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• Apple to Tell Judge in California Case: Congress Must Decide

  23-02-2016 23:41 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Apple Inc. will argue that its fight with the FBI over access to a locked and encrypted iPhone in a terrorism investigation should be kicked to Congress
  
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• Samsung printers automatically re-order ink with Amazon Dash - Engadget

  23-02-2016 23:35 via
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  Samsung printers automatically re-order ink with Amazon Dash
  Engadget
  Amazon didn't stop at handy buttons for its Dash re-ordering tech. Back in January, the company announced a collection of devices that leverage the system to automatically order supplies when you're running low. That lineup includes a number of ...
  Amazon Partners With Samsung On A Dash-Powered Ink Replacement ServiceTechCrunch
  Samsung Printers Can Automatically Re-Order Toner Via AmazonPC Magazine
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• There's an 'Ape' at the International Space Station

  23-02-2016 23:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Spending one year in space would make most people go bananas.
  
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• Honeywell says regulators wouldn't prevent United Tech deal

  23-02-2016 22:59
  
  Industrial conglomerate Honeywell is touting the benefits of a possible combination with United Technologies and says regulators wouldn't be a big obstacle to the deal.
  
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• Apple to tell judge in California case: Congress must decide (Update)

  23-02-2016 22:58
  
  Apple Inc. will tell a federal judge this week in legal papers that its fight with the FBI over accessing a locked and encrypted iPhone should be kicked to Congress, rather than decided by courts, The Associated Press has learned.
  
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• DNA 'Trojan horse' smuggles drugs into resistant cancer cells

  23-02-2016 22:49
  
  Researchers at The Ohio State University are working on a new way to treat drug-resistant cancer that the ancient Greeks would approve of—only it's not a Trojan horse, but DNA that hides the invading force.
  
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• New research introduces 'pause button' for boiling

  23-02-2016 22:40
  
  Gather your patience and put the old "a watched pot never boils" saying to the test. The experience might rival watching paint dry, but of course the water will eventually begin to boil. When it does, you'll see a flurry of bubbles form and quickly rise to the surface of the water. Once it kicks in, it builds at a furious pace and quickly creates a roiling cauldron on your stovetop. Time to add the pasta.
  
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• LIGO's twin black holes might have been born inside a single star

  23-02-2016 22:39
  
  On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times the mass of the Sun. Such an event is expected to be dark, but the Fermi Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray burst just a fraction of a second after LIGO's signal. New research suggests that the two black holes might have resided inside a single, massive star whose death generated the gamma-ray burst.
  
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• Sea level is rising at fastest rate seen in 2800 years, study shows - Christian Science Monitor

  23-02-2016 22:27 via
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  Sea level is rising at fastest rate seen in 2800 years, study shows
  Christian Science Monitor
  A new batch of studies confirming the close relationship between global temperature and ocean level finds that seas are rising at the fastest rate since nearly 1000 BC. By Molly Jackson, Staff February 23, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. Children ...
  Sea Levels Rising Even Faster NowCBS Local
  20th Century Sea Level Rise Fastest in 2800 YearsReason (blog)
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• Snapchat Helps You Celebrate Birthdays With New Lenses - PC Magazine

  23-02-2016 22:25 via
  PC Magazine
  Snapchat Helps You Celebrate Birthdays With New Lenses
  PC Magazine
  Birthdays are becoming a bigger deal on Snapchat. The self-destructing messaging app on Tuesday rolled out a "birthday party" update for iOS and Android offering "some fun surprises, like an exclusive lens on your birthday, a cake emoji next to your ...
  Snapchat now gives you a special lens effect on your birthdayVentureBeat
  Snapchat Adds Birthday Party Lens To Encourage Users To Share Age DataInternational Business
  

• Hottest Phones You've Never Heard of _ Same Bang, Less Buck

  23-02-2016 22:11 via abcnews.go.com
  Chinese phone makers have succeeded in their home country and are looking to steal consumers from Samsung and Apple elsewhere with cheap phones that have decent cameras and screens.
  
