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• One Third of Known Planets May Be Enormous Ocean Worlds

  18-08-2018 00:45 via Top Stories
  Water is a key ingredient for life — and new research suggests we might find it all over the galaxy.
  Scientists looked at the mass of Super-Earths, a kind of planet common across the cosmos but not present in our own solar system. These rocky worlds are several times larger than Earth, but the team's analysis of known Super-Earths reveals something astounding: Many of them may be literal water worlds.
  According to the research, many of these planets may be half water. By comparison,
  
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• A massive, murky void in space has surprisingly few galaxies

  18-08-2018 00:00
  
  SpaceIt's a dark period in the Universe's early days.
  “In a sense, this is the most unusual place in the universe that we’ve ever seen” says an astronomer at UC Riverside that found that a murky void in space 500 million…
  
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• Let this AI bot turn your words into vaguely-recognizable pictures

  17-08-2018 23:15
  
  TechnologyIt gets weird.
  AI draws crazy art when asked to interpret words and phrases.
  
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• This NASA animation shows something one could mistake for blue blood pumping in an alien venous system

  17-08-2018 22:36 via Top Stories
  Alien it most certainly is not. But the word 'venous' is not far from the mark. So just what is this thing anyway?
  When I first spotted this mesmerizing animation on Twitter, my mind really did wander to the metaphorical idea of blood flowing through some sort of alien venous system.And actually, to the extent that a river can be the lifeblood of a region, you are looking at something akin to a venous system.The time-lapse animation consists of 14 false-color satellite images of the
  
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• Why Did NASA's Pioneer Spacecraft Mysteriously Slow Down?

  17-08-2018 22:24 via Top Stories
  Before Voyager 1 and 2 explored the outer solar system, Pioneer 10 and 11 paved the way. Launched in 1972 and 1973, respectively, these spacecraft were the first to transit the asteroid belt and the first to make close observations of Jupiter (both Pioneer 10 and 11) and Saturn (Pioneer 11). Like their successors, the Voyagers and New Horizons, both Pioneers are past the orbit of Pluto and will continue speeding outward from the center of the solar system.Powered by four plutonium-238
  
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• How worried should we be that glyphosate was found in our Cheerios?

  17-08-2018 21:45
  
  HealthIt depends on which scientific organization—or advocacy group—you ask.
  An environmental advocacy group found traces of controversial herbicides on popular breakfast cereals like Cheerios, Lucky Charms, and Quaker Oats, according to their…
  
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• K2's deadly mystery: Nobody knows what’s actually in synthetic marijuana

  17-08-2018 20:58
  
  HealthThe constantly shifting chemical formula makes illness from these drugs hard to treat.
  Over the past few years, there’ve been multiple reports of clustered hospitalizations from synthetic marijuana. If the cannabinoid receptors were a dial, the plant would…
  
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• What it’s like to photograph Earth from space

  17-08-2018 19:30
  
  SpaceChris Hadfield on how to make great photos from the International Space Station.
  “The world is a very generous photography subject and you have the best tripod in existence.”…
  
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• Humans have a hard time 'killing' robots, especially when they beg for their lives

  17-08-2018 19:30
  
  TechnologyCould you pull the plug?
  When robots ask humans not to be turned off, humans experience a stressful ethical quandary.
  
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• How the sunflower transformed from a garden novelty to a mighty beast

  17-08-2018 17:00
  
  EnvironmentDemand for the plant's oil fueled the rise in popularity.
  Over the last 60 years, changes to our diets and industrial needs mean the area of global oil crop production has more than doubled. Four oil crops consume most of this…
  
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• How to make retro video games look good on your modern TV

  17-08-2018 15:30
  
  DIYPlay on.
  When you plug an old game console into an HDTV, you’ll see an underwhelming mess of blurry, laggy video with muted colors. Luckily, you can do a few things to make it…
  
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• AI Developers’ Algorithms Will Tell Doctors How To Diagnose Their Patients

  17-08-2018 14:18 via Technocracy News
  Technocrat AI scientists who are not trained physicians will ultimately dominate doctors for patient diagnosis and treatment; they say that doctors will simply have to adapt. Meanwhile, doctors are pushing back to maintain their role as the primary care giver. ⁃ TN EditorAs an industry reliant on patient records and beset by outdated technology, health care is widely thought to be a prime target for an artificial intelligence revolution.
  Many believe the technology will provide a host of b
  
