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• US: Computer Breach Bigger Than First Thought; 700K Victims

  26-02-2016 23:47 via abcnews.go.com
  US: Computer breach bigger than first thought; 700K victims identified
  
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• Astronaut Scott Kelly's Yearlong Mission Almost Over

  26-02-2016 23:47 via abcnews.go.com
  Astronaut Scott Kelly's yearlong space station mission _ almost over_ is one for the NASA history books
  
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• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scolds employees for defacing 'Black Lives Matter' slogan - San Jose Mercury News

  26-02-2016 23:26 via
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  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scolds employees for defacing 'Black Lives Matter' slogan
  San Jose Mercury News
  MENLO PARK -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scolded employees this week for crossing out the phrase "Black Lives Matter" and writing "All Lives Matter" on the walls of the company's headquarters. In a leaked internal message, Zuckerberg said he and ...
  UPDATE 1-Zuckerberg says learned from Germany about defending migrantsReuters
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• Pokemon turns 20: How to celebrate - Washington Post

  26-02-2016 22:20 via
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  Pokemon turns 20: How to celebrate
  Washington Post
  It's been 20 years, and we're still trying to catch them all. The Pokemon franchise turns 20 years old this week, marking two decades that gamers of all ages have been collecting those little pocket monsters to train and battle in the pursuit of being ...
  Pokémon Red vs Blue vs Yellow: Which To BuyKotaku
  Pokemon Sun And Moon Announced With New TrailerCinema Blend
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• Apple vs. the FBI: The legal arguments explained - Computerworld

  26-02-2016 22:16 via
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  Apple vs. the FBI: The legal arguments explained
  Computerworld
  Apple has raised some interesting, and potentially winning, legal arguments in its motion to overturn a judge's order requiring the company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter. The FBI's request for Apple to write new software to defeat ...
  The federal government is fighting Apple for something the police want tooLos Angeles Times
  Cook to Apple shareholders: Fighting the feds 'doesn't scare us'CN
  

• Polar priorities: Senior defense officials discuss Arctic, Antarctic science and research

  26-02-2016 22:13
  
  To address the need for collaborative research in the Polar Regions, Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mat Winter met in Finland last week with counterparts from five nations in a first-ever gathering of senior defense officials to coordinate science and technology research in high latitudes.
  
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• Climate Change is Shifting Natural Resources and Wealth Along With It - Newsweek

  26-02-2016 21:44 via
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  Climate Change is Shifting Natural Resources and Wealth Along With It
  Newsweek
  Dried up fishing industry A fisherman's boat as seen on Bolivia's dried Poopo lakebed, south of La Paz, last December. A new study argues that as natural resources like fish migrate due to climate change, dramatic changes in global wealth will follow.
  Did global warming take a hiatus? Depends how you define 'hiatus'Christian Science Monitor
  Book Review: Living with Climate Change: How Communities are Survivi
  

• Phone Makers Aim to Out-Innovate at Mobile World Congress

  26-02-2016 21:39 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The Mobile World Congress tech show has wrapped up in Barcelona, after giving gadget-lovers a look at what 2016 has in store for our pockets.
  
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• IRS Hack Total is More Than Twice Previously Disclosed

  26-02-2016 21:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The IRS statement, originally reported by Dow Jones, revealed tax data for about 700,000 households might have been stolen.
  
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• Dry lake city: Great Salt Lake is shrinking

  26-02-2016 21:20
  
  Utah's Great Salt Lake is the defining physical feature of its arid Western state. Seventy-five miles long and nearly 35 miles wide, the salt water remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville teems with aquatic life, serves as a critical flyway for millions of migratory birds and provides economic value of $1.32 billion per year for mineral extraction, brine shrimp cyst production and recreation.
  
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• 'Superhuman' A.I. Can Locate Any Image - Discovery News

  26-02-2016 21:18 via
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  'Superhuman' A.I. Can Locate Any Image
  Discovery News
  Where on earth was that random photo taken? Google's freaky new artificial intelligence machine can figure it out. Computer vision specialist Tobias Weyand and his colleagues at Google created a deep-learning program called PlaNet, and trained it to ...
  Can you outwit Google's new photo-identifying neural network?TechSpot
  Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humansExtremeTech
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• Cook to Apple shareholders: Fighting the feds 'doesn't scare us' - CNET

  26-02-2016 20:38 via
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  Cook to Apple shareholders: Fighting the feds 'doesn't scare us'
  CNET
  It's been a busy year for Apple CEO Tim Cook since the company's last shareholders' meeting. Apple added new iPhone models, updated the Apple TV set-top box, made a larger iPad and designed a pencil to use with it. The company also revised its Mac OS ...
  The federal government is fighting Apple for something the police want tooLos Angeles Times
  Really understanding Apple's legal brief in the FBI caseThe Verge
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• Mark Zuckerberg embraces live video - USA TODAY

