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• WATCH: Frenchman Goes on Smashing Rampage in Apple Store

  30-09-2016 23:19 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The man was arrested after he walked around an Apple store and smashed several iPhones.
  
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• Why A.I. assistants need to stay neutral - VentureBeat

  30-09-2016 22:10
  
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  Why A.I. assistants need to stay neutral
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  With the release of Google Allo last week, we've officially entered the era of the assistant. Every company that owns a major tech platform is now betting that assistants will be an important interface in the post-mobile world. You might think ...
  Google Allo (for iPhone)PC Magazine
  App reviews: Melody Jams, AlloChicago Daily Herald
  Google Allo Reaches 5 Million Downloads On Google Play In A WeekTech Times
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• Why restaurants want you to order food on your phone

  30-09-2016 21:40
  
  Swipe, click, food. The ability to order food with the click of a few buttons on a smartphone is becoming widespread - even fast-food companies are getting in on the action. But the technology - which in some cases tracks a customer's location and times food preparation accordingly - can vary widely. And restaurants admit that some customers are still wary about the freshness of their food when ordering ahead.
  
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• Review: TiVo's latest model makes it easier to bolt from cable

  30-09-2016 21:30
  
  The first thing you'll notice about the TiVo Bolt is its odd shape - it looks like someone bent the case in an industrial press.
  
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• Opinion: Tech industry should lead Snowden pardon charge

  30-09-2016 21:20
  
  There's a debate raging right now over whether President Barack Obama, before he leaves office, should grant Edward Snowden a pardon.
  
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• Ubisoft maintains independence as Vivendi backs off at shareholders meeting - PC Gamer

  30-09-2016 21:11
  
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  Ubisoft maintains independence as Vivendi backs off at shareholders meeting
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  Yesterday was a good day for Ubisoft's efforts to maintain its independence. Media conglomerate Vivendi, which has been moving toward acquiring a controlling interest in the company, unexpectedly chose not to nominate its own people to fill two ...
  Nintendo NX news: Ubisoft CEO believes console will put Nintendo 'back in the race'ChristianToday
  Ubisoft survives stockholder meeting, prepares for hostile
  
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• For phone time, what's normal?

  30-09-2016 21:11
  
  It's come to this. Almost every night, the same fight about my significant other's persistent smartphone use.
  
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• How this karaoke company survived the digital darlings and made lots of money

  30-09-2016 21:09
  
  For a while, it looked like the beat wouldn't go on for the Singing Machine Co. The largest manufacturer of home karaoke machines in North America, founded in 1982, was being crowded out of retail store shelves by newer, cooler products such as portable DVD machines, MP3 players, digital picture frames and GPS tracking devices.
  
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• Giant thai insect reveals clues to human heart disease

  30-09-2016 20:57
  
  What can a Thai water bug teach us about our muscles, especially the heart? A lot, says Professor of Biological Science Kenneth Taylor. New research by Taylor published today in Science Advances gives scientists better insight into how the heart muscle works and how sometimes it fails.
  
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• SpaceX's Elon Musk turns to science fiction for Mars ship

  30-09-2016 20:44
  
  If SpaceX founder Elon Musk's plan to establish a city on Mars sounds like science fiction, then consider the name of his first passenger ship.
  
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• Rosetta’s Final Descent Images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

  30-09-2016 20:24 via scitechdaily.com
  
  These newly released images are the last taken by ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet’s surface on September 30th, 2016. Confirmation of the end of […]
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• It's Been a Crazy Week for Apple Customers

  30-09-2016 20:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man flew into an iRage, smashing items inside a French Apple store.
  
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• So What's the Big Reveal, Google?

  30-09-2016 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Google has some surprises in store for its October 4 event in San Francisco.
  
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• Last Minute Drama as U.S. Readies Internet Handover

  30-09-2016 19:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  U.S. regulators are ready to complete a planned handover of the internet naming system to a private group this weekend.
  
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• First evidence of deep-sea animals ingesting microplastics

  30-09-2016 19:06
  
  Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and south-west Indian Ocean have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals including hermit crabs, squat lobsters and sea cucumbers, revealing for the first time the environmental fallout of microplastic pollution.
  
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• Final descent image from Rosetta spacecraft

  30-09-2016 19:01
  
  A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet's surface on Sept. 30, 2016. Confirmation of the end of the mission arrived at ESA's European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, at 4:19 a.m. PDT (7:19 a.m. EDT / 1:19 p.m. CEST) with the loss of signal upon impact.
  
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• World's deepest underwater cave found in the Czech Republic (Update)

  30-09-2016 18:59
  
  A team of explorers say they've discovered that a cave in the eastern Czech Republic is the world's deepest flooded fissure, going at least 404 meters (1,325 feet) deep.
  
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• US official: Hackers targeted election systems of 20 states

  30-09-2016 18:57
  
  A Homeland Security Department official says hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states in recent months.
  
