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• Big tech's ties with Saudi Arabia in doubt

  19-10-2018 01:25 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  This spring, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia met the royalty of Silicon Valley: Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai.
  
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• Apple to host mystery product event on October 30

  18-10-2018 22:57 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Apple will host an event in Brooklyn to likely announce a few new products.
  
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• Saudi prince pumps more cash into Uber rival

  18-10-2018 18:11 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Dubai ride-hailing app Careem has received $200 million in a funding round led by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's Kingdom Holding company.
  
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• Journal retracts stem cell work by former Harvard scientist

  18-10-2018 17:33 via ABC News: Technology
  The New England Journal of Medicine is retracting a 2011 study and is investigating two earlier ones describing stem cell research by a former Harvard Medical School scientist
  
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• UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Was Mentored Every Two Months By Trilateral Commissioner Henry Kissinger

  18-10-2018 17:27 via Technocracy News
  According to Harper’s Magazine, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley recently delivered a speech to the elite and secretive Council for National Policy (CNP).  On October 4, Haley had previously resigned her UN assignment as of the end of 2018.
  Harper’s Magazine reported on the CNP speech as more or less recapping her 19 months of service in the Trump Administration. The article first states,
  In a way, Haley had deployed a version of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon’s “madman
  
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• In Japan, There’s A Down-To-Earth Robot For Just About Everything

  18-10-2018 16:29 via Technocracy News
  Japan suffers a population problem as its older citizens age, and the answer is robots: big ones, little ones, ugly ones, sexy ones, functional ones, etc. Robots are showing up in just about every industry and application imaginable. ⁃ TN EditorForget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills – at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house.
  Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit l
  
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• Taxi drivers in Warsaw protest unlicensed Uber drivers

  18-10-2018 16:04 via ABC News: Technology
  Hundreds of taxi drivers have driven slowly through Poland's capital city Warsaw causing some traffic jams in protest against low earnings and competition from unlicensed companies like Uber
  
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• Fintech Could Be Bigger Than ATMs, PayPal And Bitcoin Combined

  18-10-2018 15:37 via Technocracy News
  Fintech is the emerging financial system for Sustainable Development, and will permeate every phase and level of the financial world. Further, all nations of the world are embracing Fintech, from China to Europe to the entire Islamic world. ⁃ TN EditorFintech broke onto the scene as a disruptive force following the 2008 crisis, but the industry’s influence on the broader financial services system is changing.
  The fintech industry no longer stands clearly apart from financial services
  
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• Bracing for the midterms, Facebook builds a 'war room'

  18-10-2018 15:25 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Facebook has set up a "war room" at its California headquarters as part of its plans to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election, when misinformation was rampant on the platform.
  
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• European and Asian leaders to boost ties, trade, security

  18-10-2018 13:29 via ABC News: Technology
  After failing to reach a breakthrough on Britain's divorce terms from the European Union, EU leaders are rolling straight into another summit Thursday, this one aimed at forging closer links with Asia
  
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• WATCH: Google launches next generation smartphones

  18-10-2018 13:08 via ABC News: Technology
  Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones feature larger screens and improved wide-angle cameras.
  
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• Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information

  18-10-2018 12:31 via ABC News: Technology
  Facebook gears up 'war room' to combat potential abuses of its social network heading into major elections in Brazil, US
  
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• Tech execs want Senator Graham to apologize over Iranian remark

  18-10-2018 02:56 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Senator Lindsey Graham's comments about Iranian lineage did not go over well with a group of powerful tech execs.
  
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• Public funds back plan to replace Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook chairman

  18-10-2018 02:56 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Following a long string of scandals and controversies, some Facebook investors believe the company would be better off without Mark Zuckerberg as its chairman.
  
