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• Transient star grazing our solar system 'just left,' cosmically speaking - CNET

  18-02-2015 23:48 via cnet.com
  
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  Transient star grazing our solar system 'just left,' cosmically speaking
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  The nearest star beyond our own sun is 4 light-years away, but not long ago (in terms of cosmic time) a small binary star system buzzed the edge of our solar system, coming five times closer to Earth. by Eric Mack · @ericcmack; 18 February 2015 10:41 pm ...
  Alien Star Buzzed Our Solar System 70000 Years Ago, New Research ShowsHuffington Post
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• U.S. Pushes Companies to Address Cyberthreats

  18-02-2015 22:34 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  As cyberattacks grow in frequency and damage, the Obama administration is pushing companies to move faster to address the fast-growing threat.
  
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• 'Blackshades' Computer Hacking Probe Nets Guilty Plea

  18-02-2015 21:53 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Authorities say the defendant distributed malware that was used to hack into half a million computers worldwide.
  
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• Watch: Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Launch

  18-02-2015 20:56
  
  Research firm expects Apple Watch sales to top 20 million in 2015.
  
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• Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Launch - ABC News

  18-02-2015 19:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
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  Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Launch
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  Hey there in today's tech bytes what could be one of Apple's biggest product launches ever the tech giant has ordered between five and six million apple watch as. We're April debut and a new report says by year's end apple could sell twenty million making it ...
  Apple Watch Not Ready For Full Health Tracking Mode, YetForbes
  Apple Watch's Health Features Scaled Way Back, Sources SayiHealthBeat
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• Why did the moose cross the road? Cameras reveal all

  18-02-2015 19:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In Wyoming, a high-tech project is protecting the migration routes of big-game animals.
  
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• New Anti-HIV Candidate Blocks Every Strain of HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV

  18-02-2015 18:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a new study, researchers show that a new drug candidate blocks every strain of HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV that has been isolated from humans or rhesus macaques, including the hardest-to-stop variants. Jupiter, Florida – February 18, 2015 – In a remarkable new advance against the virus that causes AIDS, scientists from the Jupiter, Florida […]
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• The Closest Known Flyby of a Star to Our Solar System

  18-02-2015 18:45 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study from the University of Rochester details the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system – a dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago. A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered […]
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• Watch Monkeys Play Games on iPads at Minnesota Zoo

  18-02-2015 18:41 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Zookeepers at the Lake Superior Zoo in Minnesota are letting primates in their care use iPads for games, drawing and even Facetime.
  
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• New Approach Improves Execution Times and Efficiency of Multicore Chips

  18-02-2015 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from MIT describes a system that cleverly distributes data around multicore chips’ memory banks, improving execution times by 18 percent on average while actually increasing energy efficiency. Computer chips’ clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores, which can execute computations […]
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• Apple Watch: What We Know About the Wearable

  18-02-2015 18:24
  
  The wait for the Apple Watch is almost over -- but there are still plenty of unanswered questions about the wearable.
  
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• Fin24.com | Union to launch mass action against Telkom

  18-02-2015 18:16
  
  The Communication Workers Union plans to embark on mass action against Telkom's imminent retrenchments.
  
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• Apple Wins Patent for Virtual Reality Googles

  18-02-2015 17:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Apple has been granted a patent for an iPhone-compatible headset, sparking chatter the company might want to compete in the virtual reality market.
  
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• Apple Wins Patent for Virtual Reality Goggles

  18-02-2015 17:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Apple has been granted a patent for an iPhone-compatible headset, sparking chatter the company might want to compete in the virtual reality market.
  
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• Marijuana Munchies: How the Appetite Center of the Brain Responds to Marijuana

  18-02-2015 17:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study from Yale University observes how the appetite center of the brain responds to marijuana, revealing what drives the hunger brought about by cannabis and how that same mechanism that normally turns off feeding becomes a driver of eating. The “munchies,” or that uncontrollable urge to eat after using marijuana, appear to be […]
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• Two Merging Stars Destined to Ignite a Vast Supernova Explosion

  18-02-2015 17:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study reveals that two massive stars at the heart of the planetary nebula Henize 2-428 should merge in 700 million years, triggering a type Ia supernova event. Astronomers using ESO facilities in combination with telescopes in the Canary Islands have identified two surprisingly massive stars at the heart of the planetary nebula […]
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• The Internet is Having Fun with New Apple Rumors

  18-02-2015 17:18 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The current rumors about Apple developing a self-driving car probably aren't true but that doesn't mean you can't crack jokes about it on Twitter.
  
