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• Microsoft Working on WiFi App That Keeps You Connected

  02-06-2015 23:51 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  Microsoft briefly and accidentally took the wraps off a new app Tuesday when the service's website went live ahead of schedule.
  
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• Congress Sends NSA Phone-Records Bill to President

  02-06-2015 23:37
  
  Congress sends bill remaking NSA phone collection to president, 2 days after letting law lapse
  
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• Colorado Coal Mine Appeals Climate Change Court Ruling

  02-06-2015 23:10
  
  Colorado mine appeals ruling requiring regulators to consider climate impact of coal
  
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• Activists: Decline of Elephants in Tanzania Is Catastrophic

  02-06-2015 23:04
  Decline of Tanzanian elephants due to poaching is catastrophic, conservationists say
  
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• Pinterest to Unveil 'Buyable Pins' in Next Few Weeks

  02-06-2015 22:44
  
  'Buyable pins' will allow Pinterest users to purchase products directly
  
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• Noisy Debate About Storm-Protection Research off New Jersey

  02-06-2015 22:43
  To protect the coast, or marine life? Environmental priorities clash in New Jersey research
  
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• Feds Releasing Plan for Bull Trout Conservation in 5 States

  02-06-2015 22:35
  Federal wildlife officials releasing plan for bull trout conservation in 5 Western states
  
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• Disney Unveils New 'Playmation' Toys

  02-06-2015 22:12 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  Disney on Tuesday unveiled "Playmation," a new type of high-tech toy that brings motion-sensor technology, Bluetooth and cloud connectivity to wearable devices and traditional action figures.
  
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• FBI Behind Mysterious Surveillance Aircraft Over US Cities

  02-06-2015 21:56
  AP Exclusive: FBI behind mysterious fleet of aircraft conducting surveillance over US cities
  
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• Storage Bunkers Sealed off at Nuclear Dump Closed by Leak

  02-06-2015 21:49
  Workers finish sealing storage bunkers at US nuclear dump closed by radiation leak last year
  
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• Apple's Siri Has New Role in New 'Smart' Home Systems

  02-06-2015 21:30
  First products compatible with Apple's HomeKit software hit the market
  
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• Condor Found in Backyard Heads to Reintroduction Program

  02-06-2015 20:56
  Condor found in Colorado backyard heads to Arizona reintroduction program
  
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• Prepare Your Wallets: Pinterest Introduces 'Buyable' Pins

  02-06-2015 20:42 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  Pinterest just introduced a way for users of its shareable image collections to buy what they see with just a couple taps.
  
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• Facebook Opens Artificial Intelligence Center in Paris

  02-06-2015 18:32 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is opening an "international research center for artificial intelligence" in the city.
  
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• Crashing Comets Cause Lunar Swirl Formations

  02-06-2015 18:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New computer simulation techniques suggest that crashing comets are responsible for the formation of lunar swirls on the Moon. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls — wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon’s surface — were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 […]
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• New Process for 3D Printing of Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels

  02-06-2015 18:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from MIT have developed a new process that uses 3D printing to produce complex hydrogel structures that are “extremely tough and robust.” Researchers have developed a new way of making tough — but soft and wet — biocompatible materials, called “hydrogels,” into complex and intricately patterned shapes. The process might lead to injectable materials […]
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• Astronomers Study the Interstellar Medium a Billion Years After the Big Bang

  02-06-2015 17:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a newly published study astronomers measured the emission from ionized carbon in seventeen young galaxies, revealing a good measure of the rate of star formation in the very early universe (except in sources deficient in carbon), that the UV fields are about 100-1000 times as strong as they are near the Sun, and that […]
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• IRS Needs to Do More to Fight Cyberattacks: Watchdog

  02-06-2015 17:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  The IRS has failed to implement security upgrades to combat cyberattacks, leaving the agency's systems vulnerable, a government watchdog said.
  
