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• 2 Seal Pups Dive Back Into the Sea After California Rescue

  13-07-2016 23:52
  Two 6-month-old elephant seal pups have been released back into the Pacific Ocean after being treated at a rehabilitation center near Los Angeles
  
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• BitTorrent Unveils News Network to Take on CNN - PC Magazine

  13-07-2016 23:20
  
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  BitTorrent Unveils News Network to Take on CNN
  PC Magazine
  After launching its own TV production studio and expanding into streaming music, BitTorrent today announced that it its latest venture, a live-streaming TV news network, will launch next week during the Republican National Convention. Although ...
  BitTorrent takes on cable with live news network on Apple TV and OS XMacworld
  BitTorrent to launch streaming news channel at Republican conventionPolitico
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• Investors tap mobile message craze as trading begins on Line

  13-07-2016 22:53
  
  Investors looking to ride the mobile messaging craze—get in line.
  
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• Chinese government suspected of hacking into FDIC computers

  13-07-2016 22:48
  
  The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013, including the workstation of then-FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, a congressional report says.
  
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• Differences in CEO leadership style, company culture improve firm performance, study finds

  13-07-2016 22:47
  
  Chief executive officers (CEOs) should have a different leadership style from an organization's culture in order to improve a firm's performance, according to researchers at Georgia State University, Arizona State University, the University of South Australia and Auckland University of Technology.
  
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• Study shows allocation of police resources affects economic welfare, inequality

  13-07-2016 22:45
  
  Decisions about how to allocate police resources in a community are likely to influence not only crime but also housing prices, overall economic welfare and social inequality, according to a new study by economists at Indiana University and the University of Maryland.
  
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• Study links developmental and lipid handling pathways in C. elegans

  13-07-2016 22:45
  
  A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports finding that a previously unknown interaction between metabolic pathways in two different tissues within the C.elegans roundworm triggers a key step in maturation. In their report published in Genes & Development, the investigators describe finding how microRNAs in the skin of the roundworm, which are known to control the animals' transition through key developmental stages, link to a signaling pathway that directs the transport of
  
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• Route 66 Will See First Tests of Solar Roadway Panels

  13-07-2016 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  One of the most famous roads from America's past could soon become the highway of the future.
  
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• Tesla's Autopilot Driving Mode Is a Legal Nightmare - Gizmodo

  13-07-2016 21:37
  
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  Tesla's Autopilot Driving Mode Is a Legal Nightmare
  Gizmodo
  The revelation last month that a fatal car cash involved Tesla's “Autopilot” feature has sparked a debate over liability when it comes to assisted driving: Who's legally at fault in a crash if a car is being somewhat controlled by a computer? Tesla ...
  Lowercase x: Tesla Launches Lower-Priced Model X 60DCar and Driver (blog)
  Quinn: For Elon Musk, big vision comes with big risksThe Mercury News
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• China hacked FDIC; it was covered it up

  13-07-2016 21:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2010 until 2013 -- and American government officials tried to cover it up, according to a Congressional report.
  
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• Tesla has new, cheaper SUV

  13-07-2016 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tesla just put a cheaper version of its Model X SUV on the market. Don't get too excited, though. The Model X is a luxury SUV and it still costs like one. Prices for the new Model X 60D start at $74,000.
  
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• Go forth and Pokémon - Valdosta Daily Times

  13-07-2016 20:30
  
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  Go forth and Pokémon
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  Derrick Davis | The Valdosta Daily TimesA Pidgey appears on campus at Valdosta State University on Saturday. Pokémon Go uses augmented reality to allow players to capture Pokémon against the backdrop of their surroundings. Go forth and Pokémon.and more »
  
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• Surveys off Alaska Lead to New Types of Soft-Bodied Fish

  13-07-2016 20:22
  Federal scientists sampling commercial fish species off Alaska's Aleutian Islands keep finding new species
  
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• Scientists find new two-fingered dinosaur -- and a curse - USA TODAY

  13-07-2016 20:04
  
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  Scientists find new two-fingered dinosaur -- and a curse
  USA TODAY
  Maybe this dinosaur really, really didn't want to be found. Scientists digging for fossils in rural Argentina found themselves beset by misfortune, ranging from bureaucratic interference to a serious truck accident. Now the researchers have given an ...
  Fearsome Argentine dinosaur had pitifully puny armsYahoo News
  Arm Day at the Gym Apparently Not a Thing for Newly Found, Tiny-Armed DinoSmithsonian
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• Unity's $181M Series C will push its game-design tools further into AR and VR - VentureBeat

  13-07-2016 20:02
  
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  Unity's $181M Series C will push its game-design tools further into AR and VR
  VentureBeat
  Above: Pokémon Go is one of the most recent Unity-based hits, and it features some light AR elements. Image Credit: Niantic. While Pokémon Go rakes in millions of dollars with its augmented reality action, the company responsible for the tech behind ...
  Unity aims at VR with $181 millionCNET
  Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR GrowthRoad to VR
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• Tropical forests overexploited by unsustainable logging

  13-07-2016 20:00
  
  Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old-growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale.
  