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• 3 French Anonymous Activists on Trial for Targeting Officers

  23-02-2016 22:04 via abcnews.go.com
  3 French Anonymous hackers on trial for disclosing contact information for hundreds of police officers on Internet
  
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• Scientists terrify raccoons to reveal inner workings of ecosystems - Ars Technica

  23-02-2016 22:02 via
  National Observer
  Scientists terrify raccoons to reveal inner workings of ecosystems
  Ars Technica
  Raccoons may be adorable, but they have earned the nickname "trash pandas" for a reason. In cities, they'll knock over garbage bins to find food. In the wild, they take the same scorched-Earth approach to all the local wildlife they can fit in their ...
  Nothing to Fear Except Fear Itself—Also Wolves and BearsThe Atlantic
  Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascadeNature.com
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• Here's what tech leaders have said about the Apple-FBI dispute - Computerworld

  23-02-2016 21:52 via
  Computerworld
  Here's what tech leaders have said about the Apple-FBI dispute
  Computerworld
  In the week since Apple said it would do battle with the FBI over the agency's request for access to a smartphone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists, tech industry leaders have been weighing in with their views. Most have come down in ...
  Where tech leaders stand on the Apple vs. FBI debateWashington Post
  What does Bill Gates really think about Apple and the FBI?Mashable
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• 'Kurly' protein keeps cilia moving, oriented in the right direction

  23-02-2016 21:20
  
  A new study of a protein found in cilia - the hair-like projections on the cell surface - may help explain how genetic defects in cilia play a role in developmental abnormalities, kidney disease and a number of other disorders.
  
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• Inside Facebook's marriage of social media and virtual reality - Business Insider

  23-02-2016 21:15 via
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  Inside Facebook's marriage of social media and virtual reality
  Business Insider
  The Oculus Rift is about to hit the market next month, and Facebook is throwing even more support behind it with the announcement of a new social virtual reality team. The social media giant has announced the creation of the team, along with an effort ...
  Samsung Galaxy S7 hands-on [How to VR]SlashGear
  With Their Newest Smartphones, Samsung And LG Go Back To The FutureFast Company
  Social media abuzz over Mark Z
  

• Tracking worm sex drive, neuron by neuron

  23-02-2016 21:09
  
  The males prowl a dark, crowded space. Using a mix of instinct and sensory cues, they pursue potential mates. But how do they decide when to make their move? New findings answer that question, at least for the tiny soil-dwelling worms known as Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans).
  
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• SpaceX warns of failure in Wednesday's rocket landing

  23-02-2016 21:07
  
  California-based SpaceX is already warning that failure is likely in Wednesday's attempt at landing its Falcon 9 rocket, following the launch of a European satellite into a distant orbit.
  
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• Team discovers how mobile ads leak personal data

  23-02-2016 21:04
  
  The personal information of millions of smartphone users is at risk due to in-app advertising that can leak potentially sensitive user information between ad networks and mobile app developers, according to a new study by the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  
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• Three French Anonymous on trial for targeting police officers

  23-02-2016 20:32
  
  Three French Anonymous activists have gone on trial for hacking a police union website, collecting contact information for hundreds of police officers and disclosing the details online in 2012.
  
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• Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices - Discovery News

  23-02-2016 20:20 via
  Discovery News
  Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices
  Discovery News
  If a space rock hits the atmosphere, and no one is around to hear it, does the tabloid press still report it as an Earth-shattering event? Of course! This pretty much summarizes a large-ish meteor impact over the South Atlantic Ocean, which occurred on ...
  Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls over the Atlantic — and almost no one noticesTampabay.com
  NASA: Giant Fireball Crashed Over Atlantic In BrazilHeadl
  

• Mobile World Congress: Wireless Industry Prepares for 5G

  23-02-2016 20:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The next big thing to revolutionize the way we connect may be 5G.
  
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• Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders

  23-02-2016 20:16
  
  Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell's built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway.
  
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• Shrinking 3D technology for comfortable smart phone viewing

  23-02-2016 20:14
  
  Imagine watching a 3D movie on your smart phone and suddenly getting a headache or even feeling nauseous. Such viewer discomfort is one of the biggest obstacles preventing widespread application of 3D display technology – especially for portable devices whose slim design poses an extra challenge.
  
