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• Report: Spotify Goes After Apple Over App Store Policies - PC Magazine

  30-06-2016 23:54
  
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  Report: Spotify Goes After Apple Over App Store Policies
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  Spotify expressed frustration with the App Store approval process this week after Apple reportedly rejected an update to the streaming music service's iOS app, according to Recode. The update concerned Spotify's billing system for its Premium service ...
  Report: Apple blocks Spotify app update after in-app subscription removalArs Technica
  Spotify Claims Apple Is Keeping an Update Out of Its App StoreYahoo News
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• Kellogg's is opening a cereal cafe

  30-06-2016 23:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kellogg's is raising the stakes in the all-day breakfast wars. A new cafe in New York City will feature dishes made entirely from its cereals.
  
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• Android Nougat? Really? Here are at least eight better names - CNET

  30-06-2016 22:28
  
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  Android Nougat? Really? Here are at least eight better names
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  Perhaps Android Nuomici would have been better? Wikipedia/Public domain. The wait is over, and once again we have a new version of Android to look forward to, complete with a name that honors yet another sweet treat... I think. Android N will ...
  Opinion: Nougat Is As Boring A Name Choice As N Is An UpdateAndroid Headlines
  HTC promises Android Nougat upgrades for the One M9, One A9, and HTC 10Android Police
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• On-demand business models have put some startups on life support

  30-06-2016 22:10
  
  Last summer, flower delivery startup BloomThat was in an enviable position.
  
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• Google Reveals the Sweet New Name of Android N

  30-06-2016 21:22
  
  Google has a tradition of naming each update after a dessert.
  
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• Can app find next 'Harry Potter'?

  30-06-2016 21:20
  
  Serial entrepreneurs Prerna Gupta and husband Parag Chordia launched their mobile reading app Hooked in September as a way to publish fiction for the social media generation.
  
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• Apple Patented a Device to Stop You Recording Live Shows

  30-06-2016 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple just had a patent approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that would disable iPhone cameras from recording or photographing live shows.
  
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• Stem Cell Clinics Pop Up Across the U.S.

  30-06-2016 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two experts found more than 570 clinics offering "stem cell" treatments, many with little or no proof they work or are even legal.
  
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• Giant spacecraft spins toward Jupiter

  30-06-2016 20:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A spinning, solar-powered spacecraft as wide as a basketball court will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 to study the giant planet and to take the highest-resolution images of Jupiter in history.
  
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• Giant spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4

  30-06-2016 20:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A spinning, solar-powered spacecraft as wide as a basketball court will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 to study the giant planet and to take the highest-resolution images of Jupiter in history.
  
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• Amazon adds 50 Dash Buttons, says orders roll in twice a minute

  30-06-2016 20:20
  
  Amazon is expanding its one-press Dash Button technology to toys and musical equipment.
  
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• Review: Triby gets Amazon's Alexa to help you in the kitchen

  30-06-2016 20:10
  
  You may have heard of the Amazon Echo, a stand-alone speaker with the Alexa voice service built in.
  
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• Similarities found in bee and mammal social organization

  30-06-2016 20:00
  
  New research shows similarities in the social organisation of bees and mammals, and provides insight into the genetics of social behavior for other animals. These findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, use sociogenomics - a field that explores the relationship between social behaviour and the genome - to show strong similarities in socially genetic circuits common in honey bees and mammals.
  
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• Scientists observe first signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

  30-06-2016 20:00
  
  Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer, published today in the journal Science.
  
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• Scientists discover maleness gene in malaria mosquitoes

  30-06-2016 20:00
  
  Scientists, led by Dr Jaroslaw Krzywinski, Head of the Vector Molecular Biology group at The Pirbright Institute have isolated a gene, which determines maleness in the species of mosquito that is responsible for transmitting malaria. The research, published in the journal Science, describes identification and characterisation of a gene, named Yob by the authors, which is the master regulator of the sex determination process in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, and determines the m
  
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• Ocean circulation implicated in past abrupt climate changes

  30-06-2016 20:00
  
  There was a period during the last ice age when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere went on a rollercoaster ride, plummeting and then rising again every 1,500 years or so. Those abrupt climate changes wreaked havoc on ecosystems, but their cause has been something of a mystery. New evidence published this week in the leading journal Science shows for the first time that the ocean's overturning circulation slowed during every one of those temperature plunges - at times almost stopping.
  