  26-02-2016 20:34 via
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  Mark Zuckerberg embraces live video
  USA TODAY
  SAN FRANCISCO — Live video has a real fan in Mark Zuckerberg. "Live video is one of the things I am most excited about because it's so raw and so visceral," Zuckerberg said Friday during a Facebook town hall in Berlin. The town hall was broadcast live ...
  Facebook Is Bringing Live Video Broadcasting To Android UsersTechCrunch
  Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to be a video starCNET
  Mark Zuckerberg Is 'Obsessed' With Livestreaming, Makin
  

• Apple iPad Pro gets smaller, say deep-throats -- launch date 3/15 - Computerworld

  26-02-2016 20:31 via
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  Apple iPad Pro gets smaller, say deep-throats -- launch date 3/15
  Computerworld
  Apple iPad Pro brand to expand, as a new rumor reveals that the next iPad is not the anticipated “Air 3.” Unexpectedly, it'll be another iPad Pro—with the same innards as its bigger brother, and similar accessories, yet dinkier. So mid-March, Apple ...
  Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22Apple Insider
  Apple Inc.'s Upcoming Product Launch Event May Be Unde
  

• Grand Canyon weighs killing, capturing bison to cut numbers

  26-02-2016 20:30
  
  The National Park Service is looking at using sharpshooters, capture and other methods to reduce the number of bison that are roaming the far northern reaches of the Grand Canyon and damaging resources, officials said.
  
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• Mexico documents big rebound in monarch butterflies

  26-02-2016 20:28
  
  Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico, after suffering serious declines, investigators said Friday.
  
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• Artificial control of exciplexes opens possibilities for new electronics

  26-02-2016 20:26
  
  Demonstrating a strategy that could form the basis for a new class of electronic devices with uniquely tunable properties, researchers at Kyushu University were able to widely vary the emission color and efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes based on exciplexes simply by changing the distance between key molecules in the devices by a few nanometers.
  
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• Tim Cook Teases Apple Car: 'It's Going to Be Christmas Eve for a While' - Mac Rumors

  26-02-2016 20:24 via
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  Tim Cook Teases Apple Car: 'It's Going to Be Christmas Eve for a While'
  Mac Rumors
  Tim-Cook-Car-Silhouette Apple CEO Tim Cook has remained tight lipped about the so-called "Apple Car," but today he dropped a hint about the much-rumored electric vehicle at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino (via Business Insider).
  Tim Cook says it'll be 'Christmas Eve for a while' when asked about Apple Car during shareholders meeting9 to 5 Mac
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• New research unveils graphene 'moth eyes' to power future smart technologies

  26-02-2016 20:21
  
  New ultra-thin, patterned graphene sheets will be essential in designing future technologies such as 'smart wallpaper' and internet-of-things applicationsAdvanced Technology Institute uses moth-inspired ultrathin graphene sheets to capture light for use in energy production and to power smart sensorsGraphene is traditionally an excellent electronic material, but is inefficient for optical applications, absorbs only 2.3% of the light incident on it. A new technique enhances light absorption by 90
  
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• Which Is Safer _ Uber or a Taxi? There's No Clear Answer

  26-02-2016 20:17 via abcnews.go.com
  The deadly shooting rampage Kalamazoo, Michigan, raises anew a question that has dogged Uber and other taxi competitors: Their rides may be cheaper and more convenient than a cab, but are they as safe
  
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• SlashGear's Best of MWC 2016 - SlashGear

  26-02-2016 20:15 via
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  SlashGear's Best of MWC 2016
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  Mobile World Congress 2016 is coming to a close, and this year it's been more than just smartphones making their pitch as virtual reality in all shapes and sizes carve out a chunk of the mobile space. Devices and platforms that blur the distinction ...
  Why My Samsung Gear VR Virtual Reality Headset Is Gathering DustHuffington Post
  What we learned at the world's biggest phone showCNET
  MWC Revisited: Virtual reality is here to stayEngadget
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• NASA just released an incredible photo of Pluto's frozen canyons - Business Insider

  26-02-2016 20:10 via
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  NASA just released an incredible photo of Pluto's frozen canyons
  Business Insider
  Yes, it's that time of the week, when we look at the latest stunning data returned from the New Horizons spacecraft from its flyby of Pluto in July 2015. This time around, we get to see in detail some canyons on the surface, further evidence of ...
  See Pluto's 45-Miles-Wide, 2-Miles-Deep Grand CanyonPopular Mechanics
  NASA photos shows Pluto's North Pole regionUSA TODAY
  Pluto's icy, north pole shin
  

• Which is safer—Uber or a taxi? There's no clear answer

  26-02-2016 20:03
  
  The deadly shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, raises anew a question that has dogged Uber and other taxi competitors: Their rides may be cheaper and more convenient than a cab, but are they as safe?
  
