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• Make Work Active with this Chair Mouse

  30-12-2014 23:59 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  This chair is more than a chair: it's a computer mouse. Instead of just sitting there, it allows work to be more active by using the whole body just to click and drag.
  
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• The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species - VICE News

  30-12-2014 23:00 via news.vice.com
  
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  The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species
  VICE News
  For many Americans, the monarch butterfly is an iconic part of childhood — a real world insect from which to learn about caterpillars, cocoons, metamorphosis, and migrations. But monarch butterfly populations have declined precipitously in recent years, ...
  Endangered? Monarch butterflies may get federal protectionRick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews
  Monarch butterfly may be placed on endangered list
  
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• Future cities may harvest energy from footsteps

  30-12-2014 22:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Using a technology that has been around for 130 years, a company called Pavegen hopes to create electricity from everyday human activities.
  
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• 3-D Printed Molecule Models Solve Protein Puzzles

  30-12-2014 22:37 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The technology behind 3-D printers is helping scientists gain insights into some of the tiniest constituents of the universe: biological molecules.
  
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• Office tech drives productivity, but longer hours - USA TODAY

  30-12-2014 22:04 via usatoday.com
  
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  Office tech drives productivity, but longer hours
  USA TODAY
  Digital technology in the workplace — e-mail, Internet access and smartphones — increases worker productivity and flexibility but possibly at a price: a longer workday. Nearly half of workers who use online and digital tools (46%) say they feel more productive ...
  Get Rid of Work Email? Never!PC Magazine
  Survey: Tech has FREED modern workers – to work longer hoursThe Register
  Half of Workers Say Internet Helps Prod
  
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• NASA's Dawn Probe Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres - NBCNews.com

  30-12-2014 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  
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  NASA's Dawn Probe Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres
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  NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun approaching Ceres ahead of a historic March arrival at the mysterious dwarf planet. Dawn has officially entered the Ceres approach phase, after emerging from behind the sun relative to Earth and thus coming back into ...
  NASA's Dawn spacecraft will reach dwarf planet Ceres by March 2015The Westside Story
  
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• Egglike Samsung Speakers Promise 360-Degree Sound

  30-12-2014 21:46 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The catchily-named WAM7500 and 6500 promise "rich-bodied sound experience no matter where you are in relation to the product."
  
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• Grand Canyon gray wolf may have been shot in Utah

  30-12-2014 21:23
  
  After a 500-mile (800 kilometers) trek across the West, a lone wolf's journey may have come to an end this weekend
  
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• United, Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Computer Whiz

  30-12-2014 21:12
  
  A tech savvy 22-year-old is being sued by United Airlines and Orbitz, over Skiplagged, the website he founded.
  
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• What It Takes to Be an FBI Cyber Agent

  30-12-2014 21:09
  
  The FBI is seeking to recruit a new class of cyber sleuths.
  
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• California Coyote That Bit Man, Child Not Rabid

  30-12-2014 21:02
  Coyote that bit man, child in Northern California did not have rabies
  
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• Biggest cloud-seeding experiment yet only sparks more debate

  30-12-2014 20:45
  
  Meteorologists first conceived of seeding clouds as a way to increase rainfall in 1946, working at General Electric's laboratories in Schenectady, New York.
  
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• Still Using a Landline at Work? You're Not Alone

  30-12-2014 19:52 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Smartphones might be the future, but when it comes to making work calls, Americans are sticking to old-fashioned landlines.
  
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• The biggest alien planet discoveries of 2014

  30-12-2014 19:38
  
  This past year was a banner one for the field of exoplanet science, with the tally of known alien worlds doubling to nearly 2,000 by the end of 2014.
  
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• New Half-Light Half-Matter Quantum Particles

  30-12-2014 18:53 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study details how a team of researchers were able to discover half-light, half-matter particles in atomically thin semiconductors. Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New York physicists led by […]
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• NASA's plan for a floating city above Venus

  30-12-2014 18:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Imagine a blimp city floating 30 miles above the scorching surface of Venus -- a home for a team of astronauts studying one of the solar system's most inhospitable planets.
  
