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• LightCube can be a bulb, flashlight, night light, or lamp depending on your need

  18-04-2017 23:59 via digitaltrends.com
  
  LightCube is a box-shaped light bulb that is flexible, portable, and convenient. On its own, it can be a bulb, flashlight, or night light. Combined with a unique lampshade, LightCube becomes an incredibly versatile light source.
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• Lightbulbs can be more versatile and convenient than ever with the LightCube

  18-04-2017 23:59 via digitaltrends.com
  
  LightCube is a box-shaped light bulb that is flexible, portable, and convenient. On its own, it can be a bulb, flashlight, or night light. Combined with a unique lampshade, LightCube becomes an incredibly versatile light source.
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• Syrians in frantic search for their children after blast

  18-04-2017 23:56
  
  Bab al-Hawa (Syria) (AFP) - Fatima Rashid was recovering in a Syrian hospital after a deadly suicide blast when she glanced at a teenager with a bloody, disfigured face.The wounded teenager was later taken across the border to Turkey for treatment and now Rashid, like many parents caught up in a horrifying attack on Saturday, is searching frantically for her child.At least 68 children were among 126 people killed when a suicide car bomb tore through buses evacuating Fuaa and Kafraya, two village
  
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• Watch YouTube with friends anywhere, thanks to Tumblr’s new app, Cabana

  18-04-2017 23:54 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Watch videos while watching your friends view those same videos. That is the idea behind Cabana, a social video app launched by Tumblr that aims to make watching videos online more social.
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• Trump's threatened 'armada' still far from N. Korea: official

  18-04-2017 23:47
  
  An aircraft carrier the US Navy said was steaming toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet departed, a US defense official acknowledged Tuesday.The Navy on April 8 said it was directing a naval strike group headed by the USS Carl Vinson supercarrier to "sail north," as a "prudent measure" to deter North Korea."They are going to start heading north towards the Sea of Japan within the next 24 hours," the official said on condition of anonymity.
  
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• New graphene-based coating changes color when it fractures, making it perfect for bridges

  18-04-2017 23:32 via digitaltrends.com
  
  All-round miracle material graphene has yet another transformative use case to add to the collection: Quickly and easily revealing when a man-made structure is in need of repairs by changing color. Is there anything it can't do?
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• Graphene-based coating that changes color as it fractures is ideal for bridges

  18-04-2017 23:32 via digitaltrends.com
  
  All-round miracle material graphene has yet another transformative use case to add to the collection: Quickly and easily revealing when a man-made structure is in need of repairs by changing color. Is there anything it can't do?
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• Thousands of Massachusetts drug cases to be dismissed after lab scandal

  18-04-2017 23:29
  
  By Scott MaloneBOSTON (Reuters) - Close to 20,000 Massachusetts criminal drug cases are set to be dismissed because of a scandal involving a former state chemist who admitted faking tests, civil liberties activists and prosecutors said on Tuesday.It will mean the largest number of drug cases tossed out in U.S. history due to one person, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.Rogue chemist Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty in 2013 to tampering with evidence during her nine years working at a
  
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• This Riese and Müller Delite ebike is built for riding on and off the road

  18-04-2017 23:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Delite full-suspension bike from Riese & Müller promises to be the SUV of ebikes by seamlessly transitioning from touring to off-road thanks to its durable construction, components, and long battery life.
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• The versatile Riese and Müller Delite promises to be the SUV of ebikes

  18-04-2017 23:29 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Delite full-suspension bike from Riese & Müller promises to be the SUV of ebikes by seamlessly transitioning from touring to off-road thanks to its durable construction, components, and long battery life.
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• 2017 Honda Civic Hatchback Automatic

  18-04-2017 23:27
  
  The regular Civic hatch in its most feature-rich form.
  
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• Ay caramba! Scientists think they’ve found Bart (and hidden ice) on asteroid

  18-04-2017 23:26 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A team of scientists have discovered a variety of landslides on the Texas-sized asteroid Ceres thanks NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Among the geological flow features was a familiar face they didn't expect to see.
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• 10 apps and gadgets for your European adventure | Komando.com - Komando

  18-04-2017 23:21
  
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  So you're going to Europe, how exciting! Whether you plan to spend two weeks backpacking or a month soaking in the rich history, there are apps and gadgets ...and more »
  
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• PlayStation 4 ‘Slim’ now comes with 1TB hard drive — and it won’t cost you extra

  18-04-2017 23:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The PlayStation 4 "Slim" system will now come standard with a 1TB hard drive and will still cost just $300. The system previously came equipped with a 500GB hard drive for the same price.
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• Three killed in Fresno, California, shooting spree, suspect arrested

  18-04-2017 23:10
  
  A gunman with an apparent dislike of white people and government killed three people in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said.The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference.Dyer said Muhammad fired at least 16 rounds in less than a
  
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• Eight Mummies Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Tomb

  18-04-2017 23:10
  
  In addition to the mummies, archaeologists found 10 sarcophagi and thousands of funerary statues.
  
