'Outrageous': expert slams White House for denying school meals' link to learning

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/school-lunch-program-cuts-student-performance-link

Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users' sexual activity

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits

Someday, every device will be spying on us.

DeepMind's new algorithm adds 'memory' to AI

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-atari-learning-sequential-memory-ewc

GiveDirectly's experiment in Kenya

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/universal-income-global-inequality.html?_r=1

Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/wikipedia-bot-editing-war-study?

This Battle Between an Octopus and a Crab Has a Surprising Twist

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/octopus-crab-seal-underwater-battle/

IBM’s Watson proves useful at fighting cancer—except in Texas

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/ibms-watson-proves-useful-at-fighting-cancer-except-in-texas/

Pirate Site With No Traffic Attracts 49m Mainly Bogus DMCA Notices

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/

Time Warner Cable sued by New York on behalf of League of Legends, Netflix customers

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/9/14548880/time-warner-lawsuit-new-york-league-of-legends-netflix

Microsoft’s new AI sucks at coding as much as the typical Stack Overflow user

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/02/23/microsofts-new-ai-sucks-at-coding-as-much-as-the-typical-stack-overflow-user/

USDA removes online database that included animal abuse; activists cry foul

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/us/usda-animal-abuse-database/index.html

Noam Chomsky: American Foreign Policy Has a Long, Ugly History of Election-Rigging

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-american-foreign-policy-has-long-ugly-history-election-rigging

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse

High deportation figures are misleading

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html

Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research

http://blog.dennybritz.com/2017/01/17/engineering-is-the-bottleneck-in-deep-learning-research/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/5mr374/appalled_graphic_designer_shows_girls_life/dc5rzy9/

[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5mqsqe/wp_a_person_invents_a_time_machine_for_the_sole/dc5wp2y/

Amazon Is Already Winning the Next Big Arms Race in Tech

http://time.com/4624067/amazon-echo-alexa-ces-2017/

[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5lo4mc/wp_you_live_in_a_world_where_magic_exists_however/dbx9f2f/

Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161230/p2a/00m/0na/005000c