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• 3-D Printed Electric Violin Takes Cues From Stradivarius

  12-08-2015 23:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A good violin is hard to find — and pretty expensive. But what if a violin could be custom-made for you in a couple days with a 3-D printer?
  
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• Microsoft's Surface Hub collaboration tool delayed until 2016 - PCWorld

  12-08-2015 23:25 via pcworld.com
  
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  Microsoft's Surface Hub collaboration tool delayed until 2016
  PCWorld
  People who pre-ordered the Surface Hub from Microsoft were notified Wednesday that their mega-display and conference room collaboration tool won't arrive until 2016, at least four months after Microsoft originally planned. Pre-orders for the Surface ...
  Microsoft Will Ship Surface Hub On January 1st 2016Ubergizmo
  Microsoft Surface Hub to ship starting January 1, 2016ZDNet
  Despite delays, Microsoft's Surfac
  
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• Now you can ramble on and on in Twitter direct messages - Washington Post

  12-08-2015 23:20 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Now you can ramble on and on in Twitter direct messages
  Washington Post
  Twitter, that bastion of brevity, said Wednesday that it's letting its users go long. While public messages will still have their 140-character limit, the company said that it's lifting the cap for direct messages. This comes as part of an ongoing ...
  Twitter Officially Drops 140-Character DM LimitPC Magazine
  Twitter Lifts 140-Character Limit - But Only for Direct MessagesNBCNews.com
  Twitter drops 140-char
  
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• 'Roomba' Maker Gets Closer to Selling Robot Lawnmowers

  12-08-2015 22:35 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The future of free-wheeling automated yard work took a step closer to American consumers on Wednesday after U.S. regulators gave robot maker iRobot Co
  
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• Astronomers spot oxymoronic littlest big black hole - CBS News

  12-08-2015 22:08 via cbsnews.com
  
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  Astronomers spot oxymoronic littlest big black hole
  CBS News
  ANN ARBOR --It sounds enormous, but scientists say it's comparatively slight. University of Michigan astronomers have found a "teeny supermassive black hole" -- the smallest black hole ever observed in the center of a galaxy. Black holes come in two ...
  Astronomers find a tiny, super-massive black holeToronto Star
  Little Big Black Hole is a Supermassive OxymoronThe Hullabaloo Online
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• Where to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower in the New York Area - New York Times

  12-08-2015 22:02 via nytimes.com
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  Where to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower in the New York Area
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  A harmonic convergence of cosmic dust, lunar phase and fair weather on Wednesday is shaping up to make the Perseid meteor shower this year the most spectacular since at least 2008. Even in New York City. “Tonight is the night,” said Jason S. Kendall, ...
  PM Update: A stellar night for Perseid viewing, and still terrific on ThursdayWashington Post (blog)
  The best way to see the epic 2015 Perseid
  
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• How 'Home Brew' Email Servers Like Hillary Clinton's Work

  12-08-2015 21:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The thought of an email server such as the one Hillary Clinton used may conjure up an image of a refrigerator-sized machines and tangled wires filling an entire room.
  
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• Correction: Caribbean-Seaweed Invasion Story

  12-08-2015 21:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Correction: Caribbean-Seaweed Invasion story
  
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• Twitter Lifts 140-Character Limit for Direct Messages

  12-08-2015 21:39 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter is doing away with its 140-characters-or-less limit — but only for Direct Messages.
  
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• Why Facebook should restructure like Google's Alphabet - Fortune

  12-08-2015 21:28 via fortune.com
  
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  Why Facebook should restructure like Google's Alphabet
  Fortune
  Join me in a thought exercise. When Google GOOG 4.93% dropped its bombshell restructuring announcement Monday evening, it was initially seen as a joke. Commenters on CEO Larry Page's blog post suspected the site had been hacked. But over next day ...
  Google's Multi-Class Stock Structure Made Alphabet Move UniqueWall Street Journal (blog)
  SAFT ON WEALTH-Making an Alpha-bet or a human nature hedgeReuters
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• Perseids Meteor Shower: What You Can Look Forward to Overnight

  12-08-2015 21:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The annual Perseids meteor shower is set to reach its brilliant peak overnight when as many as 100 meteors per hour will be visible streaking across the sky.
  
