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• Asana Debuts New Version Of Its Collab Software, Claims 140K Companies Use Its ... - TechCrunch

  30-09-2015 23:59 via
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  Asana Debuts New Version Of Its Collab Software, Claims 140K Companies Use Its ...
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  This morning at Asana's San Francisco headquarters, the startup announced a new version of its product, a new brand — logo — and, happily, some metrics about its growth. As you will recall, the startup picked up a new Head of Business from Google on ...
  Facebook co-founder Moskovitz retools look of future-of-work startup AsanaUSA TODAY
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• Trump Hotels Hack Exposed Customer Credit Card Info

  30-09-2015 23:50 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Customers who used their debit or credit cards at seven Trump properties could be affected.
  
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• States competing for data centers extend $1.5B in tax breaks

  30-09-2015 23:50
  
  The former limestone mine seemed perfect for a large computer data center. The air was cool. The rock walls provided a defense against natural disasters. And the tunnels bored into a Kansas City hillside had access to abundant electricity and fiber-optic cables.
  
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• Theater ticket app TodayTix hits Silicon Valley stage

  30-09-2015 23:30
  
  A last-minute theater ticket smartphone application that has been a hit on Broadway and London's West End is taking on the Silicon Valley crowd.
  
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• Radio frequency 'harvesting' tech unveiled in UK

  30-09-2015 23:30
  
  An energy harvesting technology that its developers say will be able to turn ambient radio frequency waves into usable electricity to charge low power devices was unveiled in London on Wednesday.
  
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• Excavator: Ancient grave in Greece honored Alexander's pal (Update)

  30-09-2015 23:21
  
  An opulent underground monument in northern Greece that caused a stir when excavated last year may have been a symbolic grave—but not the final resting place of—the closest friend and general of ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great, the excavator claimed Wednesday.
  
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• Excavator: Ancient grave in Greece honored Alexander's pal

  30-09-2015 23:21
  
  An opulent underground monument in northern Greece that caused a stir when excavated last year may have been a symbolic grave—but not the final resting place of—the closest friend and general of ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great, the excavator says.
  
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• Volkswagen loses 'green car of the year' prizes

  30-09-2015 23:20
  
  Volkswagen has lost its "Green Car of the Year" prize for two models that employed technology at the heart of German giant's pollution-cheating scandal, US prize organizers said Wednesday.
  
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• Apple Music makes China debut at low price

  30-09-2015 23:12
  
  Apple on Wednesday began offering Apple Music and other digital content in China, putting a bargain price on the service in the high-priority market.
  
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• Netflix-Style Magazine App Next Issue Relaunches As Texture - TechCrunch

  30-09-2015 23:09 via
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  Netflix-Style Magazine App Next Issue Relaunches As Texture
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  Next Issue, the publisher-backed subscription service offering unlimited access to 160 magazines, is launching a revamped app with new features and a new name — Texture. A joint venture from publishers Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and ...
  Next Issue Media Announces New Digital Magazine Experience: TexturePR Newswire (press release)
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• Rio becomes first Brazilian city to ban use of Uber

  30-09-2015 23:07
  
  The city that hosts next year's Olympic Games has become the first in Brazil to ban the use of smartphone-based ride-hailing-applications like Uber.
  
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• Report: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to be CEO for second time

  30-09-2015 23:06
  
  Twitter may be about to end its three-month search for a new CEO where it started: with once-ousted co-founder Jack Dorsey running the short-messaging service.
  
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• NASA snow data that helps California put to work in Colorado

  30-09-2015 23:06
  
  NASA is providing drought-stricken California with valuable data about how much water is locked up in the scant Sierra Nevada snow, and now Colorado is trying the technique in the mountains where the Rio Grande begins its journey to New Mexico and Texas.
  