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• West Coast quake warning system now operational, with limits

  18-10-2018 02:08 via ABC News: Technology
  Automated alerts from the fledgling West Coast earthquake early warning system are ready to be used broadly by businesses, utilities, schools and other entities but not for mass public notification
  
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• Experts urge gulf refuge for endangered vaquita porpoise

  18-10-2018 00:31 via ABC News: Technology
  Experts are urging Mexico's government to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically endangered vaquita porpoises were seen in September
  
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• Netflix has plenty of room left to grow

  17-10-2018 22:00 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  More and more Netflix customers are coming from overseas — a sign that there's plenty of room for the streaming company to get even bigger than it already is.
  
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• Elon Musk will cover Tesla's fine for tweets

  17-10-2018 22:00 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Elon Musk will buy another $20 million of Tesla stock with his own money, covering the cost of the fine the company has to pay for his tweets.
  
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• Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

  17-10-2018 22:00 via ABC News: Technology
  A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia
  
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• Mexico's vaquita porpoise gets new chance; 6 sighted

  17-10-2018 20:54 via ABC News: Technology
  Experts want to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where the critically endangered vaquita porpoise remains after they sighted about a half dozen of the elusive creatures in September
  
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• Twitter airs election meddling data

  17-10-2018 20:46 via ABC News: Technology
  Twitter releases all of the accounts and posts related to "information operations" it has found on its service since 2016
  
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• WATCH: Self-driving cars in Paris

  17-10-2018 20:45 via ABC News: Technology
  ABC News' Molly Hunter takes a ride in a self-driving car through the streets of Paris.
  
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• Where Should NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life? Underground, A New Report Says

  17-10-2018 20:28 via Top Stories
  We usually associate habitability with terrestrial, Earth-like planets, but what if completely different environments are capable of harboring life?A new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recommends that NASA search these disregarded worlds for signs of life. With the recent discovery of an underground lake on Mars and suspected subsurface oceans on Jupiter and Saturn’s moons, the committee thinks that studying all sorts of e
  
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• Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

  17-10-2018 19:49 via ABC News: Technology
  New study says what were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be rocks
  
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• EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 19:16 via ABC News: Technology
  The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science
  
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• Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia

  17-10-2018 19:13 via ABC News: Technology
  Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate Assange from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a diplomat to Moscow
  
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• Oldest Trace Fossils Ever Found Might Not Be Fossils

  17-10-2018 19:00 via Top Stories
  Fossil or faux pas? A 2016 study that interpreted rock anomalies as the oldest evidence of life on our planet got it wrong, say researchers behind a new analysis of some of the same rock. The deformities aren't relics of early microbial life, says the team, but rather a snapshot of geological forces shaping and reshaping our world.
  The race to find the very first sign of life on Earth is one of the more heated contests in science — even though, for some, it lacks the glamour
  
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• Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

  17-10-2018 18:30 via ABC News: Technology
  Scientists aren't certain why the areas in which storms develop are shifting.
  
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• EPA puts off final decision on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 18:20 via ABC News: Technology
  The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science
  
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• A dust storm in Greenland? Beautiful satellite images show one far north of the Arctic Circle

  17-10-2018 17:49 via Top Stories
  In late September, a dust storm erupted in a seemingly unlikely place: high in the Arctic in Greenland.It was nothing compared to a Saharan dust storm. Even so, it was large enough to be visible from space. You can see it in the Sentinel-2 satellite image above: a grayish plume of fine silt being swept up by northwesterly winds. The source: a dry bed of a braided river valley that ends in Scoresby Sound on Greenland's east coast.This is about 80 miles northwest of Ittoqqortoo
  
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• Women's March targeted by Facebook scam

  17-10-2018 17:22 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Hundreds of fake Women's March Facebook pages run from Bangladesh have prompted concern from American activists and have proven challenging for Facebook to keep under control, a CNN investigation has found.
  
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• Silicon Valley is working with China on AI

  17-10-2018 17:22 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  Baidu has become the first Chinese company to join a US-led alliance on artificial intelligence that includes Silicon Valley's biggest names.
  
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• Microsoft was just the start for Paul Allen

  17-10-2018 17:22 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  For the last 35 years of his life, Paul Allen lived unapologetically large. But he was still best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, the company he started with Bill Gates.
  