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• Volleyball games at North Korean nuke test site: monitor

  18-04-2017 23:05
  
  North Korea watchers said Tuesday they had observed unusual activity at the reclusive country's nuclear test site -- workers playing volleyball.The 38 North monitoring group said satellite imagery captured Sunday showed personnel at the guard barracks and two other areas at the Punggye-ri test site playing the popular game."It suggests that the facility might be going into a standby mode," said Joseph Bermudez, a North Korea expert and an analyst for the Washington-based 38 North.
  
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• Facebook killer takes his own life as police close in

  18-04-2017 22:59
  
  ERIE, Pa. (AP) — The man who randomly gunned down a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook killed himself Tuesday during a police chase in Pennsylvania that began when a McDonald's drive-thru attendant recognized him.
  
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• Withings Activite Steel adds smart fitness features to the traditional dress watch

  18-04-2017 22:53 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Looking for a watch with smart tracking features, but modern designs aren't your style? The Withings Activite Steel packs activity tracking technology in a classic-looking wristwatch, and is now 30 percent off from Amazon.
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• The sleek, classy Withings Activite Steel smartwatch is now 30 percent off

  18-04-2017 22:53 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Looking for a watch with smart tracking features, but modern designs aren't your style? The Withings Activite Steel packs activity tracking technology in a classic-looking wristwatch, and is now 30 percent off from Amazon.
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• A breakdown of President Trump's new 'Buy American, Hire American' executive order

  18-04-2017 22:51
  
  President Trump's latest executive order prioritizes hiring American workers and targets foreign work visas. ABC News' Amna Nawaz and Rick Klein explain how.
  
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• MSI's latest gaming notebooks are thin, light, and VR gaming-ready

  18-04-2017 22:47 via digitaltrends.com
  
  MSI has announced the GP62X and GP72X Leopard Pro series, thin and light notebooks focused on ensuring not just high performance but also some of the best refresh rates you'll find on gaming notebooks today.
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• MSI introduces new VR-ready gaming notebooks with 120MHz 5ms displays

  18-04-2017 22:47 via digitaltrends.com
  
  MSI has announced the GP62X and GP72X Leopard Pro series, thin and light notebooks focused on ensuring not just high performance but also some of the best refresh rates you'll find on gaming notebooks today.
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• GOP Sen. Ernst says Trump should spend less time at Mar-a-Lago

  18-04-2017 22:47
  
  Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she has “concerns” about the frequency of President Trump’s trips to his Mar-a-Lago residence and particularly about his use of the Palm Beach, Fla., venue to host foreign leaders.
  
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• AP Explains: Etan Patz, missing boy who fueled movement

  18-04-2017 22:32
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children's movement. Six-year-old Etan was one of the first children whose disappearance was publicized in what became a high-profile way: on milk cartons. His case also helped usher in an age of parental anxiety. Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of murder and kidnapping. Hernandez confessed in 2012, but his lawyers say hi
  
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• California Secessionist Leader Throws in Towel, Moves to Russia

  18-04-2017 22:31
  
  He just wanted the Golden State to be independent, with a little help from the Kremlin.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook F8 developer conference and more: April 18 in photos

  18-04-2017 22:30
  
  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual Facebook F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif.; President Trump speaks during a visit to the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-On in Kenosha, Wis.; Pennsylvania state police investigate the scene where Steve Stephens, the suspect in the random killing of a Cleveland retiree posted on Facebook, died in Erie, Pa. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• Facebook is making it easier to find bots, order food on Messenger

  18-04-2017 22:12 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Facebook Messenger is getting a makeover. At the F8 developer conference in 2017, the social network announced new features aimed at growth, including new search tools to make it easier to find bots.
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• Facebook’s Workplace adds file-sharing, bots, and more to stick it to Slack

  18-04-2017 22:00 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The social networking pioneer announced a variety of new features for Workplace, including support for various file-sharing services, task automation "bots," and more, at its annual F8 developer conference.
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• Facebook Workplace adds file-sharing, bots, and more to stick it to Slack

  18-04-2017 22:00 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The social networking pioneer announced a variety of new features for Workplace, including support for various file-sharing services, task automation "bots," and more, at its annual F8 developer conference.
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• New iMacs may have Xeon processors that protect your data from cosmic rays

  18-04-2017 21:59 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Following a roundtable discussion about the future of the iMac and Mac Pro, it appears that Apple is hard at work on the new “server-grade” iMacs, according to reports from supply chain manufacturers in Taiwan.
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• April the Giraffe Meets Fellow Internet Sensation 'Giraffe Mom'

  18-04-2017 21:56
  
  Erin Dietrich became an internet star in her own right after donning a giraffe mask to lampoon April in the last months of her pregnancy.
  
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• Pandora expands availability of Premium streaming service to everyone

  18-04-2017 21:53 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Pandora Premium, the popular online radio service's on-demand subscription tier, is now available to anyone. New customers can get up to 60 days of the Premium streaming service for free.
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• Save up to $85 on today's best Amazon Gold Box tech deals

  18-04-2017 21:47 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Tuesday's Amazon Gold Box deals feature a 27-inch monitor that's ideal for gaming, an ultrasmart brain-sensing headband that helps you meditate, and a handy USB hub that multiplies one USB port into 10.
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• US VP Pence assures Japan: America is with you '100 percent'

  18-04-2017 21:42
  
  From two continents, top Trump administration officials warned Tuesday that North Korea's latest failed missile launch was a reckless act of provocation and assured allies in Asia that the United States ...
  
