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• In the digital age, Paris revamps newsstands

  13-03-2017 23:02
  
  A new-look newspaper kiosk appeared on a Paris street Monday, the first of hundreds that will replace the iconic domed structures that have dotted the city since the 1860s.
  
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• Pandora starts on-demand music subscription service

  13-03-2017 22:57
  
  Internet radio company Pandora is launching an on-demand music service for $10 a month.
  
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• Facebook says its data can't be used for 'surveillance'

  13-03-2017 22:57
  
  Facebook is prohibiting developers from using the massive amount of data it collects on users for surveillance. This includes using such data to monitor activists and protesters.
  
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• Internet gambling again helps Atlantic City casinos

  13-03-2017 22:53
  
  Once again, internet gambling has made the difference between an up month and a down one for Atlantic City casinos.
  
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• A scientist and a supercomputer re-create a tornado

  13-03-2017 22:52
  
  With tornado season fast approaching or already underway in vulnerable states throughout the U.S., new supercomputer simulations are giving meteorologists unprecedented insight into the structure of monstrous thunderstorms and tornadoes. One such recent simulation recreates a tornado-producing supercell thunderstorm that left a path of destruction over the Central Great Plains in 2011.
  
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• After Deepwater Horizon spill: Which animals weathered the disaster

  13-03-2017 22:39
  
  A new study from a Coastal Waters Consortium team of researchers led by Rutgers University postdoctoral researcher, Michael McCann, has found which birds, fish, insects and other animals affected by the Deepwater Horizon explosion should be given top priority for conservation, protection and research.
  
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• The controversial origin of a symbol of the American west

  13-03-2017 22:38
  
  New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing that a common maternal ancestor arrived between 130,000 and 195,000 years ago, during a previous ice age.
  
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• Explaining a 'once-in-a-billion-year event': A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth

  13-03-2017 22:36
  
  What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth's history, known as 'snowball Earth'?Geologists and climate scientists have been searching for the answer for years but the root cause of the phenomenon remains elusive.
  
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• Supplemental fat not necessary when canola meal is fed to weanling pigs

  13-03-2017 22:32
  
  New research from the University of Illinois shows that adding supplemental dietary fat is not necessary to avoid reduced growth performance when replacing soybean meal with canola meal in diets fed to weanling pigs.
  
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• Researchers develop new method to program nanoparticle organization in polymer thin films

  13-03-2017 22:26
  
  Controlling the organization of nanoparticles into patterns in ultrathin polymer films can be accomplished with entropy instead of chemistry, according to a discovery by Dr. Alamgir Karim, UA's Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Professor of Polymer Engineering, and his student Dr. Ren Zhang. Polymer thin films are used in a variety of technological applications, for example paints, lubricants, and adhesives. Karim and Zhang have developed an original method—soft-confinement pattern-induced
  
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• Looking for 'fingerprints' at the intersection of weather and climate

  13-03-2017 22:25
  
  Scientists have found the seasonal "fingerprints" of Arctic sea ice, El Nino, and other climate phenomena in a new study that probes the global interactions between weather and climate.
  
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• Researchers offer overview of composite metal foams and potential applications

  13-03-2017 22:24
  
  Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a range of composite metal foams (CMFs) that can be used in applications from armor to hazardous material transport - and they're now looking for collaborators to help identify and develop new applications. To that end, the researchers are issuing a comprehensive overview and new data on their CMFs.
  
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• NASA, NOAA satellites see winter storm madness 'March' to the East

  13-03-2017 22:22
  
  NASA and NOAA satellites are providing various views of the major winter storm marching toward the U.S. East coast on March 13. The storm is forecast to merge with another system and is expected to bring large snowfall totals from the Mid-Atlantic to New England.
  
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• Profiting from the fight against corruption

  13-03-2017 22:21
  
  It makes sense for non-governmental organizations to band together to fight government corruption; they get better results that way.
  