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• Global warming doubts spur push to block science standards

  26-02-2016 20:03
  
  Doubt over man's contribution to global warming is fueling a push by West Virginia lawmakers to block new science standards in schools.
  
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• Preventing protein unfolding

  26-02-2016 20:01
  
  When the body loses its ability to fold proteins into the correct shapes, the result can be irreversible and tragic. The accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins in the brain causes many devastating neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
  
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• Zuckerberg in Germany: No Place for Hate Speech on Facebook

  26-02-2016 19:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more work still needs to be done to police hate speech on the social media site in Germany
  
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• Book Review: Living with Climate Change: How Communities are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate - Emergency Management

  26-02-2016 19:25 via
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  Book Review: Living with Climate Change: How Communities are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate
  Emergency Management
  Book's anticipated use might be as a classroom text for students pursuing degrees in emergency management, it also has broad application for practicing emergency managers at the local, state and federal levels. Eric Holdeman | February 26, 2016.
  Fish Getting Pushed to Poles by Climate Change Will Hurt Poor People | The Weather ChannelThe Weather Cha
  

• Pluto's icy, north pole shines in this image - Fox News

  26-02-2016 19:23 via
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  Pluto's icy, north pole shines in this image
  Fox News
  It may have demoted to a dwarf planet but this image shows that Pluto continues to confound and surprise scientists. The image from the New Horizon spacecraft showcases icy canyon's on Pluto's north pole. The long canyons run vertically across the ...
  Frozen canyons found on Pluto's North PoleChron.com
  NASA just released an incredible photo of Pluto's frozen canyonsBusiness Insider
  See Pluto's 45-Miles-Wide, 2-Miles-Deep Grand Canyo
  

• Zuckerberg's 'Initiative' Adds New Wrinkle to Tech Giving

  26-02-2016 19:11 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg is known for being an innovator in technology -- and now he's innovating in philanthropy.On Tuesday, the Facebook CEO and his wife Pri
  
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• Honeywell offer for United Tech worth more than $90 billion

  26-02-2016 19:11
  
  Honeywell offered more than $90 billion to acquire United Technologies, revealing for the first time to company shareholders the details of a proposed deal to combine the industrial conglomerates.
  
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• Researchers develop realistic system to study impact of residential mold on health

  26-02-2016 19:00
  
  Feb. 26, 2016 - Residential mold has increased in recent years, due to water damage from a rising frequency of flooding. But there is scant information on the impact of residential mold on human health. But now a team of Danish investigators has developed a modeling system that actually mimics indoor fungal aerosols. The research is published ahead of print Feb. 26, 2016 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
  
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• Scientists discover new subatomic particle

  26-02-2016 18:55
  
  Physicists have discovered a new elementary particle—the latest member to be added to the exotic species known as tetraquarks. 
  
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• NASA's Terra satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Yalo coming to a quick end

  26-02-2016 18:42
  
  Tropical Cyclone Yalo formed yesterday and is expected to come to an end today, Feb. 26. NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the young storm that showed strong wind shear was already tearing the storm apart.
  
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• How plants protect photosynthesis from oxygen

  26-02-2016 18:41
  
  During the daytime, plants convert the Sun's energy into sugars using photosynthesis, a complex, multi-stage biochemical process. New work from a team including Carnegie's Mark Heinnickel, Wenqiang Yang, and Arthur Grossman identified a protein needed for assembling the photosynthetic apparatus that may help us understand the history of photosynthesis back in the early days of life on Earth, a time when oxygen was not abundant in the atmosphere. Their work is published by Proceedings of the Nati
  
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• New IBEX Observations Determine the Strength of the Magnetic Field Outside the Heliosphere

  26-02-2016 18:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky than anywhere […]
  The post New IBEX Observations Determine the Strength of the Magnetic Field Outside the Heliosphere appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff To Stop Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter' - NPR

  26-02-2016 18:18 via
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  Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff To Stop Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter'
  NPR
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scolding employees for what he calls "several recent instances" of people crossing out "black lives matter" on signature walls at the company's headquarters and writing "all lives matter" instead. In a note posted to ...
  Zuckerberg Scolds Facebook Employees for 'All Lives Matter'Breitbart News
  Mark Zuckerberg Calls Out 'Malicious' Facebook Employees For Crossing Out Black Lives
  

• App reveals secrets of jellyfish

  26-02-2016 18:00
  
  The balloon-sized, orange Pacific sea nettles have been conspicuously absent of late from the Central Coast's briny waters.
  
