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• Feds: Californians in Flood Areas Should Buy Insurance Now

  23-10-2015 22:26
  Disaster official says most important thing Californians can do with El Nino is buy insurance
  
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• Google Creates Online Tool to Help Migrants in Europe

  23-10-2015 21:55 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  As Europe's border crisis continues, Google launched an online hub where migrants can go to find local info.
  
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• Elon Musk Wants to Begin Producing Tesla Cars in China

  23-10-2015 21:55 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Tesla Motors could begin producing cars in China in two years, chief executive Elon Musk said.
  
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• Priv slider phone targets enterprise users wanting security, Google apps - Computerworld

  23-10-2015 21:54 via
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  Priv slider phone targets enterprise users wanting security, Google apps
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  With the new Priv slider Android smartphone going on sale Friday for $699, BlackBerry is chasing mainly after enterprise users who want a hard keyboard in addition to a touchscreen and who want access to Google apps and the Chrome browser, analysts ...
  BlackBerry Priv pre-orders officially begin: $699 in USZDNet
  Priv, The Android Phone With A Physical Keyboard, Goes Up For Pre-OrderTechCrun
  

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• Watch That Went to Moon and Back Sells for $1.6 Million

  23-10-2015 21:34 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The timepiece is notable in that it is the only privately owned watch to be worn by an astronaut on the lunar surface.
  
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• Google Frightgeist Shows Most Popular Halloween Costumes

  23-10-2015 21:22
  
  Google's Frightgeist tool is harnessing the power of search data to inform users of the likelihood they'll encounter someone else wearing the same Halloween costume.
  
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• Zuckerbergs to start school mixing learning and health

  23-10-2015 21:08
  
  Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his doctor wife on Friday revealed plans to start a private school in a hardscrabble Silicon Valley town, mixing education with health care.
  
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• Twitter CEO gives up $200M in stock for company employees

  23-10-2015 21:07
  
  After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of the remaining employees by giving them 6.8 million shares of the stock he owns in the online messaging service.
  
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• Talks on Climate Deal Heat up Over Bill for Global Warming

  23-10-2015 21:06
  
  Show me the money: Talks on UN climate deal heat up as developing countries demand financing
  
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• NASA satellite sees Typhoon Champi elongating

  23-10-2015 21:06
  
  Typhoon Champi appeared to be the victim of vertical wind shear in infrared imagery from NASA's Terra satellite. Champi has become elongated while moving through the western North Pacific Ocean and is expected to become extra-tropical by October 24.
  
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• Exclusive: Did ISIS Create Fake Facebook Page for U.S. Cop?

  23-10-2015 20:41 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Authorities believe the account was created to lure in current law enforcement officers and collect their personal information.
  
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• In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar

  23-10-2015 20:39
  
  Scientists on Friday identified two complex organic molecules, or building blocks of life, on a comet for the first time, shedding new light on the cosmic origins of planets like Earth.
  
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• 46 Billion Pixels! Largest-Ever Image of Space Unveiled

  23-10-2015 20:29 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Space is big, but it's never been quite this big. A composite image taken by German astronomers is, they claim, the largest image of space to date.
  
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• Battle-weary climate envoys endorse outlines of UN pact

  23-10-2015 20:19
  
  Negotiators wound down a bruising round of talks Friday with broad agreement on the rough outlines of a UN climate pact to be inked in December.
  
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• When less is more: Smaller offspring thrive in competitive environments

  23-10-2015 20:17
  
  The parenting debate has raged for ages in the halls of academia and in homes around the world. For the best chance of survival and fitness, should mothers coddle their offspring, giving them every advantage, or let them learn to fend for themselves?
  
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• Upgrading the quantum computer

  23-10-2015 20:00
  
  Theoretical physicists have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model, developed by Wolfgang Lechner, Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, overcomes fundamental limitations of programmability in current approaches that aim at solving real-world general optimization problems by exploiting quantum mechanics.
  
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• Team hacks off-the-shelf 3-D printer towards rebuilding the heart

  23-10-2015 20:00
  
  As of this month, over 4,000 Americans are on the waiting list to receive a heart transplant. With failing hearts, these patients have no other options; heart tissue, unlike other parts of the body, is unable to heal itself once it is damaged. Fortunately, recent work by a group at Carnegie Mellon could one day lead to a world in which transplants are no longer necessary to repair damaged organs.
  
