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• Watching Channel 4's How to Build a Human has viewers freaked out about AI robots

  29-10-2016 23:34
  
  Could robotic humans become normal in the future?
  
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• Close up of the new mineral merelaniite

  29-10-2016 18:44
  The scroll-like structure of the newly discovered mineral merelaniite grows into tiny, silver-gray whiskers. A physicist has found the mineral on a sample of larger minerals from the Merelani Mining District in Tanzania.
  
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• Venezuela crisis, Colombia peace dominate Latin American summit

  29-10-2016 18:41
  By Julia Symmes Cobb CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Venezuela's fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia's stuttering peace process looked certain to dominate the Ibero-American Summit on Saturday rather than an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education. Amid a swing to the political right around the region, Peru's president and former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was leading calls to put Venezuela at the top of the agenda. The oil-rich country's socialist gove
  
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• Air strike kills 17 in Yemen, exiled president rejects peace plan

  29-10-2016 16:41
  At least 17 civilians were killed in Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz on Saturday by a Saudi-led coalition air strike that struck a house, local officials and residents said. The raid targeted a house in the al-Salw district, the sources said, an area of Taiz where Houthi rebels and government forces backed by the coalition are fighting for control. Taiz is Yemen's third largest city with an estimated pre-war population of 300,000.
  
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• Birth of an .eco empire: The story behind the internet's new green turf

  29-10-2016 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In the high-stakes world of internet domains, .eco was a dream green prize. It took eight years, but now a Vancouver company is at the helm of the new online territory, and taking claims.
  
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• Win A Trip to See a Rocket Launch in French Guiana

  29-10-2016 13:30
  
  The online contest, called MyAriane6, is hosted by the satellite launch provider Arianespace, along with Airbus Safran Launchers, who manufacture the Ariane 5. To enter, participants need to post an image on Instagram that illustrates "what Ariane 6 means to them — whether that means better telecommunications, a closer relationship with space, improved geolocation, a boost to the economy or simply the innate excitement that exploring the unknown evokes," according to a statement from Arian
  
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• Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims

  29-10-2016 13:30
  
  This month, astrophysicists Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier, both from Laval University in Quebec, announced that they had spotted mysterious light signals coming from 234 different stars in our Milky Way galaxy. "We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis," the duo wrote in the paper, which was published online Oct. 14 in the journal Publicatio
  
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• Picture of primate common ancestor coming into focus

  29-10-2016 13:00
  
  A new family tree analysis predicts behavior of primate common ancestor.
  
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• Why do people still use email — or at least not secure it?

  29-10-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The stream of leaked emails in the U.S. election campaign makes you wonder why prominent people and organizations keep using email, or at the very least, why they haven't taken more security precautions.
  
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• Structure of toxic tau aggregates determines type of dementia, rate of progression

  29-10-2016 02:53
  The distinct structures of toxic protein aggregates that form in degenerating brains determine which type of dementia will occur, which regions of brain will be affected, and how quickly the disease will spread, according to a study.
  
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• Scientists call for breaching dams to save Puget Sound orcas

  29-10-2016 02:14
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers who track the endangered population of orcas that frequent Washington state waters said Friday that three whales are missing or believed dead since summer.
  
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• SpaceX says rocket accident probe focusing on fueling system flaw

  29-10-2016 01:58
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - SpaceX said on Friday a fueling system problem is the most likely cause of a Sept. 1 launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket, a finding that takes the company a step closer to resuming flights that were grounded after the accident.
  
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• Venezuela crisis should be addressed at Latin American summit -Peru president

  29-10-2016 01:42
  Venezuela's political crisis should be among top discussion items at a regional summit for Latin American leaders taking place this weekend in Cartagena, Colombia, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Friday. The oil-rich country's socialist government is confronting political protests in the streets and in Venezuela's Congress after opposition leaders accused President Nicolas Maduro of blocking efforts to hold a recall vote aimed at ousting him. "I think it will be an important mee
  
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