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• Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass - Everything You Need To Know - GameSpot

  13-03-2017 21:23 via gamespot.com
  
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  Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass - Everything You Need To Know
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  Here is everything you need to know about battlefield 1's upcoming expansion DLC; "They Shall not Pass". by Aaron Sampson and Spencer Kalin-Mulder on March 13, 2017. Upvote (8); Leave Blank. View Comments (7). Share. by Taboola by Taboola.
  Take a look at Battlefield 1: They Shall Not PassPolygon
  Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass - Expansion RundownIGN
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• Why Intel Bought Mobileye - Fortune

  13-03-2017 21:03 via fortune.com
  
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  Why Intel Bought Mobileye
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  "As you've heard me say, others predict the future. At Intel, we build it," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich wrote in a letter to employees. On Monday, Intel bought it. Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, announced it will acquire Mobileye, a leading ...
  Intel, Mobileye Among Many Self-Driving Car PartnersU.S. News & World Report
  Intel Acquires Self-Driving Tech Firm Mobileye For $15 BillionPC Magazine
  Intel just made a big bet on self-driving carsVox
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• Astronomers Show Radiation Helped Fuel The First Massive Black Holes

  13-03-2017 20:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study adds evidence to one theory of how ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed...
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• Despite imminent Galaxy S8 launch, now is the perfect time to buy a Galaxy S7 - BGR

  13-03-2017 20:04 via bgr.com
  
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  Despite imminent Galaxy S8 launch, now is the perfect time to buy a Galaxy S7
  BGR
  Samsung's upcoming new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ are two of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of the year. In fact, Google search volume for Samsung's upcoming new flagship phone series has actually managed to surpass Google searches for the ...
  Here is the Galaxy S8's Home Screen Setup With Launcher and IconsDroid Life (press release) (blog)
  Samsung's Galaxy S8 could come in a rainbow of colors, incl
  
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• Study shows how river channels adjust to large sediment supplies

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  The seemingly simple question of what governs the shapes of river channels has been a longstanding challenge for geologists and civil engineers. A new study led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz shows that the amount of sediment a river transports is a key factor in determining river channel geometry and the size of the sediment grains on the riverbed.
  
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• Solid metal has 'structural memory' of its liquid state

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  New work from a team including Carnegie's Guoyin Shen and Yoshio Kono used high pressure and temperature to reveal a kind of "structural memory" in samples of the metal bismuth, a discovery with great electrical engineering potential.
  
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• Genetic key to salt-tolerance discovered in tilapia fish

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  Most fish live either in fresh water or salt water, but others, including tilapia, have the remarkable ability to physiologically adjust to varying salinity levels—a trait that may be critically important as climate change begins to alter the salinity of ocean and coastal waters as well as the water in desert lakes and creeks.
  
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• Flowering times shift with loss of species from a grassland ecosystem

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  Scientists have documented many cases in which the timing of seasonal events, such as the flowering of plants or the emergence of insects, is changing as a result of climate change. Now researchers studying a grassland ecosystem in California have discovered that reducing the number of species in the system can also cause a significant shift in when the remaining species flower.
  
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• Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  More than 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere was inhospitable, filled with toxic gases that drove wildly fluctuating surface temperatures. Understanding how today's world of mild climates and breathable air took shape is a fundamental question in Earth science.
  
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• 400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  A large international research team, directed by the Portuguese archaeologist João Zilhão and including Binghamton University anthropologist Rolf Quam, has found the oldest fossil human cranium in Portugal, marking an important contribution to knowledge of human evolution during the middle Pleistocene in Europe and to the origin of the Neandertals.
  
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• You'll Soon Be Able To Play PS4 Games On A Windows PC - Forbes

  13-03-2017 19:48 via forbes.com
  
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  You'll Soon Be Able To Play PS4 Games On A Windows PC
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  Playstation Now might currently only serve up PS3 games, but that's about to change. Sony's streaming service allows you to play games that aren't downloaded to your system, and the company just announced that it will be bringing "several" PS4 games to ...
  PS4 Games Coming to PlayStation Now Later This YearPlayStation LifeStyle
  PS4 Games Are Coming To PlayStation NowGameSpot
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• What's It Really Like to Be a Female Executive in the Tech World?

