I Tried Emailing Like a CEO and Quite Frankly, It Made My Life Better https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-tried-emailing-like-your-boss

The beautiful ancient house discovered in the ashes http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190705-the-beautiful-ancient-house-discovered-in-the-ashes

US Coast Guard issues cybersecurity alert #cososec https://www.marinelog.com/news/uscg-issues-cybersecurity-alert

Wow, there's a lot of scientific exploration underway to look for life beyond Earth. Here's a summary of the research underway and planned. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/is-there-life-in-space-1907.html

Legal marijuana looks to be boosting snack sales. #NoShitSherlock https://www.axios.com/legalized-marijuana-snack-sales-8653236e-9db8-41d3-8716-3cf97844d508.html

Scientists are tracking moons on the run. Nicknamed “ploonets,” they’re exomoons that have escaped their planets to orbit their stars instead. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moons-escape-their-planets-could-become-ploonets?tgt=nr

The best way to learn about a new place is through a grocery store.
This absolutely is true for me!
https://nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-best-tourist-secret-attraction-is-the-grocery-store.html

A computer officially called balls and strikes for the first time in the game’s history in the United States at a minor league all-star game. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/10/baseballs-robot-umpires-are-here-you-might-not-even-notice-difference

The Recurse Center is accepting applications for Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary programmers who want to pursue ambitious projects this fall. The only requirement is that it must involve code, and the code must be open source. https://www.recurse.com/blog/149-10000-fellowships-for-women-trans-non-binary-programmers

Trump is hosting far-right internet personalities at the White House today

The way to know that this is not a "social media summit" is that there's nobody attending who actually could fix a (perceived) problem.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/trump-social-media-summit-facebook-twitter.html

Apple patents a curved screen phone https://www.patentsandtech.com/apple-patents-a-curved-screen-phone/

Metallica is for kids. The heavy metal band’s illustrated children’s book, called The ABCs of Metallica, will be published in November.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metallica-illustrated-childrens-book-857745/

I'm all in favor of "repelling teens" but I don't think this is the way to accomplish it. https://www.npr.org/2019/07/10/739908153/can-you-hear-it-sonic-devices-play-high-pitched-noises-to-repel-teens

Could you pass a citizenship test?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/03/us/us-citizenship-test-quiz.html

Add to your summer vacation itinerary: interact with a robot
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/headed-on-vacation-youre-apt-to-encounter-a-robot-1907.html

Music could send WiFi passwords to your phone https://www.futurity.org/data-storage-music-2100762

The CIA classified a MAD Magazine gag for 30 years https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/jul/09/cia-mad-magazine/