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• Google Turns to Real People to Fight Fake, Hateful Sites

  17-03-2017 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The tech giant intends for its raters to apply an 'Upsetting-Offensive' flag to pages that promote hate or violence against a group of people.
  
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• Google Accused Of Making 'Profit From Hatred' As Major Advertisers Pull Out From YouTube - Forbes

  17-03-2017 23:13 via forbes.com
  
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  Google Accused Of Making 'Profit From Hatred' As Major Advertisers Pull Out From YouTube
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  Google has been thrown onto the back foot by a mass withdrawal of advertising from YouTube, triggered by concerns about extremist content. Having apparently failed to realise until now that their ads have been showing up next to hate speech and ...
  Corporate brands, UK government pull ads from Google's YouTube over extremist hate group videosAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
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• For female mosquitoes, two sets of odor sensors are better than one

  17-03-2017 21:50
  
  Biologists who study the malaria mosquito's 'nose' have found that it contains a secondary set of odor sensors that seem to be specially tuned to detect humans. The discovery could aid efforts to figure out how the insects target humans and develop a preference for them.
  
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• Bail hearing set for Canadian accused in Yahoo email hack

  17-03-2017 21:09
  
  A Canadian man of Kazakh origins who was arrested in a massive hack of Yahoo emails appeared briefly via video link in a Hamilton, Ontario court on Friday where a date has been set for his bail hearing.
  
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• Alaska sea lion study gets help from crowdsource volunteers

  17-03-2017 21:09
  
  A federal wildlife agency studying the Steller sea lion decline in Alaska's Aleutian Islands is looking for help from citizen scientists. Volunteers don't need raincoats or rubber boots to pitch in, just eyeballs and a computer screen.
  
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• Silk sensor could speed development of new infrastructure, aerospace and consumer materials

  17-03-2017 21:07
  
  Consumers want fuel-efficient vehicles and high-performance sporting goods, municipalities want weather-resistant bridges, and manufacturers want more efficient ways to make reliable cars and aircraft. What's needed are new lightweight, energy-saving composites that won't crack or break even after prolonged exposure to environmental or structural stress. To help make that possible, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to embed a na
  
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• Study IDs link between sugar signaling and regulation of oil production in plants

  17-03-2017 21:04
  
  Even plants have to live on an energy budget. While they're known for converting solar energy into chemical energy in the form of sugars, plants have sophisticated biochemical mechanisms for regulating how they spend that energy. Making oils costs a lot.
  
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• Highly contagious infection threatens endangered San Joaquin kit fox population

  17-03-2017 21:04
  
  Endangered San Joaquin kit foxes face many threats to their survival, including loss of habitat and competition with non-native species such as the red fox. Now, scientists are rushing to save remaining fragile populations from a new danger - sarcoptic mange, a skin disease caused by mites.
  
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• Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system

  17-03-2017 21:01
  
  As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish—a star wars far away in the Orion Nebula.
  
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• U.K. Official: White House Promised Not to Repeat GCHQ Wiretap Claim

  17-03-2017 20:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  GCHQ went public after Sean Spicer quoted a Fox New analyst to support Donald Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by President Barack Obama.
  
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• Meet Soshee, The World's First Social Media Robot Dog

  17-03-2017 20:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Looking for a low-maintenance pet? Soshee is a social media-controlled canine that barks and wags its tail every time someone likes or comments on your posts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
  
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• The Dark Web: Inside the Hacker's Playground

  17-03-2017 20:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hackers can be anywhere — down the street from their victims, or on another continent — but they all have a home base: the Dark Web.
  
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• Who Doesn't Need a Cute Robot Dog to Help With Social Media?

  17-03-2017 19:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Everyone perks up at a little social media love, but this cute robotic dog takes it to an entirely new level.
  
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• Israeli tech firms revving up engines for self-driving cars

  17-03-2017 19:42
  
  As the world moves toward an era of self-driving cars, Israel is positioning itself to be the Detroit of the future
  
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• Software company rises as price configuration takes off

  17-03-2017 19:30
  
  FPX, a pioneering Minnesota software company that survived three decades of industry change, is accelerating its product development with an infusion of capital from a new owner.
  
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• Astronomers Discover a Black Hole “Choking” on Stellar Debris

  17-03-2017 18:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris. The black hole is located...
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• New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula

  17-03-2017 18:43
  
  In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image of the Orion Nebula. During their survey of the famous star formation region, they found what may be the missing piece of a cosmic puzzle; the third, long-lost member of a star system that had broken apart.
  