  13-03-2017 19:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  At SXSW, Sandra Lopez, Intel's chief fashion technologist, shared her experience of what it's like in the C-suite.
  
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• Cassini Spacecraft Views Mimas’ Gigantic Crater

  13-03-2017 19:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released Cassini image shows Mimas’ gigantic crater Herschel near the moon’s limb. A big enough impact could potentially break up a moon. Luckily...
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• Intel's $15 billion purchase of Mobileye rewrites driverless landscape - Reuters

  13-03-2017 19:06 via reuters.com
  
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  Intel's $15 billion purchase of Mobileye rewrites driverless landscape
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  JERUSALEM/DETROIT Intel Corp (INTC.O) agreed to buy Israeli self-driving technology firm Mobileye (MBLY.N) for $15.3 billion on Monday in a deal that could thrust the U.S. chipmaker into direct competition with rivals Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Qualcomm ...
  Intel drops $15B on Mobileye in race for a driverless futureKOMO News
  Intel buys Mobileye for $15 billion to lead its self-driving car unitExtremeTech
  
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• Verizon sought $925 million penalty for Yahoo's lax security

  13-03-2017 18:57
  
  Verizon demanded a $925 million discount on its acquisition of Yahoo's online services to help offset the damage from the biggest data breaches in internet history. It ultimately settled on a $350 million concession.
  
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• Hong Kong team develops the most energy-efficient LED filament lamps

  13-03-2017 18:55
  
  A research team of State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology (Partner Laboratory in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and PolyU students has successfully developed the most energy-efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) filament technology with a luminous efficacy of 129lm/W, which represents 1.5 times the efficacy of traditional LED lamps, surpassing all other general lighting tools available in the market.
  
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• New technique completely protects internet pictures and videos from cyberattacks

  13-03-2017 18:54
  
  A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher has developed a new technique that could provide virtually 100 percent protection against cyberattacks launched through internet videos or images, which are a growing threat.
  
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• Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Easter Egg May Pay Tribute To Late Nintendo President Saturo Iwata? - GameSpot

  13-03-2017 18:51 via gamespot.com
  
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  Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Easter Egg May Pay Tribute To Late Nintendo President Saturo Iwata?
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  Zelda: Breath of the Wild character might be a nod to the late Nintendo legend. Last updated by Oscar Dayus on March 13, 2017 at 10:51AM. Comments. Leave Blank. Related. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. %gameName%. Can't Get Enough ...
  Two Skills Break Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Otherwise Creative CombatForbes
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• New iPad Models Spotted in Device Logs - Mac Rumors

  13-03-2017 18:43 via macrumors.com
  
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  New iPad Models Spotted in Device Logs
  Mac Rumors
  Multiple new iPad models are being tested in Cupertino and the nearby Bay Area, potentially confirming rumors suggesting several refreshed iPads are launching in the near future. New iPad model identifiers have been spotted in device data collected by ...
  Rumor: Apple's new iPad Pros could debut next week, with or without an eventAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
  Four new iPad models spotted in analytics, likely new rumored iPa
  
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• A look at some Israeli high-tech successes

  13-03-2017 18:36
  
  Intel announced Monday it will spend more than $15 billion to acquire Mobileye, an Israeli company that develops technology that essentially gives computers a sense of their physical surroundings—the largest high-tech acquisition in the history of the Jewish State.
  
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• I Swear, If It Rains In Zelda: Breath of the Wild One More God Damn Time - Kotaku

  13-03-2017 18:25 via kotaku.com
  
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  I Swear, If It Rains In Zelda: Breath of the Wild One More God Damn Time
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  Breath of the Wild is an amazing game, but I do have some gripes with it. My biggest annoyance has to be the rain, an entity that has caused me more pain and suffering than Ganon's evil forces. Advertisement. Estimating conservatively from my ~60 hours ...
  Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Easter Egg May Tribute To Late Nintendo President Saturo IwataGameSpot
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• PS4 Games Are Coming To PlayStation Now - GameSpot

