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• Apple beats Wall Street, investors wary of China sales - Reuters

  27-10-2015 23:58 via
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  Apple beats Wall Street, investors wary of China sales
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  SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc (AAPL.O) painted a rosy picture for its new iPhones on Tuesday, but a sequential slowdown of overall sales in China cast doubt on the strength of its business in the world's most important market for smartphones. Shares of the ...
  Ho-hum iPhone sales good enough to pump Apple profitsCNET
  Apple Earnings Lifted by iPhone Sales in ChinaWall Street Journal
  Apple's forecast overshadows strong salesUSA
  

• Twitter knocked again on slow user growth

  27-10-2015 23:40
  
  Twitter shares tumbled Tuesday after the struggling messaging platform reported only slim growth in its user base and a disappointing revenue outlook.
  
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• Big effort to better understand bats takes wing in 31 states

  27-10-2015 23:30
  
  An effort spanning 31 states and 10 Canadian provinces has been working to better understand the ecological role that bats play, and the threats they face from climate change, habitat loss and wind energy development.
  
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• Black hole has major flare

  27-10-2015 23:26
  
  The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA's Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The two space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole in the midst of a giant eruption of X-ray light, helping astronomers address an ongoing puzzle: How do supermassive black holes flare?
  
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• University of California unveils plan to curb climate change

  27-10-2015 23:22
  
  Reducing the human carbon footprint is a "moral imperative," University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday as she vowed to turn the system's 10 campuses into a living laboratory for solutions that can be scaled up to state, national and global levels.
  
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• Apple beats earnings estimates, issues healthy forecast

  27-10-2015 23:16
  
  Defying skeptics on Wall Street, Apple says it plans to keep setting records for selling new iPhones around the world.
  
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• All species, great and small, must be preserved

  27-10-2015 23:14
  
  Researchers warn all species are important, and conservation efforts should be based on the need for biological diversity and not on how useful individual species are to people.
  
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• NASA looks at winds, cloud extent of Patricia's remnant hybrid system

  27-10-2015 23:12
  
  NASA's RapidScat analyzed the winds in the Gulf of Mexico that were associated with the hybrid storm the included the remnants of former Eastern Pacific Ocean Hurricane Patricia. NOAA's GOES-East satellite showed the extent of the hybrid system's cloud cover over the southeastern U.S. on October 27.
  
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• Negative publicity reduces police motivation

  27-10-2015 23:08
  
  Recent negative publicity surrounding police after several shootings of unarmed civilians appears to have diminished some officers' motivation to be in law enforcement but does not decrease willingness to carry out their duties, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.
  
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• Upcoming UN Climate Summit can't overlook China's support of global coal power

  27-10-2015 23:04
  
  When global leaders converge on Paris on Nov. 30 for the 2015 United Nations climate change conference, their goal will be to deliver an agreement that, for the first time, seeks to safeguard the Earth's climate by having all nations that are significant sources of carbon dioxide rein in their emissions.
  
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• Researchers create better algorithm for simulating particles in Fermi Sea

  27-10-2015 23:02
  
  A North Carolina State University physicist and his German colleagues have created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a single impurity is introduced into a Fermi sea. The algorithm shows that when these particles interact, the transition from quasiparticle to bound molecule in a polarized two-dimensional system is smooth. The new method may have implications for understanding the behavior of impurities in a variety of systems.
  
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• NASA investigates techniques for cooling 3-D integrated circuits stacked like a skyscraper

  27-10-2015 23:00
  
  Future integrated circuitry is expected to look a lot like skyscrapers: units will be stacked atop one another and interconnects will link each level to its adjacent neighbors, much like how elevators connect one floor to the next. The problem is how do integrated-circuit designers remove heat from these tightly packed 3-D chips? The smaller the space between the chips, the harder it is to remove the heat.
  
