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• Kaspersky Lab Denies It Sabotaged Competitors

  14-08-2015 23:38 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab denies allegations made in a Reuters report that the company sabotaged rival antivirus software.
  
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• Apple Said to Show Interest in Automotive Testing Facility

  14-08-2015 23:20 via abcnews.go.com
  Apple, rumored to be working on its own cars, is said to be interested in auto testing ground
  
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• Tree Limb Falls on Tent Killing 2 Young Campers in Yosemite

  14-08-2015 22:32 via abcnews.go.com
  Oak tree limb falls on tent in Yosemite National Park, killing 2 young campers, officials say
  
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• Colorado Spill a Blip in Legacy of Leaking Abandoned Mines

  14-08-2015 21:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Colorado's toxic spill a blip in national legacy of leaking abandoned mines, failed cleanups
  
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• Planet hunters discover Jupiter Jr., 96 light years from Earth - Christian Science Monitor

  14-08-2015 20:20 via csmonitor.com
  
  Christian Science Monitor
  Planet hunters discover Jupiter Jr., 96 light years from Earth
  Christian Science Monitor
  51 Eridani b is one of the smallest planets beyond our solar system that has been directly imaged. By Sara Aridi, Staff writer August 14, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. An artist's depiction of the 'young Jupiter' exoplanet 51 Eridani b in near ...
  Astronomers spot young, 'Jupiter-like' planetUSA TODAY
  This New Space Instrument Just Discovered a 'Baby Ju
  
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• Your Samsung phone comes close to replacing your wallet - CNN

  14-08-2015 19:50 via cnnphilippines.com
  
  CNN
  Your Samsung phone comes close to replacing your wallet
  CNN
  Samsung wants to make these physical payment problems a thing of the past with Samsung Pay -- and it may have better luck than other companies trying to do the same. That's because Samsung Pay will work almost everywhere. The South Korean ...
  Samsung Galaxy Note 5 vs. Galaxy S6: Phablet vs. FlagshipPC Magazine
  Oops! Samsung shows Galaxy S6 edge+ & Note5 to jeering power usersComputerworld
  Samsung: There's no 128 GB
  
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• Report: No Apple Live TV Service This Year - PC Magazine

  14-08-2015 19:45 via pcmag.com
  
  New York Post
  Report: No Apple Live TV Service This Year
  PC Magazine
  If you were hoping that Apple's rumored fall iPhone event will also include the launch of an online TV service, don't hold your breath. According to Bloomberg, Cupertino will not launch a live TV service this year, and is now aiming for 2016 instead.
  Report: Apple delays reveal of streaming serviceUSA TODAY
  Apple may put TV streaming service on hold: ReportCNBC
  Apple Delays Start of Streaming ServiceClapway
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• Next phase for Google: Letter of intent - Financial Times

  14-08-2015 19:43 via ft.com
  Financial Times
  Next phase for Google: Letter of intent
  Financial Times
  No, there is no limit to Google's ambition. Any lingering doubts should have been swept away by this week's news that it is remaking itself as Alphabet, a holding company for some of mankind's grandest technology challenges. Even running the world's ...
  What does Alphabet have to learn from other corporate rebrands?The Guardian
  Larry Page was held back by Google execs from flooding world with new dot-word ..
  
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• Milestone Test Firin

  14-08-2015 19:14 via pinterest.com
  
  Milestone Test Firing of NASA’s SLS Monster Rocket Engine Advances Human Path to Deep Space
  
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• Ecuador's Cotopaxi Volcano Spews Ash South of Quito - New York Times

  14-08-2015 19:03 via nytimes.com
  The Straits Times
  Ecuador's Cotopaxi Volcano Spews Ash South of Quito
  New York Times
  QUITO, Ecuador — A 2-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) plume of ash shot out of the Cotopaxi volcano near Ecuador's capital Friday in two pre-dawn blasts, coating highways, homes and cars with a fine gray powder. Government scientists said the 5,987-meter ...
  Snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano spews ash south of Ecuador's capitalFox News
  Ecuador's massive Cotopaxi volcano stirs, two small explosions
  
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• New Research Shows Pluto May Still Be Geologically Active

  14-08-2015 18:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research hints that Pluto may still be geologically active, a theory that could explain how Pluto’s escaping atmosphere remains flush with nitrogen. The latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal diverse features on Pluto’s surface and an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen gas. However, Pluto’s small mass allows hundreds of tons of atmospheric nitrogen […]
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• #POTUSPlaylist: Obama's 'Handpicked' Songs Hit Spotify

  14-08-2015 18:31 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Ever wanted to jam with President Obama? Now you can ... virtually.
  
