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• Yahoo says hackers stole information from over 1B accounts

  14-12-2016 23:17
  
  Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013, in what is thought to be the largest data breach at an email provider.
  
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• Yahoo reveals new hack, this time a billion-plus users (Update 3)

  14-12-2016 23:17
  
  Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013—twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago.
  
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• Yahoo reveals new hack, this time a billion-plus users (Update)

  14-12-2016 23:17
  
  Yahoo said Wednesday more than a billion users may have had data stolen in a hack dating back to 2013—separate from its previously disclosed breach affecting 500 million.
  
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• Study of olivine provides new data set for understanding plate tectonics

  14-12-2016 23:15
  
  Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s.
  
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• Researcher studies increased predation of sagebrush songbirds in natural gas fields

  14-12-2016 22:57
  
  Arid land bird populations are in decline around the vicinity of oil and gas wells in Wyoming—but, not for the reasons you might initially think.
  
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• Is 'Emojigate' Reason Twitter Wasn't at the Tech Summit?

  14-12-2016 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Could a couple of emojis be the reason why Jack Dorsey was missing from today's tech summit at Trump Tower?
  
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• Scientists studying dolphins find Bay of Bengal a realm of evolutionary change

  14-12-2016 22:24
  
  Marine scientists have discovered that two species of dolphin in the waters off Bangladesh are genetically distinct from those in other regions of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, a finding that supports a growing body of evidence that the Bay of Bengal harbors conditions that drive the evolution of new life forms, according to a new study by the American Museum of Natural History(AMNH), WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), and the cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Cha
  
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• Study models tsunami risk for Florida and Cuba

  14-12-2016 22:08
  
  While the Caribbean is not thought to be at risk for tsunamis, a new study by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science indicates that large submarine landslides on the slopes of the Great Bahama Bank have generated tsunamis in the past and could potentially again in the future.
  
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• GM shares fall on reports of antitrust penalty in China

  14-12-2016 22:00
  
  A Chinese state-run newspaper reported Wednesday that the government will penalize an unidentified U.S. automaker soon for alleged anti-competitive behavior. With signs pointing to General Motors, shares of the Detroit company fell 2 percent.
  
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• Treated sawdust may help sop up, burn off Arctic oil spills

  14-12-2016 21:57
  
  Federal researchers looking for ways to contain petroleum spills in frigid Arctic waters are investigating whether a powder form of humble sawdust can provide a solution.
  
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• Nobel-winning economist Thomas Schelling dies at 95

  14-12-2016 21:55
  
  Thomas Schelling, an economist who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to explain nuclear strategy, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 95.
  
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• Autonomous Swarmboats: New missions, safe harbors

  14-12-2016 21:55
  
  Autonomous unmanned swarming boats were put through their paces in a recent demonstration in the lower Chesapeake Bay—with results that show dramatic new possibilities for autonomy in future naval missions.
  
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• How soil moisture can help predict power outages caused by hurricanes

  14-12-2016 21:50
  
  In the days before Hurricane Matthew, researchers used satellite maps of soil moisture to help forecast where the power would go out along the East Coast.
  
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• Computers can take social media data and make marketing personas

  14-12-2016 21:48
  
  Computers may be able to group consumers into marketing segments in real time just by observing how they respond to online videos and other social media data, according to a team of researchers.
  
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• Vaccination increases family wealth, girls' education

  14-12-2016 21:46
  
  A Washington State University-led research team found households in rural Africa that vaccinate their cattle for East Coast fever increased their income and spent the additional money on food and education. Researchers also found that when fewer cattle died from the fever, girls were more likely to attend secondary school.
  
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• Nanocubes simplify printing and imaging in color and infrared

  14-12-2016 21:43
  
  Duke University researchers believe they have overcome a longstanding hurdle to producing cheaper, more robust ways to print and image across a range of colors extending into the infrared.
  
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• Trump Tries to Make Nice With Tech Leaders

  14-12-2016 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  With cameras briefly in the room, the start of President-elect Donald Trump's meeting with tech leaders looked like something out of a reality show.
  