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• Citizen science in a nutshell: A guide to expanding the reach of environmental research

  30-09-2015 23:06
  
  Public participation in scientific research has surged in popularity and prominence in recent years through the connections of the world wide web, an explosion of smartphone pocket computing power, and a slow cultural change within professional science toward a more open and welcoming research environment.
  
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• New system helps teachers gain back valuable instruction time, study finds

  30-09-2015 23:04
  
  Elementary schoolchildren often dawdle between activities during the school day, losing valuable instructional time in the process. New University of Georgia research has found a way to reclaim these lost minutes and make the transition to a new subject fun while increasing student focus.
  
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• Known fish species living in the Salish Sea increases in new report

  30-09-2015 23:03
  
  Coho salmon, Pacific halibut and even the dogfish shark are familiar faces to many people in the Salish Sea region. But what about the Pacific viperfish, northern flashlightfish, dwarf wrymouth or the longsnout prickleback?
  
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• Forage crop promising as ecologically friendly ornamental groundcover

  30-09-2015 23:02
  
  A new, ecologically friendly groundcover for warm-weather landscapes is on the horizon. Rhizoma peanut, a warm-season perennial native to South America, has been used almost exclusively as a forage crop in the United States since the 1930s, but a study in the July HortScience says the perennial has potential as an ornamental groundcover or turf alternative.
  
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• Glowing sea turtle, like red and green spaceship, spotted

  30-09-2015 23:00
  
  Seen off the Solomon Islands: The hawksbill sea turtle—glowing. Sharks, fish, corals, can shine and now we know that the sea turtle can too. Jane J. Lee reported on Tuesday in National Geographic (and environmental news site Mongabay also carried the news) that a biofluorescent sea turtle was discovered off the coast of Solomon Islands.
  
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• Covering the bases with cover crops

  30-09-2015 23:00
  
  Most of us think that farmers grow and harvest crops for food. That's true for many crops: they either feed humans or farm animals. However, there's another category of crop that has a vital function in agricultural systems.
  
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• NYU's Simoncelli wins Engineering Emmy for creation of method to assess video quality

  30-09-2015 22:58
  
  Eero Simoncelli, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science, has won an Engineering Emmy Award for the creation of a now widely used algorithm that assesses how viewers perceive the quality of an image or video, the Television Academy announced this week.
  
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• Tropical Depression Marty finally moving away from Mexico coastline

  30-09-2015 22:56
  
  Tropical Depression Marty has been an unwelcome visitor along the western coast of Mexico for a couple of days and is finally, but slowly leaving. NASA's Aqua satellite saw the northeastern quadrant of the storm over the Mexican coast yesterday, September 29.
  
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• Watch: iPhone 6s Best Deals From Wireless Carriers

  30-09-2015 22:55
  
  T-Mobile offers $5 a month leasing, Sprint offers $1 a month leasing with trade in of iPhone 6.
  
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• Tillage timing influences nitrogen availability and loss on organic farms

  30-09-2015 22:50
  
  In the battle against weeds, tillage is one of the strongest weapons at the disposal of organic or ecologically based farmers. But, depending on when it is used, tillage can also be a strong driver of nitrogen losses that contribute to groundwater pollution, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
  
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• NASA's GPM analyzes Typhoon Dujuan's large rainfall totals

  30-09-2015 22:50
  
  The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite measured the rainfall that Typhoon Dujuan dropped on Taiwan. Highest rainfall totals were over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and along the eastern coast of Taiwan, south of where the typhoon made landfall.
  
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• New study explores how Millennials consume paid media content

  30-09-2015 22:36
  
  A majority of Millennials regularly got paid news content in the last year, whether paid for by themselves or someone else, according to a new study conducted by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Moreover, 40 percent of Millennials personally paid for news. The study is a deeper examination of a nationwide survey conducted in early 2015.
  
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• Real-time analysis of metabolic products

  30-09-2015 22:35
  
  Biologists at ETH Zurich have developed a method that, for the first time, makes it possible to measure concentration changes of several hundred metabolic products simultaneously and almost in real time. The technique could inspire basic biological research and the search for new pharmaceutical agents.
  
