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• LAPD Board OKs Body Camera Policy Despite Opposition

  28-04-2015 23:56
  LAPD oversight board approves body camera policy despite opposition, allowing broad rollout
  
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• Yes, someone put an Apple Watch in a blender - CNET

  28-04-2015 23:44 via cnet.com
  
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  Yes, someone put an Apple Watch in a blender
  CNET
  The downside to being the hottest gadget on the block is that a surprising number of people want to destroy you, often literally. And sometimes they want to see if you'll make a nice smoothie. by Eric Mack · @ericcmack; April 28, 2015 2:01 PM PDT. comments.
  VIDEO: Mad scientist puts Apple Watch in blenderabc7news.com
  New Apple Watch in Blender is #trendingUPThe Denver Channel
  Blendtec asks if an Apple Watch will blendDaily Herald
  
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• Twitter Stock Tumbles After Revenue, Outlook Miss

  28-04-2015 23:39
  Twitter stock tumbles after revenue, outlook miss amid expectations of strong ad growth
  
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• How Virtual Reality is Being Used to Tackle Prejudice

  28-04-2015 23:19 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  One group of technologists and researchers is working to use virtual reality to create a new way of helping people better understand each other.
  
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• LG's New G4 Phones Will Have Leather Backs

  28-04-2015 22:41
  
  LG introduces G4 phones with leather backs, aimed at setting itself apart from Apple, Samsung
  
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• It's a Small, Small World in Microscope Video Contest

  28-04-2015 22:36 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Nikon is out with the winners of its annual Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, highlighting the best videos of microscopic subjects.
  
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• Blood Falls give hope for life on Mars - SlashGear

  28-04-2015 21:55 via slashgear.com
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  Blood Falls give hope for life on Mars
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  In Antarctica, Blood Falls spew forth unto the white landscape, gushing dark red liquid into the purity of the snow and ice. This unsettling image is giving scientists hope that one day they might find a mass equally strange on the Red Planet. Blood Falls belch ...
  Briny lakes discovered in Antarctica support possibility of life on MarsNational Monitor
  Waterways found under Antarctica's Dry Valleys: ResearchUncove
  
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• Cablevision Strikes Deal to Offer Hulu Streaming Services

  28-04-2015 21:46
  Cablevision Systems strikes deal to offer Hulu on-demand content to Optimum customers
  
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• See the Apple Watch Go Through Blender Torture Test

  28-04-2015 21:17
  
  An Apple Watch Sport was tossed into an industrial blender like a common smoothie ingredient as part of Blendtec's "Will it Blend?" test.
  
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• Fin24.com | WATCH: The first cellphone call was an epic troll

  28-04-2015 21:09
  
  Dr Martin Cooper looks back at the day they decided to design the world's first ever cellphone and the outcome was by far the world's biggest brick phone.
  
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• Secretive X-37B Space Plane to Test New Thruster

  28-04-2015 20:35 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  After years of silence on the X-37B space plane, the Defense Department has revealed that the craft will host an experimental new thrust system.
  
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• Amazon Launches Whispercast 3.0 To Boost Digital Distribution For Educational ... - Bidness ETC

  28-04-2015 20:33 via bidnessetc.com
  
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  Amazon Launches Whispercast 3.0 To Boost Digital Distribution For Educational ...
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  Today Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched an update for its Whispercast, a self-service platform designed for organizations to effectively manage content. Whispercast 3.0 has now been released as a new version of the e-commerce giant's important ...
  Amazon Whispercast 3.0 Helps Your Teacher Stay OrganizedPC Magazine
  Amazon updates Digital Distribution Platform WhispercastUncove
  
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• When Did the Universe Flood With Water? - Discovery News

  28-04-2015 20:20 via news.discovery.com
  
  Discovery News
  When Did the Universe Flood With Water?
  Discovery News
  By studying ancient molecular clouds in our galaxy, astronomers have revealed that the universe's reservoir of water likely appeared much earlier than thought — only a billion years after the Big Bang. The challenge facing water formation, a molecule ...
  Water may have been plentiful in universe's first billion yearsScience /AAAS
  Water could have been abundant in the first billion yearsNanowerk
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• Tesla's Big Battery Announcement

  28-04-2015 19:03
  
  Electric car company is widely believed to be unveiling batteries for the home.
  
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• Watch: See the Apple Watch Go Through Blender Torture Test and More

  28-04-2015 18:24
  
  Apple's latest product fared differently against a kitchen appliance and an automobile.
  
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• Tech's Quest to Revive San Francisco's Underbelly

  28-04-2015 17:58 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The homelessness, poverty and drug abuse are still apparent, sitting literally at the feet of some of the world's fastest engines of wealth creation.
  
