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• 'Jeep Hackers' Are Back With a Scary New Trick

  05-08-2016 21:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two security researchers who detailed a hack into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee last year shared their latest exploits at the Black Hat hacker conference.
  
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• Samsung says new Galaxy Note 7 turns everyone into an American - CNET

  05-08-2016 20:30 via cnet.com
  
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  Samsung says new Galaxy Note 7 turns everyone into an American
  CNET
  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. waltz6.jpg. Enlarge Image. In the end, everyone becomes an American. Samsung; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET. Are we going to content ourselves ...
  T-Mobile: August 6 BOGO On Select Samsung Galaxy SmartphonesAndroid Headlines
  Christoph Waltz gets goofily patriotic in Samsung's new Galaxy Note 7 spotTechCrunch
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• Louisiana pols go to court blaming Big Oil for coastal ruin

  05-08-2016 20:22
  
  The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared.
  
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• Apollo 11 bag used for lunar samples focus of legal dispute

  05-08-2016 20:22
  
  A bag carried to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft and used for the first sample of lunar material is at the center a legal fight after the government mistakenly sold it during the criminal case against the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Storm Omais in infrared light

  05-08-2016 20:21
  
  Infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite showed powerful thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Omais are wrapping around the center as it continues to consolidate.
  
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• What might emerge from Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps? - Christian Science Monitor

  05-08-2016 20:19 via csmonitor.com
  
  Christian Science Monitor
  What might emerge from Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps?
  Christian Science Monitor
  A new study shows that a military toxic dump thought to be encased by ice and snow forever is now dangerously close to being exposed. By Story Hinckley, Staff August 5, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. Surface melt water rushes along the surface of ...
  Global warming could 'unfreeze' waste buried in old Greenland military baseUSA TODAY
  Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Gr
  
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• Facebook, I Want My Clickbait Back - Bloomberg

  05-08-2016 20:14 via bloomberg.com
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  Facebook, I Want My Clickbait Back
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  Leonid Bershidsky is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was the founding editor of the Russian business daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion website Slon.ru. Read More. Aug 5, 2016 1:58 PM EDT. a | A. By. Leonid Bershidsky. Facebook has stepped up ...
  Facebook to suppress clickbait storiesBBC News
  Facebook's new anti-clickbait algorithm buries bogus headlinesTechCrunch
  Guess what happened next: Facebook battles 'clickbait'Chicago Tribun
  
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• Waze Users Now Reminded to Take Kids With Them

  05-08-2016 20:07
  
  The new opt-in alert comes amid concerns over recent child hot car deaths.
  
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• Metal-organic frameworks: Hot 'new' material found to exist in nature in rare minerals from Siberia

  05-08-2016 20:00
  
  One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.
  
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• Climate summaries 'for grownups,' but not too difficult for policymakers

  05-08-2016 20:00
  
  Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers. Despite recent critiques that these summaries are too difficult for non-experts, Mach and colleagues found them comparable to reference texts in terms of reading comprehension level. Their results are p
  
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• Preventing mass extinctions of big mammals will require immediate action

  05-08-2016 19:55
  
  Preventing the extinction of gorillas, rhinoceroses, elephants, lions, tigers, wolves, bears and the world's other largest mammals will require bold political action and financial commitments from nations worldwide. In an article in the journal BioScience, 43 wildlife experts write that without immediate changes, many of the Earth's most iconic species will be lost.
  
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• Discovery yields self-healing diamond-like carbon

  05-08-2016 19:53
  
  Fans of Superman surely recall how the Man of Steel used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal.
  
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• Terra satellite sees Tropical Storm Ivette holding steady

  05-08-2016 19:51
  
  On Aug. 4 at 3:20 p.m. EDT (1920 UTC), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Ivette. The image showed strong storms surrounded the low-level center of circulation and a thick band of powerful thunderstorms extended south of the center, while a fragmented band was north of the center.
  
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• Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago

  05-08-2016 19:47
  
  New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago. These findings add insight into the geological evolution of Mercury in particular, and what happens when rocky planets cool and contract in general.
  
