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• With acquisition, Google can get more video into its cloud - CNET

  08-07-2016 23:10 via cnet.com
  
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  With acquisition, Google can get more video into its cloud
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  Steamy noodles, streamy content. Zhang Peng/Getty Images. As video continues its conquest of our smartphones and other gadgets, Google has scooped up a firm that will let it offer content companies like NBC Universal tools for creating and publishing ...
  Google acquires video software company AnvatoComputerworld
  Google Acquires Video Company Anvato To Provide Cloud Services For Media FirmsTech Times
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• Hold the nectar, these butterflies feed on galls and honeydew

  08-07-2016 22:56
  
  While most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers, researchers from the University of Connecticut believe that northern oak hairstreaks feed on non-nectar sources such as oak galls and honeydew from aphids and other insects.
  
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• NASA's field campaign investigates Arctic North American ecosystems

  08-07-2016 22:54
  
  Sampling charred soils in Saskatchewan, outfitting robins with GPS backpacks in Alberta, and measuring the growth rates of trees in northern Alaska - scientists with a decade-long NASA project are in the field this summer to study the impacts of a rapidly warming climate.
  
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• Kerbal Space Program Confirmed for July 12 Launch on PS4, New Trailer Shows Off Gameplay - PlayStation LifeStyle

  08-07-2016 22:31 via playstationlifestyle.net
  
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  Kerbal Space Program Confirmed for July 12 Launch on PS4, New Trailer Shows Off Gameplay
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  Developer Squad has confirmed that Kerbal Space Program will be available on July 12 in North America for PlayStation 4. “If you're into space travel, flight simulators, or sandbox games, there's no way you can miss this,” CEO Ezequiel Ayarza said.
  Kerbal Space Program blasts off to PlayStation 4 on July 12VentureBeat
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• Ashley Madison threatened to out users

  08-07-2016 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If Ashley Madison users disputed bills -- or asked for refunds -- the company would threaten to send revealing paperwork to their homes.
  
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• NASA looks at Typhoon Nepartak over Taiwan in visible and infrared light

  08-07-2016 21:48
  
  NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites provided a visible and infrared view of Typhoon Nepartak before and during its movement over Taiwan.
  
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• Massive open-access database on human cultures created

  08-07-2016 21:48
  
  An international team of researchers has developed a website at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that shaped human cultural diversity.
  
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• At the insect singles bar, cicadas provide the soundtrack

  08-07-2016 21:47
  
  Summer days resonate with the sound of cicadas trying to make a love connection. But like a lot of singles, male cicadas don't always attract the kind of mates they're hoping for.
  
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• Facebook Testing Encrypted Chats in Messenger

  08-07-2016 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Facebook is adding to its Messenger app an option for encrypted chats that can only be read on devices where they are sent or received.
  
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• Amazon Offers Echo-Exclusive Deals Before Prime Day

  08-07-2016 20:38
  
  Amazon is encouraging people to shop using the artificially intelligent speaker.
  
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• Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate - Phys.Org

  08-07-2016 20:33 via phys.org
  
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  Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate
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  At the poles of Ceres, scientists have found craters that are permanently in shadow (indicated by blue markings). Such craters are called "cold traps" if they remain below about minus 240 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 151 degrees Celsius). Credit: ...
  Dawn maps ice-friendly Ceres cratersUPI.comall 4 news articles »
  
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• Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate

  08-07-2016 20:33
  
  Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres. Most of these areas likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now.
  
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• Frosty cold nights year-round on Mars may stir dust

  08-07-2016 20:31
  
  Some dusty parts of Mars get as cold at night year-round as the planet's poles do in winter, even regions near the equator in summer, according to new NASA findings based on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observations.
  
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• Comcast adds Chicago customers to those under data caps

  08-07-2016 20:22
  
  Comcast is increasing the number of home internet customers who will face limits on how much data they can use before getting hit with extra charges.
  
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• Dallas robot bomb highlights technology in policing

  08-07-2016 20:21
  
  The "bomb robot" killing of a suspected Dallas shooter may be the first lethal use of an automated device by American police, and underscores growing role of technology in law enforcement.
  
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• Study explains why galaxies stop creating stars

  08-07-2016 20:18
  
  Galaxies come in three main shapes - elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way) and irregular. They can be massive or small. To add to this mix, galaxies can also be blue or red. Blue galaxies are still actively forming stars. Red ones mostly are not currently forming stars, and are considered passive.
  
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• Dam good! Beavers may restore imperiled streams, fish populations

  08-07-2016 20:17
  
  Utah State University scientists report a watershed-scale experiment in highly degraded streams within Oregon's John Day Basin demonstrates building beaver dam analogs allows beavers to increase their dam building activities, which benefits a threatened population of steelhead trout.
  