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• NASA Scientists Are Developing Tools to Allow Astronauts to “Live Off the Land”

  02-06-2015 17:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Similar to when early explorers crossed vast oceans to reach new worlds, NASA engineers and scientists now are developing the tools that will allow astronauts to live off the land of an asteroid, the moon or Mars. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, researchers are studying how to best practice in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), […]
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• It's Official: Fallout 4 Announcement Is Coming Tomorrow - Forbes

  02-06-2015 17:07 via forbes.com
  
  Forbes
  It's Official: Fallout 4 Announcement Is Coming Tomorrow
  Forbes
  There have been so many leaks and teasers over the last couple years, false, true, and somewhere in between, that the slow, inevitable push towards an actual announcement has been agonizing at times. But it's coming. Bethesda just put a Fallout-style ...
  Bethesda tease Fallout 4 reveal tomorrowMetro
  Fallout News Coming WednesdayGameSpot
  Bethesda Teases Fallout 4 Announcement in the Next 24 HoursCrave Online
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• Microsoft Bought One of the Best To-Do List Apps - TIME

  02-06-2015 17:06 via time.com
  
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  Microsoft Bought One of the Best To-Do List Apps
  TIME
  Microsoft has once again expanded its mobile footprint with the acquisition of 6Wunderkinder, a Berlin-based startup behind popular task managing app Wunderlist. Wunderlist, which can be used to make to-do lists and set reminders, was nominated by ...
  Microsoft confirms acquisition of Wunderlist app maker 6WunderkinderVentureBeat
  Microsoft's acquisition of Wunderlist is officialThe Verge
  Microsoft satisfies its Wunderlist to jo
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple's Siri has new role in 'smart' homes

  02-06-2015 17:06
  
  The first smart home gadgets that can be controlled by Apple's voice-activated digital assistant are going on sale this week
  
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• Google Photos shows how well Google knows you - Mashable

  02-06-2015 17:00 via mashable.com
  
  Mashable
  Google Photos shows how well Google knows you
  Mashable
  The algorithms have spoken: I am an anti-social homebody who spends a great deal of his free time photographing the same few cats, meals and sunsets. I travel occasionally, but mostly along the East Coast near where I live. And I spend almost all of my ...
  Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s Photos Is Like Gmail Of PhotosInvestCorrectly
  Bitcoin Merchants Can Use Google's Android Pay to Make Payments EasiernewsBTC
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• Caitlyn Jenner Breaks Twitter Record After 'Vanity Fair'

  02-06-2015 16:26 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  When Vanity Fair tweeted the cover of its upcoming issue on Monday, the Internet went wild.
  
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• First look: Here come the Apple HomeKit devices for connected homes - ZDNet

  02-06-2015 16:20 via zdnet.com
  
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  First look: Here come the Apple HomeKit devices for connected homes
  ZDNet
  Despite earlier reports that HomeKit products would be delayed, the first few are becoming available for your smarthome. The devices all work with Siri for voice commands and can be grouped together into scenes and rooms for easier control. First Apple ...
  Here Are The First Connected Home Devices For Apple's HomeKitTechCrunch
  The first products that support Apple's HomeKit have arrivedEng
  
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• Fin24.com | Internet only contributes 2% to SA economy

  02-06-2015 16:07
  
  Online businesses’ contribution to the South African economy is lagging far behind that of developed and even other developing nations, according to a study.
  
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• Florida fish have babies by 'virgin birth' - USA TODAY

  02-06-2015 16:05 via usatoday.com
  
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  Florida fish have babies by 'virgin birth'
  USA TODAY
  Looks like female sawfish don't need the guys so much anymore. Scientists have discovered seven examples in Florida of virgin-birth offspring by smalltooth sawfish, an endangered species whose members grow up to 25 feet in length and have long snouts ...
  Critically endangered fish has offspring without mating (+video)Christian Science Monitor
  Sexless reproduction found among sawfish in Florida estuaryBusines
  
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• Apple Shows Off iPhone 6 Camera With User-Generated Videos - PC Magazine

  02-06-2015 15:44 via pcmag.com
  
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  Apple Shows Off iPhone 6 Camera With User-Generated Videos
  PC Magazine
  Apple's "Shot on iPhone 6" campaign features regular people snapping extraordinary photos—and now videos—with the latest iOS device. Apple's iPhone World Gallery features stunning photos captured by the iPhone 6. But Cupertino has now expanded ...
  Watch Apple's gorgeous new fan-made adsFortune
  How Much is Your iPhone 5 / 5s / 5c Worth Now?Tom's Guide
  Apple prepares for major enterprise pus
  
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• 1TB PlayStation 4 and new Xbox One bundle, controller tipped ahead of E3 - PCWorld

  02-06-2015 15:35 via pcworld.com
  
  PCWorld
  1TB PlayStation 4 and new Xbox One bundle, controller tipped ahead of E3
  PCWorld
  The E3 gaming conference is still two weeks out, but some console-related news is already leaking. It looks like both Microsoft and Sony have upgrade plans for their consoles that we assume will be announced during E3, which begins in Las Vegas on June ...
  Sony Is About to Dramatically Improve the Playstation 4TIME
  Sony Is Making a 1TB PS4Forbes
  Sony FCC Listing Hints PS4 With 1TB HDD InsideTech Times
  
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• Former 'Kremlin Troll' Sues to End Putin Propaganda

  02-06-2015 15:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  A former "Kremlin troll" says she is suing her old employer to shut down what she describes as a 'factory' churning out Internet propaganda.
  