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• MIT Scientists Use Optogenetics to Trigger REM Sleep

  30-12-2014 18:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By using optogenetics to trigger REM sleep in mice, a team of researchers from MIT has moved a step closer to being able to produce natural sleep patterns. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe how they were able to trigger a period of rapid eye […]
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• The Role of Genetics Varies Over Time

  30-12-2014 18:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from Yale University shows that the effect of genes may depend on the total, historical environment in which the researcher and subject are embedded. Nature and nurture have found a new companion — historical context. A new study has produced the best evidence yet that the role of genetics in complex traits, including […]
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• Tropical Forests May Be Absorbing More Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Thought

  30-12-2014 17:57 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study from NASA scientists shows that tropical forests, like the one pictured above, absorb more atmospheric carbon dioxide than boreal forests. A new NASA-led study shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more carbon dioxide than many scientists thought, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. The study […]
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• Microsoft Has Surprises in Store For January Event

  30-12-2014 17:57
  
  Microsoft is gearing up for a Windows 10 event in January that could be full of surprises, including the possible launch of a new web browser that is not Internet Explore
  
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• Mercury Spacecraft’s

  30-12-2014 17:51 via pinterest.com
  
  Mercury Spacecraft’s 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month
  
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• NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Ceres

  30-12-2014 17:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  After 87 months in space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is currently 400,000 miles from Ceres and has entered its approach phase toward the dwarf planet. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in […]
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• Is the Dodge Challenger Hellcat the 'Wildest Muscle Car' Ever? - NBCNews.com

  30-12-2014 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Is the Dodge Challenger Hellcat the 'Wildest Muscle Car' Ever?
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  Want some attention and excitement in the new year? Try the newest Dodge Challenger — the one with a 707-horsepower, supercharged Hemi V-8 under the hood. Popular Mechanics magazine calls the top-of-the-line, new-for 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat ...
  Fact sheet: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT HellcatWashington Post
  ‏Dodge Challenger is better than everDunwoody Crier
  At 707 HP, the Hellcat is a formi
  
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• Get Rid of Work Email? Never! - PC Magazine

  30-12-2014 17:02 via pcmag.com
  
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  Get Rid of Work Email? Never!
  PC Magazine
  Though we complain about it (and occasionally get in trouble because of it), email is still the most important digital tool for most online office workers, according to a new report. All those messages, meanwhile, are not as big a distraction as some would make ...
  Report: Office tech drives productivity and more hoursUSA TODAY
  Workers' Tech Needs Are More Old-School Than You ThinkLive Science
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• The weirdest app ideas of 2014

  30-12-2014 16:49 via rss.cnn.com
  An app to get free hugs from strangers? One to cope with "dental anxiety"? Here are the wackiest app ideas of the year.
  
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• Report: Apple dominates holiday device activations - USA TODAY

  30-12-2014 16:48 via usatoday.com
  
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  Report: Apple dominates holiday device activations
  USA TODAY
  It appears Apple devices were at the top of many holiday wish lists. More than half (51%) of devices activated during the week of Christmas were made by Apple, says a report from research firm Flurry. Samsung was second with 18%, while Nokia was third ...
  Apple's iPhone 6 Plus Phablet Wins the HolidaysBillboard
  Apple Inc. iPhones And iPads Scored Big This Christmas, New Data RevealsInternational Business Times
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• 'The Interview' Scores $15 Million in Online Sales

  30-12-2014 16:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  "The Interview" racked up $15 million in online sales over the holiday weekend to go along with the $2.8 million it made in theaters
  
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• Cyber security firm blames insiders for Sony hack - Fortune

  30-12-2014 16:39 via fortune.com
  
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  Cyber security firm blames insiders for Sony hack
  Fortune
  A leading cyber security firm says it has evidence that contradicts the government's allegation that North Korea was behind the debilitating cyber attacks against Sony Pictures. Researchers from the firm Norse told Security Ledger, an independent security ...
  Ex-Sony Worker Hacking Theory Casts Doubt on North Korea OriginsBloomberg
  FBI Fixated on North Korea for Sony Hack Despite New EvidenceDaily Beast
  New Research Blam
  
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• Birds Slur Their Songs When Drunk, Too

  30-12-2014 16:39
  
  It seems birds, like humans, also have a penchant for drunk singing.
  
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• The Year in Cybersecurity: 5 Threats to Watch in 2015

  30-12-2014 16:18 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Experts are hoping there's a silver lining to this brutal year: the start of a long-overdue conversation about attacks that threaten everyone online.
  
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• Gmail access starts to come back in China, state-run paper blames Google for ... - VentureBeat

  30-12-2014 16:04 via venturebeat.com
  
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  Gmail access starts to come back in China, state-run paper blames Google for ...
  VentureBeat
  Basic access to Gmail is starting to come back online in China on Tuesday after going down on Friday. The state-run Global Times China did not explain what caused the four-day outage, despite the fact that the government clearly implemented the block, and ...
  Access To Gmail Partially Restored In ChinaTechCrunch
  Gmail traffic trickles back into ChinaCNET
  China can log onto Gmail via thi
  
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• 'Jurassic World' guesses on dinosaur sounds, experts say

  30-12-2014 15:55
  
  The new "Jurassic World" movie trailer features growling, grunting and shrieking dinosaurs.
  
