Athletic Spies; Robot Reporter; Greased Turkey; The Chinese Quad; Cool Clothes; and Bible Drone

Olympics

More Than 1,000 U.S. Spies in Brazil Protecting Rio Olympics nbcnews

In addition, more than a dozen highly trained Navy and Marine Corps commandos from the U.S. Special Operations Command are in Brazil, working with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy, according to senior military officials.

The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics recode.net

The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly create simple but useful reports on scores, medal counts and other data-centric news bits — so that the Post’s human journalists can work on more interesting and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up new digital projects for the paper.

Turkey

Greece says EU-Turkey deal to stem migrant flow largely holding in.reuters

A deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem a flow of migrants has largely held, though Athens is watching with concern events unfolding in Turkey, where an attempted coup was put down last month, Greece's migration minister told the German newspaper Bild.

Also see Greek minister: EU unprepared if migration deal collapses sfgate

China

China launches regional alliance to combat Islamist militancy dw

Military leaders from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan met with their Chinese counterparts in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region Wednesday to announce the formation of the Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism alliance.

Tech

Climate control for your clothing crunchwear

[Wendu's] latest launch is a washable t-shirt which maintains steady temperatures through hot and cold focal points and is claimed to be capable of reaching a 36ºF/20ºC range in under 2 minutes. The makers also say that the battery that can last up to 5 days on a single charge. The settings are controlled through an app on your smartphone.

A little nutty, and the video doesn't show much about how it works (but bet you never saw an oscillator hooked up to a shirt, before). Here's their website: Wendu feelwendu

Evangelism

Swedish free church plans to 'bomb' Isis areas with bibles thelocal.se

At a meeting in Uppsala, the Livets Ord (Word of Life) organization presented how drones flying at a high altitude would release thousands of small, electronic bibles into Iraq.

Others...

Church won't lie about why it won't change its sign mashable

Contractors: Luxurious new San Francisco high-rise is sinking, tilting usatoday