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• Disproving the Predicted Brown Dwarf around V471 Tau

  18-02-2015 17:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the new extreme-AO instrument SPHERE, researchers image the prototype eclipsing post-common envelope binary V471 Tau in search of the brown dwarf that is believed to be responsible for variations in its eclipse arrival times. The new SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to search for a brown dwarf expected to […]
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• Facebook Is Working on Virtual-Reality Apps: Re/code

  18-02-2015 16:46 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Turns out that some of Facebook's plans for VR may involve content produced by its own users — as well as by celebrities.
  
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• Alwilda was a Scandi

  18-02-2015 16:37 via pinterest.com
  
  Alwilda was a Scandinavian pirate woman who accosted shipping from the North Sea to the coast of Spain with her ship crewed entirely by women. She might have been considered one of the most successful pirates in history had she not fallen in love with her persuer Prince Alf of Denmark. Her career as a pirate ended when they married.
  
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• The so-called Maiden

  18-02-2015 16:36 via pinterest.com
  
  The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death. Researchers analyzed tissue proteins, rather than DNA, from the Maiden and another young Inca mummy who died at the same time.
  
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• Millions of Kids Exposed to ID Theft in Anthem Breach

  18-02-2015 16:16 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  "This is a watershed event," said one security expert, predicting thieves will use the stolen information in waves of crimes for years to come.
  
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• Peruvian Traditional

  18-02-2015 15:46 via pinterest.com
  
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• Faces of Panama | Em

  18-02-2015 15:45 via pinterest.com
  
  Faces of Panama | Emberá (Empera or Emberak) woman | © Anselmo Mantovani, via Flickr
  
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• Guanajuato, Mexico

  18-02-2015 15:44 via pinterest.com
  
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• Little girl in tradi

  18-02-2015 15:44 via pinterest.com
  
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• Paparazzi-proof clothing that's embedded with reflective glass

  18-02-2015 15:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An American clothing company has designed reflective garments that make whoever wears them invisible in photographs.
  
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• Fin24.com | Post office systems crash affects delivery

  18-02-2015 14:59
  
  The SA Post Office experienced an online systems issue earlier this month that has left customers unable to collect or send parcels, but Sapo says all is back to normal.
  
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• Fin24.com | Muthambi ‘defies’ ANC in set-top box debate

  18-02-2015 14:25
  
  Arguments over whether South Africa’s devices for digital television should have controls or not have made a reappearance, threatening a delayed migration process.
  
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• Fin24.com | Sony predicts massive return to profit

  18-02-2015 13:16
  
  Sony is aiming to see operating profit soar to more than ¥500bn ($4.2bn) in fiscal 2017 with renewed focus on image sensors, PlayStation and entertainment businesses.
  
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• Fin24.com | Close call star visitor revealed by astronomers

  18-02-2015 12:01
  
  By the standards of outer space, it was the closest call yet recorded: A star that zoomed past our solar system 70 000 years ago.
  
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• Fin24.com | Metrorail app tells your boss if you’re late

  18-02-2015 11:20
  
  Metrorail has announced a new service to help workers inform their superiors if they will be late for work.
  
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• Fin24.com | Gijima to delist from JSE

  18-02-2015 10:22
  
  Billionaire businessman and ANC benefactor Robert Gumede has sought to buy out all the shares of the company after its stock on the JSE has tumbled in recent years.
  
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• Fin24.com | Cell C 'exploring' sale to local competitors

  18-02-2015 09:54
  
  The mobile network is said to be reviewing its operations and looking at a possible sale to domestic rivals.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers to list printing unit

  18-02-2015 08:24
  
  Media and internet giant Naspers says it plans to list its Novus printing unit on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in March.
  
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• Fin24.com | Vodacom launches free online education tool

  18-02-2015 08:07
  
  Vodacom has launched an online education portal as a way of providing educational content matched to the South African school curriculum.
  
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• Fin24.com | Israel, Egypt face sophisticated cyber warfare

  18-02-2015 06:51
  
  A group of cyber extremists are carrying out a series of internet attacks against Israel and Egypt in the latest chapter of an international cyber war.
  
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  18-02-2015 04:31 via pinterest.com
  
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• Meet the Chula Vista woman chosen as a finalist to go to Mars... and never come ... - U-T San Diego

  18-02-2015 02:09 via utsandiego.com
  
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  Meet the Chula Vista woman chosen as a finalist to go to Mars... and never come ...
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  A Chula Vista woman is one of 100 finalists vying for an incredible journey to outer space that will result in a new address, namely the fourth planet from the sun, at the first permanent human settlement on Mars. photo Carmen Paul ...
  Texas' woman named a finalist for chance to take one-way trip to MarsChron.com
  Who wants to live (or die) on Mars?USA TODAY
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• Apple Watch projected to sell 20 million - USA TODAY

