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• 'Global startup' vows autonomous car by 2020 in US

  10-03-2017 23:40
  
  A "global startup" which makes electric racing vehicles unveiled plans Friday to sell a fully autonomous electric car in the US market by 2020.
  
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• Google's self-driving car company escalates battle with Uber

  10-03-2017 23:30
  
  A self-driving car company founded by Google is presenting new evidence to support allegations that a former manager stole technology sold to Uber to help the ride-hailing service build its own robot-powered vehicles.
  
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• Effects of weather variability on maple syrup production studied

  10-03-2017 23:22
  
  A Montana State University assistant professor of sustainable food systems who has conducted research all over the world is turning her attention to maple syrup.
  
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• California to give the green light to truly driverless cars

  10-03-2017 23:03 via abcnews.go.com
  Cars with no steering wheel and nobody at all inside could be driving themselves on California roads by the end of the year
  
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• NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Dust Storms

  10-03-2017 22:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views back-to-back regional dust storms swelling on Mars. Images from the orbiter’s wide-angle Mars Color Imager (MARCI) show each storm growing...
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• Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Full Of Amazing Little Details - Kotaku

  10-03-2017 22:35 via kotaku.com
  
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  Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Full Of Amazing Little Details
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  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild manages to be both massive and unusually detailed. The sprawl of Hyrule will take weeks or even months for most of us to explore, not just because of its square mileage but because of how much there is to see and ...
  What open-world games on PC need to learn from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildPC Gamer
  What Does the Nintendo Switch, Breath of the Wild Launch Success Actually
  
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• California gives green light to self-driving car tests

  10-03-2017 22:27
  
  The US state of California is easing its rules for autonomous car testing, by allowing testing of vehicles in which there is no human driver.
  
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• 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' Nintendo Switch Release Date, New Trailer And Details Revealed - Forbes

  10-03-2017 22:18 via forbes.com
  
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  'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' Nintendo Switch Release Date, New Trailer And Details Revealed
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  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be the first game released on the Nintendo Switch featuring the company's signature character. It is scheduled to hit stores on April 28. This version from the iconic series should be an instant hit. NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 13: ...
  Check out what's new in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with this overview trailerDestructoid
  Nintendo shares 5 minutes of new footage from 'Mario Kart
  
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• New research identifies New Bedford Harbor as major source of airborne PCBs

  10-03-2017 21:45
  
  Sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCBs, from the bottom of the New Bedford Harbor is the No. 1 source of airborne PCBs in the neighborhoods surrounding the port, according to new research by the University of Iowa and Boston University School of Public Health.
  
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• Therapist who fought to 'cure' gays dies in California at 70

  10-03-2017 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist who promoted the idea that people could be cured of homosexuality, has died at age 70
  
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• Engineers Reduce the Effects of Fatigue by Including a Laminated Nanostructure into Steel

  10-03-2017 20:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By incorporating a laminated nanostructure into steel, a team of engineers has developed a way to give steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress....
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• Algorithms Learn From Us, And We've Been Bad Parents

  10-03-2017 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  As they learn from real-world data, algorithms pick up sexist, racist, and otherwise damaging biases that have long plagued human culture. These scientists are finding the solution.
  
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• Algorithms Learn From Us, and We Can Be Better Teachers

  10-03-2017 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  As they learn from real-world data, algorithms pick up sexist, racist, and otherwise damaging biases that have long plagued human culture. These scientists are finding the solution.
  
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• This small molecule could have a big future in global food security

  10-03-2017 20:00
  
  Researchers at the University of Arizona have found a promising way to prevent the loss of millions of tons of crops to a fungus each year, offering the potential to dramatically improve food security, especially in developing countries. The team's approach uses transgenic corn plants that produce small RNA molecules that prevent fungi from producing aflatoxin, highly toxic substances that can render an entire harvest unsafe for human consumption even in small amounts.
  
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• Organic is only one ingredient in recipe for sustainable food future

  10-03-2017 20:00
  
  Many people choose organic thinking it's better for humans and the planet, but a new UBC study published in Science Advances finds that might not always be the case.
  
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• Are Your Twitter Followers Actually Bots?

  10-03-2017 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitter account may not be coming from human hands, says a new study.
  
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• Free trips to New Zealand offered to 100 tech workers

  10-03-2017 19:10
  
  It sounds almost too good to be true: A free trip to New Zealand to interview for a job in the tech sector.
  
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• What the CIA WikiLeaks dump tells us: Encryption works

  10-03-2017 19:00
  
  If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, it's that data-scrambling encryption works, and the industry should use more of it.
  