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• American hopes IT switch doesn't snag flights this weekend

  30-09-2016 18:57
  
  American Airlines will make a big technology change this weekend involving planes and pilots, but passengers won't notice a thing if all goes well.
  
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• US cities increasingly dealing with messy goose poop problem

  30-09-2016 18:56
  
  Canada geese are loud, aggressive and annoying, but worst of all they poop everywhere—a messy problem vexing cities across the country trying to keep their parks clean and safe.
  
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• WATCH: Moon Rocks and Asteroids at NASA's Johnson Space Center

  30-09-2016 18:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  ABC News' Gina Sunseri talks with planetary scientist Kevin Righter about asteroid missions and what we are still learning from moon rocks.
  
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• Europe's Comet Probe Rosetta Ends 12-Year Mission With Crash

  30-09-2016 17:21 via abcnews.go.com
  After 12 years of hurtling through space at an amazing speed, Europe's comet-chasing probe Rosetta ended its mission Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been studying all this time
  
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• Fin24.com | iPhone 7 price is 'bloody ridiculous', say Fin24 users

  30-09-2016 16:46
  
  Apple on Friday announced that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus would arrive in South Africa by October 14, but Fin24 users believe the price tag it comes with is a rip-off.
  
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• Malls, stores consider new ways to protect shoppers

  30-09-2016 16:12
  
  More sophisticated cameras. Security robots. Customers feeling shaken by recent attacks at U.S. malls may not notice huge changes—but mall operators are testing and putting in place new technologies and other measures to offer people more protection without intruding too much on their shopping time.
  
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• Lake brownification and eutrophication decrease the content of essential fatty acids in fish used in human diets

  30-09-2016 15:53
  
  Eutrophication and brownification change phytoplankton community structure and decrease the production of essential omega-3 fatty acids in lakes. Perch growing in oligotrophic clear-water lakes contain 1.5-1.9 times more essential omega-3 fatty acids than those grown in eutrophic and brown-water lakes.
  
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• Ex-AT&T Worker Accused of Selling Customers' Phone Records

  30-09-2016 15:45 via abcnews.go.com
  Federal prosecutors say a former AT&T retail sales worker is accused of obtaining customers' cell phone records and selling them to a private investigator, the second such case in Alabama in recent days
  
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• Getting the collar: Researchers tracking Florida black bears

  30-09-2016 15:41
  
  State researchers are using radio collars to track the movement of 16 female black bears living in or near a state forest in the Florida Panhandle.
  
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• Ex-AT&T worker accused of selling customers' phone records

  30-09-2016 15:41
  
  Federal prosecutors say a former AT&T retail sales worker is accused of obtaining customers' cellphone records and selling them to a private investigator, the second such case in Alabama in recent days.
  
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• Fin24.com | Data prices: How SA compares to the rest of the world

  30-09-2016 15:27
  
  South Africa has the second highest data contract prices among a select group of seven countries, according to a study prompted by the local #datamustfall trend.
  
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• Scientists show cities can serve as a refuge for insect pollinators

  30-09-2016 15:10
  
  Residents living in towns and cities can play a major role in ensuring insect pollinators survive and thrive around them, a team of international scientists has said.
  
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• From Ferraris to SUVs: Five cars that shone at the Paris show

  30-09-2016 15:06
  
  An obscenely powerful hybrid sports car, a family-friendly SUV with enough space for seven adults, and an electric vehicle that promises to keep going for over 300 miles (500 kilometers) on a single charge—those are some of the notable vehicles shining on the display stands under bright overhead lights at the Paris auto show.
  
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• EU agrees to ratify Paris climate deal

  30-09-2016 15:02
  
  EU environment ministers agreed Friday to fast-track the ratification of the landmark Paris agreement on climate change, despite the fact that some national parliaments have yet to approve the deal.
  
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• How to be a male without the Y chromosome

  30-09-2016 15:00
  
  Hokkaido University researchers have revealed that key sex-determining genes continue to operate in a mammalian species that lacks the Y chromosome, taking us a step further toward understanding sex differentiation.
  
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• Hearing the same sound twice in each ear helps insects locate their mates, new research reveals

  30-09-2016 15:00
  
  An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects to listen to the same sound twice with each ear, helping them to locate the sound's origin with pinpoint accuracy, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK.
  
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• Feral chickens spread light on evolution

  30-09-2016 14:58
  
  Different genes are involved during the adaptation of a domestic animal to life in the wild than when a wild animal becomes domesticated. This is the conclusion of a study led by a researcher at Linköping University in Sweden and published in the journal Nature Communications. The results increase our understanding of what happens as a species evolves.
  
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• Mission complete—Rosetta's journey ends in daring descent to comet

  30-09-2016 14:56
  
  ESA's historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years.
  