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• 117-Year-Old Jamaican Woman Says It Took 'Hard Work' to Become Oldest Person in the World

  18-04-2017 21:42
  
  Violet Brown of Jamaica is believed to be the new record holder after Emma Moran of Italy, who was 117 years, died last weekend.
  
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• Medical guidelines may mean millions miss out on life-saving drugs

  18-04-2017 21:37
  
  By AndrewM. Seaman(Reuters Health) - More than nine million people may miss out on cholesterol-lowering drugs that prevent heart attacks and strokes if doctors choose one set of medical guidelines over another, according to a new study."I would say we’re still searching for the perfect guidelines," said lead author Michael Pencina, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.The 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines recommend statins for people ages 40 to 75 with at least a 7.5 percent risk of having a
  
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• Samsung really, really wants you to use Bixby on the Galaxy S8

  18-04-2017 21:26
  
  One of the most talked about new features of Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ is a new virtual assistant that can be used to perform any task on the phone that you’d usually do via touch. However, most Bixby functionality won’t be available at launch in the US, which means the dedicated Bixby button will not be very useful at all, at least initially. Those of you who think they can simply reassign the button to something else — say, launch Google Ass
  
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• BAE Systems plans for submarines that can be piloted in virtual reality

  18-04-2017 21:22 via digitaltrends.com
  
  U.K. defense company BAE Systems has been working on technology that allows submarines to be controlled using virtual reality headsets. The tech was shown off recently at the U.K.’s Virtual Reality World Congress.
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• MasterCard adds MasterPass to Facebook Messenger bots for easy mobile payments

  18-04-2017 21:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Mobile payments are about to get a whole lot easier. MasterCard is bringing MasterPass to Facebook Messenger bots, allowing you to quickly and easily check out at companies like Subway, FreshDirect, and The Cheesecake Factory.
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• These two guys watched 50 straight hours of VR movies — and didn’t puke

  18-04-2017 21:09 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Two New York residents just took binge-watching to a whole new extreme, setting a Guinness Book of World Records for VR content with 50 hours immersed in 360 content -- and a lot of caffeine.
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• Can’t take a vacation? Travel the virtual world with the new version of Google Earth

  18-04-2017 21:09 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Also today: We put a new gamin GPU from AMD to the test, Facebook F8 ponders the present and the future issues around social media at F8.
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• Future of social media? Facebook’s Spaces lets users interact in VR

  18-04-2017 20:50 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Facebook will allow users to don their Oculus Rift headset and take selfies, share videos, and more with up to three friends, thanks to its new social virtual reality platform, Spaces.
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• Big Amazon sale drops 10 different Galaxy S8 and S8+ cases to $4

  18-04-2017 20:40
  
  The reviews are in, and it's now official: the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ are the hottest smartphones money can buy. They're fast, they're beautiful, and they feature displays that are better than anything else you'll see from any other smartphone company, including Apple. Of course, that beautiful design also has a downside. Since the front and back of the Galaxy S8 are made of glass, the changes of smashing your phone from an accidental drop are sky-high.Protect your investment with one of the c
  
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• Victim’s family wishes Facebook killer had been captured alive

  18-04-2017 20:38
  
  The family of Robert Godwin Sr., the 74-year-old Cleveland man whose apparent random murder was videotaped and posted to Facebook, had hoped the killer would have turned himself in instead of committing suicide.
  
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• 2018 Mercedes-Benz S-class Sedan Lineup Detailed from Top to Bottom

  18-04-2017 20:37
  
  New names and engines for the S-class, new engines for the AMGs and Maybachs.
  
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• Russia’s deputy prime minister insists gun-toting robot is not a Terminator

  18-04-2017 20:36 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Russia’s deputy prime minister took to Twitter last week to both praise and defend his country’s gun-toting space robot, FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research). But not everyone is convinced.
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• Big space rock to streak past Earth on Wednesday

  18-04-2017 20:19
  
  An asteroid stretching 650 metres (2,000 feet) across is on track to whoosh past Earth on Wednesday at a safe -- but uncomfortably close -- distance, according to astronomers."Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid this size," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.Dubbed 2014-JO25, the asteroid will come within 1.8 million kilometres (1.1 million miles) of Earth, less than five times the dist
  
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• Asus VivoPC X is going up for sale, and an Oculus Rift bundle is also incoming

  18-04-2017 20:08 via digitaltrends.com
  
  One of Asus's most interesting new products is the compact VivoPC X gaming system offering solid performance in a small and portable chassis. Now, Asus has finally announced pricing and availability for the new machine.
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• Reprogramming cells in the brain may help treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms

  18-04-2017 19:51 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A team of scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have been working on a technique for reprogramming cells in the brain as part of what might one day be a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
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