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  1. The car shouldn't need lights to see on Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    While humans need light, should the car be seeing with something better... like radar?

  2. Binging sounds cooler than Googling on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As a verb, Bing better.

  3. Menopause is rare it's absence is common on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Only three known species go through menopause: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, and humans; that female naked mole-rats are fertile into their later years is not uncommon or that remarkable.

  4. Control Group and Technologies Controlled For on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While it is not necessary to have a control group, I was wondering if the findings could be replicated in other countries where smartphone adoption occured earlier than it did in the U.S.. Particularly in Finland.

    It might not be the devices so much as it could be the content accessed on the devices. In particular the rise of gamification of social networks which was resulting in a large number of articles being published about this in 2011 & 2012. The link below provides a compilation of many of these studies published about the time of the identified 2012 threshold.

    https://cyberpsychology.eu/art...