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• Fin24.com | Slow advances towards new SA ICT policy

  02-06-2015 14:56
  
  The department of posts and telecommunications is edging closer to completing a white paper on an ICT policy review for South Africa.
  
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• NASA to test flying saucer

  02-06-2015 14:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Keep an eye on the skies over Hawaii on Wednesday. If all goes to plan, NASA will be testing out a saucer-shaped craft that could hold the key to a future human mission to Mars.
  
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• Apple 'readies Spotify rival streaming service for WWDC reveal' - Telegraph.co.uk

  02-06-2015 14:44 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Apple 'readies Spotify rival streaming service for WWDC reveal'
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Apple's long-awaited music streaming service will be revealed at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 8, sources have claimed, in a move which could disrupt Spotify's dominance of the sector. Rumours have circulated around the ...
  Apple, Feeling Heat From Spotify, to Offer Streaming Music ServiceWall Street Journal
  Benner on Tech: Apple Gets Into the Music-Streaming
  
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• How to watch Apple's WWDC live - Fortune

  02-06-2015 14:22 via fortune.com
  
  Fortune
  How to watch Apple's WWDC live
  Fortune
  The invitation went out Monday night, a week before the keynote address that kicks off Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference. “Join us on June 8 at 10 a.m. PDT for our special event. Watch the live video and follow every moment on ...
  Apple's TV service delayed: getting local rights taking longerBoston Herald
  Apple will livestream WWDC 2015 keynoteMobileSyrup.com
  iOS 9, OS X 10.11, Apple Music and iPhone 7 at WWDC 2015S
  
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• XCOM 2 is coming - are you ready to take on ET? - Irish Examiner

  02-06-2015 13:37 via irishexaminer.com
  
  Irish Examiner
  XCOM 2 is coming - are you ready to take on ET?
  Irish Examiner
  If you're really old (like us) you might remember a game from 1993 called UFO: Enemy Unknown. It's pretty likely that you don't in fact, but that game spawned a 1995 sequel called X-COM Terror from the Deep, kicking off a turn based strategy franchise which ...
  XCOM 2 Release: 5 Things Gamers Need to KnowGotta Be Mobile
  The New XCOM 2 Trailer Has 5 Exhilarating ImplicationsTwinfinite
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• Watch: Rumored Apple Music Streaming Service

  02-06-2015 13:21
  
  Apple reportedly plans to announce a $10-a-month subscription based music streaming service.
  
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• Fin24.com | How to protect kids from online bullies

  02-06-2015 13:19
  
  With the exponential growth in internet access and services, children face an increasing risk from cyber bullies while parents remain unaware, says an international survey.
  
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• Fin24.com | Vodacom launches R799 smartphone

  02-06-2015 12:25
  
  Mobile network Vodacom’s drive to attract more data users is being stepped up after it unveiled its R799 Smart 6 branded smartphone which is equipped with Android 4.4.
  
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• Fin24.com | Google struggles to diversify beyond white, Asian men

  02-06-2015 11:08
  
  The search giant is still having diversity headaches, even after hiring women to fill one in every five tech jobs
  
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• Fin24.com | Indian woman accuses Uber driver of sexual harassment

  02-06-2015 10:15
  
  An Indian woman has accused a driver contracted with online taxi company Uber Technologies of trying to sexually harass her after she hailed his cab.
  
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• Fin24.com | Winner announced in Africa Engineering prize

  02-06-2015 08:53
  
  The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has awarded a winner in the continent-wide competition to find the best new technologies that can impact on development.
  
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• Fin24.com | New privacy app takes a page from NSA tech

  02-06-2015 08:11
  
  A smartphone application called Scrambl3 from a California startup claims its 'dark internet tunnel' thwarts snooping on voice calls and messages.
  
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• Death on the Steppes: Mystery Disease Kills Saigas

  02-06-2015 01:16 via nytimes.com
  In the past two weeks, more than third of all saigas have been killed, conservationists have found. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.
  
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• Google Preaches Diversity But Hiring Numbers Still Lag

  02-06-2015 00:45 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Google says it hired a woman to fill one out of every five of its openings for technology jobs last year.
  
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