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• Microbes, nitrogen and plant responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

  30-06-2016 20:00
  
  Plants can grow faster as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase, but only if they have enough nitrogen or partner with fungi that help them get it, according to new research published this week in Science.
  
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• Researchers discover first sleeper goby cavefish in Western Hemisphere

  30-06-2016 19:48
  
  Researchers have described a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico - the Oaxaca Cave Sleeper. It has not been collected or seen in more than 20 years and lives in a cave system threatened by damming. Less than 0.5 percent of all fish species are cave-adapted and most of them are endangered because their cave habitats are limited and vulnerable to environmental threats.
  
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• Fin24.com | Barclays signs deals with SA startups

  30-06-2016 19:45
  
  Banking giant Barclays has concluded new proof of concept agreements with South African startups as the bank drives local innovation partnerships.
  
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• Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots

  30-06-2016 19:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research reveals that the Occator Crater on Ceres has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth. The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA’s Dawn mission. The study, […]
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• Report points to racial disparities in most forms of political participation in California

  30-06-2016 19:35
  
  Latinos and Asian Americans are the least likely to have a say in California's politics, during election cycles and year round. That is one of the key findings of a new report by Advancement Project and the School of Public Policy at University of California, Riverside, the first comprehensive assessment in more than a decade of political participation at the ballot box and beyond in California.
  
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• NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Completes Primary Mission

  30-06-2016 19:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission, exceeding all expectations. On June 30, just in time for the global celebration known as Asteroid Day, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission. The mission exceeded all expectations originally set for its exploration of protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. The historic mission is the first to […]
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• Apple wants to block your phone camera

  30-06-2016 19:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple really doesn't want you to record videos where it's forbidden.
  
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• Hubble Telescope Views Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

  30-06-2016 19:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers view vivid auroras on the poles of Jupiter. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known for its colorful storms, the most famous being the Great Red Spot. Now astronomers have focused on another beautiful feature of the planet, using Hubble’s ultraviolet capabilities. The extraordinary vivid […]
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• Vienna carriage horses to get time off during heatwaves

  30-06-2016 18:58
  
  The City of Vienna on Thursday approved legislation making it illegal for its world-famous carriage horses to work in temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius and above.
  
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• Government urges owners of old Hondas to get air bags fixed

  30-06-2016 18:57
  
  The government is urging owners of older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after tests found that their Takata air bag inflators are extremely dangerous.
  
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• New study compares transportation energy efficiency of local and conventional food

  30-06-2016 18:44
  
  Two researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture find that farmers located closer to city centers seem to have a locational advantage in transportation over their long distance, conventional food supply chain competitors.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: Tech companies 'too big to fail'?

  30-06-2016 18:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senator Elizabeth Warren just insulted Silicon Valley in the worst way: She compared some of the biggest tech companies to banks that caused the financial collapse.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: Have tech companies become 'too big to fail'?

  30-06-2016 18:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senator Elizabeth Warren just insulted Silicon Valley in the worst way: She compared some of the biggest tech companies to banks that caused the financial collapse.
  
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• Researchers identify calorie-burning pathway in fat cells

  30-06-2016 18:00
  
  Investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a natural molecular pathway that enables cells to burn off calories as heat rather than store them as fat. This raises the possibility of a new approach to treating and preventing obesity, diabetes, and other obesity-linked metabolic disorders including cancer.
  
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• Pea plants demonstrate ability to 'gamble'—a first in plants

  30-06-2016 18:00
  
  An international team of scientists from Oxford University, UK, and Tel-Hai College, Israel, has shown that pea plants can demonstrate sensitivity to risk - namely, that they can make adaptive choices that take into account environmental variance, an ability previously unknown outside the animal kingdom.
  
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• Can Clinton emojis win over Snapchat generation?

  30-06-2016 17:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Emojis might just be the political cartoon for the Snapchat generation.
  
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• Scientist's math formula offers improved yield for flour milling

  30-06-2016 17:49
  
  Research by a University of Huddersfield scientist could aid the development of new strains of wheat that yield higher quantities of extra-nutritious flour.
  
