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• Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study

  20-02-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Tiny natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.In experiments designed to simulate moderate future warming, scientists in Britain found that such ponds -- a metre (three feet) across -- gradually lose the capacity to soak up one kind of greenhouse gas and give off even more of another.After seven years at higher-than-ambient temperatures, "the ability of the ponds to absorb carbon dioxide was
  
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• General known for sharp questions will be Trump's new top security adviser

  20-02-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday named Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser, choosing a military officer known for speaking his mind and challenging his superiors.McMaster is a highly regarded military tactician and strategic thinker, but his selection surprised some observers who wondered how the officer, whose Army career stalled at times for his questioning of authority, would deal with a White House
  
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• Cop Helps Girl, 10, With Math Homework After She Messaged Police Department on Facebook

  20-02-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  "I'm having trouble with my homework. Could you help me?" 10-year-old Lena wrote in a Facebook message to the Marion, Ohio Police Department.
  
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• Vatican and Rome Jewish community to host landmark menorah exhibition

  20-02-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaROME (Reuters) - The Vatican and Rome's Jewish museum will jointly host an unprecedented exhibition on the menorah, the ancient symbol of Judaism, and try to put to rest legends on the fate of one candelabra missing for 15 centuries.The May 15-July 23 exhibition, which Vatican and Jewish officials presented on Monday, will be held simultaneously in St. Peter's Square and in the Rome synagogue complex.
  
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• Who is Melania Trump's Older Sister? Inside The Life of The First Lady's Confidante

  20-02-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Ines Knauss, who is rarely seen in public, lives just two blocks from her sister in Manhattan.
  
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• Nioh Getting High-Difficulty Missions in March

  20-02-2017 21:56
  Nioh will be getting a couple of free major updates in the coming months, Koei Tecmo has announced.
  In a livestream, via Gematsu, Koei Tecmo revealed that ten types of high-difficulty missions, including ones that feel like boss rushes, will be added to Nioh coming in late March. In late April, Nioh will be getting PvP.
  What's more, Koei Tecmo also announced that the first DLC, titled Dragon of Tohoku, will launch in April and will include new scenarios, weapon types, characters, guard
  
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• NASA Has Made A Huge Discovery About Planets Outside Our Solar System

  20-02-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Exoplanets are widely believed to be the best hope of finding life elsewhere in the universe. 
  
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• South Sudan: five things to know

  20-02-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic crisis due to a devastating civil war.Independent since 2011, the world's newest country was engulfed by civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused his rival and former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup against him.Oil production -- from which South Sudan gained 98 percent of its revenues on its independence five-and-a-half years ago -- has plummeted by more than half a
  
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• APNewsBreak: Utah's anesthesia abortion law unenforced

  20-02-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Last year, Utah enacted a first-in-the-nation law requiring that fetuses receive anesthesia or painkillers before elective abortions starting at 20 weeks gestation. Nine months later, the only licensed clinic providing those abortions in the state says no changes have been made in how doctors perform the procedures.
  
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• French far-right chief calls Assad solution to Syria crisis

  20-02-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen tried to raise her international profile and press her pro-Syria, pro-Christian stance with a visit to Lebanon on Monday, holding her first campaign meeting with a head of state.
  
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• Bouche à Oreille: Michelin mixup makes modest French café a star

  20-02-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Last week, Bouche à Oreille, a café in Bourges, central France, found itself suddenly in possession of a Michelin star.The eatery, which serves hearty dishes of beef bourguignon and lasagna to its clientele of locals, was taken aback by the arrival of swarms of new visitors.Thanks to their identical names, and eerily similar street addresses, the Michelin website had listed the Bourges café on its website by mistake.
  
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• Tesla Update Allows Drivers to View Supercharger Availability Through Nav System

  20-02-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Now you don't have to guess if there's room at the inn, erg, supercharger.
  
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• Anti-Trump rallies crop up again on 'Not My President's Day'

  20-02-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Renewed protests against U.S. President Donald Trump flared on the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in dozens of cities in "Not My President's Day" rallies.Protest leaders had said they expected thousands to rally in about 28 cities ranging from Los Angeles and Chicago to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the latest round of demonstrations to express displeasure with Trump's policies and pronouncements.In New York, hu
  
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• 60,000-year-old microbes found in Mexican mine: NASA scientist

  20-02-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  NASA scientists have discovered living microorganisms trapped inside crystals for as long as 60,000 years in a mine in Mexico."This has profound effects on how we try to understand the evolutionary history of microbial life on this planet," she said.The mine is famous for its huge crystals, some as long as 50 feet (15 meters).
  