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• Five things we just learned about PlayStation's 2016 lineup - CNET

  27-10-2015 22:43 via
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  Five things we just learned about PlayStation's 2016 lineup
  CNET
  Sony's Paris Games week press conference was big on promises (and light on release dates), but there are still some announcements worth taking a look at. no-mans-sky.jpg. Enlarge Image. Screenshot by Nate Ralph/CNET ...
  PS4 Racing Game Gran Turismo Sport AnnouncedCinema Blend
  Gran Turismo Sport Announced, PlayStation VR Support ConfirmedGame Rant
  Gran Turismo and Tekken Are Coming to PlayStation VRWIRED
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• Could You Survive Facebook's 2G Tuesdays? - PC Magazine

  27-10-2015 22:39 via
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  Could You Survive Facebook's 2G Tuesdays?
  PC Magazine
  Could you browse the Web on a super-slow 2G mobile Internet connection for a full day without losing your cool? Some Facebook employees are about to find out. The social network has launched a new initiative dubbed "2G Tuesdays," to help its employees ...
  Facebook Gives Its Staff A Taste Of Emerging Markets With New '2G Tuesdays ...TechCrunch
  Why Facebook is slowing down the site for employees on '2G Tuesdays'Mashable
  Facebook will
  

• Watch: Motorola Unveils Newest Droid Phones

  27-10-2015 21:58
  
  ABC News' Tina Trinh tests out the just released Droid Maxx 2 and Droid Turbo 2.
  
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• Star Wars Tractor Beams Are Real - Daily Beast

  27-10-2015 21:11 via
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  Star Wars Tractor Beams Are Real
  Daily Beast
  Scientists have figured out how to create a sound beam that can hold, move and rotate small objects from far away. Shop ▾. A “tractor beam” is a science-fiction term that refers to a device capable of pulling in distant objects without any physical ...
  Sonic tractor beam levitates objects using only power of soundCharlotte Observer
  Tractor beams of science fiction becoming a realityReuters
  Scientists create sonic 'tracto
  

• Nick Rockwell, Condé Nast Technology Chief, to Join New York Times

  27-10-2015 21:03 via nytimes.com
  Nick Rockwell, the chief technology officer of Condé Nast, will take the same position at The Times on Nov. 16.
  
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• Walmart Wants to Test Delivery Drones Outdoors

  27-10-2015 20:57
  
  Walmart wants to leverage the power of drones to help make deliveries, assist with pick-ups and to check on the retailer's distribution and fulfillment centers.
  
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• Cassini Zeros in on Daring Dive into Enceladus' Plumes - Discovery News

  27-10-2015 20:11 via
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  Cassini Zeros in on Daring Dive into Enceladus' Plumes
  Discovery News
  NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft is on track for a deep but quick plunge through plumes of water vapor shooting out hundreds of miles into space from the planet's small, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Play Video · If Aliens Didn't Make Saturn's ...
  Cassini prepped to conduct “screaming” pass through Enceladus' plumeSpaceFlight Insider
  Spacecraft diving deep into Saturn moon's eru
  

• Oracle to build high school on its Silicon Valley campus

  27-10-2015 20:10
  
  Oracle founder Larry Ellison already owns an island in Hawaii. Now, his company is building a high school next to its Silicon Valley headquarters to help fulfill Ellison's desire to teach students more about technology and problem-solving.
  
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• Study shows more extensive coral damage related to BP spill

  27-10-2015 20:00
  
  Gulf coral damage from the massive BP oil spill is more extensive than previously thought, according to a new study that revealed sick and dying corals in the rich, deep-water environment off the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi known as the Pinnacles.
  
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• EU Passes Net Neutrality Protections That Aren't So Neutral - WIRED

  27-10-2015 19:54 via
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  EU Passes Net Neutrality Protections That Aren't So Neutral
  WIRED
  The good news: the European Union has passed regulations to protect so-called network neutrality in all 28 of its member states. The bad news: the legislation contains loopholes that could allow “Internet fast lanes”—the very preferential treatment ...
  EU Passes Net Neutrality Laws, Votes to End Roaming Charges by Mid-2017Wall Street Journal (blog)
  This is what the EU thinks is 'net neutrality'Fortune
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• Adam Selman, MasterCard turning clothes into payment devices

  27-10-2015 19:50
  
  Call it payable fashion. You won't need a credit card to pay for your clothes; your clothes will BE your credit card.
  