  18-02-2015 01:20 via usatoday.com
  
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  Apple's got a new product coming out in a few weeks, it's first new i-device in 5 years, and expectations are growing that it will be quite a hit. Researcher CCS Insight predicts Apple will sell 20 million of. Loading… Post to Facebook. Apple Watch projected to ...
  Millions Of Apple Watches Ordered In Advance Of April LaunchCBS Local
  Apple Watch Orders Top 5M, Healthcare Features KilledInformationWeek
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• The only solution to the Equation Group is destroying your hard drive - Mashable

  18-02-2015 01:14 via mashable.com
  
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  The only solution to the Equation Group is destroying your hard drive
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  The sophisticated malware and spyware used by the Equation Group — the scary-sounding cyberespionage operation exposed this week — is almost impossible to detect and even more difficult to destroy. Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity software ...
  Did NSA plant spyware in computers around world?Charlotte Observer
  Spying Campaign Bearing NSA Traits Found Infecting ComputersBloomberg
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• Mysterious Bright Spots Seen in New Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres - NBCNews.com

  18-02-2015 01:09 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Mysterious Bright Spots Seen in New Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres
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  More than 10 years after the Hubble Space telescope captured bright white spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, the Dawn probe is ready to get to the bottom of the mystery — just not quite yet. The latest photos from Dawn, taken on Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 ...
  New Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres Reveal Mysterious Bright SpotsNational Geographic
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• Limpet teeth set new strength record - BBC News

  18-02-2015 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Limpet teeth set new strength record
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  Engineers in the UK have found that limpets' teeth consist of the strongest biological material ever tested. Limpets use a tongue bristling with tiny teeth to scrape food from rocks and also to carve out scars, which they nestle in when the tide goes out. The teeth ...
  Nature's Strongest Teeth Belong to Aquatic SnailsDiscovery News
  Limpet teeth overtake spider silk as 'strongest biological material'Irish Times
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• Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system - National Monitor

  18-02-2015 01:07 via natmonitor.com
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  Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system
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  According to researchers, a dim red dwarf made once made a pass through our solar system's Oort Cloud. An international group of astronomers has determined that 70,000 years ago a dim star is likely to have passed within our solar systems Oort Cloud.
  Recently Discovered Star Had A Close Encounter With Our Solar SystemTech Times
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• Tiny Oregon Minnow Is First Fish Taken off Endangered List

  18-02-2015 01:06
  
  Tiny Oregon minnow is first fish removed from endangered species list due to recovery
  
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• Rolls-Royce Confirms Plans for Super-Luxury SUV - Bloomberg

  18-02-2015 01:00 via bloomberg.com
  
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  Rolls-Royce Confirms Plans for Super-Luxury SUV
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  Today Rolls-Royce sent white-gloved chauffeurs in Phantoms around New York City to deliver letters announcing plans to build a sports utility vehicle (SUV), making good on hints dropped by CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes earlier this year. Well, they're not ...
  Rolls-Royce confirms development of new 'all-terrain' model'gulfnews.com
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• Researchers Find How Acidified Oceans Have Become with Help of NASA and ... - Science Times

  18-02-2015 00:40 via sciencetimes.com
  
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  Researchers Find How Acidified Oceans Have Become with Help of NASA and ...
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  While many argue that the fight against greenhouse gases is long over, climatologists and ecologists continue to urge that the battle continues on. And while the culprits are all the same, the problems with these remnants of burning fossil fuels are taking on ...
  Satellite images help build new ocean acidification mapsUPI.com
  New Maps Show Just How Acidic Earth's Oceans AreNature Wor
  
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• Life in The Cold—How Penguins Deal Without Sweet & Savory Sensations - Science Times

  18-02-2015 00:40 via sciencetimes.com
  
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  Life in The Cold—How Penguins Deal Without Sweet & Savory Sensations
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  What could be worse than living on a frozen tundra, you ask? Experiencing the world in only two tastes has got to be pretty rough. And when you're noshing down on fish day in and day out, only being able to taste things that are salty or sour has got to be a ...
  Penguins Have Bad TasteDiscovery News
  Penguins lack Three of Five Basic TastesMaine News Online
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• MYSTERY of GLOWING 'PLUMES' above MARS: Boffins baffled - The Register

  18-02-2015 00:01 via theregister.co.uk
  
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  MYSTERY of GLOWING 'PLUMES' above MARS: Boffins baffled
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  A group of amateur astronomers has discovered a tricky conundrum for the professionals, documenting an atmospheric plume - or some sort of thing - above Mars where it shouldn't happen. The observations, made in March 2012 and written up for Nature ...
  'Mystery plumes' on Mars baffles the hell out of scientistsChron.com (blog)
  Mysterious Mars Haze Puzzles ScientistsABC News
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