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• Is Qi compatibility important to you for iPhone 8's rumored wireless charging? [Poll] - 9 to 5 Mac

  13-02-2017 23:51 via 9to5mac.com
  
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  Is Qi compatibility important to you for iPhone 8's rumored wireless charging? [Poll]
  9 to 5 Mac
  With news today that Apple has joined the Wireless Power Consortium, creators of the popular Qi wireless charging platform, speculation is flying about what Apple's rumored charging tech for the iPhone 8 will look like. While much has been made about ...
  One of the iPhone 8's hottest new features might not even work out of the boxBGR
  The $1000 iPhone and other rumors about Apple's next sm
  
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• Will Robots Take Over? Tesla's Elon Musk Quotes: 4 Predictions About The Future Of Humanity - International Business Times

  13-02-2017 23:30 via ibtimes.com
  
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  Will Robots Take Over? Tesla's Elon Musk Quotes: 4 Predictions About The Future Of Humanity
  International Business Times
  SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in Dubai to launch Tesla in the United Arab Emirates at the World Government Summit Monday. The South African billionaire inventor was interviewed onstage and gave his opinion on aliens, artificial intelligence, ...
  Elon Musk has some big-time predictions for the future of carsMashable
  Elon Musk thinks human
  
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• Verizon unlimited data plan signals price war to come - USA TODAY

  13-02-2017 23:17 via usatoday.com
  
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  Verizon unlimited data plan signals price war to come
  USA TODAY
  Verizon has joined the rest of its rivals offering consumers unlimited data plans. And Wall Street smells a price war. USA TODAY. Verizon joins the unlimited party with $80 data plan. As stocks rallied, sending the Nasdaq Composite to a record closing ...
  T-Mobile answers Verizon by adding HD video and hotspot to unlimited planArs Technica
  T-Mobile trying to undercut Verizon's Unlimited plan, rolls back tethering and vide
  
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• Looking at Sardinian DNA for genetic clues to an island's—and Europe's—past

  13-02-2017 23:00
  
  Sardinia sits at a crossroads in the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest island next to Sicily. Surrounded by sparkling turquoise waters, this Mediterranean jewel lies northwest of the toe of the Italian peninsula boot, about 350 kilometers due west of Rome.
  
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• Elon Musk: We'll have to become cyborg hybrids to keep up - CNET

  13-02-2017 22:50 via cnet.com
  
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  Elon Musk: We'll have to become cyborg hybrids to keep up
  CNET
  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. gettyimages-631093314.jpg. Enlarge Image. Are humans as we know them done for? Musk seems to think so. Drew Angerer, Getty Images. Take a longer look at your ...
  Will Robots Take Over? Tesla's Elon Musk Quotes: 4 Predictions About The Future Of HumanityInternational Business Times
  Elon Musk thinks humans need to become cyborgs or risk
  
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• Toyota to urge moratorium on state self-driving car regulations - Colorado Springs Gazette

  13-02-2017 22:48 via gazette.com
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  Toyota to urge moratorium on state self-driving car regulations
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  A senior Toyota executive is urging the federal government to keep states from setting their own autonomous vehicle rules, something carmakers say could threaten the emerging industry with a patchwork of contradictory regulations. "A clear and ...
  GM And Toyota Call For Autonomous Testing Laws To Be RelaxedCarscoops (blog)
  GM, Toyota set to push US regulators on easing self-driving restrictionsT
  
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• Google lets users get social with Maps - Computerworld

  13-02-2017 22:48 via computerworld.com
  
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  Google lets users get social with Maps
  Computerworld
  Google is moving to make Maps more than just about getting to your destination. Maps is getting social. Zach Maier, a product manager with Google Maps, announced in a blog post Monday that users can create lists of their favorite places, places they ...
  Google supercharges saved places in Maps with customization and sharingPCWorld
  5 reasons to create and share lists in Google MapsCNET
  Google Maps new feature lets users create li
  
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• Apple Shares Hit Record Close on Optimism for Next iPhone - Bloomberg

  13-02-2017 22:06 via bloomberg.com
  
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  Apple Shares Hit Record Close on Optimism for Next iPhone
  Bloomberg
  Apple Inc. shares hit a record on optimism the next iPhone will drive a resurgence in sales and help the company's services businesses grow. The stock climbed less than 1 percent to $133.29 at the close Monday in New York, the highest on record.
  Apple Shares Close at a Record High: Here's Why Its Big Rally Could ContinueTheStreet.com
  Red-hot Apple shares close at record highUSA TODAY
  Apple reaches all-time high amid r
  
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• Judge to hear arguments on Dakota Access pipeline work

  13-02-2017 21:59
  
  Two American Indian tribes have asked a federal judge to stop construction of the last stretch of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline, adding a religious freedom component to their argument that it would endanger their cultural sites and water supply.
  