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• Canadian ownership of tablets soars

  27-10-2015 19:41
  
  Canadians are increasingly using tablet computers, with nearly half the population owning a device in 2014, up 10 points from the previous year, the government telecommunications agency said Tuesday.
  
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• 400-plus small quakes jolt California city in recent weeks

  27-10-2015 19:37
  
  The U.S. Geological Survey says 435 small earthquakes have rattled the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Ramon in the last two weeks.
  
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• Researchers work on model to help restoration managers with decision-making

  27-10-2015 19:30
  
  It sounds rather simple: In order to restore the original high level of biodiversity in our rivers, they should be returned to their original state. Yet, researchers from the University of Montana and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) determined it really is not that easy, as efforts often are limited by historical, cultural or economic factors.
  
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• Study explores wave-particle interaction in atmosphere

  27-10-2015 19:26
  
  A Dartmouth-led study sheds light on the impact of plasma waves on high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's magnetic field from space.
  
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• Probing the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's cracked and crinkled moon

  27-10-2015 19:24
  
  Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to possess a large salty ocean beneath its icy exterior, and that ocean, scientists say, has the potential to harbor life. Indeed, a mission recently suggested by NASA would visit the icy moon's surface to search for compounds that might be indicative of life. But where is the best place to look? New research by Caltech graduate student Patrick Fischer; Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary Astronomy; and Kevin Hand,
  
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• Plant regulatory network simulations reveal a mystery in cytokinin patterning

  27-10-2015 19:00
  
  Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered that cytokinin patterning, an important process in plant development, cannot happen via diffusion alone. While investigating a regulatory network in plant roots, they identified unexpected physical constraints on how cytokinin patterns form.
  
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• HTC Slashes Price of Re Camera to $50 - PC Magazine

  27-10-2015 18:45 via
  TechCrunch
  HTC Slashes Price of Re Camera to $50
  PC Magazine
  HTC last year debuted a fun-looking action cam called the Re, but at $200 and lacking the waterproof abilities and video quality of similarly priced competitors, we didn't consider it a great bargain. That changes today. HTC this week dropped the price ...
  Deal: HTC RE Camera Drops to $50 for 1 Day OnlyDroid Life (press release) (blog)
  HTC Re Camera Now On Sale for Only $50ValueWalk
  HTC Holiday Deals: Company Lowers Price of Re Camera
  

• Images of Astronomers’ Top 20 Intriguing Exoplanets

  27-10-2015 18:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first confirmed planet around a sun-like star, more than 60 leaders in the field of exoplanet observations chose their favorites among the nearly 2,000 known exoplanets. Some of the exoplanets are rocky, some are gaseous, and some are very, very odd. But there’s one thing each one […]
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• Farming the sea: Prize-winning model to restore ecosystems

  27-10-2015 18:20
  
  A fisherman working in industrialized fishing environments realized something that affected his fundamental outlook on what he was doing: he was witnessing very efficient fishing technologies and boats ripping up entire ecosystems with trawls; he was seeing efficient technologies being applied in ways that were chasing fish farther and farther out to sea.
  
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• Facebook sued over posts inciting attacks on Jews

  27-10-2015 17:53
  
  An Israeli NGO said Tuesday it was suing Facebook for failing to remove pages that encourage the killing of Jews, after a wave of attacks by Palestinians left nine Israelis dead.
  
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• European leaders look to boost financing for startups

  27-10-2015 17:53
  
  The leaders of France, Germany and the European Union's executive body are expected to push for better access to financing for startups in an effort to boost the digital economy across the continent.
  