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• Periscope now has 10 million registered accounts - Fortune

  12-08-2015 21:25 via fortune.com
  
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  Periscope now has 10 million registered accounts
  Fortune
  After only four months, the Twitter-owned video streaming service shares some user metrics. Periscope, the video broadcasting and streaming service Twitter acquired earlier this year, has released some data on its users, including that it now has more ...
  Periscope claims 10 million accounts as live-streaming apps heat upMashable
  Periscope Users Watch 40 Years' Worth Of Video Per DayFast Company
  Periscope Has 10M Registered Us
  
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• Alphabet Shakeup Spells Change for Google

  12-08-2015 20:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Google will now be under a parent company called Alphabet in a restructuring of the tech giant's business operations.
  
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• Scientists Make a 'Mother Robot' That Can Have Babies

  12-08-2015 20:29 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  It's always been something of a solace for humankind that robots can't evolve like we can, but we may not retain that advantage for long.
  
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• Odd Suckers: Octopus Species That's Weirdly Social, Romantic - New York Times

  12-08-2015 20:25 via nytimes.com
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  Odd Suckers: Octopus Species That's Weirdly Social, Romantic
  New York Times
  WASHINGTON — The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-arm sea creature that's even stranger and shares some of our social and mating habits. With their shifting shapes, mesmerizing eyes, ...
  Beak to Beak: Octopus Has Unusual Sex, Feeding RitualsLive Science
  The Unusual Mating Habits of This Octopus Totally Blow Biologists'
  
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• Rosetta: Comet 67P makes closest approach to Sun - BBC News

  12-08-2015 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Rosetta: Comet 67P makes closest approach to Sun
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  Comet 67P is nearing the closest point to the Sun in its 6.5-year orbit, with the European spacecraft Rosetta still in orbit around it. This landmark, called "perihelion", will occur at 03:03 BST on Thursday, when 67P will be 186 million km from the ...
  Rosetta Spacecraft to Collect New Data as Comet Approaches SunWall Street Journal
  Philae silver lining: robot lab shielded from sunNews24
  Rosetta set to witness cosmic
  
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• Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 could yield big camera gains - PCWorld

  12-08-2015 19:13 via pcworld.com
  
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  Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 could yield big camera gains
  PCWorld
  Qualcomm has teased out some more details about its upcoming Snapdragon 820 processor, including a refreshed GPU and an image processing unit that could lead to big improvements in smartphone cameras. The 820 is Qualcomm's next mobile chip for ...
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 820's GPU is primed for VREngadget
  Qualcomm's Adreno 530, 510: Faster Chips, Killer CamerasInformationWeek
  Qualcomm lifts kimono on Snapdra
  
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• iPad Mini 4 may offer split-view mode to display two apps side-by-side - CNET

  12-08-2015 19:06 via cnet.com
  
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  iPad Mini 4 may offer split-view mode to display two apps side-by-side
  CNET
  The next iPad Mini could let you view and run two apps side-by-side, according to a resource file from the Safari 9 browser in Apple's upcoming El Capitan operating system. Tablets. 13 August 20152:57 am AEST. Lance Whitney mugshot. by Lance Whitney.
  What To Expect From The iPad Mini 4TechCrunch
  Split View multitasking rumored to be coming to the next iPad MiniMashable
  iPad mini 4 rumors: Slimmed down, Split Vi
  
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• IBM's Watson Could Help You Win at Fantasy Football

  12-08-2015 18:54 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A new startup is hoping NFL fans will let IBM's Watson make decisions for them instead.
  
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• Google Is Building Tiny, Affordable Diabetes Sensors

  12-08-2015 18:52 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Google is helping to build a "bandage-sized" sensor that could give diabetes patients the ability to monitor their condition in real time.
  
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• New Analysis Provides More Accurate Estimates of Sources of Mercury Emissions

  12-08-2015 18:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimates of sources of mercury emissions from around the world, revealing that Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought. Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land […]
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• SEAS Engineers Develop More Efficient Solar Cells

  12-08-2015 17:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using a technique that mimics how plants use solar energy and forcing two otherwise incompatible molecules to work together to cover the full color spectrum, engineers from Yale University have significantly increased the efficiency of polymer solar cells. The researchers, in Dr. Andre Taylor’s Transformative Materials & Devices Lab, developed a solar cell that performed […]
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• Researchers Identify a Potential Marker for Schizophrenia

  12-08-2015 17:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from Yale University reveals that even before the onset of schizophrenia, irregularities in key brain areas are already present in individuals at higher risk of developing psychosis. The findings identify a potential marker for the debilitating disease that afflicts 1% of the world’s population and suggest at least a partial explanation for why […]
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• Walk of Shame: Tinder Says It 'Overreacted' on Twitter

  12-08-2015 17:43 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  "Our intention was to highlight the ... amazing stories that are sometimes left unpublished, and, in doing so, we overreacted," the company said.
  
