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• WhatsApp to Share User Data With Facebook

  25-08-2016 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  The company announced that it was updating its terms of service and privacy policy for the first time in four years.
  
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• Amazon Launches a Research Hub For Car Buyers

  25-08-2016 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon is offering up car advice with the launch of a new research portal, however the retailer won't be acting as a virtual dealership.
  
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• Study: Man-made warming may have started decades earlier - Columbia Daily Tribune

  25-08-2016 22:46
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  Study: Man-made warming may have started decades earlier
  Columbia Daily Tribune
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Man-made global warming might have started a few decades earlier than scientists previously figured, a new study suggests. Instead of the late 1800s, a slight almost imperceptible warming now can be tracked to around the 1850 in ...
  Humans have caused climate change for 180 years Australian National UniversityEurekAlert (press release)
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• Where the Candidates Stand on Space Exploration

  25-08-2016 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  If we're going to send the first humans to Mars in the early 2030s, the next U.S. President will need to be a strong supporter of space exploration.
  
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• Scientists discover a 'dark' Milky Way: Massive galaxy consists almost entirely of dark matter

  25-08-2016 21:54
  
  Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter.
  
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• India: French submarine data leak no security threat

  25-08-2016 20:19
  
  India said Wednesday that the leak of documents from a leading French builder of Scorpene submarines designed for India's navy was investigated and did not pose any security compromise because sensitive information was blacked out.  
  
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• Amazon starts car research and review site

  25-08-2016 20:13
  
  Amazon is starting a site offering research, reviews and other information on new and used cars.
  
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• Volkswagen, dealers reach tentative deal in cheating scandal

  25-08-2016 20:12
  
  Volkswagen has reached a tentative deal with its U.S. dealers to compensate them for losses they said they suffered as a result of the company's emissions cheating scandal.
  
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• ICE, Homeland Security investigate Leslie Jones website hack

  25-08-2016 20:11
  
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security investigators said Thursday they are investigating the hack of Leslie Jones' website that revealed several private details of the actress-comedian's life.
  
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• Homeland Security investigating Leslie Jones website hack

  25-08-2016 20:11
  
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it is investigating the hack of Leslie Jones' website that revealed several private details of the actress-comedian's life.
  
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• Apple boosts iPhone security after Mideast spyware discovery

  25-08-2016 20:11
  
  A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has trigged a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating system, researchers said Thursday.
  
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• Conservation ecologists lay out a set of guidelines for how de-extinction can be made more ecologically responsible

  25-08-2016 20:10
  
  Can the woolly mammoth be brought back from the dead? Scientists say it's only a matter of time.
  
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• Dragonfly 44 – A Massive Galaxy That Consists Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

  25-08-2016 20:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, Dragonfly 44, is located in the nearby Coma constellation and had been overlooked until last year because of its unusual composition: It is a diffuse “blob” about the size of the Milky Way, but with far […]
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• A nanoscale wireless communication system via plasmonic antennas

  25-08-2016 20:03
  
  The pursuit of next-generation technologies places a premium on producing increased speed and efficiency with components built at scales small enough to function on a computer chip.
  
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• NASA sees examines new tropical storm in infrared light

  25-08-2016 20:00
  
  When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the eastern Pacific Ocean it looked at a newly developed tropical depression that would later strengthen into Tropical Storm Lester. Aqua analyzed the depression with an infrared eye and saw indications it was strengthening.
  
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• Electron microscopy reveals how vitamin A enters the cell

  25-08-2016 20:00
  
  Using a new, lightning-fast camera paired with an electron microscope, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists have captured images of one of the smallest proteins in our cells to be "seen" with a microscope.
  
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• Ecological consequences of amphetamine pollution in urban streams

  25-08-2016 20:00
  
  Pharmaceutical and illicit drugs are present in streams in Baltimore, Maryland. At some sites, amphetamine concentrations are high enough to alter the base of the aquatic food web. So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore the ecological consequences of stimulant pollution in urban streams.
  
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• Chemists explore outer regions of periodic table

  25-08-2016 20:00
  
  A little known—and difficult to obtain—element on the fringes of the periodic table is broadening our fundamental understanding of chemistry. In the latest edition of the journal Science, Florida State University Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt captures the fundamental chemistry of the element berkelium, or Bk on the periodic table.
  
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• Earth-Sized Planet Proxima b Might be Habitable

  25-08-2016 19:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists reveal that a newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and […]
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• Typhoon Lionrock's intensification seen by NASA's GPM

  25-08-2016 18:50
  
  Typhoon Lionrock's rainfall rates and cloud heights were analyzed as it continued to intensify when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed overhead.
  
