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• Digital Culture, Meet Analog Fever

  28-11-2015 21:03 via nytimes.com
  The marginalization of the physical has propelled it into the realm of luxury.
  
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• Airbus patent detaches the cabin from the airplane

  28-11-2015 20:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Plane manufacturers have come up with some interesting ideas. The latest: Turn cabins -- the part of the plane where you sit -- into detachable modules separate from the planes. Then mix and match 'em, and you save all kinds of time and money, Airbus says.
  
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• Research reveals the reality of runaway ice loss in Antarctica

  28-11-2015 19:40
  
  By studying rocks at different elevations beside the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), the team concluded that a period of rapid glacier thinning occurred in the recent geological past, and persisted for several centuries.
  
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• Don't get Grinched by cybercrime during the holiday season

  28-11-2015 19:34
  
  Online fraud spikes during the holiday shopping season, as people searching for the perfect gifts take to cyberspace and head to traditional stores armed with their smartphones.
  
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• Egypt says 90 percent chance of hidden rooms in Tut tomb

  28-11-2015 19:19
  
  Egypt on Saturday said there is a 90 percent chance that hidden chambers will be found within King Tutankhamun's tomb, based on the preliminary results of a new exploration of the 3,300-year-old mausoleum.
  
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• Nuclear crossroad: California reactors face uncertain future

  28-11-2015 19:15
  
  Six years ago, the company that owns California's last operating nuclear power plant announced it would seek an extended lifespan for its aging reactors. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. envisioned Diablo Canyon as a linchpin in the state's green energy future, with its low-carbon electricity illuminating homes to nearly midcentury.
  
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• S Carolina shoppers latest to pay taxes on Amazon sales

  28-11-2015 19:13
  
  A sales-tax break the Legislature gave Amazon in 2011 expires Jan. 1, making South Carolina the last state to collect among those where officials cut similar deals with the online retail giant.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers mulls $2.5bn capital raising as profit gains

  28-11-2015 15:01
  
  Naspers, Africa’s largest company by market value, is considering a capital raising of as much as $2.5bn to fund acquisitions and pay down debt.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers’ revenue surges 24% to R74bn

  28-11-2015 14:59
  
  Online businesses helped spur on a 24% year-on-year revenue growth at internet and media giant Naspers.
  
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• Arsenic, other contaminants found in Brazilian mine river: Vale

  28-11-2015 12:10
  
  Brazilian mining giant Vale said Friday that small amounts of arsenic and other potential poisons have been detected in a river polluted by an iron ore mine accident, but that the mining companies are not to blame.
  
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• Japan to resume 'research' whaling in Antarctic: media

  28-11-2015 12:00
  
  Japan will resume "research" whaling in the Antarctic by the end of March next year, local media reported Saturday, despite a call by global regulators for more evidence that the expeditions have a scientific purpose.
  
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• Commonwealth sets up $1 billion green finance facility

  28-11-2015 11:50
  
  Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat unveiled Friday a new $1 billion Commonwealth Green Finance Facility to support environmental projects within the 53-nation bloc as the race against climate change intensifies.
  
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• Use of banned pesticide not isolated event in US territories

  28-11-2015 11:40
  
  Nine months after a vacationing family nearly died from exposure to methyl bromide on the island of St. John, authorities have come to at least one troubling conclusion: The use of the banned pesticide was not an isolated event in U.S. Caribbean territories.
  
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• Facebook ramps paid leave time for new dads

  28-11-2015 11:30
  
  With Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg about to become a dad, the social network boosted the amount of time fathers can take off to bond with their new babies.
  
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• Paris climate talks by the numbers

  28-11-2015 11:23
  
  The global climate talks that officially open on Monday in Paris are a massive undertaking both diplomatically and logistically, with some 40,000 visitors expected daily amid heightened security fears.
  
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• Amazon deforestation leaps 16 percent in 2015

  28-11-2015 11:23
  
  Illegal logging and clearing of Brazil's Amazon rainforest increased 16 percent in the last year, the government said, in a setback to the aim of stopping destruction of the world's greatest forest by 2030.
  
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• The many health impacts of climate change

  28-11-2015 11:22
  
  Medical experts say climate change affects human health in direct ways, by the spread of water- and mosquito-borne diseases for example, and indirectly, such as through hunger.
  
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• Rotting wood turns Austria's poorest town into green model

  28-11-2015 11:22
  
  Broke, remote and deprived of jobs—just 25 years ago, the border town of Guessing close to Hungary was one of the poorest in Austria, a forgotten frontier along the Iron Curtain trail.
  
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• Air pollution in Beijing hits hazardous levels

  28-11-2015 11:21
  
  Air pollution in Beijing reached hazardous levels on Saturday as smog engulfed large parts of China despite efforts to clean up the foul air.
  
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• Massive NSA Phone Data Collection to Cease

  28-11-2015 04:58 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Beginning Sunday, if the government wants to check on a phone number in a potential terrorism case, a request must be made to the phone company.
  
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