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• Hacked Air Conditioners And IoT Could Shut Down Power Grid

  17-08-2018 14:03 via Technocracy News
  Technocrats who are building out the Internet of Things are unable to secure their creations against hackers. If air conditioner motors in a single large city were all started at the same time, it would break the power grid for a multi-state area. ⁃ TN EditorWhen the cybersecurity industry warns about the nightmare of hackers causing blackouts, the scenario they describe typically entails an elite team of hackers breaking into the inner sanctum of a power utility to start flippin
  
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• Freaking out about heavy metals in your food? Here's what you should know

  17-08-2018 14:00
  
  HealthTesting has many concerned, but don’t panic just yet.
  Baby food is just the latest product to be found containing potentially hazardous levels of heavy metals. But what are heavy metals anyway, and why are they so…
  
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• Sacramento County Busted Over Illegal Use Of License Plate Readers

  17-08-2018 13:52 via Technocracy News
  The Technocrat mindset is that technology can solve any problem but it has zero common sense, no respect for the law and no sense of Constitutional responsibility for personal privacy. Police departments across the nation are now collecting license plate data on a routine basis. ⁃ TN EditorThe license plate monitoring program, which the ACLU warned us about, snaps photos of license plates when the cars they are attached to make their way past telephone poles and police cars,
  
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• 'Zombie genes' could be why so few elephants die of cancer

  17-08-2018 00:00
  
  AnimalsElephants are bringing a genetic gun to a cancer knife-fight.
  Elephants are some of the biggest mammals who roam the Earth, so mathematically they should be hounded by cancer at 100 times the rate of humans. Yet death by cancer…
  
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• 'Zombie gene' could be why so few elephants die of cancer

  17-08-2018 00:00
  
  AnimalsElephants are bringing a genetic gun to a cancer knife-fight.
  Elephants are some of the biggest mammals who roam the Earth, so mathematically they should be hounded by cancer at 100 times the rate of humans. Yet death by cancer…
  
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• The best rain jackets to wear when it's hot out

  16-08-2018 23:13
  
  TechnologyOur guide for how to choose the right tech for the moment.
  How to find the right rain jacket for the weather.
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN said to mull sale of shares in $1bn-rated Jumia

  16-08-2018 22:41 via Fin24 Tech
  
  MTN Group is exploring a sale of shares in African online retailer Jumia and values the company at as much as $1 billion, say people familiar with the matter.
  
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• When rain is just as dangerous as drought

  16-08-2018 21:30
  
  EnvironmentRaindrops keep falling—and it's a big problem.
  The entire continental United States has seen an uptick in extreme precipitation events in the last half-century. But nowhere is it raining harder than the Northeast.
  
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• Microbiologists are testing blood-sensing pills in pigs' bellies

  16-08-2018 20:30
  
  AnimalsResearchers developed a sensor to detect blood in the stomach.
  Researchers developed a sensor to detect blood in the stomach. The result was a big pill to swallow, so before giving it to humans, the scientists tested it in pigs.
  
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• Workers of the World! There Is Efficiency in Idleness

  16-08-2018 20:00 via Top Stories
  In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel, Player Piano, things get a little awkward after industrialist Dr. Paul Proteus, escorted in a black government limo, passes a crew of “Reeks and Wrecks,” or displaced laborers who could no longer compete economically with the machines that filled factories like Proteus’ Illium Works.
  In the street, some 40 construction workers are hunched over shovels and pitchforks, all watching a single man fill a two-foot-wide pothole. With an abunda
  
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• Smokey superlatives: widespread wildfire impacts seen from as far away as a million miles from Earth

  16-08-2018 19:39 via Top Stories
  The smokey conditions are so bad that one Canadian newspaper has labeled it a "smoke-pocalypse"
  I was going to take a break from covering the wildfires blazing across large swaths of western North America — until I checked on remote sensing data this morning and saw the satellite imagery above and lower down in this post.In the the image above, captured by the Suomi-NPP satellite on Aug. 15, check out the thick, sandy-colored smudge of smoke blanketing a huge portion of
  
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• #TBT to 1947: Introducing the Polaroid Camera

  16-08-2018 19:30
  
  TechnologyAnd other vintage photo news from Popular Science’s May 1947 issue.
  Today we’re taking you way back to 1947 for some photographic wisdom from our friend’s at Popular Science. Happy Throwback Thursday!
  
