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• Hyperloop One test bodes well for transit's fast future (Update)

  11-05-2016 23:17
  
  The possible future of transit zipped along a short track in the desert outside Las Vegas on Wednesday before sliding to a stop in a bed of sand, sending up a tan wave.
  
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• Hyperloop One test bodes well for transit's fast future

  11-05-2016 23:17
  
  The possible future of transit zipped along a short track in the desert outside Las Vegas on Wednesday before sliding to a stop in a bed of sand, sending up a tan wave.
  
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• California Judge Allows Illinois Facebook Lawsuit to Proceed

  11-05-2016 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  A California federal judge has ruled that three Illinois men can proceed with their class-action lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition software used to identify people in uploaded photos
  
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• Solar plane on global trip headed to Oklahoma from Arizona

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  A solar-powered airplane that landed in Arizona last week after a daylong flight from California is headed to Oklahoma next on the latest leg of its around-the-world journey, project officials announced Wednesday.
  
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• Samsung Gear expands virtual-reality arsenal

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  Smartphone maker Samsung and virtual reality specialist Oculus are trying to dazzle consumers by adding more entertainment and educational options to their Gear headset in hopes of transforming the technological curiosity into a cultural phenomenon.
  
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• Hyperloop One Tests Futuristic Tech in First-Ever Demo

  11-05-2016 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The future of transportation could be closer than you think as Hyperloop One tested its electric engine in its first open-air demonstration.
  
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• Crowd-augmented cognition: Team develops tools that combine human and machine intelligence to accelerate learning

  11-05-2016 22:47
  
  Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It also provides an increasingly effective means for teams to write software, perform research or accomplish small repetitive digital tasks.
  
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• New technology detects blood clots with simple in-home test

  11-05-2016 22:45
  
  For millions of Americans at risk for blood clots, strokes and hypertension, routine lab tests to monitor blood-thinning medications can be frequent, costly and painful.
  
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• Study: Bakken oil field leaks 275,000 tons of methane yearly

  11-05-2016 22:41
  
  A new study says the oil-producing region of North Dakota and Montana leaks 275,000 tons of methane annually, an amount that's less than previously reported.
  
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• Study finds some birds process sound much as people do, suggesting stream segregation is not a uniquely human ability

  11-05-2016 22:37
  
  While analyzing and untangling multiple environmental sounds is an important social tool for humans, for animals that analysis is a critical survival skill. Yet humans and animals use similar cues to make sense of their acoustic worlds, according to new research from the University at Buffalo.
  
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• Chemists find 'huge shortcut' for organic synthesis using C-H bonds

  11-05-2016 22:33
  
  Chemists have taken another major step in the quest to use carbon-hydrogen bonds to create new molecules, a strategy that aims to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis.
  
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• Alien Earth Still Elusive Despite Huge Exoplanet Haul

  11-05-2016 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The first 'alien Earth' continues to evade detection.
  
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• High-throughput screening strategy identifies compounds active against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

  11-05-2016 22:31
  
  A new study in which researchers rapidly screened more than 11,000 bioactive molecules for activity against an antibiotic-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria identified multiple compounds with potent antimicrobial activity. These active compounds included two existing drugs, azidothymidine, an antiviral used to treat HIV infection, and spectinomycin, an antibacterial agent used to treat gonorrhea, as reported in ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies.
  
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• You are what you eat: Biologists map genetic pathways of nutrition-based species traits

  11-05-2016 22:29
  
  Biologists at Indiana University have significantly advanced understanding of the genetic pathways that control the appearance of different physical traits in the same species depending on nutritional conditions experienced during development.
  
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• 25 myths of dating, sex and marriage debunked in new book

  11-05-2016 22:29
  
  How we feel about ourselves and those we love depends in large part on the assumptions and expectations we hold about romantic relationships. It turns out that many of our beliefs about intimate relationships aren't backed up by science. In his new book, Great Myths of Intimate Relationships: Dating, Sex, and Marriage, Binghamton University psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson debunks 25 of the biggest myths out there.
  
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• The Latest: Firm gives glimpse of super-speed transportation

  11-05-2016 22:21
  
  The Latest on Hyperloop One's demonstration of its propulsion system (all times local):
  
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• SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth with precious science load

  11-05-2016 22:21
  
  A SpaceX capsule returned to Earth on Wednesday with precious science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident.
  
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• 'Sextortion,' a new cyber crime, is common: study

  11-05-2016 22:20
  
  Sextortion—using nude photos of someone to press for even racier content or other goods—is surprisingly common, a US think tank says in what it calls the first in-depth study of another danger lurking in cyberspace.
  