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• Fin24.com | 'PIC abandons sale of Vodacom stake to black investors'

  05-08-2016 19:10
  
  A planned sale of shares in wireless operator Vodacom by the PIC to black investors has been abandoned, says two people familiar with the situation.
  
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• Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise - Business Insider

  05-08-2016 19:02 via businessinsider.com
  Business Insider
  Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise
  Business Insider
  Greenland ice melting This handout image provided by Ian Joughin, shows surface melt water rushing along the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet through a supra-glacial stream channel on July 4, 2012. AP. OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming could release ...
  Global warming could 'unfreeze' waste buried in old Greenland military baseUSA TODAY
  A Radioactive C
  
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• Science|The Particle That Wasn't - New York Times

  05-08-2016 18:37 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Science|The Particle That Wasn't
  New York Times
  Dental Floss May Not Improve Your Health. But What Else Can You Do With It? Public Health. Why 'Useless' Surgery Is Still Popular · Feature. The Brain That Couldn't Remember · Feeling Guilty About Not Flossing? Maybe There's No Need · Q&A. Where Are ...
  New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappearsBBC News
  The Rogue Blogger Who Keeps Spoiling Physics' Biggest NewsWIRED
  Alas, the Large Hadron Col
  
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• Fin24.com | Is MTN losing control of key markets?

  05-08-2016 18:32
  
  Africa's biggest mobile phone operator MTN has lost control of key markets, claimed a shareholder after the group reported its first-ever half-yearly loss.
  
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• US approves GMO mosquito test, but no release imminent

  05-08-2016 18:08
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is giving final approval for a field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.
  
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• HTC is launching its own virtual reality app store worldwide - The Verge

  05-08-2016 18:00 via theverge.com
  
  The Verge
  HTC is launching its own virtual reality app store worldwide
  The Verge
  HTC is launching Viveport, an alternative to the Steam catalog of Vive virtual reality experiences, worldwide this fall. Viveport was announced earlier this year, and it launched in China — where Steam is a much less established platform — in the ...
  HTC launches Viveport app store as the company continues to move all-in on VRTechCrunch
  Viveport, The App Store For Virtual Reality, Rolling Out GloballyPR
  
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• Snapchat adds Olympics-themed filters, stickers, and lenses - The Next Web

  05-08-2016 17:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Next Web
  Snapchat adds Olympics-themed filters, stickers, and lenses
  The Next Web
  Just about every major tech company is doing Olympics promotions: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and now Snapchat. The company is today releasing a batch of stickers, lenses and filters themed after the Olympics.and more »
  
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• Scientists say hoped-for physics particle was just a blip (Update 2)

  05-08-2016 17:34
  
  Hopes for a new particle discovery that might have up-ended the standard model of physics were dashed on Friday, as scientists admitted that a "bump" in the data was actually just a "blip."
  
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• Scientists say hoped-for physics particle was just a blip (Update)

  05-08-2016 17:34
  
  Hopes for a new particle discovery that might have up-ended the standard model of physics were dashed on Friday, as scientists admitted that a "bump" in the data was actually just a "blip."
  
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• Watch a sunflower dance in the sun: Now scientists know how it's done - Washington Post

  05-08-2016 17:28 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Washington Post
  Watch a sunflower dance in the sun: Now scientists know how it's done
  Washington Post
  Young sunflowers follow the sun, their still-green buds arcing from east to west across the summer sky as dawn turns to noon turns to dusk. Each night they reverse their dance, swinging from west to east in order to be the first to see the sun when it ...
  Here's How Flowers Move—and WhyTIME
  Watch sunflowers dance under the sun (Seriously)Los Angeles Times
  How Sunflowers Follow the Sun, Da
  
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• Study of summer research quantifies what students see as most beneficial

  05-08-2016 17:27
  
  It's not unusual for college students who do research over the summer to say it was time well spent, but a new study provides something rarer: hard data on exactly what components and experiences in a national program oriented toward underrepresented students proved valuable and in what ways.
  