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• Watch: Moment Mysterious Light Streaks Across Sky

  30-12-2014 15:52
  
  The moment a possible meteor streaked across the sky was captured on a New Jersey motorist's dashboard video camera.
  
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• CIA admits: All those UFO sightings in 1950s? 'It was us'

  30-12-2014 15:50
  
  As far as "best of 2014" lists go, the CIA has a pretty irresistible one: On Dec. 22 it started tweeting links to the 10 most popular articles of the year that it shared on Twitter, and the agency arrived at No. 1 yesterday, tweeting: "Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s?
  
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• Rare tiger kills, eats her own cubs at zoo

  30-12-2014 15:46
  
  Everything had been going so well, staff at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo claim.
  
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• Former Google+ employee: We f***ed up

  30-12-2014 15:24 via rss.cnn.com
  A former Google+ employee who spent three years helping create Google+ has written a brutal blog post declaring the tech giant's social network a failure.
  
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• Man who cut off fingers makes 'Robohand'

  30-12-2014 15:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "I was in a position to see exactly what happens in the human hand. I got the basics of what it's all about and thought yeah, I'll make my own."
  
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• Couple wanted a PS4 ... they got this instead

  30-12-2014 14:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A California woman wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a PlayStation 4. KBAK has the story of what happened next.
  
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• A New Year's resolution for the workplace

  30-12-2014 14:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ron Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015
  
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• Hackers recreate fingerprints using public photos - CNNMoney

  30-12-2014 14:02 via money.cnn.com
  
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  Hackers recreate fingerprints using public photos
  CNNMoney
  fingerprint hack Hackers recreated the thumbprint of German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen using several news photos. 0. TOTAL SHARES. 0. NEW YORK (CNNMoney). A German hacking group claims that it can recreate your fingerprints from the ...
  Hacker claims you can steal fingerprints with only a cameraCNET
  Hacker 'reconstructs' German politician's fingerprint from photosFox News
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• High Skies, Low Tech: Why We Still Can't Track a Plane

  30-12-2014 14:01 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Denny Kelly, Kelly James and Associates, cites vast distances as one issue contributing to the tracking of airplanes. CNBC's Phil LeBeau provides perspective.
  
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• Fin24.com | Google blamed over Gmail block

  30-12-2014 13:35
  
  Google's unwillingness to obey Chinese law is to blame for the shutdown of its hugely popular e-mail service, state-run media has said.
  
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• Fin24.com | Review: iPhone fan gives BlackBerry a go

  30-12-2014 13:00
  
  Review: BlackBerry's new Classic aims to please its core users who love a physical keyboard.
  
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• Sony hackers 'shared' stolen employee login data - BBC News

  30-12-2014 12:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News
  Sony hackers 'shared' stolen employee login data
  BBC News
  Data that helped hackers access Sony's internal network came from another group targeting the firm's gaming network, reports the Washington Post. In an interview, a self-proclaimed Lizard Squad member said it had given stolen data to the Guardians of ...
  
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• Fin24.com | Kim Dotcom announces ‘Skype killer’

  30-12-2014 12:34
  
  The founder of controversial file-hosting website 'Mega' says he has built an internet video and voice chat service to rival Microsoft’s Skype.
  
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• Watch: Is Microsoft Killing Internet Explorer?

  30-12-2014 11:54
  
  Microsoft is reportedly building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push.
  
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• Microsoft planning to 'kill' Internet Explorer - Times of India

  30-12-2014 11:45 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com
  
  India Today
  Microsoft planning to 'kill' Internet Explorer
  Times of India
  We've heard lots and lots of rumors about Windows 10, but until now there's been little word about what browser the new operating system will use. According to ZDNet's sources Microsoft is building a completely new browser to replace the ubiquitous but ...
  Report: Microsoft may dump Internet Explorer for a new browserChron.com (blog)
  Microsoft ditching Internet Explorer for new "Spartan"
  
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• Review: IPhone User Tries to Go Back to BlackBerry

  30-12-2014 11:26
  Review: BlackBerry's new Classic aims to please its core users who love a physical keyboard
  
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• Fin24.com | Computer 'worm' removed at South Korea nuclear operator

  30-12-2014 11:09
  
  South Korean authorities have found evidence that a low-risk computer 'worm' had been removed from devices connected to some nuclear plant control systems.
  
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• Tech to Look Forward to in 2015

  30-12-2014 09:48
  
  From the Apple watch to self-driving cars, here's what you can expect in 2015.
  
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