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• Google Bans Payday Lending Ads, Calls Industry 'Harmful'

  11-05-2016 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Internet giant Google said Wednesday it will ban all ads from payday lenders, calling the industry 'deceptive' and 'harmful.'
  
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• Does Culling Actually Encourage Poaching Of Endangered Species? - Forbes

  11-05-2016 22:02 via forbes.com
  
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  Does Culling Actually Encourage Poaching Of Endangered Species?
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  Conventional wisdom claims that culling is an effective tool for the conservation of endangered predators. But a newly-published study argues that culling may actually encourage poaching of endangered predator species. Dakota, a grey wolf at the UK ...
  Study Casts Doubt on Theory That Legal Hunting Reduces PoachingNew York Times
  Do legal hunts encourage the poaching they're meant to preempt?Christian Science Monitor
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• Civilization 6 revealed, brings major changes - CNET

  11-05-2016 21:44 via cnet.com
  
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  Civilization 6 revealed, brings major changes
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  The great cities of history were centers of culture, science, and industry. They housed artists. They fostered inventions. They raised factories to build machines of war. In Civilization VI, cites are more nuanced than ever and, if developer Firaxis ...
  Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changesPolygon
  Civilization VI launches October 2016 with a cartoony new art styleArs Technica
  Three Ways Sid Meier's Civilization 6 Radically
  
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• Tesla in Hot Pursuit of Police Electric Cruiser Market

  11-05-2016 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tesla looks like it may be in hot pursuit of a new market.
  
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• Oculus highlights over 1 million Gear VR users with new content - Engadget

  11-05-2016 21:28 via engadget.com
  
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  Oculus highlights over 1 million Gear VR users with new content
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  Image of a Maasai tribesman trying the Gear VR, taken as part of a newly released VR experience called Nomads, created by Felix & Paul Studios. Georgina Goodwin. While full-fledged VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive have gotten a lot of ...
  Over one million VR adventurers used Samsung's Gear VR headset in AprilDigital Trends
  Facebook will soon let you post 360-degree photos to the News Feed
  
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• Site for Neighborhood Groups Moves to Stop Racial Profiling

  11-05-2016 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  A popular website for neighborhood groups across the country promises San Francisco Bay Area residents it's making changes after complaints that people are using the service for racial profiling
  
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• YouTube built a messaging feature into its mobile app - The Verge

  11-05-2016 21:04 via theverge.com
  
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  YouTube built a messaging feature into its mobile app
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  While YouTube comments have long been the chaotic and unheeding scourge of the internet, the company still appears confident its users can have civil conversations about online video. Starting today, a new chat feature called native sharing is ...
  10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right nowBGR
  YouTube's New Messenger Means You'll Never Have to Leave YouTubeWIRED
  Some YouTube users now have access to its in-app messenge
  
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• French Teen's Streamed Suicide on Periscope Leads to Inquiry

  11-05-2016 21:03 via abcnews.go.com
  French authorities have opened an investigation after a teenager allegedly live-streamed video of her suicide on the popular app Periscope
  
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• Fin24.com | Google bans payday loans

  11-05-2016 20:29
  
  Google is banning ads for payday loans, quick money that comes with extremely high interest rates that can quickly plunge a borrower into financial distress.
  
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• Targeted orphaned domain may lead to drug therapies

  11-05-2016 20:14
  
  By studying an orphaned domain considered disordered by others, Michaela Jansen, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), may have found the key to possible drug therapies for nervous system diseases and inflammatory processes.
  
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• What you get from Dish and Sony online TV channels

  11-05-2016 20:12
  
  Dish's Sling TV and Sony's PlayStation Vue both offer ways to watch traditional TV channels over the Internet without a cable box or satellite dish.
  
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• Researchers unveil new, detailed images of DNA transcription

  11-05-2016 20:11
  
  An unprecedented molecular view of the critical early events in gene expression, a process essential for all life, has been provided by researchers at Georgia State University, the University of California at Berkeley and Northwestern University.
  
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• Wolf pups more likely to play on equal terms with similarly aged partners

  11-05-2016 20:00
  
  Wolf puppy play behaviors may be influenced by their play partner's age, according to a study published May 11, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jennifer Essler from the Messerli Research Institute (Vetmed Vienna) and the Wolf Science Center, Austria, and colleagues.
  
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• Mysterious mounds created by earthworms

  11-05-2016 20:00
  
  Mysterious spectacular mounds found in the earth in tropical wetlands in South America are created by earthworms, researchers have found.
  
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• Modern family planning in India

  11-05-2016 20:00
  
  At roughly 1.3 billion people, India is the second most populous country in the world, but will likely surpass China as the most populous nation within six years, reaching 1.7 billion by 2050, according to United Nations estimates.
  