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• Here’s how badly the Galaxy Note 7 destroyed Samsung’s reputation in the US

  20-02-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  It goes without saying that the spontaneous combustion of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 was a big deal, but rarely do we get an opportunity to see the impact of tech gaffes on public sentiment quantified. A new Harris Poll ranking the "reputation quotient" of the 100 most recognizable brands in the United States provides just that, and the picture isn't good one for Samsung. In fact, it's pretty dire.In last year's reputation ratings, Samsung landed in the seventh position out of 100 companies, b
  
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• After Trump comments, the reality of crime and migrants in Sweden

  20-02-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump's remarks over theweekend that Sweden is paying a high price for its generous asylum policy, including mention of a non-existent terror incident, have baffled Swedes.- What did Donald Trump say?"You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden.
  
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• Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin dead at 64

  20-02-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, who for years fended off Western criticism and skillfully defended Moscow's actions in Ukraine and Syria, died Monday in New York.Churkin collapsed while at work at the Russian mission to the United Nations Monday morning and was rushed to a Manhattan hospital, apparently suffering from heart problems, diplomatic sources said.In a statement, the foreign ministry in Moscow described him as an "outstanding diplomat." There was no informati
  
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• 2017 Mercedes-Maybach S550 4MATIC

  20-02-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  A perfectly restrained chauffeur-mobile.
  
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• International anti-Trump protests

  20-02-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Demonstrators in Europe protest the presidency of Donald Trump, during the U.S. President’s Day long weekend. See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr
  
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• Syrian army pounds rebels in pre-talks shelling

  20-02-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Syrian government forces Monday escalated their bombing campaign around Damascus, raining shells down on rebel territory and sending out a "bloody message" just days before renewed peace talks in Geneva.Representatives from the opposition and of President Bashar al-Assad's regime are to head to Switzerland on Thursday for another attempt to end their country's brutal six-year war."The toll in regime air strikes on (northern rebel district of Damascus) Barzeh has increased to seven people, includ
  
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• California police officer shot dead while investigating car accident

  20-02-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A second officer with the Whittier Police Department and the suspect, a Hispanic man in his 20s, were wounded in the exchange of gunfire, said Lieutenant John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.The officers had responded to a traffic accident in Whittier when they determined that one of the cars was registered as stolen.
  
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• Iraq forces battle IS to close in on Mosul's west bank

  20-02-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way towards southern Mosul on Monday and prepared to take on the Islamic State group's stronghold in the city's west bank.The fresh push in the four-month-old operation to retake Mosul has sparked fears for 750,000 trapped civilians who risk being killed if they try to flee and starvation if they stay.Federal police forces reached the Aqrab checkpoint on the highway from Baghdad, a spot that marks the southern entrance to Mosul and from w
  
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• France's far right denounces 'media stunt' over fake jobs probe

  20-02-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gérard BonPARIS (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front accused authorities of staging a media stunt on Monday to influence the presidential election after police searched its headquarters in an investigation into "fake jobs".The searches came after French government bond yields rose sharply on news of a poll showing leader Marine Le Pen gaining ground on her main election rivals, independent Emmanuel Macron and conservative former prime minister Francois Fillon.Le Pen denied on
  
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• Breitbart Could Fire Yiannopoulos Over Pedophilia Comments

  20-02-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The conservative writer and editor was already disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
  
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• Pence reassures Europe, demands NATO pay up

  20-02-2017 20:50 via yahoo.com
  
  US Vice President Mike Pence told nervous Europeans Monday that Donald Trump will remain committed to transatlantic ties, but warned NATO allies they must boost their defence spending in return.Capping a European trip aimed at allaying fears about the new administration's support, Pence said Washington's backing for the EU remained "steadfast and enduring"."Today it is my privilege on behalf of President Trump to express the strong commitment of the United States to continued cooperation and par
  
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• Amid protests, UK lawmakers debate downgrading Trump visit

  20-02-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Thousands of protesters against U.S. President Donald Trump rallied outside Britain's Parliament on Monday, while lawmakers inside urged the government to rescind its offer to the president of a state visit stamped with pomp, pageantry and royal approval.
  