  13-03-2017 18:23 via gamespot.com
  
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  PS4 Games Are Coming To PlayStation Now
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  PlayStation Now will soon expand its streaming catalog to include PlayStation 4 games, Sony announced today. Starting "soon," PlayStation Now subscribers on both PS4 and PC will have access to PS4 games in addition to the huge library of PS3 games ...
  PS4 games are finally coming to PlayStation NowPolygon
  ​PlayStation Now will soon stream PS4 gamesCNET
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• Some genetic variations difficult to evaluate using current stem cell modeling techniques

  13-03-2017 18:09
  
  Some heritable but unstable genetic mutations that are passed from parent to affected offspring may not be easy to investigate using current human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) modeling techniques, according to research conducted at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published March 14, in the journal Stem Cell Reports. The study serves to caution stem cell biologists that certain rare mutations, like the ones described in the study, are difficult to recreate in laboratory-p
  
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• Intel to Pay $15B for Smart Car Firm in Spat With Tesla

  13-03-2017 18:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chipmaker Intel has paid $15B for the Israeli sensor-tech firm Mobileye that provides sensor, radar, and camera technology to 27 major automakers.
  
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• Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole

  13-03-2017 18:00
  
  Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.
  
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• Humans to blame for bulk of Arctic sea ice loss: study

  13-03-2017 17:55
  
  Natural changes in the environment are responsible for about 40 percent of Arctic sea ice loss, while humans are to blame for the rest, a climate study said Monday.
  
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• New study shows red tides can be predicted

  13-03-2017 17:52
  
  When certain types of algae accumulate at the ocean surface in high numbers, they turn large swaths of water a reddish-brown color, attracting attention for both good and bad reasons.
  
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• New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies

  13-03-2017 17:52
  
  The hidden toll that subsidies for electricity, fossil fuels, and transport have on social welfare, economic growth and technological innovation needs to be exposed through better research says a new paper in Ecological Economics by Benjamin K Sovacool.
  
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• Underwater vehicle design inspired by schools of fish

  13-03-2017 17:51
  
  It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools—better protection from predators, improved foraging capability, easier fish-to-fish communication. Yet, none of these reveal why fish might move together in a specific pattern.
  
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• Study finds that humans can interact with sharks without long-term behavioral impacts for the ocean's top predators

  13-03-2017 17:50
  
  Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean predators? Crazy, right? Not according to the masses of shark-obsessed scuba divers who travel great distances—and pay big money—to get face time with the giant fish.
  
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• Is This Burger-Flipping Robot the Future of Fast Food?

  13-03-2017 17:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  A burger-flipping robot called "Flippy" is being installed at a number of Caliburgers restaurants - and they could soon be heading to other eateries nationwide.
  
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• Yahoo names CEO Marissa Mayer's replacement and his base salary doubles hers - The Mercury News

  13-03-2017 17:46 via mercurynews.com
  
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  Yahoo names CEO Marissa Mayer's replacement and his base salary doubles hers
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  FILE – In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer's Conference, in San Francisco. There have been high hopes for Mayer ever since she came to Yahoo in ...
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• A multidrug efflux pump in motion

  13-03-2017 17:36
  
  Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic drugs out of cancer cells and blocking medications from reaching the central nervous system.
  
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• Alaska's Bogoslof Volcano erupts again, spewing ash cloud

  13-03-2017 17:34
  
  An Alaska volcano that has erupted more than 35 times since mid-December has sent up another ash cloud.
  
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• Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes, says study

  13-03-2017 17:33
  
  The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago. A supermassive black hole is thought to form over billions of years, but more than two dozen of these behemoths have been sighted within 800 million years of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.
  
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• How cells communicate to move together as a group

  13-03-2017 17:32
  
  When an individual cell needs to move somewhere, it manages just fine on its own. It extends protrusions from its leading edge and retracts the trailing edge to scoot itself along, without having to worry about what the other cells around it are doing. But when cells are joined together in a sheet of tissue, or epithelium, they have to coordinate their movements with their neighbors. It's like walking by yourself versus navigating a crowded room. To push through the crowd, you have to communicat
  
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