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Regarding Apple's new services offerings: the old Apple promise was that you don't have to worry if the tech works. The new promise is you don't have to worry if the tech is scamming you. — ben-evans.com

An interesting essay on autonomy and what it can mean to truly be free — aeon.co

LeBron James created a school in Akron, Ohio. It's now showing very encouraging results. Turns out, when you give anybody a fair chance, it can work out. — nytimes.com

If you put 10k humans on Earth during the time of the dinosaurs, do you think we would go extinct because we’ll probably all get eaten before we could become civilized? Spoiler: nope. — quora.com

Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa. How long until the same is revealed (and ignored) about Google, Apple, etc... — bloomberg.com

The Ancient Egg Oven or how Egyptians scaled up chicken and egg production, back in the day — atlasobscura.com

Companies use trust scores to determine whether we're risky humans, from buying coffee on the Starbucks app to booking a room on Airbnb. To all Westerners feeling good about China's foray into political facial-recognition, this is how it begins here. — wsj.com 

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