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• Copernicus Sentinel-2A captures Ouarkziz crater

  30-09-2016 14:56
  
  Part of the Anti-Atlas mountains bordering the Sahara Desert in western Algeria is pictured in this satellite image.
  
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• Ethics review identifies top two challenges for genome editing

  30-09-2016 14:54
  
  Preventing the transmission of inherited genetic diseases, and increasing food production rates in farmed animals are two potential applications of genome editing technologies that require urgent ethical scrutiny, according to a new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
  
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• Novel method for curing of epoxy resins uses local UV flashes to initiate a chemical cascade

  30-09-2016 14:51
  
  It may appear to be a nondescript, transparent, viscous liquid, but all you have to do is irradiate any part of it briefly with UV light and it changes completely. The new special resin formulation developed at TU Wien solidifies in seconds. This effect continues to spread outwards until the resin is completely solid, which takes a matter of seconds or minutes, regardless of its previous shape. This is referred to as frontal polymerisation. This reaction can be started at any point on the materi
  
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• Focused light in the Terahertz regime consisting of a broad spectrum of wavelengths

  30-09-2016 14:51
  
  Creating Terahertz radiation isn't easy, but it is extremely useful. It can, for example, be used for building chemical sensors to detect certain substances. For this purpose, however, the Terahertz light has to fulfil two important requirements: The light beam must be well focused, and in contrast to normal laser light, which has just one wavelength, it must have a broad spectrum of wavelengths. Combining these two seemingly conflicting requirements in one device has not been accomplished until
  
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• Artificial 2-D crystals modified at the touch of a button

  30-09-2016 14:51
  
  Charged particles can form via self-organization processes an unexpectedly large range of crystal structures entirely by themselves. A research team with participants from TU Wien has demonstrated how easily the formation of these structures can be controlled via external parameters.
  
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• Microswimmers capped with carbon on one side can be propelled and steered by light

  30-09-2016 14:50
  
  Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity. A team of researchers headed by Clemens Bechinger from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart, as well as colleagues from the University of Düsseldorf have now found a surprisingly simple way to direct synthetic micro
  
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• Polish Explorer Says He's Found Deepest Underwater Cave

  30-09-2016 14:48 via abcnews.go.com
  A team of explorers say they have discovered the world's deepest underwater cave, 404 meters (1,325 feet) down, near the eastern Czech town of Hranice
  
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• Meet Luigi: MIT's sewer-scouring robot

  30-09-2016 14:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  We've seen used robots as personal assistants, emergency rescuers and even hotel concierges -- but what if they could also do our dirty work?
  
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• Tropics found to harbor higher degree of intraspecific diversity than other parts of the world

  30-09-2016 14:30
  
  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum of Denmark has found that the degree of intraspecific diversity is higher in the tropics than in other parts of the world. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they used information from public databases to gather information about diversity around the world and how they used it to map global diversity patterns. Henrique Pereira with the German Centre for Integrati
  
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• 3-D printed fish fossil may reveal origin of human teeth

  30-09-2016 14:24
  
  Three-dimensional prints of a 400 million year old fish fossil from around Lake Burrinjuck in southeast Australia reveal the possible evolutionary origins of human teeth, according to new research by The Australian National University (ANU) and Queensland Museum.
  
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• First spectroscopic investigation of element nobelium

  30-09-2016 14:23
  
  The analysis of atomic spectra is of fundamental importance for our understanding of atomic structures. Until now, researchers were unable to examine heavy elements with optical spectroscopy because these elements do not occur in nature and cannot be artificially created in weighable amounts. However, scientists have now looked for the first time into the inner structure of heavy elements. For this they used short-lived nobelium atoms with a nuclear charge of Z=102, which had been produced at th
  
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• Researchers generate proton beams using a combination of nanoparticles and laser light

  30-09-2016 14:22
  
  Light, when strongly concentrated, is enormously powerful. Now, a team of physicists led by Professor Jörg Schreiber from the Institute of Experimental Physics – Medical Physics, which is part of the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP), a Cluster of Excellence at LMU Munich, has used this energy source with explosive effect. The researchers focus high-power laser light onto beads of plastic just a few micrometers in size. The concentrated energy blows the nanoparticles apart, r
  
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• Biologist comments on a startling new finding in climate change research

  30-09-2016 14:22
  
  The steady march of global warming over the past century has led to the thawing of permafrost—a layer of subsurface soil in the Arctic that usually remains frozen year-round. While that's troubling for local ecosystems, it could have disastrous global impacts as well. As this permafrost melts, it sets off a biochemical chain reaction in the soil that could dramatically increase the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating further climate change. San Diego State Univer
  
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• WATCH: Upgrade to Emergency Smartphone Alerts

  30-09-2016 14:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The updated wireless emergency system will now be able to send alerts with photos, will support Spanish-language alerts and will include more specific geographical areas.
  
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