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• Researchers apply machine learning to condensed matter physics

  13-02-2017 21:58
  
  A machine learning algorithm designed to teach computers how to recognize photos, speech patterns, and hand-written digits has now been applied to a vastly different set of data: identifying phase transitions between states of matter.
  
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• NASA catches formation of Tropical Cyclone Dineo

  13-02-2017 21:57
  
  The fifth tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean season formed today, February 13 as NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the storm.
  
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• Tiny, soft, transparent nanofabricated devices turned into ultrasensitive microphones

  13-02-2017 21:56
  
  A tiny, transparent device that can fit into a contact lens has a bright future, potentially helping a range of scientific endeavors from biomedicine to geology.
  
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• Possible key to regeneration found in planaria's origins

  13-02-2017 21:46
  
  A new report from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research chronicles the embryonic origins of planaria, providing new insight into the animal's remarkable regenerative abilities.
  
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• NASA gives the Webb Telescope a shakedown

  13-02-2017 21:39
  
  Scientists and engineers had many challenges in designing the components of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and then had to custom design and build ways to test it.
  
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• Humble's new bundle has better games than usual, and somewhat secondarily it helps charities - The Verge

  13-02-2017 21:37 via theverge.com
  
  TechCrunch
  Humble's new bundle has better games than usual, and somewhat secondarily it helps charities
  The Verge
  Humble Bundle is known for its charity bundles — pay whatever you want and get a package of books or comics or games with some or all of your payment donated to a designated cause or organization. But the company's latest effort — The Humble ...
  This week's Humble Freedom Bundle is overwhelmingly goodDestructoid
  Stardew Valley, The Witness and 45 more headline Humbl
  
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• Remember How Bad The Wii U's Marketing Was? - Kotaku

  13-02-2017 21:35 via kotaku.com
  
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  Remember How Bad The Wii U's Marketing Was?
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  We're nearly two weeks away from the Nintendo Switch, and no matter how it ultimately fares, it's already surpassed the Wii U in one key area: marketing. And unlike the Wii U, people actually know it exists. Advertisement. Seriously, do you remember ...
  10 Things Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Told Us About Switch and MoreTIME
  Nintendo Switch interview: Nintendo on the price, games and hopes for its new consoleTelegraph.co.ukall 213 news ar
  
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• Humble matching up to $300k of sales for bundle benefiting ACLU - Gamasutra

  13-02-2017 21:20 via gamasutra.com
  
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  Humble matching up to $300k of sales for bundle benefiting ACLU
  Gamasutra
  Humble's latest weekly bundle is a little different from the past offerings. For the next week, every penny earned from sales of the Humble Freedom Bundle will go to support the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Rescue Committee, and ...
  Get Over $600 Worth of Games and Books for Just $30 in the Humble Freedom BundleAttack of the Fanboy
  Humble Freedom Bundle Now LiveGameranx (blog)
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• X-ray pulses reveal structure of viral cocoon: Scientists analyze smallest ever protein crystals

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  An international team of scientists has used high-intensity X-ray pulses to determine the structure of the crystalline protein envelope of an insect virus. Their analysis reveals the fine details of the building blocks that make up the viral cocoon down to a scale of 0.2 nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) - approaching atom-scale resolution. The tiny viruses with their crystal casing are by far the smallest protein crystals ever analysed using X-ray crystallography. This opens up new opport
  
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• Using high-resolution satellites to measure African farm yields

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-res photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.
  
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• Sulfide-sensing mechanisms in purple bacteria

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  Recent evidence demonstrates that the origins of photosynthesis can be found in deep sea hydrothermal vents, where microbes evolved to obtain energy from ejected hydrogen sulfide and methane gases. These microbes are capable of oxidizing sulfides and other gases and using them as electron donors to generate energy.
  
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• Simple rule explains complex group swimming patterns

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  Watching the smooth movement generated by hundreds of fish as they swim in unison is truly mesmerising. But it's not only its sheer beauty that makes it so hard to look away, for scientists, it's also the fact that its emergence is so difficult to explain. In an article published today (February 13, 2017) in the scientific journal PNAS, researchers from Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, present a surprisingly simple rule that explains how complex patterns of collective moveme
  
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• Researchers engineer 'thubber,' a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  Carmel Majidi and Jonathan Malen of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a thermally conductive rubber material that represents a breakthrough for creating soft, stretchable machines and electronics. The findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
  
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• Mutant maize offers key to understanding plant growth

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  How plant cells divide and how that contributes to plant growth has been one of the longstanding unsolved mysteries of cell biology. Two conflicting ideas have fueled the mystery.
  