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• Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets To Cooperate Or End Up Dying In ‘Hospice’

  16-08-2018 17:04 via Technocracy News
  Technocrat social media giants are seeking to dominate the entire propaganda industry and will throw progressives and the left-wing under the bus just as fast as conservatives. This clearly demonstrates that Technocracy has a different agenda than left or right, and is much more dangerous because of the collective power that they currently wield. ⁃ TN EditorDuring a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers tha
  
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• Trees are migrating west to escape climate change

  16-08-2018 17:00
  
  Nexus Media News Go west, young sapling.
  Climate change is creating tough living conditions for certain species of trees. So they're moving westward to cope.
  
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• Check Out This Beetle Trapped In Amber For 99 Million Years

  16-08-2018 17:00 via Top Stories
  A new species of beetle, preserved in a piece of amber along with several grains of pollen, is the earliest direct evidence of an insect pollinating an ancient plant group nearly 100 million years ago. It's also just supercool to look at.
  To understand why this new beetle with the gigantic name (Cretoparacucujus cycadophilus) is more than just a pretty face, we've got to take a stroll down the paleobotany path.The Mesozoic Era started in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction (
  
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• Los Angeles Technocrats First To Install Body Scanners In Subway

  16-08-2018 16:45 via Technocracy News
  In a massive violation of the Fourth Amendment, Subway passengers in Los Angeles will be electronically stripped naked from up to 30 feet away as they walk through the terminal. The Fourth Amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…”. ⁃ TN EditorLos Angeles’ subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passenger
  
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• Safety Nowhere: China Extends Its Global Human Registry To American Soil

  16-08-2018 16:33 via Technocracy News
  TN has warned that China is exporting its Technocracy to the entire planet. In this instance, they are now creating a global database of citizens and mapping their social connections. The current use of this data is to intimidate Chinese citizens who have family or friends abroad. ⁃ TN EditorA major human rights crisis is unfolding in northwestern China, according to the United Nations, which said last week that there were credible reports that the Chinese government is hold
  
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• 10 tips for making LinkedIn useful, even if you already have a job

  16-08-2018 15:30
  
  DIYMake the social network less soul-crushing.
  Many of us think of LinkedIn as the lamest social network. But that's because we're not using it to its full potential. Here are 10 tips to make LinkedIn work for…
  
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• Measles cases aren't spiking, despite talk of an outbreak

  16-08-2018 14:00
  
  Health2018 has been a pretty normal year for the measles, actually.
  Multiple news outlets are reporting this week that there’s currently a measles outbreak of 107 people in 21 states. There’s just one problem: that’s not from one big…
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers tumbles most in a decade as Tencent effect hits home

  16-08-2018 11:49 via Fin24 Tech
  
  Tencent surprised investors with its first profit drop in at least a decade as a Chinese regulatory freeze on game approvals hurt its ability to make money off marquee titles.
  
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• Fin24.com | Manyi: Afrotone Media thriving despite 'not getting much' from government

  16-08-2018 11:11 via Fin24 Tech
  
  Mzwanele Manyi says "media outlets" spread a narrative which "vilified and delegitimised black owned businesses".
  
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• New fracking wells are using hundreds of times more water than their predecessors

  16-08-2018 00:00
  
  ScienceThe change between 2011 and 2018 is stark.
  Over the last few years, fracking operations have gotten more efficient at removing oil and natural gas from the ground—this according to a new study published today in…
  
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• The exhilarating history of roller coaster photography

  15-08-2018 23:15
  
  TechnologyCapturing thrill seekers through the ages.
  Photographing people on roller coasters has existed almost as long as the rides themselves.
  