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• Galaxy S7 vs. LG G5: My preorder dilemma - CNET

  23-02-2016 20:13 via
  CNET
  Galaxy S7 vs. LG G5: My preorder dilemma
  CNET
  I want the best phone I can buy. Don't you? And right now, I'm having a hard time deciding between the LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7, the two latest, greatest Android phones just announced at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. I don't have ...
  Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge First Look and Tour!Droid Life (press release) (blog)
  Galaxy S7's 'Best Smartphone Display' Makes Strong Case for Apple to Shift to OLED iPhonesMac Rumors
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• Food printers and eye writing: tech show's quirkiest gadgets

  23-02-2016 19:49
  
  While tens of thousands flock to the Mobile World Congress to check out the latest smartphones, the show also offers glimpses of some of the coolest off-beat—and downright strange—innovations.
  
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• Search narrows for Planet Nine

  23-02-2016 19:47
  
  US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.
  
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• In South Africa, drones used to battle rhino poaching

  23-02-2016 19:38
  
  In hills where Zulu royalty once hunted wildlife, South African conservationists now scan live video from a thermal-imaging camera attached to a drone, looking for heat signatures of poachers stalking through the bush to kill rhinos.
  
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• Australia's Barrier Reef at greater risk than thought, study says

  23-02-2016 19:37
  
  Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the world's largest coral bank, is at greater risk than previously thought of dissolving as climate change renders the oceans more acidic, researchers said Tuesday.
  
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• Old data may provide new insights on honey bee populations

  23-02-2016 19:36
  
  Over the past decade, beekeepers in the U.S. and other countries have had problems keeping their bees healthy. Some of the potential causes of their problems include the Varroa destructor mite, pesticides, pathogens, and the reduction of floral resources due to land development or conversion.
  
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• Dodos might have been quite intelligent, new study finds

  23-02-2016 19:36
  
  New research suggests that the dodo, an extinct bird whose name has entered popular culture as a symbol of stupidity, was actually fairly smart. The work, published today in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, finds that the overall size of the dodo's brain in relation to its body size was on par with its closest living relatives: pigeons—birds whose ability to be trained implies a moderate level of intelligence. The researchers also discovered that the dodo had an enlarged olfa
  
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• Apple: Feds want to circumvent security on other phones, too

  23-02-2016 19:36
  
  Apple is challenging government efforts to overcome encryption on at least 14 electronic devices nationwide in addition to the phone of a San Bernardino, California, shooter, its lawyers say.
  
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• Video: Watch the chemistry of a burning match in ultra-slow motion

  23-02-2016 19:28
  
  To fire up the grill or the gas stove, we often reach for a match. It turns out there's a lot of chemistry going on to make those little wooden wonders work. The best way to find out about the chemistry of burning matches is to watch it in ultra-slow motion.
  
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• NASA sees pinhole eye seen in weakening Tropical Cyclone Winston

  23-02-2016 19:27
  
  NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite saw that Tropical Cyclone Winston maintained a pinhole eye as it tracked east of southern Vanuatu's islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean on Feb. 23, 2016. Infrared imagery showed bands of strong thunderstorms were wrapping into the low-level center of the storm.
  
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• El Nino prolongs longest global coral bleaching event

  23-02-2016 19:27
  
  Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and forecasting the loss of corals from disease and heat stress due to record ocean temperatures. The global coral bleaching event that started in 2014 could extend well into 2017, researchers report at the Oceans Sciences Meeting here this week.
  
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• Engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power

  23-02-2016 19:26
  
  The upside of Wi-Fi is that it's everywhere - invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out.
  
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• Science achievement gaps begin by kindergarten

  23-02-2016 19:24
  
  Large science achievement gaps at the end of eighth grade between white and racial/ethnic minority children and between children from higher- and lower-income families are rooted in large yet modifiable general knowledge gaps already present by the time children enter kindergarten, according to new research published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
  
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• Urban soils release surprising amounts of carbon dioxide

  23-02-2016 19:23
  
  In the concrete jungle at the core of a city, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are dominated by the fossil fuels burned by the dense concentrations of cars and buildings. Boston University researchers now have shown, however, that in metropolitan areas surrounding the city core, plant roots and decomposing organic material in soil give off enough CO2 , in a process termed "soil respiration", to make an unexpectedly great contribution to total emissions.
  
