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• Google, Facebook, SpaceX, OneWeb plan to beam Internet everywhere

  15-11-2015 23:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  By now it's kind of hard to believe, even sort of embarrassing.
  
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• NASA scientists shocked by what they found on Pluto's surface - BABW News

  15-11-2015 18:43 via
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  NASA scientists shocked by what they found on Pluto's surface
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  As more New Horizons photos arrive on Earth, NASA scientists are perpetually stunned by the amazing new information they reveal. NASA recently released a stunning “psychedelic” image of the dwarf planet Pluto, the latest in a series of pictures snapped ...
  Researchers notice interesting features on Pluto's surface with data from New ...NYC Today
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• Heart rate tracking with the use of smartphone in pocket

  15-11-2015 17:38
  
  An MIT group project called BioPhone is doing research that involves biological signals from a smartphone's accelerometer. In their approach, motion sensors would recover heart and breathing rates of the users during stationary positions and activities such as listening on the phone.
  
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• Future uncertain for rare white deer at former weapons site

  15-11-2015 17:34
  
  Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former Army weapons depot face an uncertain future after living and breeding largely undisturbed since the middle of last century.
  
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• Tim Cook says Apple won't combine a MacBook and iPad - The Verge

  15-11-2015 17:30 via
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  Tim Cook says Apple won't combine a MacBook and iPad
  The Verge
  Cook was referring to Windows-based notebooks and desktops, not Apple's range of Macs. "We don't regard Macs and PCs to be the same," says Cook. "What we've tried to do is to recognize that people use both iOS and Mac devices." So it appears that in ...
  Apple's Tim Cook Sees No Future For 'Compromised' MacBook, iPad HybridHot Hardware
  Hands-on with Apple's iPad Profox2now.com
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• Google Announces New Gmail Security Feature: Unencrypted Connections Warning - STGIST

  15-11-2015 17:27 via
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  Google Announces New Gmail Security Feature: Unencrypted Connections Warning
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  Google's popular email service Gmail will soon receive a new layer of security. The search giant's online security team announced the update on Thursday, and its main aim is to protect Gmail users from “new security challenges” online. In the blog post ...
  Gmail will soon warn users when incoming email is unencryptedJewocity.com (press release) (blog)
  Gmail will soon warn you about risky email
  

• France to Push on With Climate Summit After Paris Attacks - Bloomberg

  15-11-2015 17:27 via
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  France to Push on With Climate Summit After Paris Attacks
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  The French government vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate summit in Paris this month and will boost security for the more than 120 world leaders traveling to a city reeling from a deadly terrorist attack. “It will go ahead with reinforced ...
  France to go ahead with climate summit, with tough securityReuters
  France Defiantly Plans To Go Ahead With Climate Change SummitHuffington Post
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• Researchers estimate Wind Speed over 5400 mph on exoplanet HD 189733b - NYC Today

  15-11-2015 17:00 via
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  Researchers estimate Wind Speed over 5400 mph on exoplanet HD 189733b
  NYC Today
  Exoplanets offer interesting insights about the conditions and weather in different planetary systems. University of Warwick researchers have calculated that wind speed on exoplanet HD 189733b could be as high as 5,400 miles per hour. That speed is ...
  Astronomers Estimate Wind of 5400 Miles Per Hour on ExoplanetStatesman Tribune
  How in the world does this planet have insane 5400 MPH winds?Morning Ticker
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• Why Facebook's Safety Check Was Activated for Paris Attacks But Not Beirut - TIME

  15-11-2015 16:28 via
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  Why Facebook's Safety Check Was Activated for Paris Attacks But Not Beirut
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  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the social media site's decision to enact Safety Check for the attacks on Paris, but not for a deadly bombing in Beirut, in a post on the site. Safety Check, which allows users to mark themselves and ...
  Facebook explains why it enabled Safety Check for Paris but not other recent ...The Verge
  Paris Terror Attacks: Facebook criticised for Paris check-in as
  

• All Excuses Aside, Apple's Major Problem Is Tim Cook - Forbes

  15-11-2015 15:30 via
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  All Excuses Aside, Apple's Major Problem Is Tim Cook
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  Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images. Yes, I have heard all the good guys (long only crowd) make excuses for Apple's AAPL -2.68% terrible performance this year to date. Yes, the market cap is too big. (It's getting bigger for ...
  Tim Cook: Apple Store Racism Incident 'Unacceptable'Ubergizmo
  Apple's Tim Cook Apologizes After Store Worker Ejects Black TeensNewsy
  Tim Cook Has No Intention to Put
  

• Review: 4K streaming no big advantage for Roku 4

  15-11-2015 15:00
  
  Ultra-high definition video is the big new thing in television, and Roku is hoping to cash in on the trend.
  
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• Review roundup - LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE proves size doesn't matter - Modern Readers

  15-11-2015 14:41 via
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  Review roundup - LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE proves size doesn't matter
  Modern Readers
  Following the LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE's arrival on AT&T and Verizon, reviews have been churning in, as tech journalists are getting a feel of the Korean company's latest smartwatch. And while most agree that it's large, they also believe it takes away ...
  Initial Impressions Of The LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE: So This Is What Marshmallow ...Android Police
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• Human roadblock for Japanese firms developing autonomous cars

  15-11-2015 10:42
  
  Japanese car manufacturers will have to convince the public that letting go of the wheel in a self-driving car is safe, while also dealing with the biggest threat to the cars' security: the humans using them.
  
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• PowerPoint Gets New Tools To Spiff Up Your Presentations - CIO Today

  15-11-2015 09:08 via
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  PowerPoint Gets New Tools To Spiff Up Your Presentations
  CIO Today
  Gone are the days when Microsoft · Relevant Products/Services waits for entirely new versions of its software products to make updates -- and the latest PowerPoint upgrade is once such example. After hitting the market two months ago as part of the ...
  Microsoft announces two brilliant PowerPoint 2016 design toolsComputerworld
  Microsoft (MSFT) Beefs Up PowerPoint with New ToolsThe Times (subscription)
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