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• The future of dress shirts

  30-06-2016 17:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Biking to work can be a sweaty disaster. Can this futuristic dress shirt help?
  
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• Study of stalagmites in caves in China reveals 640,000 years of Asian monsoon history

  30-06-2016 16:58
  
  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from China, the U.S., Austria and Singapore has used their analysis of stalagmites in a cave deep in central China to map over 640,000 years of monsoons in Asia. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their analysis of the cave formations, what they found and how they were able to use what they learned to better understand other world events over the same time period. Nele Meckler with University of Bergen in Norway
  
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• NBC to offer VR Olympics content to Samsung users

  30-06-2016 16:50
  
  NBC says it will provide 85 hours of virtual reality programming during the Rio Olympics in August—but only to users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones and the Samsung Gear VR headset.
  
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• Here come the virtual reality Olympics ... for Samsung users (Update)

  30-06-2016 16:50
  
  Athletes in Rio will compete to be the fastest sprinter and highest jumper at the Olympics this August. But there's another test underway as well: How well can virtual reality capture sporting events?
  
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• Spanish tax inspectors search Google office in Madrid

  30-06-2016 16:49
  
  A Madrid court says it authorized tax inspectors to enter Google's offices in Madrid as part of a tax department investigation.
  
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• Samsung sells Galaxy S7 phones that aren't tied to carrier

  30-06-2016 16:48
  
  Samsung will sell unlocked versions of its flagship Galaxy S7 phones in the U.S. so consumers can switch carriers more easily.
  
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• Vietnam says Taiwanese steel mill to pay $500mn for pollution

  30-06-2016 16:47
  
  A Taiwanese steel mill has agreed to pay $500 million compensation for discharging pollution that decimated Vietnam's fishing industry in several central provinces this year, officials said Thursday.
  
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• Nobel winners slam Greenpeace on GMO crops

  30-06-2016 16:47
  
  About a third of living Nobel laureates—108 at last count—have signed an open letter Thursday which attacks Greenpeace for campaigning against genetically modified crops, especially one called Golden Rice.
  
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• Netherlands gets first nationwide 'Internet of Things'

  30-06-2016 16:46
  
  Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range (LoRa) network for the so-called Internet of Things.
  
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• Hertz teams up with Uber and Lyft

  30-06-2016 16:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  People who want to be Uber and Lyft drivers but don't have a car of their own can now rent one from Hertz (HTZ).
  
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• Apple sued over obscure film by China's media regulator: court

  30-06-2016 16:46
  
  Apple is being sued by China's media regulator over rights to an obscure patriotic film, a Beijing court said Thursday, in the latest legal battle for the US tech giant in one of its crucial overseas markets.
  
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• Journey to Jupiter: NASA spacecraft nears planet rendezvous

  30-06-2016 16:45
  
  Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out.
  
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• In times of great famine, microalgae digest themselves

  30-06-2016 16:42
  
  In a recent study, scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have determined the molecular mechanisms which microalgae apply in order to switch from rapid cell division to growth-arrest during times of acute nutrient deficiency. In laboratory experiments, the scientists have been able to observe that calcifying microalgae in a state of nutrient deficiency initially tweak their metabolism to be more economic and efficient before, out of neces
  
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• The role played by solvents at extreme pressure

  30-06-2016 16:41
  
  Some living organisms thrive under extraordinary conditions, such as the deep sea. But just how do they withstand the enormous pressure?
  
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• Researchers develop effective strategy for disrupting bacterial biofilms

  30-06-2016 16:41
  
  Biofilms are communities of bacteria that adhere to a surface and are nearly impossible to eradicate when they are pathogenic, or disease-causing. Fortunately, a discovery from the laboratories of Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, and Steven Goodman, PhD, in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, provides strong evidence that an innovative therapeutic approach may be effective in the resolution of bacterial biofilm diseases.
  
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• Fin24.com | Number of Facebook users in SA tops 14 million

  30-06-2016 16:37
  
  Facebook has increased the number of regular users in its three biggest African markets by 13% over the last few months.
  
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• Hacker Takes Over Oculus CEO's Twitter, Announces New Boss

  30-06-2016 16:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  An apparent hacker has used the Twitter account of the CEO and co-founder of Oculus to announce a new head of the company.
  
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