This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through November 18)

Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Does Backflips Now and It's Full-Tilt Insane Matt Simon Wired "To be clear: Humanoids aren't supposed to be able to do this. It's extremely difficult to make a bipedal robot that can move effectively, much less kick off a tumbling routine." This Is the Tesla Semi Truck Zac Estrada The Verge "What Tesla has done today is shown that it wants to invigorate a segment, rather than just make something to comply with more stringent emissions regulations… And in the process, it's trying to do for heavy-duty commercial vehicles what it did for luxury cars--plough forward in its own lane." Should Facebook Notify Readers When They've Been Fed Disinformation? Austin Carr Fast Company "It would be, Reed suggested, the social network equivalent of a newspaper correction--only one that, with the tech companies' expansive data, could actually reach its intended audience, like, say, the 250,000-plus Facebook users who shared the debunked YourNewsWire.com Brain Implant Boosts Memory for First Time Ever Kristin Houser NBC News "Once implanted in the volunteers, Song's device could collect data on their brain activity during tests designed to stimulate either short-term memory or working memory.