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• No El Nino? No problem. Earth sizzles to near record heat

  17-03-2017 18:40
  
  Even without an El Nino warming the world's waters, Earth in February sizzled to its second hottest temperature on record, behind only last year.
  
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• Human skull evolved along with two-legged walking, study confirms

  17-03-2017 18:32
  
  The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull—a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers at Stony Brook University and The University of Texas at Austin.
  
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• Human brain networks developing in adolescence related to evolutionary expansion

  17-03-2017 18:30
  
  Adolescence marks not only the period of physical maturation bridging childhood and adulthood, but also a crucial period for remodeling of the human brain. A Penn study reveals new patterns of coordinated development in the outer layer of the cerebrum of the human brain and describes how these structural patterns relate to functional networks.
  
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• A Roundup of This Week's Scientific Breakthroughs

  17-03-2017 18:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mach's series "Pioneering" covers the latest scientific breakthroughs. In this week's round up, why we love Pi Day so much, snowflakes under a microscope and a robot that can flip burgers.
  
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• A Round Up of this Week's Scientific Breakthroughs

  17-03-2017 18:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mach's series "Pioneering" covers the latest scientific breakthroughs. In this week's round up, why we love Pi Day so much, snowflakes under a microscope and a robot that can flip burgers.
  
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• ESO Observations Show Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe

  17-03-2017 17:40 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research reveals that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago were rotating less quickly than the spiral galaxies, like the...
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• Mars Global Surveyor Observes Textured Dust Storms

  17-03-2017 17:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers have identified three kinds of textured dust storms on Mars, and found that these textured storms have preferred seasons and locations. Astronomers studying Mars...
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• Why Virgin Orbit's new president isn't worried about a bubble in the small satellite market

  17-03-2017 17:30
  
  It seems like everyone wants their own swarm of small satellites.
  
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• AI won't kill you, but ignoring it might kill your business, experts say

  17-03-2017 17:30
  
  Relax. Artificial intelligence is making our lives easier, but won't be a threat to human existence, according to panel of practitioners in the space.
  
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• Unlimited data plans offer boon to consumers

  17-03-2017 17:00
  
  In the wireless industry, it's back to the unlimited future.
  
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• Biotech firm carves a large niche in tools for research

  17-03-2017 16:29
  
  More than 600,000 times, researchers have cited Bio-Techne Corp. in academic papers as a manufacturer of tools that helped in their search for new tests and treatments.
  
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• Review: SnapPower teaches old plugs and switches some new tricks

  17-03-2017 16:28
  
  Electric outlets, light switches, safety covers and USB charger are impressive in their simplicity
  
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• Telecom policy tilts in favor of industry under Trump's FCC

  17-03-2017 16:22
  
  Trumpism is slowly taking hold on your phone and computer, as the Federal Communications Commission starts rolling back measures that upset the phone and cable industries.
  
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• Trump's biggest budget cuts to NASA: ranked - The Verge

  17-03-2017 16:05 via theverge.com
  
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  Trump's biggest budget cuts to NASA: ranked
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  Out of all the federal agencies that received budget plans from President Donald Trump yesterday, NASA fared pretty well. The space agency is only facing a 0.8 percent cut in its overall budget — a relatively mild change compared to the Environmental ...
  Budget proposal would hit Goddard earth science missionsBaltimore Sun
  Trump Dumps Climate Science and Innovation in 2018 Budget BlueprintIEEE Spectrum
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• Germany to test dialect analysis software on asylum-seekers

  17-03-2017 15:32
  
  Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether asylum-seekers are really where they claim they're from.
  
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• UN body urges China to act as bird flu deaths spike

  17-03-2017 15:31
  
  The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year.
  
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• Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cells

  17-03-2017 15:30
  
  Five years ago, the world started to talk about third-generation solar cells that challenged the traditional silicon cells with a cheaper and simpler manufacturing process that used less energy.
  
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• Scientists reveal open-ringed structure of Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complex

  17-03-2017 15:28
  
  Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology(HKUST) and Tsinghua University have revealed the open-ringed structure of the Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complex as a precursor of the MCM double hexamer (DH).
  
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• Fin24.com | Mark Barnes: Post Bank could manage Sassa better and cheaper

  17-03-2017 15:28
  
  South African Post Office CEO Mark Barnes says the Post Bank could manage the distribution of Sassa grants at a higher competence level and likely at a reduced cost.
  
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• Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?

  17-03-2017 15:24
  
  Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke. Thus far, models have not been able to fully account for the complexity of humor or exactly why we find puns and jokes funny, but a research article recently published in Frontiers in Physics suggests a novel approach: quantum theory.
  