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• Rock samples from Western US teach how to hunt for life on Mars

  30-09-2015 22:32
  
  The search for life beyond Earth is one of the grandest endeavors in the history of humankind—a quest that could transform our understanding of our universe both scientifically and spiritually.
  
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• Scientists refine model to predict dangerous errors in cell division

  30-09-2015 22:28
  
  A team of Virginia Tech researchers has refined a mathematical model that simulates the impact of genetic mutations on cell division—a step that could provide insight into errors that produce and sustain harmful cells, such as those found in tumors.
  
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• NASA satellites gather data on Hurricane Joaquin

  30-09-2015 22:25
  
  The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM Core satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Hurricane Joaquin and looked at rainfall, cloud height and extent, revealing heavy rainfall and a more organized system than the previous day.
  
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• Your Facebook Profile Pic Could Soon Be a Loopy Video

  30-09-2015 21:13 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Want to liven up your Facebook profile pic for all to see? Facebook's got you covered.
  
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• Robot's Grip Is Soft Enough to Safely Grasp Eggs

  30-09-2015 20:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  While robots are good at many things, picking up eggs and other fragile items isn't one of them — but that seems to be changing.
  
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• First look video: Split View, new Mission Control in Apple's OS X 10.11 El Capitan - Apple Insider

  30-09-2015 20:43 via
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  First look video: Split View, new Mission Control in Apple's OS X 10.11 El Capitan
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  Apple's next-generation Mac operating system, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, is now available as a free download, and compatible with all Macs that run OS X Yosemite. AppleInsider offers a quick rundown of a couple of the things you can do with your newly ...
  OS X El Capitan Review: Apple Brings Welcome Snow To YosemiteTechCrunch
  Review: Apple shines up OS X with 'El Capitan'Computerworld
  

• What the Chip-and-PIN Credit Card Deadline Means For You

  30-09-2015 20:11 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  It's all part of a nationwide shift in the way we pay, with the goal of beefing up credit-card security.
  
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• Cutest Drone Ever? Tiny SKEYE Pico Is Ready to Fly

  30-09-2015 19:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The SKEYE Pico Drone doesn't deliver packages or take aerial footage-- instead, it's just really cute.
  
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• Facebook Starts Letting You Add A 7-Second Looping Video As A Profile Pic - TechCrunch

  30-09-2015 19:38 via
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  Facebook Starts Letting You Add A 7-Second Looping Video As A Profile Pic
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  Together, these changes should make Facebook more visually stimulating and addicting. As other networks like Twitter introduce auto-play video like Facebook did, and Snapchat adds animated selfie lenses and its own profile GIFs, Facebook has to stay a ...
  Use a Looping Video as Your Facebook Profile PicPC Magazine
  Facebook is bringing profile photos to life with 7-second videosMashable
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• Neurologists Speed Up Connectome Analysis by More Than 10-Fold

  30-09-2015 18:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using a new tools called SegEM, scientists from the Max Planck Institute are able to speed up the reconstruction of connections between nerve cells more than ten-fold. Unraveling the connectivity maps between nerve cells in brains is a huge scientific endeavor – called connectomics. The main limitation to mapping large parts of the brain is […]
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• Price of solar energy in the United States has fallen to 5c/kWh on average

  30-09-2015 18:29
  
  Solar energy pricing is at an all-time low, according to a new report released by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Driven by lower installed costs, improved project performance, and a race to build projects ahead of a reduction in a key federal incentive, utility-scale solar project developers have been negotiating power sales agreements with utilities at prices averaging just 5¢/kWh. These prices reflect receipt of the 30% federal investment tax credit, which is schedu
  
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• Which Chromecast Is Right for You? - PC Magazine

