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• Digital wallets and vein scanners: The future of payments

  22-12-2014 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  How did you pay for your coffee this morning?
  
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• Google's driverless car is adorable

  22-12-2014 23:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google's new driverless-car prototype is downright hugable.
  
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• Google's fully functional driverless car is adorable

  22-12-2014 23:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google's new driverless-car prototype is downright hugable.
  
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• Print edible burgers & pizza

  22-12-2014 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As further proof that you can now 3D-print anything, a company called Natural Machines has introduced a 3D printer for food.
  
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• NASA prints 3D wrench in space

  22-12-2014 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Bringing supplies to astronauts on the International Space Station can be a little screwy, leaving astronauts waiting for the next costly and risky resupply mission.
  
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• How we'll pay for things in the future

  22-12-2014 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  How did you pay for your coffee this morning?
  
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• South Africa's race to space

  22-12-2014 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In the sparse hinterland of Africa's southernmost nation plans are afoot to boldly take the continent where it has never gone before -- the deepest reaches of outer space.
  
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• Nintendo's working on new Wii

  22-12-2014 22:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The successor to Nintendo's troubled Wii U may be on the way.
  
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• Twist and shout: NASA prints 3-D wrench in space

  22-12-2014 22:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Bringing supplies to astronauts on the International Space Station can be a little screwy, leaving astronauts waiting for the next costly and risky resupply mission.
  
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• Digital wallets and vein scanners: How we'll pay for things in the future

  22-12-2014 22:57 via rss.cnn.com
  How did you pay for your coffee this morning?
  
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• 'Foodini' machine lets you print edible burgers, pizza, chocolate

  22-12-2014 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As further proof that you can now 3D-print anything, a company called Natural Machines has introduced a 3D printer for food.
  
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• South Africa's race to space: Could studying Big Bang bring big bucks?

  22-12-2014 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In the sparse hinterland of Africa's southernmost nation plans are afoot to boldly take the continent where it has never gone before -- the deepest reaches of outer space.
  
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• 'Mario' creator: Nintendo's working on the new Wii

  22-12-2014 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The successor to Nintendo's troubled Wii U may be on the way.
  
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• As Dust Clears, What's Next for Sony?

  22-12-2014 22:40
  Sony, Rogen and others in Hollywood try to move forward after Sony hacking attack
  
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• Google Sees Slight Dip in Government Data Removal Requests - PC Magazine

  22-12-2014 22:36 via pcmag.com
  
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  Google Sees Slight Dip in Government Data Removal Requests
  PC Magazine
  Google on Monday released its latest government transparency report, which revealed a slight decline in takedown requests. The company's ninth report covers the six-month period from June to December 2013, during which Google received 3,105 ...
  Google: Gov't data removal requests dipped slightly over 2013ZDNet
  Defamation Claims Behind Most Content Removal Requests to GoogleeWeek
  Google's Transpar
  
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• Watch: Consumer Alert: Holiday Scams

  22-12-2014 22:04
  
  The top five ways scammers are targeting last-minute shoppers.
  
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• First Look: Google Unveils Self-Driving Car

  22-12-2014 22:02 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Just in time for the holidays, Google has taken the wraps off the first complete prototype of its self-driving car
  
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• Offline: North Korea Suffers Widespread Internet Outage

  22-12-2014 21:08 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  North Korea experienced a widespread Internet outage on Monday, less than a week after the FBI accused the country of being behind the hack on Sony.
  
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• The Milky Way’s New

  22-12-2014 20:45 via pinterest.com
  
  The Milky Way’s New Neighbor May Tell Us Things About the Universe
  
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• What we could eat in a post-apocalypse world

  22-12-2014 20:23
  
  Imagine this: an apocalyptic event strikes the planet—say, a super-volcano, asteroid, or nuclear winter.
  
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• Lawsuits: Sony should have expected hack

  22-12-2014 19:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment have filed four lawsuits against the company following a massive security breach.
  
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• FAA, Industry Launch Drone Safety Campaign

  22-12-2014 18:57 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Retailers say small drones, which are indistinguishable from today's more sophisticated model aircraft, are flying off the shelves this Christmas.
  