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• Truckloads of tiny fish hauled to river in restoration plan

  10-03-2017 18:50
  
  These speckled, rose-tinted fish haven't been spotted in this bubbling river in remote northeastern Oregon for more than 30 years—until now.
  
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• Truckloads of baby fish hauled to river in restoration plan

  10-03-2017 18:50
  
  These speckled, rose-tinted fish haven't been spotted in this bubbling river in remote northeastern Oregon for more than 30 years—until now.
  
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• Volkswagen pleads guilty in US diesel emissions scandal

  10-03-2017 18:45
  
  Volkswagen pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a brazen scheme to get around U.S. pollution rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles by using software to suppress emissions of nitrogen oxide during tests.
  
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• Benefits of university seed cap programs

  10-03-2017 18:42
  
  When universities engage in technology transfer, the process of commercializing the innovations and inventions of academic faculty members, "seed capital" to fund start-up companies often comes from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from outside of the university system. These necessary funds have far-reaching effects and benefits; however, additional benefits, both for the community and the institution, can be realized when the seed capital comes from the innovation and invention-founding a
  
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• What is innovation, and how can we awaken its dormant traits and cultivate them?

  10-03-2017 18:41
  
  What innovation is and how it can be cultivated are two of the compelling questions raised in a paper exploring the potential for fostering innovation in students in the new issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors.
  
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• California lawmakers don't think this fight is emission impossible

  10-03-2017 18:40
  
  The Trump administration could move at any time to revoke California's right to impose stricter auto emissions standards than the federal government does, and the state's senators are already mounting a fight.
  
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• New Hubble Observations Help Date the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

  10-03-2017 18:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New Hubble observations help astronomers determine an accurate age for the Fermi Bubbles and how they came to be. For the supermassive black hole at...
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• Energy crop production on conservation lands may not boost greenhouse gases

  10-03-2017 18:30
  
  Growing sustainable energy crops without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, may be possible on seasonally wet, environmentally sensitive landscapes, according to researchers who conducted a study on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land.
  
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• First Hands-on With Mass Effect: Andromeda's Cooperative Multiplayer - GameSpot

  10-03-2017 18:20 via gamespot.com
  
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  First Hands-on With Mass Effect: Andromeda's Cooperative Multiplayer
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  According to the game's exploration trailer, Mass Effect: Andromeda's single-player campaign spans an entire galaxy, encompassing dozens of star systems and hundreds of planets. Though you won't be able to land on and explore every single one, the ...
  PAX East 2017: Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer PreviewIGN
  Mass Effect: Andromeda contains over 1200 speaking charactersPC Gamer
  'Mass Effect: Andromeda'
  
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• Justice Department Reviews H-1B Spouse Work Case As Tech Worker Visas Scrutinized

  10-03-2017 18:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  The case concerns a rule allowing the spouses of some H-1B visa holders to work in the United States.
  
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• Information avoidance: From health to politics, people select their own reality

  10-03-2017 18:10
  
  We live in an unprecedented "age of information." Dieters have access to nutritional information, people at risk of genetic disease can undergo cutting-edge medical tests and citizens in modern democracies have access to a wide range of news sources covering the entire political spectrum.
  
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• NASA's aerial survey of polar ice expands its Arctic reach

  10-03-2017 18:00
  
  For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three-dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world. Now, for the first time, the campaign will expand its reach to explore the Arctic's Eurasian Basin through two research flights based out of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• NASA gets a last look at Tropical Depression Enawo's final bow

  10-03-2017 17:50
  
  Ex-tropical Cyclone Enawo moved off the southern coast of Madagascar and strengthened back into a tropical storm for a brief period before weakening to a depression. NASA's Terra satellite captured a look at the storm as wind shear continued to batter the storm weakening it further.
  
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• Mona Lisa's smile decoded: science says she's happy

  10-03-2017 17:50
  
  The subject of centuries of scrutiny and debate, Mona Lisa's famous smile is routinely described as ambiguous. But is it really that hard to read? Apparently not.
  
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• Facebook scores deal to stream MLS matches

  10-03-2017 17:40
  
  Facebook has struck a deal to stream matches from US-based Major League Soccer, in the latest social network tie-up for live sports.
  
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• Research evaluates how financial criminals evade laws

  10-03-2017 17:30
  
  Despite preventative measures against bankruptcy fraud and money laundering, criminals are finding ways to exploit differing regulations in the United States and Europe.
  