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• Study links extreme weather to global warming - Boston Globe (subscription)

  28-04-2015 17:25 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  Study links extreme weather to global warming
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  NEW YORK — The moderate global warming that has already occurred as a result of human emissions is responsible for about 75 percent of daily heat extremes and about 18 percent of precipitation extremes, scientists reported Monday. Especially hot days ...
  Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot daysWorcester Telegramall 300 news articles »
  
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• Watch: Techbytes: Facebook Develops Video Chat Feature

  28-04-2015 17:02
  
  The social media giant will allow users to make free voice calls from IOS and Android devices.
  
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• A Leather Smartphone? LG Unveils The G4

  28-04-2015 17:01 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  LG an unexpected strategy with its new G4 flagship phone: leather.
  
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• Fin24.com | Smartwatch will be Apple’s best-selling new product - analyst

  28-04-2015 16:28
  
  An expert says the tech giant is entering a super cycle with a stronger iPhone sales and initial strength around Apple Watch.
  
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• Google's 'Digital News Initiative' Hands $163 Million to Publishers

  28-04-2015 16:12 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  After being thwacked so many times in Europe, Google is taking a new tack: Extend an olive branch to the fourth estate.
  
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• MESSENGER Prepares for Mercury Collision

  28-04-2015 15:42
  
  NASA's MESSENGER probe will run out of fuel and smash into the surface of Mercury, creating a new crater on the surface of the planet closest to the sun.
  
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• Fin24.com | Tencent launches its own operating system

  28-04-2015 15:39
  
  The Chinese internet company has launched an operating system for internet-connected devices such as TVs and watches that is open to all developers.
  
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• Newly found Chilean dinosaur poses evolutionary puzzle - Fox News Latino

  28-04-2015 15:35 via latino.foxnews.com
  
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  Newly found Chilean dinosaur poses evolutionary puzzle
  Fox News Latino
  By Carmen Rodriguez. The newly discovered Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a 145-million-year-old dinosaur and the first from the Jurassic period discovered in Chile, is "one of the strangest found so far" and amounts to an "evolutionary puzzle," one of the ...
  A weird 'platypus' dinosaur made of mismatched partsLos Angeles Times
  "Bizarre" T. rex relative was long-necke
  
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• Astronomers Discover Radio Phoenix Close to the Moment of Its Formation

  28-04-2015 15:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, the Very Large Array ad the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have spotted a radio source with the emission and charged particle characteristics of a radio phoenix. Abell 1033 is a cluster of over 350 galaxies located about 1.7 billion light-years away. […]
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• Nanoparticles Deliver PNA Molecules to Correct Mutation in Cystic Fibrosis

  28-04-2015 15:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research details how a team of scientists delivered peptide nucleic acids and donor DNA via microscopic nanoparticles to successfully corrected the most common mutation in the gene that causes cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited, life-threatening disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system. It is most commonly caused by a mutation in […]
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• Astronomers Reveal “Missing-Link” in the Supernova-GRB Connection

  28-04-2015 14:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study details the “missing link” between supernova explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and those that don’t. Cambridge, Massachusetts – Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) have found a long-sought “missing link” between supernova explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and those that don’t. The scientists found that […]
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• NASA’s MESSENGER Spacecraft Seeks to Unmask the Secrets of Mercury

  28-04-2015 13:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Since entering Mercury orbit on March 17, 2011, NASA’s MESSENGER Spacecraft has provided astronomers with over 250,000 images and extensive other data sets. The Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument aboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft was designed to study both the exosphere and surface of the planet Mercury. To learn more about the minerals […]
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• Fin24.com | China foreign website error hints at censorship

  28-04-2015 12:27
  
  Internet users in China are unable to use a number of popular foreign websites, the latest in a series of challenges to people.
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week: Galactic Refurbishment

  28-04-2015 12:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy UGC 5797. The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC 5797. UGC 5797 is an emission line galaxy, meaning that it is currently undergoing active star formation. The result is a stellar population that is constantly […]
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• Fin24.com | Online twerking video gets girls jail time

  28-04-2015 11:16
  
  Can twerking get you thrown in jail? Apparently the answer is yes after three Russian dancers were given prison sentences.
  
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• Fin24.com | Smartphones hit record growth in Africa

  28-04-2015 10:02
  
  Falling prices are spurring on smartphone growth in the Middle East and Africa, an international survey has found.
  
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• Fin24.com | Africa leads the way in mobile banking

  28-04-2015 09:01
  
  Services allowing consumers to perform banking and payment operations on their mobile phones are surging in sub-Saharan Africa.
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple CEO: Hard to gauge smart watch demand

  28-04-2015 07:53
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook has said demand continued to outstrip supply for the new Apple Watch.
  
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