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• Economics study finds volume discounts don't increase profitability for video game

  08-07-2016 20:14
  
  Discounts tied to buying large quantities of virtual goods have little impact on profitability and do not increase the number of customers making purchases, according to economists at the University of Chicago.
  
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• Early daylight satellite image shows depression intensify into Tropical Storm Celia

  08-07-2016 20:02
  
  Tropical Depression 4E strengthened into a tropical storm as NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an early daylight image of the storm.
  
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• NASA sees Hurricane Blas closing its eye

  08-07-2016 20:01
  
  Hurricane Blas is weakening in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and when the Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead visible imagery showed that the eye of the storm had become filled with high clouds. Infrared imagery, however, still revealed a pinhole eye as the eye was becoming cloud-filled.
  
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• Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered 'windfarm'

  08-07-2016 20:00
  
  A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic 'windfarms' - or other man-made micromachines such as smartphone components.
  
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• Stingray Robot Uses Light-Activated Rat Cells to Swim - Live Science

  08-07-2016 19:18 via livescience.com
  
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  Stingray Robot Uses Light-Activated Rat Cells to Swim
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  A new robot stingray can swim with help from an unexpected source: muscle cells that were taken from rat hearts, a new study finds. Understanding how to build machines from heart cells could lead to scientists being able to build entire living ...
  Artificial stingray is 'living robot'BBC News
  Synthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial HeartNPR
  With gold and rat heart cells, scientists make a robot stingrayLo
  
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• New Study Adds Clues about Possible Water in Mars Canyons

  08-07-2016 19:09 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study reveals clues about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Mars. The study investigated thousands of these warm-season features in the Valles Marineris region near Mars’ equator. Some of the sites displaying the seasonal flows are canyon ridges and isolated peaks, ground shapes that make it hard to explain the streaks […]
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• HummingBad Malware Creators Are Making A Killing Off Of Infected Android Phones - Tech Times

  08-07-2016 18:56 via techtimes.com
  
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  HummingBad Malware Creators Are Making A Killing Off Of Infected Android Phones
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  HummingBad may have infected over 100 million Android devices worldwide, but how much money its creators have made by doing so is even more alarming. ( Nemeron | Twitter ). Advertisement. HummingBad is the "new" Android-infecting Malware on the ...
  Malware hits millions of Android phonesBBC News
  Android malware HummingBad infects 10 million phonesThe Independent
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• Correction: Britain-EU-Poaching Business Story

  08-07-2016 18:52
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• NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate

  08-07-2016 18:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from NASA’s Dawn Mission, astronomers have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres. These areas are likely cold enough to have trapped water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now. “The conditions on Ceres are right for accumulating deposits of water ice,” said Norbert Schorghofer, […]
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• Longest maths proof would take 10 billion years to read

  08-07-2016 17:57
  
  An Anglo-American trio presented the prize-winning solution to a 35-year old maths problem Friday, but verifying it may be a problem in itself: reading it would take 10 billion years.
  
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• EU member states approve US data deal

  08-07-2016 17:55
  
  EU member states on Friday approved a highly-criticised deal with the US intended to curb government spying on the personal internet data of EU citizens.
  
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• Roads That Work for Self-Driving Cars - Wall Street Journal

  08-07-2016 17:23 via wsj.com
  
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  Roads That Work for Self-Driving Cars
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  In May, a Tesla TSLA 0.39 % “autopilot” enthusiast in Florida became the first known fatality in a self-driving car. But this was no ordinary accident. The car performed exactly as designed, and the (non)driver's failure to take any corrective action ...
  Lessons From Aviation For Tesla And Self-Driving CarsForbes
  Don't Judge Self-Driving Tech Based on One Fatal CrashPC Magazine
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• Adam Boyes Leaves PlayStation to Work on Games - PlayStation LifeStyle

  08-07-2016 17:22 via playstationlifestyle.net
  
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  Adam Boyes Leaves PlayStation to Work on Games
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  Adam Boyes, VP of Third Party Relations at PlayStation, announced yesterday that he's leaving the company to return to games development. On Twitter, Boyes thanked all of the PlayStation fans and assured everyone that the developing and publishing ...
  Adam Boyes, PlayStation third-party boss, is leaving SonyVentureBeat
  Sony's Adam Boyes Leaves PlayStation, Returns To Game DevelopmentTom's Hardwareall
  
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• Fin24.com | No end in sight for Icasa strike

  08-07-2016 17:21
  
  Strike action at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has stretched to a fifth day.
  
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• Why Clinton and Trump backers don't mix

  08-07-2016 17:05
  
  Living around people with opposing political viewpoints affects your ability to form close relationships and accept other perspectives - and may even change your personality, finds a national study led by a Michigan State University scholar.
  
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• Facebook Messenger to offer strong encryption

  08-07-2016 17:05
  
  Facebook announced Friday it would roll out optional "end to end encryption" for its Messenger application, following a trend aimed at stronger security and protection against snooping.
  