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• Google Technocrats Love China Because It Is A Technocracy

  17-10-2018 17:17 via Technocracy News
  The only way to explain Google’s affinity for autocratic China is that they are both steeped in Technocracy. That is, it isn’t about money. Until Americans understand this evil ideology, they will be helpless to deal with it. ⁃ TN EditorChinese regional authorities recently laid out the kind of speech suppression that Google will likely have to facilitate for the country’s persecuted Muslim ethnic minority to launch its new product in China.
  Authorities in Xinjiang, a reg
  
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• Fin24.com | Musk settlement with SEC over tweets approved by US judge

  17-10-2018 16:56 via Fin24 Tech
  
  A US judge has approved Tesla and CEO Elon Musk’s $40m settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, resolving government claims that Musk misled the public with a flurry of tweets about a plan to take the company private.
  
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• Technobabble And Technocrats: The Rise Of The Smart City

  17-10-2018 16:53 via Technocracy News
  Technocrats are social engineers and not urban designers, but they somehow think they are more qualified to determine the fate of millions. If a tiny Mexican town can stop the Technocrat steamroller, then any city can as well. ⁃ TN EditorIn cities around the world, the drone of jackhammers is being met with the clacking of keyboards and the hum of computers tasked with building a new generation of metropolises, built from silicon rather than concrete. A new breed of brash and flash utopias
  
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• Netflix shares jump 6 percent on strong subscriber growth

  17-10-2018 16:52 via ABC News: Technology
  Netflix shares are jumping 6 percent in early trading after the company reported a big increase in subscribers
  
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• Mexican Town Gives The Boot To Smart City Technocrats

  17-10-2018 16:36 via Technocracy News
  Technocrats lied, misrepresented and bulldozed their way into this small town. When citizens finally saw what was going on, and that the interlopers had no authority, they gave them the boot. Bravo! ⁃ TN EditorLupita Tecual Porquillo had heard a rumour that the plaza was going to be “remodelled”. The 51-year-old grocery store owner lives around the corner from the centre of Santa Maria Tonantzintla, a sleepy town in the state of Puebla, about three hours from MexicoCity. S
  
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• Fin24.com | Tesla confirms to issue and sell to Musk $20m stock

  17-10-2018 16:13 via Fin24 Tech
  
  Tesla confirms that it will issue and sell to Elon Musk $20m of the company’s common stock during the next open trading window.
  
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• Physicist Details the Shape of a Symmetrical Wormhole

  17-10-2018 15:30 via SciTechDaily
  A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole – a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a...
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• Wind Farms Cause More Environmental Impact Than Previously Thought

  17-10-2018 15:29 via SciTechDaily
  When it comes to energy production, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately. As the world begins its large-scale transition toward low-carbon energy...
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• Scientists to Debate Mars 2020 Landing Site for Next Rover

  17-10-2018 14:58 via SciTechDaily
  Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate...
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• WATCH: YouTube goes down worldwide for about an hour

  17-10-2018 12:47 via ABC News: Technology
  Visitors to the video site had pages load halfway, then stall before an "internal sever error" message.
  
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• Will Deep-Fake Technology Destroy Democracy?

  17-10-2018 12:00 via Science and Technology
  Imagine if a doctored video of a politician appeared the day before an election. It’s everything Vladimir Putin ever dreamed of.
  
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• YouTube back online after brief outage

  17-10-2018 07:22 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Tech Section
  A collective "What the heck?" swept the World Wide Web Tuesday night as users of video giant YouTube couldn't get content to play for about an hour.
  
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• YouTube goes down for more than an hour

  17-10-2018 05:37 via ABC News: Technology
  YouTube goes down for more than an hour
  
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• Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

  17-10-2018 05:18 via ABC News: Technology
  A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers
  
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• Netflix's 3Q subscriber growth gets rave reviews on Wall St.

  17-10-2018 01:21 via ABC News: Technology
  Netflix regains its stride with strong subscriber growth during the summer after stumbling badly in spring
  
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