Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays

Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years http://www.righto.com/2019/08/reliable-after-50-years-apollo-guidance.html

Sci-fi just might be the genre to help us understand the wacky French underground music of the 1970s, or “French Krautrock.” https://thequietus.com/articles/26936-french-underground-music-1970s

Finding Old Instruction Manuals for Free Online
Just because you've got a device without a manual doesn't mean you need to throw it away. There are plenty of places on the Internet that can help you find its instructions.
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/08/no-sweat-tech-finding-old-instruction-manuals-for-free-online/

What's something you can teach us in 5 minutes?

Ranking Frozen Dinners by How (Un)Healthy They Are https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/ranking-frozen-dinners-by-how-unhealthy-they-are

>> I was standing in the doorway, staring at the ceiling from which a white bed and cabinets were suspended on cables. “I was already a minimalist,” said Sebastien Dabdoub, the 29-year-old software engineer at Google who lives in this apartment in San Francisco, “but this is definitely an extreme.”
https://www.1843magazine.com/upfront/postcard-from-silicon-valley/how-robotic-furniture-will-improve-our-lives

How Guillotine Haircuts became all the Rage in France https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/08/20/how-guillotine-haircuts-became-all-the-rage-in-france/

A Supermajority/PerryUndem survey released this week divides respondents by their position on abortion, and then tracks their answers to 10 questions on gender equality more generally. On every question, anti-abortion voters were significantly more hostile to gender equity than pro-choice voters. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/22/a-new-poll-shows-what-really-interests-pro-lifers-controlling-women

The U.S. Bought 3 Virgin Islands from Denmark. The Deal Took 50 Years https://www.history.com/news/us-virgin-islands-denmark-purchase

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”― Mark Twain

After nearly dying while filming "The Wizard of Oz," Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying to escape her evil character's long shadow. https://narratively.com/the-curse-of-playing-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west/

Archaeologists help modern descendants of Chinese railroad laborers commemorate their ancestors. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/chinese-railroad-workers-utah/

A short Awww to start the day https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/08/21/Service-dogs-attend-live-musical-as-part-of-training/5371566417249/

Scientists have managed to grow coral in a lab, which hadn’t been done before. The idea is that if they can grow it in a lab, they can replace it in the wild. http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2019/08/21/scientists-coax-imperiled-florida-coral-to-spawn-in-a-lab-for-the-first-time/

Two conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.

You can't tell me that was just a coincidence, man.

The Folger's collection of Miniature Books Pertaining to Shakespeare includes a "miniature set of Shakespeare's plays that belonged to country singer Johnny Cash." https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2019/08/02/miniature-books-johnny-cash/

Multiple HTTP/2 DoS flaws found by Netflix #cososec https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/19/netflix-finds-multiple-http2-dos-flaws/

The age of huge, ocean-crossing zeppelins came to an end in 1937, when the Hindenburg — the largest craft of its type ever built — erupted in flames while landing in New Jersey. Dozens died. Now, more than 80 years later, the giant airships may be poised for a comeback." Scientists want to bring Zeppelins back. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/zeppelins-stopped-flying-after-hindenburg-disaster-now-scientists-want-bring-ncna1043911

For continuously gathering information on ocean conditions, one thing that's been proposed is a network of sensors that would transmit data from the sea floor. Changing their batteries, however, could be quite challenging. That's where a new MIT system is designed to come in. https://newatlas.com/battery-free-ocean-floor-sensor/61149/