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• Why serious PC gamers should ignore the Windows Store - PCWorld

  26-02-2016 17:42 via
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  Why serious PC gamers should ignore the Windows Store
  PCWorld
  It's no secret that Microsoft wants to compete with the likes of Steam and GOG by providing a one-stop shop for AAA PC game titles such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and the upcoming Quantum Break. Be warned, however: Games purchased from the ...
  Your weekend reading: Here's everything we published this weekSuperSite for Windows
  Microsoft: Our Android Windows 10 bridge is dead, but iOS, Win32 ones moving aheadZDNet
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• Researchers find privacy problems in popular Baidu browser

  26-02-2016 17:40
  
  University of Toronto undergrad Jing Zhou knows a lot about surveillance issues in China and Canada, but even she's surprised by findings that hundreds of millions of people are at risk of hacking and surveillance because of a popular internet browser.
  
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• How oxygen may have delayed latest SpaceX launch - Christian Science Monitor

  26-02-2016 17:38 via
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  How oxygen may have delayed latest SpaceX launch
  Christian Science Monitor
  The SpaceX SES-9 mission launch was delayed a second time Thursday. Warm oxygen may be the cause. By Corey Fedde, Staff February 26, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Jason-3 spacecraft onboard is shown at ...
  SpaceX Launch Cancellation the 2nd in As Many DaysUniversity Herald
  SpaceX Scrubs Satellite Launch, Rocket Landing AttemptSpace.com
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• After nearly a year in space, Scott Kelly craves human contact

  26-02-2016 17:30
  
  After nearly a year in space, US astronaut Scott Kelly craves the simple pleasures of human contact, a shower, and a splash in a swimming pool.
  
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• Disney automated system lets characters leap and bound realistically in virtual worlds

  26-02-2016 17:20
  
  Virtual game characters can leap, roll and climb so realistically that simply watching them could seemingly exhaust a player. Generating the precise instructions that govern such characters in increasingly complex environments is also quite labor intensive and, unlike a game, downright tedious.
  
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• Women who feel more at risk of crime also prefer physically dominant partners

  26-02-2016 17:10
  
  Women who prefer physically formidable and dominant mates (PPFDM) tend to feel more at risk of crime regardless of the situation or risk factors present, according to research from the University of Leicester.
  
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• Researcher is an Open Book: First to Share Lab Notes in Real Time

  26-02-2016 17:02
  
  University of Toronto researcher Rachel Harding will be the first known biomedical researcher to welcome the world to review her lab notes in real time. The post-doctoral fellow with U of T's Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is also explaining her findings to the general public through her blog. She hopes her open approach will accelerate research into Huntington's disease.
  
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• Radio rhinos: Scientists tag coconut rhinoceros beetles

  26-02-2016 17:00
  
  Coconut rhinoceros beetles were first discovered on Guam in 2007. Adults kill palms when they bore into crowns to feed on sap. Rhino beetle larvae feed only on dead plant material at breeding sites and they do no damage. In order to eradicate rhino beetles, all breeding sites must be found and destroyed. Four dogs were trained to lead handlers to cryptic breeding sites on Guam. This detector dog program was effective but very expensive and it was shut down after a few years.
  
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• Microsoft, Google, Twitter Plan to File in Support of Apple

  26-02-2016 16:58 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Microsoft, Google and Twitter all have plans to file in court in support of Apple's position not to comply with the court order issued on Feb. 16.
  
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• Determining the structures of nanocrystalline pharmaceuticals by electron diffraction

  26-02-2016 16:51
  
  Reliable information about the structure of pharmaceutical compounds is important for patient safety, for the development of related drugs and for patenting purposes. However, working out the structures of pharmaceuticals can be tough. The individual molecules can pack together in the solid in different ways to form different polymorphs, and pertinent properties such as stability, bioavailability or how fast they dissolve in the stomach can vary from one polymorph to another. Single crystals (as
  
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• World's first parallel computer based on biomolecular motors

  26-02-2016 16:34
  
  A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a new parallel-computing approach based on a combination of nanotechnology and biology that can solve combinatorial problems. The approach is scalable, error-tolerant, energy-efficient, and can be implemented with existing technologies.
  
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• These Are the 5 Best Pokemon Games Ever - TIME

  26-02-2016 16:27 via
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  These Are the 5 Best Pokemon Games Ever
  TIME
  On Feb. 27, 1996, Pokemon appeared on Japanese store shelves for the first time. Players could inhabit a world crawling with animal-like creatures endowed with seemingly magical powers, fighting and capturing them to use them in battle. When the ...
  Pokemon Sun And Moon Announced With New TrailerCinema Blend
  Pokémon Sun and Moon Launching on Nintendo 3DS This FallFortune
  5 Things We Want to See in Pokémon Sun and MoonCrave Onl
  

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