It’s Now Possible to Hack Someone’s Muscles

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1. It’s now possible to hack someone’s muscles.

By Mark Wilson in Fast Co.Design

2. Newsrooms are missing a valuable opportunity to connect with new readers: America’s immigrants.

By Madeleine Bair in Medium

3. Will social media, by revealing everything, snuff out the need for novels?

By Andrew O’Hagan in the Guardian

4. Tech startups were supposed to save cities from urban decline. Now they’re tearing those cities apart.

By JRichard Florida in MIT Technology Review

5. What if hydrogen — a powerful alternative fuel — could be easily pulled from the air?

By David Glanz at RMIT University

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