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• Non-Stop Action In The Upcoming Brawler's Announcement Trailer

  20-02-2017 20:45
  After the success of Rogue Legacy, a rogue-lite where characters could be born with colorblindness, dyslexia, or other gameplay-affecting conditions, Cellar Door Games has been hard at work on their newest title, Full Metal Furies. Coming sometime this year, Full Metal Furies is a fast-paced cooperative brawler emphasizing teamwork and communication where players face off against power-hungry Titans from Greek mythology. As the announcement trailer below shows, players will choose from four her
  
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• Leftist hopes to avoid runoff in tense Ecuador vote

  20-02-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Leftist Lenin Moreno crossed his fingers Monday for outright victory in Ecuador's presidential vote as impatience grew over a delay in publishing full results that could force a runoff.Sunday's election was a test of the legacy of outgoing President Rafael Correa, Moreno's more hardline ally and an outspoken critic of the United States.Moreno, 63, hoped to top 40 percent of the vote with a 10-point lead.
  
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• Shocker! World’s first self-driving car race ends in a crash

  20-02-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The world's first race on a professional track involving self-driving cars ended, not surprisingly, with a crash. As part of the Roborace competition held in Buenos Aires over the weekend, one of the two self-driving Devbot vehicles involved in the race slammed into a wall after miscalculating a particularly sharp turn.While the Devbot vehicles weren't going all out, they weren't exactly driving at a leisurely pace either. At their best, both cars were driving in excess of 100 MPH, with one reac
  
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• One month of Trump: What voters think – and why that matters

  20-02-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  After 30 days in office President Trump has done one thing for sure: He’s polarized American voters more than any US chief executive of the last 30 years.Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents loathe his performance, per approval polls.This is a reminder that most of the people who put Trump in office are content to wait and see how his policies develop.
  
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• Pence tries to reassure European leaders shaken by Trump

  20-02-2017 20:37 via yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday vowed to stand with the European Union and the NATO military alliance, but was met with some skepticism from leaders shaken by President Donald Trump's more critical comments.
  
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• Tribes lay remains of Kennewick Man to rest

  20-02-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — The ancient bones of the Kennewick Man have been returned to the ground.
  
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• These are your 'Best In Play' winners for GDC Play 2017!

  20-02-2017 20:16
  
  GDC organizers have revealed the 'Best in Play' awards for exhibitors in the on-site GDC Play 2017 event, honoring remarkable games like Beholder and Far: Lone Sails! ...
  
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• Greece agrees to bailout reforms compromise

  20-02-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Greece on Monday agreed to discuss new bailout reforms in a bid to break a deadlock with its EU-IMF creditors that has sparked new fears that the country will crash out of the eurozone.Officials will return to Athens shortly for talks aimed at reaching a deal to free up fresh funds, Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said after talks in Brussels."I'm very happy with that outcome today," Dijsselbloem, the Dutchman who heads the Eurogroup of 19 eurozone finance ministers, told a press conference.
  
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• UK's May says Lords must respect people's will on Brexit

  20-02-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's House of Lords launched a bid Monday to gain a greater say for Parliament over the terms of the U.K.'s European Union exit, as Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers not to hold up "what the British people want" by trying to delay the process.
  
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• John Glenn still inspires 55 years after his 1st orbit

  20-02-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.
  
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• US-led coalition expects to stay in Iraq after Mosul

  20-02-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Monday he expected its forces would be allowed to stay in Iraq after Mosul is recaptured."I don't anticipate that we will be asked to leave by the government of Iraq immediately after Mosul," Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend said.The US commander was speaking at a press conference in Baghdad wrapping up a brief visit by the new Pentagon chief, Jim Mattis.
  
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• Police expand search for suspect in 2 Indiana girls' deaths

  20-02-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Authorities said Monday they are expanding the search for a suspect in the killings of two girls who were found dead near a northern Indiana trail last week.
  