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• Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware

  08-07-2016 17:04
  
  Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
  
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• A mixed response: Floodwaters return to the Colorado River but can release greenhouse gases

  08-07-2016 16:58
  
  Deliberately flooding riverbeds left parched by dams has great potential to restore wetlands but may also have a significant unintended consequence: the release of greenhouse gases.
  
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• Web-based data tool designed to enhance drug safety

  08-07-2016 16:55
  
  A new online open-access database has been developed by scientists to allow the clinical responses of more than 5 million patients to all FDA-approved drugs to be used to identify unexpected clinical harm, benefits and alternative treatment choices for individual patients, according to a study appearing July 8 in Nature Biotechnology.
  
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• 'Pokémon GO' Is A Terrible Pokémon Game, But An Augmented Reality Home Run - Forbes

  08-07-2016 16:53 via forbes.com
  
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  'Pokémon GO' Is A Terrible Pokémon Game, But An Augmented Reality Home Run
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  The launch of Pokémon GO has been more than a little rocky, with regions left out for hours or days and servers crashing left and right when they finally have been turned online. Fortunately, thanks to this job, I get to play Pokémon during the day ...
  Pokémon GO is a Total Disaster [Opinion]Droid Life (press release) (blog)
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• Atomic bits despite zero-point energy?

  08-07-2016 16:53
  
  So-called "zero-point energy" is a term familiar to some cinema lovers or series fans; in the fictional world of animated films such as "The Incredibles" or the TV series "Stargate Atlantis", it denotes a powerful and virtually inexhaustible energy source. Whether it could ever be used as such is arguable. Scientists at Jülich have now found out that it plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far
  
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• Chemistry professor is first to use light to make gold crystal nanoparticles

  08-07-2016 16:51
  
  A team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major implications for industry and cancer treatment and could improve the function of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and solar panels.
  
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• Researcher hunts down frogs to help them live

  08-07-2016 16:20
  
  It is a good night for the amphibian researcher with the green-tinted hair and frog and snake tattoos on her right thigh.
  
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• Nintendo's New Mobile Pokemon Game is Winning Fans

  08-07-2016 15:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  TOKYO, July 8- Shares in Japan's Nintendo Co surged on Friday as early signs showed consumers falling in love with its new Pokemon GO smartphone game, raising hopes that the company's long-awaited shift into mobile gaming will pay off. The game, which has players walking around their neighborhoods in real life to search out and capture Pokemon characters on...
  
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• Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption in a bid to become your primary messaging app - TechCrunch

  08-07-2016 15:52 via techcrunch.com
  
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  Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption in a bid to become your primary messaging app
  TechCrunch
  Facebook Messenger wants to be your primary messaging app. As people become more and more concerned about security, being the best messaging app means being the most secure. That's why Facebook is finally adding an option for users to encrypt ...
  Not using Facebook Messenger for your chatbot? You may have a distribution problemVentureBeat
  Facebook is testing end-to-end encrypti
  
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• Fin24.com | Post Office near to winning banking licence

  08-07-2016 15:50
  
  The South African Reserve Bank has approved the SA Post Office’s first level application for a banking licence for PostBank.
  
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• A wolverine's mysterious journey

  08-07-2016 15:50
  
  Four days before Christmas in 2008, a blur of brown fur scrambled along the snowy Continental Divide in Wyoming. The terrain and the conditions were brutal, food scarce. The bait a biologist placed in a wooden trap proved irresistible.
  
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• What happens to dolphins when you feed them

  08-07-2016 15:40
  
  The thud on the dock got Jean Fruh's attention.
  
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• Tech review: Device tells drinkers when they're on the rocks

  08-07-2016 15:28
  
  How do you convince people to buy something they'd rather not have to use?
  
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• Goats, sheep and cows could challenge dogs for title of 'man's best friend'

  08-07-2016 15:10
  
  Since the evolution of dogs from wolves tens of thousands of years ago, they have been selectively bred for various roles as guards, hunters, workers and companions. But dogs are not the only animal humans have domesticated, which suggests that although dogs get all the attention, there's reason to argue other species could also deserve the title of "man's best friend".
  
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• Spain judge charges Volkswagen with fraud over emissions

  08-07-2016 15:03
  
  A Spanish judge has charged Volkswagen with fraud and damage to the environment over an emissions-cheating scandal which has plunged the German automaker into crisis, a statement said Friday.
  
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• Physicists discover family of tetraquarks

  08-07-2016 15:02
  
  Physicists in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences have made science history by confirming the existence of a rare four-quark particle and discovering evidence of three other "exotic" siblings.
  
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• Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform health care supply chain

  08-07-2016 15:00
  
  In an effort to apply data-driven insights to one of the most fundamental aspects of running a health care system, UPMC announced today that it has formed Pensiamo, an independent company that aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance through a comprehensive source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health technologies. IBM is a minority owner of Pensiamo.
  
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