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• Abstinence may not be the best policy for avoiding online risk

  11-05-2016 20:00
  
  The online world is full of risky situations for teens, but allowing them to gradually build their own coping strategies may be a better parental strategy than forbidding internet use, according to a team of researchers.
  
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• Team proves that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research

  11-05-2016 19:59
  
  In the early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford shot alpha particles onto gold foils and concluded from their scattering properties that atoms contain their mass in a very small nucleus. A hundred years later, modern scientists took that concept to a new level, building the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to smash protons into each other, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson.
  
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• Review: You can channel-surf online, but you may miss cable

  11-05-2016 19:59
  
  It might feel cathartic to ditch your cable TV company. But if you're looking to channel-surf online, you're going to find services such as Sling TV or PlayStation Vue coming up short in some respects.
  
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• Microsoft is killing its Sunrise calendar app on August 31st - The Verge

  11-05-2016 19:44 via theverge.com
  
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  Microsoft is killing its Sunrise calendar app on August 31st
  The Verge
  Microsoft revealed last year that it was planning to merge its Outlook and Sunrise apps into a single app. After acquiring Sunrise more than a year ago, Microsoft is now planning to kill off the standalone app at the end of August. Sunrise will be ...
  Office 365 Improvements Include Outlook Troubleshooting ToolRedmondmag.com
  Sunrise will sunset on August 31stTechCrunch
  Microsoft moves ahead with plans to shut down
  
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• AP Explains: Bias complaints on Facebook's 'trending' tool

  11-05-2016 19:40
  
  What's behind the accusations that Facebook is manipulating its "trending topics" feature to promote or suppress certain political perspectives?
  
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• Microsoft tells UN more can be done to combat digital terror

  11-05-2016 19:30
  
  Microsoft told the United Nations on Wednesday that technology companies can do more to combat digital terror, but warned there was no single solution to prevent terrorists from using the web.
  
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• Silicate stardust traces histories of dust in the galaxy

  11-05-2016 19:28
  
  NASA scientists are revealing the histories of dust particles from dying stars that roved the Galaxy for millions of years before the sun and planets formed. These stardust grains survived the harsh environment of deep space and were found in meteorites on Earth.
  
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• Seen as global first, Swiss town to accept bitcoin payments

  11-05-2016 19:15
  
  A Swiss town that is billing itself as a hub for the digital currency industry will accept bitcoin for some payments starting this summer, in what proponents call a worldwide first by a government body and a sign that "crypto finance" is growing in legitimacy.
  
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• Study reveals fox squirrels' tell-tail signs of frustration

  11-05-2016 19:12
  
  Fox squirrels flick their tails when they can't get a cherished nut in much the same way that humans kick a vending machine that fails to deliver the anticipated soda or candy bar, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
  
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• Archaeologists uncover 13,000-year-old bones of ancient, extinct species of bison

  11-05-2016 19:11
  
  In what is considered one of the oldest and most important archaeological digs in North America, scientists have uncovered what they believe are the bones of a 13,000- to 14,000-year-old ancient, extinct species of bison at the Old Vero Man Site in Vero Beach, Fla. Archaeologists from Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute made this discovery just 10 feet below the ground's surface during the final stretch of the 2016 excavation efforts at the Vero Beach site.
  
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• Startups turn to crowdfunding

  11-05-2016 19:00
  
  When Oakland startup MegaBots needed cash to give its 15-foot-tall, 12,000-pound combat robot more firepower, the company put out a call for help online.
  
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• How the spectacular Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain became so bendy

  11-05-2016 19:00
  
  The physical mechanism causing the unique, sharp bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain has been uncovered in a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
  
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• Exoplanets' complex orbital structure points to planetary migration in solar systems

  11-05-2016 19:00
  
  The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Kepler-223 system is trapped in an orbital configuration that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune may have broken from in the early history of the solar system.
  
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• Cosmic dust reveals Earth's ancient atmosphere

  11-05-2016 19:00
  
  Using the oldest fossil micrometeorites - space dust - ever found, Monash University-led research has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago.
  
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• Chicken coops, sewage treatment plants are hot spots of antibiotic resistance

  11-05-2016 19:00
  
  Antibiotic-resistant bacteria most often are associated with hospitals and other health-care settings, but a new study indicates that chicken coops and sewage treatment plants also are hot spots of antibiotic resistance.
  
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• As Google Tests Black Links, People See Red

  11-05-2016 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Is Google going black? A new setup ditches the blue completely: Previously visited links change from black to light grey, instead of blue to purple.
  
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• New research suggests climate change may have contributed to extinction of Neanderthals

  11-05-2016 18:51
  
  A researcher at the University of Colorado Denver has found that Neanderthals in Europe showed signs of nutritional stress during periods of extreme cold, suggesting climate change may have contributed to their demise around 40,000 years ago.
  
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