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• Astronomers Discover Jupiter-Like Planet 51 Eridani b

  14-08-2015 18:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the Gemini Planet Imager, astronomers have discovered a young Jupiter-like planet that is 100 light-years away. One of the best ways to learn how our solar system evolved is to look to younger star systems in the early stages of development. Now, a team of astronomers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young […]
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• Scientists Predict Material with Record-Setting Melting Point, More Than 4,400 Kelvins

  14-08-2015 18:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists at Brown University predict that a material made from hafnium, nitrogen, and carbon would have the highest known melting point, about two-thirds the temperature at the surface of the sun. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than […]
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• Dell Targets Businesses With Premium Chromebook 13 - PC Magazine

  14-08-2015 17:58 via pcmag.com
  
  Mashable
  Dell Targets Businesses With Premium Chromebook 13
  PC Magazine
  Dell's new Chromebook 13 is designed to bring ChromeOS to business users, from the small home office to executives at firms that support thousands of users. The new Chromebook's chassis feels premium, from the carbon fiber weave on the cover to the ...
  Bits | Daily Report: Google Stays in the News with Chromebooks and Antitrust ...New York Times (blog)
  Dell Chromebook a bid to lure corporate customers away from
  
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• Aluminum “Yolk-and-Shell” Nanoparticle Boosts Capacity and Power of Lithium-ion Batteries

  14-08-2015 17:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from MIT and Tsinghua University in China reveals that an aluminum “yolk-and-shell” nanoparticle could boost the capacity and power of lithium-ion batteries. One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries, as they go through repeated cycles of charging and discharging, is that they must expand and shrink during each cycle — sometimes […]
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• Study: Aerial Drones Flying Overhead Stress Out Black Bears - CBS Local

  14-08-2015 17:33 via seattle.cbslocal.com
  
  CBS Local
  Study: Aerial Drones Flying Overhead Stress Out Black Bears
  CBS Local
  Black bears display a behavioral response to unmanned aerial drones flying over them, according to a new study. (File photo. KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages). Related Tags: black bears, drones, stress. SEATTLE (CBS Seattle)– Black bears display a ...
  Bears Are Really Annoyed By DronesSlate Magazine (blog)
  Stressed bears suggest drones are animal menaceSlashGear
  Bears get nervous around drones: StudyNorthern Cali
  
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• How Humans Used Up a Year of Natural Resources In Under 9 Months - TIME

  14-08-2015 17:31 via time.com
  
  TIME
  How Humans Used Up a Year of Natural Resources In Under 9 Months
  TIME
  We're not even nine months into 2015, but by Wednesday humans had consumed an entire year's worth of natural resources since Jan. 1, according to the Global Footprint Network. To determine the precise day, known as Earth Overshoot Day, researchers ...
  Overshoot Day: Humanity demands natural resources of 1.6 EarthsChristian Science Monitor
  Humans Have Used Up a Year's Worth of Earth's Resources in 9 M
  
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• Astronomers Discover Supernovae in ‘Wrong Place at Wrong Time’

  14-08-2015 17:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new analysis of 13 supernovae is helping to reveal how some young stars exploded sooner than expected, hurling them to a lonely place far from their host galaxies. It’s a complicated mystery of double-star systems, merging galaxies, and twin black holes that began in 2000 when the first such supernova was discovered, according to […]
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• Q&A: Drought-Weary California Hopes El Nino Means Wet Winter

  14-08-2015 17:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Q&A: Drought-weary California hopes El Nino brings wet winter despite possibility of mudslides
  
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• Drone and Pilot Encounters Are Way, Way Up in 2015

  14-08-2015 17:13 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Close encounters between drones and pilots are becoming increasingly common, according to the FAA.
  
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• Fin24.com | ‘EskomSePush’ app wins award

  14-08-2015 17:13
  
  The winners of the MTN Business App of the Year awards have been announced in Johannesburg.
  