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• Twitter muzzles conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for a week

  15-08-2018 22:47 via ABC News: Technology
  Twitter lasted less than two weeks before joining other prominent tech companies in muzzling Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who's used their platforms to spread false information and hoaxes for years with few, if any, repercussions
  
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• Shipwreck from only WWII battle in America found off Alaska

  15-08-2018 22:34 via ABC News: Technology
  A World War II veteran who survived two attacks on a ship whose stern was recently discovered off Alaska's Aleutian Islands recalls trying to save men slicked by oil
  
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• After firefighting rips up the land, crews move in to fix it

  15-08-2018 22:30 via ABC News: Technology
  Crews are moving in behind firefighters to restore land ripped up by efforts to beat back massive flames charging across California
  
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• Uber narrows 2Q loss as company polishes tarnished image

  15-08-2018 22:22 via ABC News: Technology
  Uber narrows its losses but still struggles to make money while the ride-hailing service's CEO deals with the headaches left behind by his predecessor
  
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• This giant exoplanet's atmosphere teems with glowing hot atoms of titanium and iron

  15-08-2018 21:30
  
  SpaceAnd you thought this summer was hot
  For the first time, astronomers have detected iron and titanium vapors in a planet's sky—the metals glowing hot like the filaments in a light bulb in the searing…
  
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• The weirdest things we learned this week: bone flutes, zebra carriages, and laughing gas parties

  15-08-2018 20:30
  
  ScienceOur editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.
  What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s newest podcast.
  
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• New Date For Greek Eruption That May Have Inspired Atlantis Myth

  15-08-2018 20:30 via Top Stories
  A long-standing controversy over the date of a volcanic blast that possibly inspired the myth of Atlantis may have been resolved with the aid of ancient tree rings, a new study finds.One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the past 4,000 years burst from the volcano Thera on what is now the Greek island of Santorini. The catastrophic eruptions spewed forth about 40 to 60 cubic kilometers of lava, devastating the ancient seafaring Minoan civilization, potentially inspiring the legend of
  
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• Children Give in to Robot Peer Pressure

  15-08-2018 20:00 via Top Stories
  Those of us of a certain age may recall the D.A.R.E. program wafting through our classrooms like so many puffs of smoke. In addition to the evils of drugs and alcohol, and the importance of just saying no, the program highlighted the power of peer pressure. No matter how much our friends and classmates might say something’s cool, we shouldn’t be swayed if we don’t want to try it!It turns out that kids aren't just susceptible to regular old peer pressure. According to a study pu
  
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• Spacewalkers flinging satellites, installing bird trackers

  15-08-2018 19:57 via ABC News: Technology
  Russian cosmonauts take a spacewalk to fling tiny satellites into orbit, install antenna for tracking birds on Earth.
  
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• The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is a great gaming phone that won't make you better at Fortnite

  15-08-2018 19:51
  
  GadgetsPlaying the most popular game in the world on Samsung's new Flagship phone.
  Gaming phones are increasing in popularity so get your thumbs ready.
  
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• Molecular Switch Serves as New Target Point for Cancer and Diabetes Therapies

  15-08-2018 18:41 via SciTechDaily
  If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz- Forschungsinstitut für...
  The post Molecular Switch Serves as New Target Point for Cancer and Diabetes Therapies appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• Astronaut Alexander Gerst Captures ‘Mind-Blowing’ Aurora Image

  15-08-2018 18:40 via SciTechDaily
  Ever wondered what auroras look like from space? Astronaut Alexander Gerst, also known as @Astro_Alex, gives us his bird’s-eye view from aboard the International Space Station, tweeting...
  The post Astronaut Alexander Gerst Captures ‘Mind-Blowing’ Aurora Image appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• WATCH: Asleep at the wheel: Exposing dangers of drowsy driving

  15-08-2018 17:11 via ABC News: Technology
  General Motors has developed a suit to test the effects of drowsy driving.
  
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• What you should know about Florida's awful algae problem

  15-08-2018 17:00
  
  Environment5 questions answered.
  One of the longest-lasting red tide outbreaks in the state’s history is affecting more than 100 miles of beaches. Meanwhile, discharges of polluted fresh water from Lake…
  
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• Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft Pledge To ‘Fix’ Health Care

  15-08-2018 16:46 via Technocracy News
  The problem is “the lack of open standards around health data is a huge barrier for them to get into the $3 trillion health system.” The patient problems existing before Big Tech got involved were minuscule by comparison.  ⁃ TN EditorThere are many broken things about the U.S. health care system. But one of the biggest and most overlooked problems is that patients still find it too hard to share their medical information between doctors, especially those working in differe
  
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