9 great reads from CNET this week
From curbing nuclear proliferation to battling bedbug infestations, we bring you our biggest and best stories.
It's summertime in Silicon Valley (ah, the sweet image of poolside geeks, roasting in oil while wearing Snapchat specs and Star Wars arm floaties). Still, the tech news keeps right on coming. Russia stayed in the headlines, as the US set up a new task force to fight Russian election interference and Putin & Co. threatened Google for promoting "illegal mass events" on YouTube. Then there was Amazon. Apparently its facial recognition software can now spot fear (though it still seems to have trouble telling criminals apart from politicians -- insert joke about government ethics here). And that wasn't all...
Here are nine fine stories to get you up to speed on some of the tech world's more interesting, explosive and creepy-crawly happenings this week.
Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches… and itchy bites
Alexa, time for class: How one university put an Echo Dot in every dorm room
Nuclear weapons are spreading. This plutonium scientist is trying to stop that
Sterling K. Brown isn't done playing around
5G hype won't close the digital divide
The Dungeons & Dragons game rescuing kids from their social anxieties
There are 9 Galaxy phones you can buy now. Here's how to tell them apart
Instagram is hiding likes. You may be happier in the end
VR lets you fire a virtual employee to practice doing it for real
