-ao-publico-do-2498738
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With a rapidly growing customer roster, Overjet expects the new funding to only accelerate market adoption, new product launches, and impact on dentistry. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overjet-raises-27-million-in-series-a-financing-to-accelerate-adoption-of-ai-driven-dentistry-301363607.html
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Ads placed in news media consistently outperform ads on Facebook and YouTube, according to a study conducted by Australia’s ThinkNewsBrands. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/366134/study-indicates-ads-placed-in-news-media-especi.html
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Robôs humanóides voadores?

Um conceito demonstrado neste “Design of a Flying Humanoid Robot Based on Thrust Vector Control“, e já antes analisado em “Humanoid Robot’s Jumping Capability: a Review“. https://spectrum.ieee.org/flying-robot
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Livros mais traduzidos e línguas mais apetecíveis

Fonte: Most translated books by country Fonte: This is the Language Each Country Wants to Learn the Most (com a curiosidade da Suécia)
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The United States is in the midst of a severe housing crisis. Growing populations, increasing incomes, and greater benefits to living in cities are all driving up demand for housing. Simultaneously, the monotonic growth of the zoning code and the ratcheting incentive structure of permitting restrictions are pushing down housing supply. This puts us in a supply-demand double bind where the only thing that is certain is that housing prices will rise, and rise they have. The only way out of this cycle is to start a new one. https://profectusmag.com/startup-cities/
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“a hostilidade política online reflecte as intenções deliberadas de indivíduos movidos pelo status de participar em discussões políticas e ofender outros em contextos online ou offline”
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Das relações (pouco…) sociais a proteger Veneza @ TICtank #66
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Hundreds of young people are displaying strikingly similar tic-like behaviours. But is it Tourette’s, or something more mysterious? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann
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