Your Fitness Wearable Can’t Help You Lose Weight

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1. Losing weight is one thing your fitness wearable can’t help you do.

By Nsikan Akpan at PBS Newshour

2. To help children with communications disorders, use computers to diagnose them sooner.

By Larry Hardesty at MIT News

3. The next great intellectual revolution is coming — and it will demand fairer global economics.

By Robert J. Shiller in Project Syndicate

4. Microsoft wants to tackle cancer like it was a software bug.

By Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph

5. If every email cost a penny, would spam go away?

By Libby Coleman in Ozy

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