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• Sensing small molecules may revolutionize drug design

  23-10-2015 20:00
  
  Most pharmaceutical drugs consist of tiny molecules, which target a class of proteins found on the surfaces of cell membranes. Studying these subtle interactions is essential for the design of effective drugs, but the task is extremely challenging.
  
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• Andy Kaufman, Redd Foxx Get the Hologram Treatment

  23-10-2015 19:50 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Deceased comedians Redd Foxx and Andy Kaufman will return to the stage - kind of - in a hologram tour set to debut next year.
  
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• How Pluto's Tiniest Moon Fooled Scientists

  23-10-2015 19:22
  
  Pluto's moon Kerberos played quite a trick on scientists.
  
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• Jazz-playing robot will provide insight into how computers communicate with humans

  23-10-2015 19:20
  
  When jazz musicians improvise alongside each other, they interact in ways that are as much about feeling the music as about thinking. But suppose one of the musicians is a robot. Can it improvise a jazz solo in response to what its human partner is playing?
  
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• Seeing Starspots: Th

  23-10-2015 19:12 via pinterest.com
  
  Seeing Starspots: The Curious Case of XX Trianguli
  
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• Bacteriophage treatment decontaminates infant formula

  23-10-2015 19:00
  
  A phage showed strong anti-microbial activity against a type of food-borne bacterium that often kills infants after infecting them via infant formula. Phages are viruses that infect only bacteria. The research is published Oct. 23 online in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
  
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• With Bills-Jags from London, NFL experiments with streaming

  23-10-2015 18:50
  
  The NFL, already a $10 billion a year business, keeps looking to grow even bigger.
  
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• Maneuver moves New Horizons spacecraft toward next potential target

  23-10-2015 18:47
  
  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the first in a series of four initial targeting maneuvers designed to send it toward 2014 MU69 – a small Kuiper Belt object about a billion miles beyond Pluto, which the spacecraft historically explored in July.
  
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• El Nino to cause 80 percent rise in East Africans needing aid: UN

  23-10-2015 18:38
  
  Heavy floods and drought sparked by the El Nino weather phenomenon in East Africa in coming weeks could see the number of people needing aid soar by over 80 percent, the UN warned Friday.
  
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• Suomi NPP satellite sees record-breaking Hurricane Patricia

  23-10-2015 18:37
  
  At 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center said that Hurricane Patricia had grown into a monster hurricane. In fact, it is the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite analyzed the temperatures and structure within the storm as it passed overhead.
  
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• OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completes assembly stage, begins environmental testing

  23-10-2015 18:37
  
  NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has begun environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. OSIRIS-REx, led by the University of Arizona, will be the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth for further study.
  
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• Scientists urge policymakers to plant more trees to save Britain's rivers from climate change

  23-10-2015 18:36
  
  New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.
  
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• Failing to account for climate change in mining land reclamation may cost billions

  23-10-2015 18:33
  
  Researchers at the University of Waterloo are warning that plans to reclaim mined land risk failure and could cost industry and government billions in future cleanup costs if they do not take into account the affects of climate change.
  
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• Watch worn by US astronaut on Moon sells for $1.6 mn

  23-10-2015 18:31
  
  An exceptionally rare watch worn by an American astronaut on the Moon which bears remnants of lunar material has sold for more than $1.6 million, a US auction house said Friday.
  
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• Russia 'tried to hack MH17 inquiry system'

  23-10-2015 18:31
  
  Russian spies likely tried to hack into the Dutch Safety Board's computer systems to access a sensitive final report into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, experts said Friday.
  
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• New Species of Galapagos Giant Tortoise Identified

  23-10-2015 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of researchers from Yale University have discovered a new species of giant tortoise in the Galapagos. A few hundred giant tortoises living on one side of Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos actually are a separate species from a second, larger population living less than 10 kilometers away, a new Yale-led genetic analysis […]
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• New DNA research reveals undiscovered white dots on the map

  23-10-2015 18:30
  
  Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have located a previously unknown function in the so-called histones, which allows for an improved understanding of how cells protect and repair DNA damages. This knowledge may eventually result in better treatments for diseases such as cancer.
  
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• Potato harvest reduced by half

  23-10-2015 18:28
  
  On the way from field to fork, more than half of the potato harvest is lost. This is according to a new study conducted by researchers from Agroscope and ETH Zurich.
  