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• Cassini Spacecraft Will Make Last Close Flyby of Dione in August

  14-08-2015 17:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft will make its final close flyby of Saturn’s moon Dione on August 17. Cassini’s closest approach, within 295 miles (474 kilometers) of Dione’s surface, will occur at 11:33 a.m. PDT (2:33 p.m. EDT). Mission controllers expect fresh images to begin arriving on Earth within a couple of days following the encounter. Cassini […]
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• Apple Ramps Up Diversity Efforts, Most Employees Still White Guys - PC Magazine

  14-08-2015 17:09 via pcmag.com
  
  Wall Street Journal
  Apple Ramps Up Diversity Efforts, Most Employees Still White Guys
  PC Magazine
  Apple this week said its hiring efforts over the past year included its largest number of minority hires in a 12-month period. Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple "In the past year we hired over 11,000 women globally, which ...
  Apple, Intel cite gains in hiring women and minoritiesPCWorld
  Apple Releases New Diversity Numbers, Shows Incremental ImprovementFast Company
  
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• Oceanic Junk Ranges From Legos to Suspected Jet Wreckage

  14-08-2015 17:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  From suspected jet wreckage to trash to Legos, ocean currents carry the prosaic and strange
  
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• Fin24.com | Geoff Cohen steps down as 24.com head

  14-08-2015 15:57
  
  Geoff Cohen, general manager of Media24's digital division 24.com, has resigned after eight years in the hot seat.
  
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• Meet the tech geek making art affordable

  14-08-2015 15:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ken Karangi was a website designer. But his passion lied in a different kind of design.
  
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• Fin24.com | Phishing scam targets Standard Bank customers

  14-08-2015 14:48
  
  Standard Bank customers, and especially those who do not pay attention to their UCount points, are being targeted by fraudsters.
  
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• Extreme weather poses risk of more food shortages, civil unrest - UK/US report - Reuters

  14-08-2015 13:58 via in.reuters.com
  BBC News
  Extreme weather poses risk of more food shortages, civil unrest - UK/US report
  Reuters
  TORONTO, Aug 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global food shortages will become three times more likely as a result of climate change and the international community needs to be ready to respond to price shocks to prevent civil unrest, a joint ...
  Extreme Weather Putting Food Production at Greater RiskBloomberg
  Global warming increases 'food shocks' threatBBC News
  Severe 'food shock
  
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• Watch: Samsung Customizable Dual-Curved Display

  14-08-2015 13:24 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ boast a 5.7-inch customizable display.
  
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• Fin24.com | Samsung misses wearable glory with Gear set - review

  14-08-2015 13:04
  
  Consumers have not truly accepted wearable technology yet, but manufacturers are racing ahead with production.
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple hires 65% more women

  14-08-2015 12:00
  
  Apple has said it had hired over 11 000 women globally in the past year - 65% more than the previous year - to boost employee diversity.
  
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• Fin24.com | Commission to probe contract price hikes

  14-08-2015 11:09
  
  The National Consumer Commission is investigating mobile networks’ price increases after consumers complained about price hikes in the middle of contract periods.
  
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• Fin24.com | Samsung confirms new smartphones coming to SA

  14-08-2015 10:16
  
  Samsung has confirmed that South Africans will have to wait a few weeks to get their hands on the company's latest gadgets.
  
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• Fin24.com | New Samsung phones take aim at Apple

  14-08-2015 07:01
  
  Samsung has unveiled two new smartphones to ramp up its efforts to win over consumers seeking large-screen handsets.
  
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• Federal Experts: This El Nino May Be Historically Strong

  14-08-2015 05:37 via abcnews.go.com
  'Bruce Lee' El Nino already nearing record levels, could end up as one of the most potent ever
  
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• Apple More Than Doubles Hiring of Women and Minorities

  14-08-2015 02:05 via abcnews.go.com
  Apple reports hiring more women and minorities, though overall numbers move only slightly
  
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• National Challenge of Leaking Mines Dwarfs Colorado Spill

  14-08-2015 01:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  EPA test results reveal Colorado spill's toxic stew as thousands of other abandoned mines leak
  
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• Uber Wins Dismissal of Connecticut Taxi Lawsuit

  14-08-2015 01:42 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Uber has won the dismissal of a racketeering lawsuit filed by 15 Connecticut taxi and limousine companies.
  
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• Mexico Finds Subterranean River Under Chichen Itza Pyramid

  14-08-2015 01:34 via abcnews.go.com
  Mexican experts detect subterranean river under main Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza ruins
  
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• Air Pollution Killing 4,000 in China a Day, US Study Finds

  14-08-2015 00:35 via abcnews.go.com
  Dirty air killing an estimated 1.6 million a year in China, new US study finds
  
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