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This Week’s Cartoons: October 14-18, 2019

Just hear the lab rat out.

Friday, October 18, 2019. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. It’s not all ears—bioengineers are closer than ever to lab-grown lungs.

Thursday, October 17, 2019. By Drew Dernavich, with cartooncollections.com. Welcome to the age of “Airbnb for everything.”

Wednesday, October 16, 2019. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. After Google showed off an algorithm capable of removing watermarks from photos a few years ago, stock photo companies randomized their marks to foil it.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019. By J. C. Duffy, with cartooncollections.com. An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

Monday, October 14, 2019. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy. WIRED’s Guide to personal data collection explains it all.

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