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• Pope urges Armenia and Turkey to reconcile, shun vengeance

  25-06-2016 18:49
  By Philip Pullella and Margarita Antidze YEREVAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Armenia and Turkey on Saturday to seek reconciliation and to shun "the illusory power of vengeance" a century after 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Francis made the appeal in an evening prayer service with leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church on the second day of a trip in which he has risked Turkey's anger by labelling the events of 1915 a genocide, a term Ankara rej
  
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• Blockchain Enhances Privacy, Security and Conveyance of Data

  25-06-2016 17:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Digital infrastructure could improve society’s public records repository and reinforce representative and participatory legal and governance systems 
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• What's a teraflop? Xbox's E3 gaming buzzwords, decoded

  25-06-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  HDR gaming. High-fidelity virtual reality. Six teraflops of power. Are these terms harbingers of a newer, brighter era in gaming graphics, or just buzzwords meant to empty our wallets?
  
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• To Diagnose Mental Illness, Read the Brain

  25-06-2016 14:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Rather than relying on symptoms, scientists are developing a “brain circuits first” approach to mental health. 
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• Optogenetics Lights Up Therapeutic Neuroscience

  25-06-2016 13:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Enhanced by emerging wireless microchips, technique could offer new routes to treatment for conditions like Parkinson’s and depression
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• Why ad blocking hangs like a dark cloud over online advertising

  25-06-2016 11:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Just about any time advertisers and publishers get together these days, the question of what to do about ad blocking is usually high on the agenda, Ira Basen writes.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Experts demand more effort to save coral reefs

  25-06-2016 07:54
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — As the largest international gathering of coral reef experts comes to a close, scientists and policy makers are moving ahead with plans for action to save the world's reefs, which are being rapidly damaged.
  
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• Fastest-spinning brown-dwarf star is detected by its bursts of radio waves

  25-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Penn State) Astronomers have detected what may be the most rapidly rotating, ultra-cool, brown-dwarf star ever seen. The super-fast rotation period was measured by using the 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope -- the same telescope that was used to discover the first planets ever found outside our solar system. The detection emphasizes Arecibo's amazing sensitivity, which has the potential to measure the magnetic fields, which protect life, of potentially habitable planets around other stars.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Experts say efforts key to saving coral reefs

  25-06-2016 02:42
  HONOLULU (AP) — As the world's largest gathering of coral reef experts comes to a close, scientists and policy makers are moving ahead with plans for action to save the world's imperiled reefs.
  
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