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• Decades of discovery: NASA's exploration of Jupiter

  05-08-2016 17:26
  
  Launched five years ago on Aug. 5, 2011, NASA's Juno mission maneuvered into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, joining a long tradition of discovery at the gas giant.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Storm Earl over Mexico

  05-08-2016 17:25
  
  Tropical Storm Earl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Belize on Aug. 4, and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite saw the storm move over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula the next day.
  
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• Nevada Media Company President to Head Oregonian Media Group

  05-08-2016 17:14
  The president of Nevada company RGJ Media has accepted a position at the helm of Oregonian Media Group, the parent company of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon
  
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• Just a Burp: Intriguing Hints of Physics Particle Evaporate

  05-08-2016 17:14
  Disappointed physicists from the Large Hadron Collider report that what initially could have been an intriguing new particle turned out just to a statistical burp
  
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• Amazon's Very Own Cargo Plane is Ready to Deliver Your Packages

  05-08-2016 17:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  It's not a drone, but for now, Amazon is relying on the next best thing.
  
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• 'Pokemon Go' helps kids with autism and Asperger's

  05-08-2016 17:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The moment 12-year-old Ian Thayer asked his mom to go outside for Pokemon hunting, Stephanie Barnhill was struck with wonder and excitement.
  
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• New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears - BBC News

  05-08-2016 17:06 via bbc.com
  
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  New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears
  BBC News
  Hopes for the imminent discovery of a particle that might fundamentally change our understanding of the Universe have been put on hold. Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a ...
  The Rogue Blogger Who Keeps Spoiling Physics' Biggest NewsWIRED
  The Large Hadron Collider Just Disappointed A Lot Of PhysicistsPopular Science
  Just a burp: Intriguing h
  
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• Facebook tests MSQRD selfie filters and opening your camera atop feed - TechCrunch

  05-08-2016 17:01 via techcrunch.com
  
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  Facebook tests MSQRD selfie filters and opening your camera atop feed
  TechCrunch
  Snapchat opens to the camera by default to spur content creation, and now Facebook is trying the same starting with an Olympics-themed test in Brazil and Canada. Instead of just the “What are you doing?” text status update prompt, users will see an ...
  Facebook begins testing a Snapchat-like camera with filters and stickersThe Verge
  Facebook focuses on Snapchat-like cameraUSA TODAY
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• Millennials, Meet Indianapolis, Your New Dream City

  05-08-2016 16:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Recent college grads and other millennials looking to move to a new city and buy a new home should consider... Indianapolis?
  
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• Ancient Wonder of the World is 3D printed for Olympic exhibit

  05-08-2016 16:53
  
  Modern technology has recreated one of the Wonders of the Ancient World in the form of a 3D-printed statue of Zeus, the god that the original Olympic Games honored.
  
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• UFO over St. Louis? Strange light over Gateway Arch sparks debate

  05-08-2016 16:44
  
  A strange light that hovered over the St. Louis Gateway Arch this week is sparking plenty of debate on the internet.
  
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• Here's Spotify's Latest Move to Fight Apple Music - TIME

  05-08-2016 16:31 via time.com
  
  The Verge
  Here's Spotify's Latest Move to Fight Apple Music
  TIME
  Spotify is releasing a new feature aimed at making it easier for subscribers to find new music that fits their personal taste. The new addition, called Release Radar, is similar to the service's Discover Weekly playlist, but it only surfaces recently ...
  Spotify's Release Radar is a personalized playlist of brand-new musicThe Verge
  Technology: Spotify's Release Radar Is Like Discover Weekly For New Music--And Just As GoodFast Comp
  
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• From Sci Fi to reality: Unlocking the secret to growing new limbs

  05-08-2016 16:24
  
  Many lower organisms retain the miraculous ability to regenerate form and function of almost any tissue after injury. Humans share many of our genes with these organisms, but our capacity for regeneration is limited. Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, are studying the genetics of these organisms to find out how regenerative mechanisms might be activated in humans.
  