  30-09-2015 18:27 via
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  Which Chromecast Is Right for You?
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  Google's Chromecast has been one of the most popular media streamers on the market for two years, thanks to its tiny design and $35 price tag. Google confirmed yesterday that sales have now topped 20 million. Now it's getting replaced by two new $35 ...
  The New Chromecast Supports 'Fast Play' Preloading For a Quicker Streaming ...Android Police
  Google redesigns Chromecast for speed and powerCNET
  Google's secret strategy for controlling yo
  

• Astronomers Discover Companions of Millisecond Pulsars

  30-09-2015 18:17 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have identified the orbiting companions to five millisecond pulsars in globular cluster 47 Tucanae. When a star with a mass of roughly ten solar masses finishes its life, it does so in a spectacular explosion known as a supernova, leaving behind […]
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• New Phoenix Cluster Observations Provide A Fresh Perspective

  30-09-2015 18:01 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers have discovered giant holes, or cavities, in the hot gas that pervades the Phoenix Cluster, revealing new details about this remarkable system. Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity. […]
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• Do teens still use Facebook?

  30-09-2015 17:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It isn't just what you say on social media, often it is where you say it. It may seem like new social media platforms are appearing everyday. Three eight graders who took part in a landmark study on social media, detailed in the "CNN Special Report: #Being13 - Inside the Secret World of Teens," helped us breakdown how teens use some of the most popular platforms.
  
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• Mac Owners Can Now Download Apple's OS X El Capitan

  30-09-2015 17:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Yosemite is old news. El Capitan is the newest Mac operating system and Apple is releasing it on Wednesday.
  
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• Layman help sought in solving dwarf planet mysteries

  30-09-2015 17:46
  
  Throwing open the doors to the hallowed halls of science, stumped researchers welcomed help from the public Wednesday in solving a number of nagging mysteries about dwarf planet Ceres.
  
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• Dawn Spacecraft Reveals New Maps and Insights about Ceres

  30-09-2015 17:40 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Dawn spacecraft continues to provide scientists with new data on Ceres and scientists are still trying to identify the “bright spots” and the processes that could produce these and other unique Cerean phenomena. Mysteries and insights about Ceres are being discussed this week at the European Planetary Science Conference in Nantes, France. NASA’s Dawn […]
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• Scientists find their first biofluorescent reptile

  30-09-2015 17:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  That's not a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" floating before your eyes. You're seeing the first biofluorescent reptile discovered by scientists.
  
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• Google's algorithm for happiness

  30-09-2015 17:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan claims he has the secret to a contented, stress-free life. But what happens when you try the happiness advice and look at the science.
  
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• Netflix expands to Spain, Italy, Portugal

  30-09-2015 17:27
  
  US film and television-streaming giant Netflix said Wednesday it will launch in Spain, Italy and Portugal in late October, expanding its global drive to compete with traditional channels.
  
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• Crystal clear: Thousand-fold fluorescence enhancement in an all-polymer thin film

  30-09-2015 17:27
  
  Griffith University scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of fluorescence enhancement via a discovery they believe could drive the next advances in sensor technology, energy saving and harvesting, lasers and optoelectronics.
  
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• The Danish nitrogen budget in a nutshell

  30-09-2015 17:26
  
  Cutting food waste, improving the recycling of nitrogen in food production and new agricultural technologies are some of the methods that can be used to reduce nitrogen emissions to the environment. These are the conclusion drawn from the development of a new nitrogen budget for Denmark by scientists at Aarhus University.
  
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• Memory is greater threat to romantic relationships than Facebook

  30-09-2015 17:22
  
  A new study was designed to test whether contacts in a person's Facebook friends list who are romantically desirable are more or less of a threat to an existing relationship than are potential partners a person can recall from memory. In this Facebook versus memory experiment participants were shown their friends list to trigger recognition of potential sexual partners, but the study showed that Facebook friends were not seen as romantic alternatives that threatened current committed relationshi
  
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