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• Flexibility is key in mechanism of biological self-assembly

  17-03-2017 15:18
  
  A new study has modeled a crucial first step in the self-assembly of cellular structures such as drug receptors and other protein complexes, and found that the flexibility of the structures has a dramatic impact on how fast two such structures join together.
  
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• ALMA's ability to see a 'cosmic hole' confirmed

  17-03-2017 15:13
  
  Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio "hole" around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion light-years away. This is the highest resolution image ever taken of such a hole caused by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect). The image proves ALMA's high capability to investigate the distribution and temperature of gas around galaxy clusters through the SZ effect.
  
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• Why Breath of the Wild is the future of blockbuster games - The Verge

  17-03-2017 15:10 via theverge.com
  
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  Why Breath of the Wild is the future of blockbuster games
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  Horizon Zero Dawn enjoyed three days of social media bliss before the Great Video Game Conversation moved on to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Such is the natural order of things for a fickle fandom: on Wednesday they are stunned by robotic ...
  This Week In The Business: Switches Get RichesKotaku
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Secretly an Incredible Multiplayer GameIGN
  Worlds We Love: The Le
  
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• April the giraffe BIRTH: Live stream, latest updates as pregnant giraffe gives birth - Express.co.uk

  17-03-2017 14:45 via express.co.uk
  
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  April the giraffe BIRTH: Live stream, latest updates as pregnant giraffe gives birth
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  APRIL the giraffe is almost ready to give birth at Animal Adventure Park in upstate New York. Here are the latest updates and a live stream of April's YouTube cam feed. By Reiss Smith & Rebecca Perring. PUBLISHED: 01:11, Sat, Mar 18, 2017 | UPDATED: ...
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• Rare butterfly killer convicted in Britain

  17-03-2017 14:32
  
  A British man has been convicted of capturing and killing two of Britain's rarest butterflies, the endangered Large Blues, which have been a prized collector's item since the Victorian era.
  
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• Chimp filmed cleaning dead son's teeth

  17-03-2017 14:30
  
  (Phys.org)—A trio of researchers from the U.K., the Netherlands and the U.S. has filmed a grown female chimpanzee cleaning her son's teeth after he died. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Edwin van Leeuwen, Katherine Cronin and Daniel Haun offer a description of the circumstances under which they shot the video and their ideas on why the female was behaving the way she was.
  
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• Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults

  17-03-2017 14:30
  
  Protecting the environment can be as easy as telling your kids to go outdoors and play, according to a new UBC study.Research by Catherine Broom, assist. prof. in the Faculty of Education at UBC Okanagan, shows that 87 per cent of study respondents who played outside as children expressed a continued love of nature as young adults. Of that group, 84 per cent said taking care of the environment was a priority.
  
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• Nano-polycrystalline film leads to stronger magnetism compared to single-crystal films

  17-03-2017 14:28
  
  To realize the next generation of devices for information processing based on new phenomena such as spintronics, multiferroics, magnetooptics, and magnonics, their constituent materials need to be developed. Recent rapid progress in nanotechnology allows us to fabricate nanostructures that are impossible to obtain in nature.
  
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• Identification of molecular origins underlying the interfacial slip

  17-03-2017 14:27
  
  A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has discovered the fundamental principles of handling polymers, which constitute the basis of man-made materials, such as plastics, paints, and even consmatics.
  
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• First steps in human DNA replication dance captured at atomic resolution

  17-03-2017 14:25
  
  It's a good thing we don't have to think about putting all the necessary pieces in place when one of our trillions of cells needs to duplicate its DNA and then divide to produce identical daughter cells.
  
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• Wi-fi on rays of light—100 times faster, and never overloaded

  17-03-2017 14:20
  
  Slow wi-fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Wireless devices in the home consume ever more data, and it's only growing, and congesting the wi-fi network. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with a surprising solution: a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays. The capacity is not only huge (more than 40Gbit/s per ray) but also there is no need to share since every device gets its own ray of light. This was the subject for which TU/e
  
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• From entanglement to invasions of alien species—the harm caused by marine litter

  17-03-2017 14:20
  
  Marine litter is a threat to the marine ecosystem, human health and economic activities. A new report by the Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) sheds light on the many effects of litter in our oceans, and highlights the severity and scale of the issue. The report confirms that plastic items have the highest direct and indirect damaging impact.
  
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• Researchers launch plasmons with controlled amounts of angular momentum

  17-03-2017 14:13
  
  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in Germany and Israel has developed a way to launch plasmons with controlled amounts of angular momentum using spiral-like structures fashioned into a smooth layer of gold plate. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their technique and why they believe it could one day provide the basis for a new type of storage device.
  
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