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• A Deficit of Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources in Starburst Galaxies

  22-12-2014 18:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a study of active star-forming galaxies, revealing a large deficit in the number of ULXs detected. Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are point sources in the sky that are so bright in X-rays that each emits more radiation than a million suns emit at all wavelengths. ULXs […]
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• Kepler Detects A Super-Earth Transiting the Bright K-Dwarf HIP 116454

  22-12-2014 18:17 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is still alive and working and has detected a newfound planet, HIP 116454b, has a diameter of 20,000 miles, two and a half times the size of Earth. Cambridge, Massachusetts – To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft’s […]
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• A New Understanding of How to Trap Light

  22-12-2014 18:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study from MIT reveals the mechanism responsible for trapping the light, showing that this trapped state is much more stable than had been thought. Researchers at MIT who succeeded last year in creating a material that could trap light and stop it in its tracks have now developed a more fundamental understanding […]
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• Yale Study Shows Strong Neighborhood Relationships Can Help Reduce Gun Violence

  22-12-2014 17:41 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research presented at the Institute of Medicine’s Means of Violence workshop shows that strong neighborhood ties can help reduce gun violence. The bonds that tie a neighborhood together can help shield community members from gun violence, according to new findings by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars […]
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• Amazon's ever-struggling Fire Phone gets a lukewarm update - Mashable

  22-12-2014 17:32 via mashable.com
  
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  Amazon's ever-struggling Fire Phone gets a lukewarm update
  Mashable
  Amazon isn't ready to turn its back on the Fire Phone just yet. It got a big update on Friday that adds a host of new functions. The phone's Firefly feature now allows it to recognize more than 2,000 famous paintings using information from Wikipedia, and text ...
  
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• Why Care About Astro

  22-12-2014 17:30 via pinterest.com
  
  Why Care About Astronomy?
  
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• Correction: Marijuana Research Story

  22-12-2014 17:27
  Correction: Marijuana Research story
  
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• NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Views a Significant Solar Flare

  22-12-2014 17:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows an X1.8-class flare erupting on the sun on December 19, 2014. The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on December 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful […]
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• New NASA Video Provides Astronaut’s-Eye View of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Re-entry

  22-12-2014 17:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This new ten minute video from NASA’s Orion spacecraft provides viewers with a taste of the intense conditions the spacecraft and astronauts will endure when they return from deep space destinations. New video recorded during NASA’s Orion return through Earth’s atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth’s […]
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• Hubble Image of the Week: The Beautiful Side of IC 335

  22-12-2014 16:59 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy IC 335, which is located 60 million light-years away. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy […]
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• Watch: Techbytes: Amazon Will Not Give Up on the Fire Phone

  22-12-2014 15:07
  
  The company says it will go back to the drawing board after disappointing sales.
  
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• NASA emails a wrench to space

  22-12-2014 15:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Thanks to a 3-D printer aboard the ISS, astronaut Barry Wilmore got the wrench he needed to make a repair.
  
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• Sony Hack: The Real Cyberwar Is All Around You

  22-12-2014 14:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  There's a wider world of ongoing major hacks, with government-sponsored groups or "hacktivist" collectives attacking critical infrastructure.
  
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• Fin24.com | Amazon strike in Germany enters second week

  22-12-2014 14:07
  
  A strike by workers employed at Amazon's German operations entered its second week on Monday, with the action threatening to disrupt the US online retailer's business.
  
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• 'Illusion coatings' are like futuristic camouflage

  22-12-2014 13:19
  
  Instead of using invisibility cloaks to conceal objects from detection, "illusion coatings" could hide things by making them look like something else, researchers say
  
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• Mmm! Unraveling the chemistry of Christmas cookies

  22-12-2014 13:17
  
  It's Christmas cookie time, and everyone's got a recipe or two they swear by, whether their loyalties lie with frosted sugar cookies or gently spiced gingerbread
  
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• Meteor radar? Solar wind could help predict impacts

  22-12-2014 13:16
  
  SAN FRANCISCO Space rocks barreling toward Earth could potentially be discovered by detecting changes in streams of plasma and particles known as solar wind, new research suggests
  
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• This digital kitchen will make you a master chef

  22-12-2014 13:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cutting edge innovations are transforming our behavior in the kitchen. Here are six technologies turning us into smart cooks.
  
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• Is this 158-year-old redwood the UK's oldest living Christmas tree?

  22-12-2014 13:13
  
  A cultural agency in the United Kingdom says it has discovered the oldest living Christmas tree in all of Britain.
  