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• Online gaming harassment forums canceled after threats

  27-10-2015 17:52
  
  Two forums on online harassment in the gaming industry have been canceled by the South by Southwest festival in the wake of "threats" against the panels, organizers said.
  
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• Spacecraft diving deep into Saturn moon's erupting water jet (Update)

  27-10-2015 17:27
  
  The Cassini spacecraft is about to get an icy shower as it orbits Saturn.
  
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• Spacecraft diving deep into Saturn moon's erupting water jet

  27-10-2015 17:27
  
  The Cassini spacecraft is about to get an icy shower as it orbits Saturn.
  
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• Senate passes bill to push sharing of info on hacker threats

  27-10-2015 17:27
  
  The Senate passed a bill Tuesday aimed at improving cybersecurity by encouraging companies and the government to share information about threats. It took roughly six years to win approval for such a program.
  
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• Cybersecurity: Senate poised to pass bill to push sharing (Update)

  27-10-2015 17:27
  
  The Senate was poised Tuesday to pass a bill intended to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. government.
  
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• Cybersecurity: Senate poised to pass bill to push sharing

  27-10-2015 17:27
  
  The Senate is poised to pass a bill intended to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. government.
  
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• Study highlights climate threat to king penguins

  27-10-2015 17:26
  
  Warmer sea temperatures are forcing Indian Ocean king penguins to travel further for food, cutting into their breeding season researchers said Tuesday, warning of a "serious threat" from climate change.
  
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• Cassini’s Deepest-Ever Dive Through the Enceladus Plume

  27-10-2015 17:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to take the deepest dive ever through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, October 28, when it flies through the moon’s plume of icy spray. Cassini launched in 1997 and entered orbit around Saturn in 2004. Since […]
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• 'Spring-mass' technology heralds the future of walking robots

  27-10-2015 17:24
  
  A study by engineers at Oregon State University suggests that they have achieved the most realistic robotic implementation of human walking dynamics that has ever been done, which may ultimately allow human-like versatility and performance.
  
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• Weakening post-Tropical Storm Olaf examined by NASA's GPM satellite

  27-10-2015 17:23
  
  After maintaining hurricane intensity for over a week former category four hurricane Olaf is now a post-tropical storm and moved into hurricane history. The GPM core observatory satellite flew above Olaf and analyzed the rainfall within the storm.
  
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• Attosecond physics: Film in 4-D with ultrashort electron pulses

  27-10-2015 17:18
  
  Physicists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration. This enables them to gain detailed insight into atomic motions in molecules.
  
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• Nepal earthquake was less intense than feared

  27-10-2015 17:08
  
  The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal produced less damage and weaker shaking than might be expected from a magnitude 7.8 quake in the area, according to a group of ten new articles published this week in Seismological Research Letters.
  
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• What’s Creating Those Unusual Bright Spots on Ceres? Dawn Heads Toward Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit

  27-10-2015 17:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Dawn Spacecraft begins its fourth and final science orbit at dwarf planet Ceres. Many hope this low-altitude mapping orbit will provide more information about the unusual bright spots on Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft fired up its ion engine on Friday, October 23, to begin its journey toward its fourth and final science orbit at […]
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• Sonic tractor beam invented (w/ Video)

  27-10-2015 17:00
  
  A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.
  
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• 100-year-old mystery solved: Adult eel observed for the first time in the Sargasso Sea

  27-10-2015 17:00
  
  After more than a century of speculation, researchers have finally proved that American eels really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce. A team supervised by Professor Julian Dodson of Université Laval and Martin Castonguay of Fisheries and Oceans Canada reports having established the migratory route of this species by tracking 28 eels fitted with satellite transmitters. One of these fish reached the northern boundary of the Sargasso Sea, the presumed reproduction site for the spe
  
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• EU lawmakers end mobile roaming charges

  27-10-2015 16:51
  
  European lawmakers on Tuesday approved an end to loathed mobile phone roaming charges in the EU by 2017 and adopted rules to ensure open internet access.
  
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