The family of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich remains in legal limbo as they seek to win the right to homeschool their children in Germany, where homeschooling has been illegal since 1919. (Cockes, Baptist Press)
Read MoreEvery year, thousands of influencers, agents, managers, industry executives, and screaming teenage fans descend on the Anaheim Convention Center in search of the next big internet star. (Lorenz, The Atlantic)
Read MoreAnni and Ashot Manukyan had spent several months unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant through IVF when they received a bewildering message this April. According to a lawsuit filed yesterday, their clinic in L.A., CHA Fertility Center, needed the couple to come in immediately. When they arrived, they found out their son had just been born—to complete strangers, 3,000 miles away in New York City. (Zhang, The Atlantic)
Read MoreIf you haven’t been following the Internet’s latest obsession, the bottle cap challenge, now is definitely the time to tune in, because Mariah Carey has officially won. (Edwards, Yahoo!)
Read More"Intelligent machines are going to become more prevalent in every business. All of our jobs are going to change," said Susan Lund, co-author of the report. Almost 40% of U.S. jobs are in occupations that are likely to shrink — though not necessarily disappear — by 2030, the researchers found. (Selyukh, NPR)
Read MoreGoogle said contractors are listening to customer audio recorded by the company’s virtual assistant, a disclosure prompted by a media report that adds to privacy concerns associated with the technology.(Needleman & Olson, The Wall Street Journal)
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