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• New Method Could Accelerate Graphene Production

  14-12-2016 21:22 via scitechdaily.com
  Engineers at the University of Exeter have developed a new cheap and simple mass production technique for graphene. A team of engineers from Exeter’s Centre for Graphene Science have developed a new method for creating entire device arrays directly on the copper substrates used for the commercial manufacture of graphene. Complete and fully-functional devices can […]
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• 1 Small Delivery for a Man, 1 Giant Leap for Amazon, Drones

  14-12-2016 21:16 via abcnews.go.com
  Drone delivery has begun
  
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• Researchers Modify Sawdust as Possible Arctic Oil Spill Tool

  14-12-2016 21:15 via abcnews.go.com
  A federal research lab is investigating humble sawdust as a possible means to clean up oil spilled in Arctic waters
  
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• WATCH: Amazon Releases Prime Air Video Showcasing Drone Technology

  14-12-2016 21:00 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The internet retailer has started private trials in England and recently delivered its first package.
  
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• Cheating Website Settles With Government After Data Breach

  14-12-2016 20:43 via abcnews.go.com
  The Toronto-based parent company of the adultery dating site Ashley Madison will pay $1.6 million in settlements following an investigation led by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into a massive breach of the company's computer systems
  
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• This flying robot is the newest expert inspecting your city's bridges

  14-12-2016 20:10
  
  Imagine strapping on a harness and dangling yourself over the side of a bridge, 100 feet in the air—the wind whipping past you, the earth far below. It might sound like a scene from a spy movie, or a fun idea for a vacation activity. For a bridge inspector, however, it's just another day on the job.
  
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• NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures New Image of Jupiter

  14-12-2016 20:04 via scitechdaily.com
  This newly released Juno image highlights the seventh of eight features forming a ‘string of pearls’ on Jupiter. This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a ‘string of pearls’ on Jupiter — massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in the gas […]
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• Southern elephant seals may adjust their diving behavior to stay in prey patches

  14-12-2016 20:00
  
  When southern elephant seals find dense patches of prey, they dive and return to the surface at steeper angles, and are more sinuous at the bottom of a dive, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yves Le Bras from Centre d'Etude Biologiques de Chizé, and colleagues.
  
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• New Zealand glowworms' sticky 'fishing lines' use moist, urea droplets to trap prey

  14-12-2016 20:00
  
  The sticky fishing lines produced by New Zealand glowworms to trap their insect prey are spaced with water-absorbent droplets containing urea, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Janek von Byern from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Austria, and colleagues.
  
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• Insectivorous long-fingered bats may also be capable of catching fish

  14-12-2016 20:00
  
  While most long-fingered bats eat only insects, they may all be instinctively able to also catch fish, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ostaizka Aizpurua and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
  
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• Bring your own (security) disaster

  14-12-2016 19:55
  
  Bring your own device (BYOD) to work is common practice these days. Almost everyone has a smart or a tablet and in many office and other jobs, using the device makes workers more effective and more efficient in their work (games and personal social media aside, perhaps). A new study in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies suggests, however, that most company IT security managers would prefer employees not to BYOD.
  
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• Huff, Puff and Explode: E-Cigarette Fires, Injuries on Rise

  14-12-2016 19:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The rising popularity of e-cigarettes has been accompanied by a climbing number of explosions in the decade since their debut
  
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• Judge: Mistakenly sold Apollo 11 moon mission bag is buyer's

  14-12-2016 19:40
  
  A bag used to collect lunar samples during the first manned mission to the moon legally belongs to an Illinois woman who bought it for $995 when it was mistakenly sold during a government auction, a judge ruled Wednesday.
  
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• Ashley Madison dating site to pay $1.6 mn over breach (Update)

  14-12-2016 19:40
  
  The operators of the Ashley Madison affair-minded dating website agreed Wednesday to pay a $1.6 million penalty over a data breach exposing data from 36 million users, US officials announced.
  
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• Ashley Madison dating site to pay $1.6 mn over breach

  14-12-2016 19:40
  
  The operators of the Ashley Madison affair-minded dating website agreed Wednesday to pay a $1.6 million penalty over a data breach exposing data from 36 million users, US officials announced.
  
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• Scientists measure pulse of CO2 emissions during spring thaw in the Arctic

  14-12-2016 19:39
  
  When the frozen Arctic tundra starts to thaw around June of each year, the snow melting and the ground softening, the soil may release a large pulse of greenhouse gases, namely, carbon dioxide and methane. Little has been known about such releases.
  
