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• Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Vehicles to Prevent Hacking

  24-07-2015 23:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars and trucks after hackers take control of Jeep through radio
  
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• Amazon's Value Surpasses Wal-Mart After Surprise 2Q Profit

  24-07-2015 22:41 via abcnews.go.com
  Amazon shares surge on 2Q profit bringing market value past world's largest retailer Wal-Mart
  
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• Anonymous Claims Hack of U.S. Census Bureau

  24-07-2015 22:19 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Anonymous claims it has hacked the U.S. Census Bureau and posted some personal information of employees online.
  
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• A United Launch Alli

  24-07-2015 21:24 via pinterest.com
  
  A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-7 mission for the U.S. Air Force launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl, on July 23, 2015.Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
  
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• AT&T-DirecTV Deal Set to Close After Approval From FCC

  24-07-2015 21:04 via abcnews.go.com
  AT&T $48.5B purchase of DirecTV cleared by regulators, will be biggest pay TV provider in US.
  
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• Ask Stephen Hawking Anything in His First Reddit AMA

  24-07-2015 20:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Starting early Monday, physicist Stephen Hawking will be taking questions for nearly a week on Reddit.
  
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• Facebook Defeats Shareholder Lawsuit Over IPO

  24-07-2015 19:29 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  An appeals court has ruled in favor of Facebook officials in a lawsuit by shareholders who said the company hid threats to its growth prospects.
  
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• Kepler-452b and the Search for Another Earth

  24-07-2015 19:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  With the help of the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers and scientists continue to search for another Earth-like planet. The discovery of a super-Earth-sized planet orbiting a sun-like star brings us closer than ever to finding a twin of our own watery world. But NASA’s Kepler space telescope has captured evidence of other potentially habitable planets […]
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• NASA Lab Results Reveal Recipe for Extraterrestrial Vitamin B3

  24-07-2015 18:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New NASA experiments reveal that vitamin B3 and other complex organic compounds could be made in space and it is plausible that meteorite and comet impacts could have added an extraterrestrial component to the supply of vitamin B3 on ancient Earth. Vitamin B3 could have been made on icy dust grains in space, and later […]
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• NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Bedrock with High Levels of Silica

  24-07-2015 18:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  After almost three years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover continues to amaze. This time Curiosity has discovered a target unlike anything it has studied before – bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz. This area lies just downhill from […]
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• How Amazon Became Bigger Than Walmart

  24-07-2015 18:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Amazon pioneered the idea of online retail two decades ago when it began as a website for buying books.
  
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• New Horizons Image of Pluto in False Color

  24-07-2015 18:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released image of Pluto was taken by the New Horizons Spacecraft at a distance of 450,000 kilometers. New Horizons scientists use enhanced color images to detect differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface. When close-up images are combined with color data from the Ralph instrument, it paints a new and surprising […]
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• Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Cars After Remote Hacking of Jeep

  24-07-2015 17:52 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Chrysler is recalling about 1.4 million cars equipped with certain radios, a move related to a security flaw highlighted by hackers earlier this week.
  
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• On-Demand Apps: Get Doctors, Dry Cleaning With a Single Tap

  24-07-2015 17:21 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  On-demand service apps make life's annoying little odd jobs a little more convenient - but there is a trade-off. NBC's Brian Mooar reports.
  
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• Fin24.com | Post Office soothes salary payment fears

  24-07-2015 17:17
  
  The SA Post Office has tried to soothe fears of employees who were not paid that they will not get paid this month.
  
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• Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

  24-07-2015 17:12 via nytimes.com
  As death nears, I am surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.
  
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• Fin24.com | Tim Cook’s $181bn headache: Apple’s cash held overseas

  24-07-2015 17:08
  
  Apple’s cash has topped $200bn but money held abroad rose to almost 90%, putting pressure on CEO Tim Cook to find a way to use the funds without incurring US taxes.
  
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• Watch: Apple Back-to-School Promo

  24-07-2015 16:40 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Apple is giving away a pair of Beats headphones as part of a back-to-school promotion.
  
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• My Periodic Table

  24-07-2015 15:05 via nytimes.com
  As death nears, I am surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.
  
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• Fin24.com | No escape from cellphone fine

  24-07-2015 14:30
  
  Making excuses won't save you if you are caught with a cellphone behind the wheel, the City of Cape Town has warned.
  