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• Desert songbirds may face expanding threat of lethal dehydration

  13-02-2017 21:00
  
  A new study of songbird dehydration and survival risk during heat waves in the United States desert Southwest suggests that some birds are at risk of lethal dehydration and mass die-offs when water is scarce, and the risk is expected to increase as climate change advances.
  
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• Pollution Has Worked Its Way Down To The World's Deepest Waters - NPR

  13-02-2017 20:47 via npr.org
  
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  Pollution Has Worked Its Way Down To The World's Deepest Waters
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  The Mariana Trench in the northern Pacific is the deepest part of the world's oceans. You might think a place that remote would be untouched by human activity. But the Mariana Trench is polluted. At its deepest — about 7 miles down — the water in the ...
  Staggering level of toxic chemicals found in creatures at the bottom of the sea, scientists say13newsnow.com
  Toxic, Man-made Pollutants Found in De
  
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• How Algorithms Choose Your Valentine

  13-02-2017 19:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Every dating app uses a slightly different algorithm to match users for life or the just the night. Whichever app you prefer, remember that your true love might very well be the algorithm.
  
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• Luminescent Carbon Nanoparticles Exhibit Reversible Switching in Cancer Cells

  13-02-2017 19:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of researchers has demonstrated, for the first time, that photo luminescent carbon nanoparticles can exhibit reversible switching of their optical properties in cancer...
  The post Luminescent Carbon Nanoparticles Exhibit Reversible Switching in Cancer Cells appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Senators try to speed up deployment of self-driving cars

  13-02-2017 19:40
  
  In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two senators said Monday they're launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation's roads.
  
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• Albania promotes its underwater archaeology, for tourism

  13-02-2017 19:37
  
  Albania is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries.
  
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• Team makes planet hunting a group effort, finds more than 100 candidates

  13-02-2017 19:35
  
  An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these observations can be used to hunt for planets by detecting more than 100 potential exoplanets, including one orbiting the fourth-closest star to our own Solar System, which is about 8.1 light years away from Earth. The paper is published in The Astronomical Journal.
  
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• Here's Why Resident Evil 7 Characters Have Such Great Teeth - Kotaku

  13-02-2017 19:30 via kotaku.com
  
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  Here's Why Resident Evil 7 Characters Have Such Great Teeth
  Kotaku
  Resident Evil 7's most distressing horror technique is not a well placed jump scare or dangerous boss encounter. It's the teeth. Those terrifying, perfect teeth. Thanks to series producer Masachika Kawata, we finally know what the deal is with everyone ...
  The Mansion is Where Resident Evil is At its BestTwinfinite
  The gore of 'Resident Evil 7' is heavily censored in JapanEngadget
  Resident Evil 7 Update 1.02 Adds DLC Supp
  
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• Beware exploding whales: New Zealand issues warning after mass stranding - Fox News

  13-02-2017 19:29 via foxnews.com
  
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  Beware exploding whales: New Zealand issues warning after mass stranding
  Fox News
  Beachgoers in New Zealand have been warned to steer clear of exploding whales after the mass stranding that left hundreds of whale carcasses rotting on a beach in the country's South Island. Reuters reports that authorities are cutting holes in 300 ...
  What makes this New Zealand beach a whale graveyard?BBC News
  New Zealand: Carcasses of stranded whales punctured to prevent them explodingCNN
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• Researchers discover a new link to fight billion-dollar threat to soybean production

  13-02-2017 19:28
  
  Invisible to the naked eye, cyst nematodes are a major threat to agriculture, causing billions of dollars in global crop losses every year. A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life-sustaining nutrients from soybean plants. Understanding the molecular basis of interactions between plants and nematodes could lead to the development of new strategies to control these major agricultural pe
  
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• Dataset of 1,600 Nearby Stars Available to the Public

  13-02-2017 19:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Carnegie Institution for Science has made a huge dataset of 1,600 nearby stars available to the public so they can help find signs of new...
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• New study helps explain how garbage patches form in the world's oceans

  13-02-2017 19:25
  
  A new study on how ocean currents transport floating marine debris is helping to explain how garbage patches form in the world's oceans. Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and colleagues developed a mathematical model that simulates the motion of small spherical objects floating at the ocean surface.
  
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• Luminescence switchable carbon nanodots follow intracellular trafficking and drug delivery

  13-02-2017 19:24
  
  Tiny carbon dots have, for the first time, been applied to intracellular imaging and tracking of drug delivery involving various optical and vibrational spectroscopic-based techniques such as fluorescence, Raman, and hyperspectral imaging. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated, for the first time, that photo luminescent carbon nanoparticles can exhibit reversible switching of their optical properties in cancer cells.
  