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• NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Cyclone 11S

  10-03-2017 17:29
  
  Tropical Cyclone 11S appeared elongated in NASA satellite imagery as a result of the storm being battered by wind shear.
  
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• .africa joins the internet

  10-03-2017 17:20
  
  In the beginning was .com, followed by a host of other .somethings, but on Friday, 32 years after the world's first domain name was registered, the African Union has launched .africa for the continent.
  
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• Behavioral biology: Ripeness is all

  10-03-2017 17:10
  
  In contrast to other members of the Drosophila family, the spotted-wing fly D. suzukii deposits its eggs in ripe fruits. Biologists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now elucidated the sensory basis of their ability to exploit a novel ecological niche.
  
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• The new theory of economic 'agrowth' contributes to the viability of climate policies

  10-03-2017 17:00
  
  Forty-five years after the first proposal on the limits to growth by the Club of Rome, the increasing concern over climate change and how to deal with it has reopened the debate questioning whether climate change mitigation policies are compatible with economic growth.
  
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• WikiLeaks aid on CIA software holes could be mixed blessing

  10-03-2017 16:50
  
  WikiLeaks has offered to help the likes of Google and Apple identify the software holes used by purported CIA hacking tools—and that puts the tech industry in something of a bind.
  
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• New project to identify Jack the Ripper's last known victim

  10-03-2017 16:50
  
  Members of the University of Leicester team who undertook genealogical and demographic research in relation to the discovery of the mortal remains of King Richard III have now been involved in a new project to identify the last known victim of Jack the Ripper - Mary Jane Kelly.
  
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• Image: Hubble hones in on a hypergiant's home

  10-03-2017 16:50
  
  This beautiful Hubble image reveals a young super star cluster known as Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, yet home to one of the largest stars ever discovered.
  
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• New nanofiber marks important step in next generation battery development

  10-03-2017 16:45
  
  One of the keys to building electric cars that can travel longer distances and to powering more homes with renewable energy is developing efficient and highly capable energy storage systems.
  
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• NASA mission named 'Europa Clipper'

  10-03-2017 16:41
  
  NASA's upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper.
  
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• The future of space colonization – terraforming or space habitats?

  10-03-2017 16:40
  
  The idea of terraforming Mars – aka "Earth's Twin" – is a fascinating idea. Between melting the polar ice caps, slowly creating an atmosphere, and then engineering the environment to have foliage, rivers, and standing bodies of water, there's enough there to inspire just about anyone! But just how long would such an endeavor take, what would it cost us, and is it really an effective use of our time and energy?
  
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• Norwegian prosecutors demand bitcoins for drug sales

  10-03-2017 16:40
  
  Three men charged in Norway with selling drugs online have to pay back 120 bitcoins ($144,300) on top of millions in Norwegian kroner—the first time the Scandinavian country has demanded to be paid in the electronic currency, a prosecutor said Friday.
  
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• Improving defence against earthquakes and tsunamis

  10-03-2017 16:40
  
  A pioneering new computer model has been developed to simulate the whole chain of hazard events triggered by offshore mega subduction earthquakes, by a team involving UCL and Bristol engineers.
  
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• Leak: Can the iPhone 8 compete with a Galaxy S8 that looks like this? - BGR

  10-03-2017 16:37 via bgr.com
  
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  Leak: Can the iPhone 8 compete with a Galaxy S8 that looks like this?
  BGR
  Dozens of high-profile flagship smartphones will be released in 2017 but truth be told, there are really only a handful of upcoming new devices that consumers at large actually care about. Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 will be big towards the end of ...
  Watch out, Samsung: Best Galaxy S8 alternativesFox News
  The Galaxy S8 Is Basically Here To Make You Fat Shame Other PhonesForbes
  Latest Galaxy S8 leak compares sizes
  
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• Maths—why many great discoveries would be impossible without it

  10-03-2017 16:30
  
  Despite the fact that mathematics is often described as the underpinning science, it is often not given enough credit when scientific discoveries are presented. But the contribution of mathematics and statistics is essential and has transformed entire areas of research – many discoveries would not have been possible without it. In fact, as a mathematician, I have contributed to scientific discoveries and provided solutions to problems that biology was yet to solve.
  
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• BT Group agrees to separate broadband unit

  10-03-2017 16:30
  
  British telecoms giant BT Group has agreed to legally separate its broadband unit Openreach to remedy concerns over competition in the sector, the company announced Friday.
  
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• Image: Sentinel-3A satellite captures Kamchatka

  10-03-2017 16:20
  
  The Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East on 15 February, where clouds blend with the ice and snow beneath from our bird's-eye view.
  
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