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• Vehicle Hacking Shifts From Theory to Scary

  24-07-2015 12:16 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  With new cars adding connected technologies at a breakneck pace, fears that hackers could use them to wreak havoc are growing almost as fast.
  
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• Fin24.com | Japan's Nikkei buys Financial Times in $1.3bn deal

  24-07-2015 12:16
  
  Japanese media group Nikkei has agreed to buy the Financial Times from Britain's Pearson for $1.3bn.
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple Watch a sales star, but troubles loom

  24-07-2015 11:00
  
  Apple's Watch is a segment sales superstar as uncertainty swirls around wearable devices, a research organisation has found.
  
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• Snakes' ancestors had four legs - Business Standard

  24-07-2015 09:55 via business-standard.com
  
  National Geographic
  Snakes' ancestors had four legs
  Business Standard
  The discovery of a four-legged fossil of a snake in Brazil's Crato Formation suggests that this suborder may have evolved from burrowing, rather than marine, ancestors. The unique four-legged specimen found gives more insight into how these creatures ...
  An ophidiophobiac's worst nightmareIndependent Online
  Four-legged snake ancestor 'dug burrows'BBC News
  Snake fossil with four legs just wants a hugCN
  
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• YouTube makes virtual reality push with 360-degree 3-D - The Denver Post

  24-07-2015 09:51 via denverpost.com
  
  Los Angeles Times
  YouTube makes virtual reality push with 360-degree 3-D
  The Denver Post
  Anahid Mirhosseini, 16, takes a selfie with a life size photo of YouTube... (Ed Crisostomo/AP). « 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; ». ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — YouTube says it's making a further push into virtual reality, promising to add 3-D support for videos that play ...
  YouTube goes step closer to virtual reality, introduces 360-degree viewable adsFirstpost
  YouTube redesigns app; priority is 'mobile, mobile, an
  
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• Could Twitter Stop the Next Terrorist Attack?

  24-07-2015 09:41 via abcnews.go.com
  Social media sites fight suggestions in Congress that they could do more to stop terror
  
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• Ex-UN Climate Panel Head Accused of Stalking Loses India Job

  24-07-2015 09:38 via abcnews.go.com
  Former UN climate panel chief accused of sexual harassment loses job at India energy institute
  
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• Nasa Kepler telescope: Earth-like planet found - BBC News

  24-07-2015 09:29 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News
  Nasa Kepler telescope: Earth-like planet found
  BBC News
  A haul of 500 new planets discovered by Nasa's Kepler telescope includes a world sharing many characteristics with Earth. Kepler-452b orbits at a very similar distance from its star, though its radius is 60% larger. Mission scientists said they ...
  Scientists find closest thing yet to Earth-Sun twin systemIBNLive
  Presenting Earth's newly discovered 'older cousin' Kepler-452bIrish Examiner
  NASA finds Earth-sized pla
  
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• Fin24.com | WATCH: Hackers take control of a Jeep

  24-07-2015 09:16
  
  Modern cars with built-in smart technology could make them vulnerable to hackers, a video purports to show.
  
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• Uber cars now deliver smartphones - Irish Examiner

  24-07-2015 09:04 via irishexaminer.com
  
  Irish Examiner
  Uber cars now deliver smartphones
  Irish Examiner
  Hailo may be king of the taxi-app in Ireland but Uber is still more popular in many places around the world. And that might be down to the odd little extras they offer their users. Uber cars now deliver smartphones. Today's deal is all about the new ...
  Impulse Phone Buys Now Possible Thanks to Xiaomi and UberWall Street Journal (blog)
  Uber, Xiaomi team up for phonesiAfrica.com
  Uber to deliver Xiaomi smartphones in MalaysiaIndi
  
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• Quarterly profit sees Amazon shares rise by over 17% - Irish Times

  24-07-2015 08:35 via irishtimes.com
  
  Irish Times
  Quarterly profit sees Amazon shares rise by over 17%
  Irish Times
  Amazon.com swung to an unexpected quarterly profit on higher sales in North America, its popular Prime subscription service and growing demand for its Web services sending the online retailer's shares up more than 17 per cent. Amazon also forecast ...
  Amazon worth more than Wal-Mart after posting surprise profitIrish Independent
  Amazon shares rise after positive resultsRTE.ie
  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) Stock Price
  
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• Apple Watch accounted for 75% of smartwatch market share last quarter - Dispatch Times