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• One of the iPhone 8's hottest new features might not even work out of the box - BGR

  13-02-2017 19:15 via bgr.com
  
  BGR
  One of the iPhone 8's hottest new features might not even work out of the box
  BGR
  With reports that Apple has plans to begin mass production of the iPhone 8 a little bit earlier than usual, it's no surprise that we're starting to see a noticeable uptick in the number of iPhone rumors coming through the pipeline. The most recent ...
  Latest iPhone 8 Leaks Point To Unusual Apple VisionForbes
  Why Apple's About to Close at a Record HighBarron's
  Apple Shown to be listed on Wireless Charging Conso
  
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• Yale Scientists Use New Device to Search for Axion Dark Matter

  13-02-2017 19:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from Yale University are using a new detection device to search for dark matter in the form of axions, a theorized subatomic particle that...
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• New Cassini View of Saturn’s F Ring

  13-02-2017 18:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new view of Saturn’s F ring this past December. When seen up close, the F ring of Saturn resolves into...
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• Elon Musk thinks humans need to become cyborgs or risk irrelevance - The Verge

  13-02-2017 18:41 via theverge.com
  
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  Elon Musk thinks humans need to become cyborgs or risk irrelevance
  The Verge
  Human beings are in danger of being eclipsed by artificial intelligence and need to evolve the ability to communicate directly with machines or risk irrelevance, Elon Musk said in a typically heartwarming speech from everyone's favorite billionaire ...
  Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI ageCNBC
  Elon Musk Says Governments Will Have to Introduce 'Universal Basic Income' for Un
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Sidekick or Star of the Show?

  13-02-2017 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released Hubble image shows the patch of space just ‘beneath’ open star cluster NGC 299. This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble...
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• Banned chemicals persist in deep ocean - BBC News

  13-02-2017 18:23 via bbc.com
  
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  Banned chemicals persist in deep ocean
  BBC News
  Chemicals banned in the 1970s have been found in the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean, a new study shows. Scientists were surprised by the relatively high concentrations of pollutants like PCBs and PBDEs in deep sea ecosystems. Used widely during ...
  Scientists discover pollution 10000 meters below the ocean's surface in the Mariana TrenchWashington Post
  The Most Remote Place on the Planet Contains 'Extraordinary' Levels
  
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• Fin24.com | Moneyweb makes R314 000 profit

  13-02-2017 18:18
  
  Moneyweb has made a profit before tax of R314 000 for the six months ended 31 December 2016.
  
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• Scientists discover pollution 10000 meters below the ocean's surface in the Mariana Trench - Washington Post

  13-02-2017 18:08 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Washington Post
  Scientists discover pollution 10000 meters below the ocean's surface in the Mariana Trench
  Washington Post
  Scientists have discovered the presence of chemical pollutants in some of the ocean's deepest trenches, previously thought to be nearly untouched by human influence. In fact, they've found levels of contamination in some marine organisms living there ...
  Banned chemicals persist in deep oceanBBC News
  Scientists discover banned toxic chemicals in animals living in world's de
  
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• Is Verizon's Resurrected Unlimited Data Plan a Good Deal? - Gizmodo

  13-02-2017 18:01 via gizmodo.com
  
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  Is Verizon's Resurrected Unlimited Data Plan a Good Deal?
  Gizmodo
  Hell just froze over because Verizon, long time hater of unlimited data plans, has decided to introduce a new unlimited data option. What's the deal? And more importantly...Is the new plan a good deal? Advertisement. Verizon follows in the footsteps of ...
  Why Verizon Finally Caved on the Unlimited Data PlanFortune
  Why Verizon Caved and Is Finally Offering an Unlimited Data Plan AgainTheStreet.com
  Verizon gives its custom
  
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• Astronomers zoom in on megastar's juvenile outburst

  13-02-2017 17:51
  
  A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, a supergiant red star ended its life in a spectacular explosion known as a supernova.
  
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• NASA's TDRS-M space communications satellite begins final testing

  13-02-2017 17:47
  
  The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish NASA's Space Network. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Aug. 3, 2017, on an Atlas V rocket.
  
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• Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot

  13-02-2017 17:45
  
  I'll bet you don't have one of these at home.
  
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• Tesla takes on Gulf gas guzzlers

  13-02-2017 17:37
  
  Electric carmaker Tesla announced the opening of a new Gulf headquarters Monday in Dubai, aiming to conquer an oil-rich region better known for gas guzzlers than environmentally friendly motoring.
  
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• New mechanical metamaterials can block symmetry of motion, findings suggest

  13-02-2017 17:33
  
  Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that easily transfer motion effortlessly in one direction while blocking it in the other, as described in a paper published on Feb. 13 in Nature. The material can be thought of as a mechanical one-way shield that blocks energy from coming in but easily transmits it going out the other side.
  
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