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• GAMA Survey Reveals the Slow Death of the Universe

  12-08-2015 17:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Galaxy And Mass Assembly project released its first data at at the International Astronomical Union XXIX General Assembly in Hawaii, revealing that the Universe is slowly dying. An international team of astronomers studying more than 200,000 galaxies has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before. This […]
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• Sweden, Ecuador in Talks as Time Runs out for Assange Case

  12-08-2015 17:18 via abcnews.go.com
  Sweden and Ecuador in talks as timer runs down on sex allegations against WikiLeaks founder
  
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• Ten Years and Counting, Mars Orbiter Still Going Strong

  12-08-2015 17:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  It’s been ten years since the launch of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its work is far from over. The Mars Orbiter has revealed the Red Planet’s diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than all six other missions currently active there. The workhorse orbiter now plays a key role in NASA’s […]
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• Astronomers Identify the Smallest Supermassive Black Hole to Date

  12-08-2015 17:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy. This oxymoronic object could provide clues to how larger black holes formed along with their host galaxies 13 billion years or more in the past. Astronomers […]
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• Tinder Melts Down Over Vanity Fair Article

  12-08-2015 17:01 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Tinder may be doing the walk of shame Wednesday morning when it takes a look at its Twitter feed in the clear-headed light of day.
  
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• Rosetta Spacecraft Views an Outburst from Comet 67P

  12-08-2015 16:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new set of images from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft shows a short-lived outburst from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its closest point to the sun during its orbit). On July 29, while the spacecraft orbited at […]
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• Photos: Baby Elephant Snuggles With Its Brother

  12-08-2015 16:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Absolutely adorable baby animals!
  
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• Tinder Twitter Tirade Claims 'Many Users' in North Korea

  12-08-2015 15:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  There's a lot to unpack from Tinder's 30-tweet rant but perhaps the most interesting tidbit is the dating app's assertion that it has "many users" in North Korea.
  
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• Fin24.com | BMW studies 'trademark implications' of Google Alphabet

  12-08-2015 15:46
  
  The German car maker is looking into Google naming its new parent company Alphabet, which is the registered name of one of BMW's subsidiaries.
  
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• Havana's New Hot Spots: Public Wi-Fi Stations

  12-08-2015 15:10 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  For a growing number of Cubans, sporadic visits to the WiFi hot spots are now part the rhythm of life on the island.
  
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• Fin24.com | How call centre tech can stop annoying people

  12-08-2015 14:15
  
  There's nothing quite as annoying when you call a company and find that the automated answering system is of no help. But there is a fix for this problem.
  
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• Rocket Carrying Student Experiments Launched From Wallops

  12-08-2015 13:47 via abcnews.go.com
  Rocket carrying student experiments launched from Wallops Flight Facility
  
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• Fin24.com | Service problems 'hinder' MTN's aim to be number one

  12-08-2015 13:38
  
  MTN’s ambition to be South Africa’s biggest telecoms company can only be achieved if it sorts out its service issues, say Fin24 users.
  
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• Watch: Next generation iPhones Expected to Have Improved Camera

  12-08-2015 13:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus rumored to offer 4k shooting as well as Force Touch, a technology first introduced on the Apple Watch.
  
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• Fin24.com | DiData appoints new MEA management team

  12-08-2015 12:23
  
  South African headquartered technology company Dimension Data has appointed a new chief executive officer for its Middle East and African operation.
  
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• Wildlife Groups Say 41 Tigers Have Died in India This Year

  12-08-2015 11:55 via abcnews.go.com
  Wildlife groups say 41 tigers have died across India in 7 months
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers to launch Netflix ‘competitor’

  12-08-2015 11:31
  
  Multinational media and technology company Naspers is gearing up to unveil an internet streaming service that will take on Netflix in developing markets.
  
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• FDA Warns Kardashian Over 'Misleading' Instagram Post

  12-08-2015 10:08 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The FDA wasn't amused when celebrity Kim Kardashian endorsed a drug on Instagram.
  
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• Fin24.com | SA porn searches beat out Malema

  12-08-2015 09:13
  
  Data from search giant Google indicates that South Africans have an increasing appetite for online pornography.
  
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• Hacking Ring Accused of Making $100M on Stolen News Releases

  12-08-2015 08:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Hacker ring accused of making $100M in stock market by stealing corporate press releases
  
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