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• Auction house to sell composite skeleton of a dodo bird

  25-08-2016 18:34
  
  The dodo bird is extinct—but one collector can now have their own dodo skeleton.
  
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• How Facebook's AI could change your life

  25-08-2016 18:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook (FB, Tech30) announced Thursday it is open sourcing its cutting-edge computer vision work.
  
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• Why the EU's tax probe of multinationals is raising US ire

  25-08-2016 18:23
  
  The European Union's campaign to crack down on tax avoidance by multinationals has drawn unusually public criticism from the U.S., which says it is unfairly targeting American companies.
  
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• Stormy outlook hits French wine output

  25-08-2016 18:20
  
  Fierce storms which hit France in April will help to push wine production down almost 10 percent this year, the ministry of agriculture said Thursday.
  
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• Rosetta captures comet outburst

  25-08-2016 18:15
  
  In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide.
  
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• Moon is key to when jellyfish hit beach, study finds

  25-08-2016 18:11
  
  Swimmers wanting to avoid being stung by jellyfish may want to watch the sky as much as the sea after Israeli researchers found a link between their arrival and the phase of the moon.
  
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• Successful recycling: Protein quality control in the cell

  25-08-2016 18:10
  
  A team led by MDC researcher Annika Weber has pinpointed the efficient mechanism used by cells to label faulty proteins. The findings, which provide important insights into the functioning of protein quality control in the cell, have now been published in the journal Molecular Cell.
  
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• Newly discovered multicomponent virus is the first of its kind to infect animals

  25-08-2016 18:10
  
  For the first time, a multicomponent virus—which contains different segments of genetic material in separate particles, rather than a single strand of genetic material—has been found that is capable of infecting animals, an international team led by the U.S. Army reports August 25 in Cell Host & Microbe. The Guaico Culex virus (GCXV), a type of Jingmenvirus, was isolated from mosquitoes, and opens up a new avenue of research into potentially infectious agents. The virus does not
  
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• How Lyme disease bacteria spread through the body

  25-08-2016 18:10
  
  Researchers have developed a live-cell-imaging-based system that provides molecular and biomechanical insights into how Lyme disease bacteria latch onto and move along the inside surface of blood vessels to reach key destinations in the body where they may be able to persist longer and avoid treatment. Ironically, the same strategies that these bacteria use to spread through the body are also used by immune cells to protect against infectious disease. The study appears August 25 in Cell Reports.
  
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• Hormone activation of genes takes teamwork

  25-08-2016 18:10
  
  The forward march of science often blunders into the realization that nature's way of doing things is a lot more complicated than we thought.
  
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• NASA examines threatening tropical disturbance in eastern Caribbean Sea

  25-08-2016 18:09
  
  NASA analyzed the rainfall and cloud heights in an area of low pressure designated as System 99L that bringing rains and gusty winds to Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Turks and Caicos and other islands in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Caribbean Sea today, Aug. 25.
  
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• How telecommuting can cause leadership issues for your company

  25-08-2016 18:09
  
  Google "telecommuting" and you'll find business articles like:
  
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• Tropical Depression 14W gets absorbed by system 92W

  25-08-2016 18:07
  
  Tropical Depression 14W was absorbed by another nearby tropical low pressure system in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead.
  
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• Altering stem cell perception of tissue stiffness may help treat musculoskeletal disorders

  25-08-2016 18:07
  
  A new biomaterial can be used to study how and when stem cells sense the mechanics of their surrounding environment, found a team led by Robert Mauck, PhD, the Mary Black Ralston Professor for Education and Research in Orthopaedic Surgery, in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. With further development, this biomaterial could be used to control when immature stem cells differentiate into more specialized cells for regenerative and tissue-engineering-based therapies
  
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• Fin24.com | WhatsApp to share your phone number with Facebook

  25-08-2016 18:03
  
  Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced it would begin sharing subscriber data with parent Facebook, giving advertisers better access to information.
  
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• Scientists discover structural clues to calcium regulation in cells

  25-08-2016 18:00
  
  Inside almost every cell in the human body, tiny mitochondria are continuously generating energy to power countless cellular activities. That process of energy generation also happens to be closely tied to intracellular calcium regulation by a membrane gateway inside mitochondria known as the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU), which has critical roles in both bioenergetics and cell death. How MCU regulates calcium uptake has been unclear, but the recent structural discovery of a key MCU domain
  
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• Auto, technology industries clash over talking cars

  25-08-2016 17:30
  
  Cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road, creating the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths, improve the safety of self-driving cars and someday maybe even help solve traffic jams, automakers and government officials say.
  