  24-07-2015 07:52 via dispatchtimes.com
  
  Dispatch Times
  Apple Watch accounted for 75% of smartwatch market share last quarter
  Dispatch Times
  The company sold 47.5 million iPhones in the period, up 35% on a year ago, with Mac computer sales rising 9% to 4.8 million. The company forecast revenue of $49 billion to $51 billion, missing analysts' average estimate of $51.13 billion according to ...
  Why Apple is afraid to release Watch numbersNew Zealand Herald
  Here is why Apple Watch might be the most successful smartwatch everThe
  
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• Trade Deals Wipes out Tariffs on More Than 200 Tech Products

  24-07-2015 07:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Trade deal ends tariffs on more than 200 tech products _ from chips to video game consoles
  
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• Google gives free patents to eligible startups - Firstpost

  24-07-2015 06:32 via tech.firstpost.com
  
  Firstpost
  Google gives free patents to eligible startups
  Firstpost
  Late in April this year, Google launched a marketplace for companies to sell patents. However, in a new effort, Google is now opening up patents it owns and offering it up for free to startups. The Patent Purchase Promotion was an experiment to remove ...
  Google to tackle patent trollsThe Australian
  Google fights patent trolls by giving away patentsEngadget
  Google Giving Free Patents to Eligible StartupsN4BB
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• NASA Says Data Reveals an Earth-Like Planet, Kepler 452b

  24-07-2015 06:00 via nytimes.com
  NASA astronomers announced the discovery of Kepler 452b, which is 1,400 light-years away and orbits a sunlike star every 385 days.
  
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• NASA Mission Discovers Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin

  24-07-2015 05:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0.
  
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• Honda adopts Apple CarPlay, Android Auto for 2016 Accord - CNET

  24-07-2015 04:47 via cnet.com
  
  CNET
  Honda adopts Apple CarPlay, Android Auto for 2016 Accord
  CNET
  At its Silicon Valley lab, the automaker unveils its new Accord, with a slightly redesigned front end and LED lighting. But the biggest change is a new infotainment interface featuring rival systems from Apple and Google. by Wayne Cunningham · @way4ne ...
  New Honda Accord sedan unveiled in Silicon ValleyIndia Today
  Honda Unveils 2016 Accord at R&D Center in Silicon Valley, Emphasizing a Focus ...Wall Street Journal (b
  
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• Deepsea Challenger Sub Damaged in Truck Fire

  24-07-2015 02:45 via abcnews.go.com
  Deepsea Challenger, which visited deepest spot in world's oceans, damaged in truck fire
  
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• Scientists Find Closest Thing yet to Earth-Sun Twin System

  24-07-2015 01:49 via abcnews.go.com
  Scientists find closest thing yet to Earth-sun twin system; best bet for possible life
  
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• Fat Sense: Scientists Show We Have a Distinct Taste for Fat

  24-07-2015 01:37 via abcnews.go.com
  Move over sweet, salty, bitter and sour; Scientists show people can detect distinct fat taste
  
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• Tony Fadell: What will Google's $3.2bn guru do next? - BBC News

  24-07-2015 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News
  Tony Fadell: What will Google's $3.2bn guru do next?
  BBC News
  Is Tony Fadell destined to eclipse his former Apple workmate Sir Jonathan Ive? When Google paid $3.2bn (£2.1bn) to buy Tony Fadell's start-up Nest in 2014, it got much more than just an internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector. It got the man ...
  Apple yanks Google's Nest smart thermostat from website and retail storesMashable
  Apple removes Nest Learning Thermostat from online, retail storesApple In
  
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• Facebook loses appeal over access to user data

  24-07-2015 01:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  You think your Facebook profile is private? Think again.
  
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• Amazon's Birthday Present: Surprise 2Q Profit

  24-07-2015 01:17 via abcnews.go.com
  Cloud computing and cost control drive Amazon's surprise 2Q profit, shares jump
  
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• 3 Estonian Men Get Prison in Massive Cyber Scam Case

  24-07-2015 01:01 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Three Estonian men were sentenced for their roles in an Internet scheme that infected more than 4 million computers in over 100 countries.
  
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• Pro Gaming Is So Competitive, It Now Has Random Drug Tests

  24-07-2015 00:10 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A major e-sports tournament is planning to submit pro players of games like "Counter-Strike" and "League of Legends" to random drug testing.
  
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