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• Iraqi forces battling Islamic State about to reach Mosul airport

  20-02-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephen Kalin and Maher ChmaytelliSOUTH OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces battling Islamic State fighters have fought their way close to Mosul's airport on the second day of a ground offensive on the jihadists' remaining stronghold in the western side of the city, military statements said on Monday.Federal police and elite interior ministry units known as Rapid Response are leading the charge toward the airport on the southern outskirts of Mosul and plan to turn it i
  
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• Trump's defense chief: 'We're not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil'

  20-02-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Phil StewartBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military is "not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from remarks by President Donald Trump, as he held talks with Iraqi leaders on Monday.Mattis was the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Iraq since Trump irked Iraqis with a temporary ban on travel to the United States and for saying America should have seized Iraq's oil after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003.Trump told CIA sta
  
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• GOP health plan: Lower costs, better care, or road to ruin?

  20-02-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republicans say their outline for replacing President Barack Obama's health care law is a pathway to greater flexibility and lower costs for consumers. Democrats see a road to ruin for millions who'd face lost coverage and higher medical expenses, particularly the poor.
  
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• Duck boats face increasing calls for improvements, bans

  20-02-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — With their festive, party-like ambiance and ability to travel on land and in water, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. But a string of deadly accidents has left the industry reeling, forced safety improvements and led some advocates to call for a total ban on the vehicles.
  
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• Blog: Female gamers want to kill you, just not with guns

  20-02-2017 19:02
  
  Survey data on gamer preferences in thematic setting and weapon choice. When it comes to killing things, female gamers are more selective about the weapons they use. ...
  
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• France's FN raided over European Parliament expenses scandal

  20-02-2017 18:56 via yahoo.com
  
  French investigators probing an alleged fake jobs scam by the far-right National Front (FN) raided the group's headquarters outside Paris on Monday, the party said.The raid is the second in a year by investigators trying to determine whether the FN used European Parliament funds to pay for 20 assistants presented as parliamentary aides while continuing to work for the party elsewhere."For the second time, a raid took place at the same offices, over the same allegations, which confirms that the f
  
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• Pence 'disappointed' by Flynn's Russia contacts briefing

  20-02-2017 18:50 via yahoo.com
  
  US Vice President Mike Pence said Monday he was disappointed that Michael Flynn gave him "inaccurate" information about his contacts with Russia before he resigned as national security adviser."I would tell you that I was disappointed that .. the facts that had been conveyed to me by General Flynn were inaccurate," Pence told a press conference in Brussels.On February 13, the White House said Trump had accepted Flynn's resignation amid allegations the retired three-star general discussed US sanc
  
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• Le Pen in Lebanon holds first head of state meeting

  20-02-2017 18:44 via yahoo.com
  
  France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met a foreign head of state for the first time, holding talks in Beirut with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun."We discussed the long and fruitful friendship between our two countries," the National Front (FN) leader said after her 30-minute encounter at the presidential palace in the hilltop suburb of Baabda with Aoun, the Middle East's only Christian president.Le Pen, who is leading polls of voters' intentions for the f
  
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• Learn level design tricks from an Arkane designer at GDC 2017!

  20-02-2017 18:43
  
  Arkane's own Steve Lee, a level designer on Dishonored 2, will be giving a fantastic talk on holistic level design as part of the GDC 2017 Level Design Workshop....
  
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• Logan might have added a secret post-credit scene at the last minute

  20-02-2017 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  When the final credits roll on Logan, will audiences have officially seen the last of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine? Or will we get one more tiny glimpse of the character after all? That’s the question on fans’ minds right now after Mike Sampson, the senior marketing and promotions manager of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain, revealed that 20th Century Fox has added three minutes to the final runtime of the movie:
  I was lucky enough to see an early screening of Logan a few days ag
  
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• GM Partnership With Lyft Could Result In a Ton of Autonomous Bolt EVs

  20-02-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The manufacturer and ride-hailing service are looking to set the pace.
  
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• 21 Stunning Horizon Zero Dawn Screenshots

  20-02-2017 18:16
  Horizon Zero Dawn is finally upon us. According to our review from Lucy O'Brien, its "'post-post-apocalyptic' landscape is beautiful and terrifying," so we thought we'd give you a glimpse of some of our favorite views so far, taken with its in-game photo mode.
  Click through the gallery below for 21 beautiful screengrabs from Horizon Zero Dawn's "stunningly realized" world.
  Don't forget to check out our review of Horizon Zero Dawn, which praises the open-world action RPG's "extremely satisfying"
  
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