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• Newly discovered dinosaur had 'T. rex arms' that evolved independently

  13-07-2016 20:00
  
  Scientists still aren't sure why T. rex had those absurdly small forelimbs, but apparently the look was all the rage in the Late Cretaceous. A newly-discovered dinosaur from Patagonia has similar short, two-fingered claws, even though it's not closely related to the tyrannosaurs. Like Tyrannosaurus rex, the new Gualicho shinyae is a theropod, one of the two-legged, bird-like dinosaurs, but it's on a different branch of the family tree, meaning that the unusual limbs evolved independently rather
  
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• Calculus I factors women out of STEM degrees

  13-07-2016 20:00
  
  It's no secret that Calculus I is a major hurdle in the quest for a science degree. But, according to a new paper by Colorado State University researchers, the class is far more likely to discourage women than men from continuing on in their chosen field. How much more likely? One-and-a-half times. And it doesn't take a math degree to spot that as a serious imbalance.
  
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• Tiny 'racetracks' show how bacteria get organized

  13-07-2016 19:51
  
  As the world prepares to watch the Summer Olympics' track and field events in Rio, it will come as no surprise that the runners in each race travel in the same direction around the track. But new research shows that if those runners were bacteria, the dynamics on the track would be a bit more complex—and more than a little puzzling.
  
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• German police launch mass raids over online hate speech

  13-07-2016 19:47
  
  German police on Wednesday launched nationwide raids targeting social media users who posted racial hatred on Facebook and other online networks.
  
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• In video games, spectating is the new advertising

  13-07-2016 19:46
  
  The rise of online audiences watching video gamers stream themselves playing isn't simply a new form of entertainment seen by millions. It's also driving video game sales, and drawing the attention of federal regulators.
  
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• Researchers Develop A Universal Quantum Gate

  13-07-2016 19:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists have now developed a universal quantum gate, which could become the key component in a quantum computer. Light particles completely ignore each other. In order that these particles can nevertheless switch each other when processing quantum information, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have now developed a universal quantum […]
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• Report: China hacked FDIC, U.S. officials covered it up

  13-07-2016 19:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2010 until 2013 -- and American government officials tried to cover it up, according to a Congressional report.
  
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• WATCH: Where's the Any Key? Teen Charges Up Retirement Community With Tech Class

  13-07-2016 19:19
  
  Resident seniors are taught how to use smart phones, apps, photo editing and iCloud by a local volunteer teenager in Lake Ridge, VA.
  
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• Google, LinkedIn complete massive Silicon Valley land swap

  13-07-2016 19:10
  
  Tech giants Google and LinkedIn may be rivals online, but they're collaborating in the real world on a Silicon Valley land swap.
  
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• Upstream trenches, downstream nitrogen

  13-07-2016 19:09
  
  Water quality scientist Laura Christianson is working on a solution to the "dead zone"—an area with dangerously low levels of oxygen— in the Gulf of Mexico. Christianson lives over a thousand miles north of the Gulf in Illinois. But human activity in the Mississippi River basin, which connects to the Gulf, can lead to major water quality issues downstream.
  
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• Study uses text-mining to improve market intelligence on startups

  13-07-2016 19:08
  
  A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington has created a new method that uses big data analytics and text-mining techniques to improve market intelligence and explain potential mergers and acquisitions of startup companies in the fast-moving high-technology industry.
  
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• Astronomers Prove the Existence of a “Gravitational Vortex” Around a Black Hole

  13-07-2016 19:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, astronomers have proved the existence of a “gravitational vortex” around a black hole. This new discovery, aided by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, solves a mystery that has eluded astronomers for more than 30 years, and will allow them to map the behavior of matter very close […]
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• In Cosmic First, Scientists Spy a Star's Snow Line - Space.com

  13-07-2016 19:02
  
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  In Cosmic First, Scientists Spy a Star's Snow Line
  Space.com
  For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of the water snow line around a star — the point in the young star's orbiting disk of debris where snow and ice first appear. Normally, that boundary huddles too close to the star for astronomers ...
  Astronomers Spy Water Snowline Around Young Sun-Like Star For The First TimeTech Times
  Stellar outburst brings water snowline into viewPhys.Org
  The first view of a wate
  
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• How DARPA stays innovative

  13-07-2016 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The group that laid the groundwork for the Internet and self-driving cars is opening up about how it helps invent the future.
  
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• Why we like the music we do: New study suggests that musical tastes are cultural in origin, not hardwired in the brain

  13-07-2016 19:00
  
  In Western styles of music, from classical to pop, some combinations of notes are generally considered more pleasant than others. To most of our ears, a chord of C and G, for example, sounds much more agreeable than the grating combination of C and F# (which has historically been known as the "devil in music").
  