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• Report: Elon Musk's 'hyperloop' idea could work - USA TODAY

  22-12-2014 13:00 via usatoday.com
  
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  Report: Elon Musk's 'hyperloop' idea could work
  USA TODAY
  LOS ANGELES -- Enthusiasts behind Elon Musk's "hyperloop" proposal -- an intercity tube that speeds passengers riding in capsules at 600 miles per hour -- have taken the next step, producing a report outlying some of the big issues around the project.
  Elon Musk's Hyperloop "Only 10 Years Away"Chinatopix
  Now, a supertube that's faster than bullet trainThe Hindu
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• Fin24.com | Activity trackers get smarter at measuring fitness

  22-12-2014 13:00
  
  Fitness activity trackers have come a long way since Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary pedometer to track the treks of 15th century Roman soldiers.
  
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• NASA Astronauts Ratchet Up Sustainable Space Mission With 3D Print ... - Forbes

  22-12-2014 12:37 via forbes.com
  
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  NASA Astronauts Ratchet Up Sustainable Space Mission With 3D Print ...
  Forbes
  NASA space explorers have made a major breakthrough with the first ever in-space creation of a tool from a design emailed from Earth, taking a big step towards highly sustainable space exploration. The 3D printing breakthrough, on the International Space ...
  ISS astronauts develop socket wrench from emailed hardware via 3D-printerAmerica Herald
  NASA 'emails' wrench to space stationBusiness Standard
  
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• Champagne Bubbles have Link with Power Generating Turbine: Study - New Hampshire Voice

  22-12-2014 12:29 via nhv.us
  New Hampshire Voice
  Champagne Bubbles have Link with Power Generating Turbine: Study
  New Hampshire Voice
  Champagne is a drink, which we all contemplate with special occasions of life like job promotions, New Year, wedding and anniversaries. Everyone loves its taste and how can we forget the bubbles coming out from the bottle when the cork is opened.
  Bubbles, The Link Between Champagne and More Efficient Power-GeneratorsCapital OTC
  Air Pockets, Connection Between Champagne & More Efficient P
  
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• Fin24.com | 'Gross' internet art seeks changing perspectives

  22-12-2014 12:00
  
  An artist has published a series of illustrations on the internet that depict some of the controversial issues that dog modern society.
  
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• ​Google begins Android One expansion with three new countries - ZDNet

  22-12-2014 11:33 via zdnet.com
  
  India Today
  ​Google begins Android One expansion with three new countries
  ZDNet
  Google has kicked an expansion of the rollout of Android One, with the aim of taking the stock Android devices to most emerging markets across the Asia Pacific region. Following its launch in India this September, the Android One program will now move to ...
  Google Android One phones to sell in three more Asian countriesPCWorld
  Google's Android One Program Expands To Bangladesh, Sri Lanka And NepalAndroid
  
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• ISS astronauts develop socket wrench from emailed hardware via 3D-printer - America Herald

  22-12-2014 11:11 via americaherald.com
  America Herald
  ISS astronauts develop socket wrench from emailed hardware via 3D-printer
  America Herald
  We have recently heard about the first ever three-dimensional printer, which was sent by the US space agency NASA to the International Space Station (ISS). And now, here is a piece of good news that clearly illustrates the numerous benefits of the 3D- printer ...
  NASA 'emails' wrench to space stationBusiness Standard
  NASA just 'emailed' a wrench to space for the first tim
  
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• Techbytes: Amazon Will Not Give Up on the Fire Phone - ABC News

  22-12-2014 11:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
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  Techbytes: Amazon Will Not Give Up on the Fire Phone
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  ABC's Rebecca Jarvis goes undercover to claim a free trip offer received in the mail. Skip to this video now. Related. Now Playing: Techbytes: Amazon Will Not Give Up on the Fire Phone. Resume Playing Video. Related Videos. More information on this video.
  Amazon's Fire Phone 2 - “Breakthrough Technology” or Back to Basics?Modern Readers
  Amazon Back To The Drawing Board: New Fire Phone To Be Released In 2016
  
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• Fin24.com | Fibre broadband coming to Greenside, Parktown North

  22-12-2014 10:41
  
  Fibre broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps from telecommunications company Vumatel are coming to Johannesburg’s Greenside and Parktown North suburbs by May 2015.
  
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