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• Internal dissension cited as reason for Cahokia's dissolution

  23-02-2016 19:22
  
  Champaign, IL Dr. Thomas E. Emerson and Dr. Kristin M. Hedman from the Illinois State Archaeological Survey-Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois present a new case for Cahokia's demise. The new theory was published in Southern Illinois University Press' volume, Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies. Emerson and Hedman contributed a chapter to the volume entitled, The Dangers of Diversity: The Consol
  
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• Imaging technique may help discover Earth-like planets

  23-02-2016 19:20
  
  One of the biggest quests in astrophysics is to find Earth-like planets around other stars - places where life may exist. Regular telescopes are not good at directly imaging such small objects because a host star's light generally drowns out the relatively dimmer light of a potential planet.
  
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• Best Moments So Far From Mobile World Congress

  23-02-2016 19:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Mobile World Congress officially kicked off today in Barcelona.
  
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• A new recipe for biofuel: Genetic diversity can lead to more productive growth

  23-02-2016 19:18
  
  Before farmers settled the Midwestern United States and planted crops, the extensive root systems of prairie grasses—including the tall, strong-stemmed switchgrass species—enriched the soil, creating millions of acres of prime farmland. Today, scientists are exploring how grasses, and switchgrass in particular, can enrich the nation's biofuel supply, which is currently dominated by corn, a crop relatively easy to convert to biofuel but also in demand for food, livestock feed and indu
  
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• Visualizing the emotional power of music

  23-02-2016 19:15
  
  Musical styles and genres differ around the world, but the emotional power of music is universally felt. To understand this evocative force, researchers in many fields, including information science, neural perception, and signal processing, investigate music's underlying structure, examining features such as the tone, timbre, and auditory and rhythmic features of a piece.
  
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• World's large river deltas continue to degrade from human activity

  23-02-2016 19:08
  
  From the Yellow River in China to the Mississippi River in Louisiana, researchers are racing to better understand and mitigate the degradation of some of the world's most important river deltas, according to a University of Colorado Boulder faculty member.
  
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• ​Volkswagen-size armored mammal is armadillo ancestor - CBS News

  23-02-2016 18:58 via
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  ​Volkswagen-size armored mammal is armadillo ancestor
  CBS News
  A new genetic analysis of the glyptodont, an ancient armored creature the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, reveals that it's closely related to the modern-day armadillo. Glyptodonts roamed the Earth for millions of years until they went extinct during the ...
  What do you get when you cross a Volkswagen with an armadillo? This.Christian Science Monitor
  Ancient DNA From Extinct Glyptodont Reveals It Was A Really Big Armadil
  

• Vestas in $1.2B deal to build huge wind power farm in Norway

  23-02-2016 17:42
  
  Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S says it has been awarded a 1.1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) deal to supply 278 wind turbines for Norwegian power company Statkraft and its partners for a wind power project in central Norway.
  
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• Climate 'carbon budget' soon maxed out: study

  23-02-2016 17:42
  
  The window of opportunity for humanity to cap global warming by slashing greenhouse gases is closing faster than previously thought, according to a study released Tuesday.
  
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• Apple fight on iPhone access extends to other cases

  23-02-2016 17:41
  
  Apple is battling the US government over accessing locked devices in at least 10 cases around the country, in addition to the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers, court documents show.
  
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• Astronomers Discover Distant Radio Galaxies via Gravitational Lensing

  23-02-2016 17:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study details how a team of X-ray astronomers used lensed radio galaxies to identify and study distant galaxies with active supermassive black hole nuclei. A lensing cluster is a gravitationally bound collection of galaxies, hundreds or even thousands, whose mass acts as a gravitational lens to collect and reimage the light of more […]
  The post Astronomers Discover Distant Radio Galaxies via Gravitational Lensing appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• New study says 'fear itself' can help restore ecosystems

  23-02-2016 17:33
  
  Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new study led by Western University demonstrates that the fear these top predators inspire can have cascading effects down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems, making large carnivore conservation all the more valuable given the significant 'ecosystem service' the fear of them provides.
  
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