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• Researchers work to improve the lifecycle of materials

  14-12-2016 19:37
  
  When most living creatures get hurt, they can self-heal and recover from the injury. But, when damage occurs to inanimate objects, they don't have that same ability and typically either lose functionality or have their useful lifecycle reduced. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology are working to change that.
  
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• Crop shelter provides greater research portability

  14-12-2016 19:29
  
  In many parts of the world, lack of sufficient water makes it difficult - or impossible - to grow crops. Even in areas with enough water for farming, droughts can drastically lower the yield and quality of crops.
  
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• Tech Leaders to Make Peace, or Press Their Case, With Trump

  14-12-2016 19:07 via abcnews.go.com
  Technology leaders are about to come face-to-face with President-elect Donald Trump after fiercely opposing his candidacy, fearful that he would stifle innovation, curb the hiring of computer-savvy immigrants and infringe on consumers' digital privacy
  
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• Researchers sequence entire genome of seahorse, investigate essential mechanisms of evolution

  14-12-2016 19:00
  
  Without a doubt, the seahorse belongs to Darwin's "endless forms most beautiful". Its body form is one of a kind. It has neither a tail nor pelvic fin, it swims vertically, bony plates reinforce its entire body and it has no teeth, a rare feature in fish. Another peculiarity is that male seahorses are the ones to become pregnant.
  
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• Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds

  14-12-2016 19:00
  
  Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early stages in the formation of a new solar system. For the first time they have seen how a powerful whirlwind shoot out from the rotating disc of gas and dust surrounding the young star. The results have been published in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature.
  
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• VW shakeup means more English spoken, women as managers

  14-12-2016 18:50
  
  Volkswagen says it's going to speak more English and help more women reach for top positions as it shakes up its corporate culture in the wake of a diesel emissions scandal.
  
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• Apps for haggard parents with a wailing child on a flight

  14-12-2016 18:49
  
  There are few things worse than getting on a plane and discovering a wailing child and a haggard parent sitting next to you. Few things, that is, except being that haggard parent of the wailing child.
  
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• Researchers turn back the clock on human embryonic stem cells

  14-12-2016 18:46
  
  Johns Hopkins scientists report success in using a cocktail of cell-signaling chemicals to further wind back the biological clock of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), giving the cells the same flexibility researchers have prized in mice ESCs.
  
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• Plant's response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night

  14-12-2016 18:46
  
  Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply.
  
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• Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth's interface to space

  14-12-2016 18:45
  
  Scientists from NASA and three universities have presented new discoveries about the way heat and energy move and manifest in the ionosphere, a region of Earth's atmosphere that reacts to changes from both space above and Earth below.
  
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• New, complex call recorded in Mariana Trench believed to be from baleen whale

  14-12-2016 18:43
  
  A sound in the Mariana Trench notable for its complexity and wide frequency range likely represents the discovery of a new baleen whale call, according to the Oregon State University researchers who recorded and analyzed it.
  
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• Lecturing likely not effective for developing problem-solving skills in students

  14-12-2016 18:43
  
  Traditional university lectures are likely not an effective way to help post-secondary students acquire problem-solving skills.
  
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• Trump meets with tech execs, including his critics

  14-12-2016 18:20
  
  US President-elect Donald Trump sits down Wednesday with top tech executives—including several of his sharpest critics—to mend fences after a divisive election in which the majority of Silicon Valley backed Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Researchers dial in to 'thermostat' in Earth's upper atmosphere

  14-12-2016 18:20
  
  A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found the mechanism behind the sudden onset of a "natural thermostat" in Earth's upper atmosphere that dramatically cools the air after it has been heated by violent solar activity.
  
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• Twitter adds ability to broadcast live videos from app

  14-12-2016 18:18
  
  Twitter is adding the ability for users to broadcast live video directly from its app as it seeks to distinguish itself among social media rivals as the place for real-time connections and discussions.
  
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• Companies need to disclose more on climate risks, panel says

  14-12-2016 18:17
  
  Investors need more information about the risks companies face from global warming so they can fund development of the new technologies that are needed to control climate change and mitigate its effects, a task force said Wednesday.
  
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• Fresh look, control panel in 2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid

  14-12-2016 18:16
  
  For 2017, Lincoln continues to improve its midsize MKZ Hybrid sedan by adding a Jaguar-esque grille, easier-to-use audio and ventilation controls and an upgraded interior.
  
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