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• Feds Investigate Multiple Thefts of Radioactive Items at Lab

  23-10-2015 18:26
  Feds investigate multiple thefts of radioactive items from Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
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• A new algorithm to predict the dynamic language of proteins

  23-10-2015 18:26
  
  Researchers from the Structural Biology Computational Group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Alfonso Valencia, in collaboration with a group headed by Francesco Gervasio at the University College London (UK), have developed the first computational method based on evolutionary principles to predict protein dynamics, which explains the changes in the shape or dimensional structure that they experience in order to interact with other compounds or speed up chemical react
  
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• Steaming out some of luminol's wrinkles

  23-10-2015 18:25
  
  Luminol gets trotted out pretty frequently on TV crime shows, but a new technique might someday compete with the storied forensics tool as a police procedural plot device and, perhaps more importantly, as a means of solving real crimes. Recently published work from the University of South Carolina is showing that what the researchers term "steam thermography" has the ability to spot blood spots in all kinds of spots—even in spots where luminol can't.
  
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• Scientists identify molecular mechanism behind early flowering

  23-10-2015 18:24
  
  Plants adapt their flowering time to the temperature in their surroundings. But what exactly triggers their flowering at the molecular level? Can this factor switch flowering on or off and thus respond to changes in the climate? In a study currently published in PLOS Genetics, a team headed by Professor Claus Schwechheimer from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) describes a molecular mechanism with which plants adapt their flowering time to ambient temperatures and thereby indicate ways in
  
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• Researchers find geothermal heat pumps most feasible in Halifax

  23-10-2015 18:21
  
  Researchers at the Université du Québec have recently conducted a survey of four Canadian cities to determine the economic feasibility of installing geothermal heating systems in homes in Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver and Toronto.
  
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• Tropical Depression 26W moving faster than spinning

  23-10-2015 18:20
  
  Tropical Depression 26W was spinning down and speeding up as it was becoming an extra-tropical storm. In fact, its sustained winds were weaker than its forward speed as it moved through the western North Pacific Ocean.
  
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• NASA sees Hurricane Olaf still a major hurricane

  23-10-2015 18:20
  
  NASA's Aqua satellite saw Central Pacific Ocean Hurricane Olaf maintained its eye and remained a major hurricane on October 23.
  
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• NASA Prepares for Historic Flyby of Icy Saturn Moon Enceladus

  23-10-2015 18:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is set to fly directly through a plume of icy spray coming from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, revealing new details about the moon. In preparation for this event, NASA will hold a teleconference to discuss plans and anticipated results. NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft will sample an extraterrestrial ocean on Wednesday, October 28, when it […]
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• New Horizons Views Pluto’s Moon Kerberos

  23-10-2015 17:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto’s tiny moon Kerberos, completing the family portrait of Pluto’s moons. Kerberos appears to be smaller than scientists expected and has a highly-reflective surface, counter to predictions prior to the Pluto flyby in July. “Once again, the Pluto system has surprised us,” said New Horizons Project Scientist […]
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• NASA Space Launch System Completes Design Review, Ready to Meet the Challenges of the Journey to Mars

  23-10-2015 17:45 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review. It is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built and, with the agency’s Orion […]
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• Cobalt-ligand catalyst successfully converts carboxylic acids and esters into alcohols

  23-10-2015 17:40
  
  (Phys.org)—Researchers report the discovery of a cobalt-ligand catalyst system that serves as a homogeneous catalyst for the hydrogenation of esters and carboxylic acids to alcohols. Ties J. Korstanje, Jarl Ivar van der Vlught, Cornelis J. Elsevier, and Bas de Bruin of Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam demonstrate their catalyst's versatility in reducing a variety of bio-based carboxylic acids and esters under relatively mild conditions. Furthermore, thei
  
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• Pandora Settles for $90M Over Playing Pre-1972 Songs

  23-10-2015 17:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The record industry is feeling good vibrations after Pandora agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over streaming songs from before 1972.
  
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• Google Reveals Most Popular Halloween Costumes of 2015

  23-10-2015 16:37 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Scared someone is going to steal your idea for a Halloween costume? Now you can check Google Frightgeist to find out how popular it is.
  
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• British Broadband Hack Could Involve 4 Million Customers

  23-10-2015 16:32 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  British broadband provider TalkTalk said it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party claiming responsibility for a cyberattack.
  
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• Twitter CEO Giving Away $200M in Stock to Employees

  23-10-2015 16:00 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey said he is giving a third of his stock in the company, about 1 percent, to the employee equity pool.
  
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