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• Team introduces 'Braidio' technology, lets mobile devices share power

  25-08-2016 17:29
  
  In a paper presented today at the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on data communication (SIGCOMM) conference in Florianópolis, Brazil, a team of computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by professor Deepak Ganesan introduced a new radio technology that allows small mobile devices to take advantage of battery power in larger devices nearby for communication.
  
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• UTA physicists to upgrade Titan supercomputer software for extreme scale applications

  25-08-2016 17:27
  
  Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been awarded a new $1.06 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade the software that runs on the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee to support extremely data-heavy scientific applications such as advanced biology and materials science simulations.
  
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• ALMA finds unexpected trove of gas around larger stars

  25-08-2016 17:25
  
  Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars—some Sun-like and others approximately double that size—and discovered that the larger variety have surprisingly rich reservoirs of carbon monoxide gas in their debris disks. In contrast, the lower-mass, Sun-like stars have debris disks that are virtually gas-free.
  
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• Yosemite, and President Obama, head into virtual reality

  25-08-2016 17:00
  
  In a new project with National Geographic, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to project himself into virtual reality—in this case, a 360-degree representation of Yosemite National Park.
  
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• For 10 years, possibly biggest pearl was hidden under bed

  25-08-2016 16:57
  
  A Filipino fisherman in western Palawan island has found possibly the world's biggest pearl, but he didn't know it.
  
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• Well-wrapped feces allow lobsters to eat jellyfish stingers without injury

  25-08-2016 16:56
  
  Lobsters eat jellyfish without harm from the venomous stingers due to a series of physical adaptations. Researchers from Hiroshima University examined lobster feces to discover that lobsters surround their servings of jellyfish in protective membranes that prevent the stingers from injecting their venom. The results are vial for aquaculture efforts to sustainably farm lobsters for diners around the world.
  
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• Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth's cloud cover

  25-08-2016 16:54
  
  A team of scientists from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has linked large solar eruptions to changes in Earth's cloud cover in a study based on over 25 years of satellite observations.
  
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• Hitching a ride: Misfiring drugs hit the wrong targets

  25-08-2016 16:53
  
  It probably isn't surprising to read that pharmaceutical drugs don't always do what they're supposed to. Adverse side effects are a well-known phenomenon and something many of us will have experienced when taking medicines.
  
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• Going green is for girls—but branding can make men eco-friendly

  25-08-2016 16:53
  
  Studies show that men are not as environmentally friendly as women. Let's face it, not too many "man caves" feature solar panels, recycle bins or posters of electric cars. It's just not manly.
  
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• Hurricanes are worse, but experience, gender and politics determine if you believe it

  25-08-2016 16:51
  
  Objective measurements of storm intensity show that North Atlantic hurricanes have grown more destructive in recent decades. But coastal residents' views on the matter depend less on scientific fact and more on their gender, belief in climate change and recent experience with hurricanes, according to a new study by researchers at Princeton University, Auburn University-Montgomery, the Louisiana State University and Texas A&M University.
  
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• New method in synthesis and development for pharmaceuticals

  25-08-2016 16:50
  
  A new research, affiliated with UNIST has been highlighted on the inside front cover of the June issue of the prestigious journal Chemical Communications. The key finding of this study is the development of new synthetic methods that facilitate the design and synthesis of bioactive compounds and chemical tools for pharmacological studies, the team reports.
  
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• Purslane production practices enhance nutritional value

  25-08-2016 16:49
  
  Although purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is considered a problematic weed in the United States, it is grown and consumed as a leafy vegetable throughout much of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Mexico. Valued for its nutritional qualities, purslane contains important phytochemicals such as omega-3 fatty acids, organic acids, and important flavonoids. The succulent annual can also contain high concentrations of carotenoid and chlorophyll pigments. The authors of a study in the June 2016 issue of
  
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• Sustainable alternative to methyl bromide for tomato production

  25-08-2016 16:47
  
  Following the phase out of methyl bromide, scientists continue to explore effective, viable, and more sustainable options for vegetable crop production. Among nonchemical alternatives, anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) is considered to be one of the most promising methods. ASD has been determined to be effective with a range of crops and environments against several soilborne fungal and bacterial plant diseases, plant-parasitic nematodes, and weeds.
  
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