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• Stellar outburst brings water snowline into view

  13-07-2016 19:00
  
  A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers their first view of a water "snowline" in a protoplanetary disk - the transition point around the star where the temperature and pressure are low enough for water ice to form.
  
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• Electricity generated with water, salt and a three-atoms-thick membrane

  13-07-2016 19:00
  
  Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add to their existing array of solar, wind, and hydropower: osmotic power. Or more specifically, energy generated by a natural phenomenon occurring when fresh water comes into contact with seawater through a membrane.
  
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• Closing parts of the ocean to fishing not enough to protect marine ecosystems

  13-07-2016 19:00
  
  A University of Washington fisheries professor argues this week that saving biodiversity in the world's oceans requires more than banning fishing with marine protected areas, or oceanic wilderness areas. In a three-page editorial published this week in the journal Nature, he argues that this increasingly popular conservation strategy is not as effective as properly managing recreational and commercial fisheries.
  
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• Indestructible bridges could be reality

  13-07-2016 18:57
  
  A new generation of indestructible bridges could be possible, thanks to research from the University of Warwick.
  
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• New dissolvable metal support enables 3-D printing of complex metallic structures

  13-07-2016 18:50
  
  Researchers have fabricated dissolvable carbon steel structures using 3D printing technology that can provide temporary support for components of larger stainless steel structures made by additive manufacturing. The first-of-its-kind soluble metal support is subsequently removed via electrochemical etching in nitric acid with bubbling oxygen, as described in an article in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.
  
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• First In-orbit View from NASA’s Juno Spacecraft

  13-07-2016 18:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The first high-resolution images of Jupiter are still several weeks away, but NASA’s Juno Spacecraft did capture this new image as it entered orbit around the planet. The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six […]
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• Czech Astronomer, Cartographer Antonin Ruekl Dies at 83

  13-07-2016 18:22
  The Prague Planetarium says Antonin Ruekl, a Czech astronomer, cartographer and author of books on astronomy, has died at age 83
  
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• First virus-hunter in space will test DNA-decoding device

  13-07-2016 17:58
  
  The first virus-hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research.
  
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• First virus-hunter in space will test device to decode DNA

  13-07-2016 17:58
  
  Newly arrived space station astronaut Kate Rubins wore top-level biosafety suits for her work on Earth, but that won't be needed when she fires up a pocket-sized device to decode DNA in space.
  
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• Millennials and marrying young: Like mother, like child

  13-07-2016 17:57
  
  Daughters and sons of mothers who tied the knot young are more likely to want to marry early too, but only if Mom stayed married, new research has found.
  
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• Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B valuation - TechCrunch

  13-07-2016 17:45
  
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  Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B valuation
  TechCrunch
  Over the last few years, Unity Technologies has grown to become indispensable to the gaming industry and much of the entertainment industry as an engine for building experiences in one place and distributing them across a swath of platforms. Now, with ...
  Unity's $181M Series C will push its game-design tools further into AR and VRVentureBeat
  Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR GrowthRoa
  
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• Pokemon Go is Now Biggest Mobile Game in U.S. History

  13-07-2016 17:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The augmented reality activity is now the biggest mobile game in U.S. history, according to a report from SurveyMonkey.
  
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• Why do some galaxies stop making new stars?

  13-07-2016 17:32
  
  Galaxies are star-making machines, churning out new stars fuelled by cold gas collapsing under the force of gravity. Some galaxies can produce hundreds of new stars in a single year, and individual galaxies can contain many billions of stars.
  
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• Google Cardboard saved my baby's life

  13-07-2016 17:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In the past six months, Cassidy and Chad Lexcen have been too busy to look at the Google Cardboard images that saved their baby's life.
  
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• New materials for the construction of metal organic two-dimensional quasicrystals

  13-07-2016 17:19
  
  Unlike classical crystals, quasicrystals do not comprise periodic units, even though they do have a superordinate structure. The formation of the fascinating mosaics that they produce is barely understood. In the context of an international collaborative effort, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now presented a methodology that allows the production of two-dimensional quasicrystals from metal-organic networks, opening the door to the development of promising new materi
  
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• Nokia expects boost from patent licensing pact with Samsung

  13-07-2016 17:17
  
  Finnish telecoms company Nokia expects a sales boost this year after agreeing to expand its licensing agreement with Samsung.
  
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• Auschwitz museum says no to Pokemon Go

  13-07-2016 17:17
  
  The Auschwitz museum said Wednesday it had asked the makers of the popular Pokemon Go augmented reality game to block players at the former Nazi death camp out of respect for the dead.
  
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• Auschwitz memorial says playing 'Pokemon Go' not allowed

  13-07-2016 17:17
  
  The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it does not allow people to play "Pokemon Go" on their smartphones during visits to the former German death camp because it is "disrespectful."
  
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• WATCH: How This Food Computer Will Allow Anyone to Be a Farmer

  13-07-2016 17:05
  
  Caleb Harper of MIT creates "food computers" that are helping to change the landscape of our food system.
  
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