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• Microscopic collisions help proteins stay healthy

  05-08-2016 16:23
  
  Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are providing basic new understanding about "heat shock proteins," also called "chaperone proteins." These proteins, first identified in cells subjected to heat, are very important under many stressful and non-stressful metabolic conditions. They maintain proper protein function and, importantly, prevent the inappropriate accumulation of damaged proteins. For example, accumulation of damaged proteins such as beta amyloid, ta
  
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• Record-breaking logic gate 'another important milestone' on road to quantum computers

  05-08-2016 16:22
  
  Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.
  
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• Apple releases iOS 9.3.4 update to squash security bug - CNET

  05-08-2016 16:04 via cnet.com
  
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  Apple releases iOS 9.3.4 update to squash security bug
  CNET
  Apple's latest iOS update resolves another security flaw. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET. Apple's latest update to its iOS software fixes a security hole that could have been exploited to take control of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Released on ...
  Apple iOS 9.3.4 Breaks Pangu's Jailbreak: Install Now Before It's Too LateForbes
  How To Fix Location Services, GPS Issue After iOS 9.3.3 JailbreakValueWalk
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• Major overhaul of VAB for NASA's SLS Mars rocket reaches halfway point with platform installation

  05-08-2016 16:00
  
  A major overhaul of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) readying it for launches of NASA's SLS Mars rocket by 2018 has reached the halfway point with installation of massive new access platforms required to enable assembly of the mammoth booster at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – as seen firsthand during an exclusive up close facility tour by Universe Today.
  
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• Video: The science of steroids: Keeping the Olympics fair

  05-08-2016 15:58
  
  Recent news of Olympic doping scandals have led to strict penalties and a closer look at steroid testing. Chemistry plays a huge role on both sides of the performance-enhancing drug battle.
  
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• Under-reporting of fisheries catches threatens Caribbean marine life

  05-08-2016 15:57
  
  Marine fisheries catches have been drastically under-reported in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, threatening the marine environment and livelihoods of the local community, reveals a recent study published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
  
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• Development of a novel carbon nanomaterial 'pot'

  05-08-2016 15:57
  
  A novel, pot-shaped, carbon nanomaterial developed by researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan is several times deeper than any hollow carbon nanostructure previously produced. This unique characteristic enables the material to gradually release substances contained within and is expected to be beneficial in applications such as drug delivery systems.
  
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• Amazon unveils cargo plane as it expands delivery network - Chicago Tribune

  05-08-2016 15:52 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Chicago Tribune
  Amazon unveils cargo plane as it expands delivery network
  Chicago Tribune
  A Boeing 767, an Amazon.com "Prime Air" cargo plane is parked on display Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon unveiled its first branded cargo plane Thursday, one of 40 jetliners that will make up Amazon's own air ...
  See Amazon's New 'Prime Air' Jumbo JetTIME
  First Amazon Prime airplane debuts in Seattle after secret night flightGeekWire
  Amazon Debuts PrimeAir Plane in SeattlePC M
  
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• Seeking signs of life in an ancient Martian hot spring

  05-08-2016 15:50
  
  A fundamental motivation for our exploration of Mars is the search for the presence of extinct or extant life.But where should we look?
  
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• Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form

  05-08-2016 15:49
  
  New research suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both.
  
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• This could be exactly how the real iPhone 7 will look - Mashable

  05-08-2016 15:48 via mashable.com
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  This could be exactly how the real iPhone 7 will look
  Mashable
  For months we've watched as iPhone 7 rumors big and small have made their way from Apple's leaky cauldron(?) China(?), Foxconn(?) to the salivating public. They cover everything from size, shape, number of cameras and ports to memory and potential ...
  7 Apple Rumors: Is This Really the iPhone 7 Plus?The Cheat Sheet
  iPhone 7 Plus: Mockup shows what rumoured phone and its blue colour scheme would look likeThe In
  
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• Newly discovered blue whirl fire tornado burns cleaner for reduced emissions

  05-08-2016 15:47
  
  Fire tornados, or 'fire whirls,' pose a powerful and essentially uncontrollable threat to life, property, and the surrounding environment in large urban and wildland fires. But now, a team of researchers in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) say their discovery of a type of fire tornado they call a 'blue whirl' could lead to beneficial new approaches in reduced carbon emissions and improved oil spill cleanup.
  
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