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• The FCC is reversing its proposal to allow cellphone use on planes - Washington Post

  10-04-2017 23:31
  
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  The FCC is reversing its proposal to allow cellphone use on planes
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  Federal regulators are withdrawing a proposal that would have allowed air travelers to use their cellphones at high altitude. The proposal — introduced in 2013 by then-chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler — sought to roll ...
  FCC Chairman Wants to Keep Ban on In-Flight Cellphone CallsNBCNews.com
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• NASA to Reveal New Discoveries about Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System

  10-04-2017 22:57 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA is set to release new details on ocean worlds discovered by Hubble and the Cassini Spacecraft. On Thursday, April 13 at 2 p.m. EDT...
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• US tries to stop spam scheme after accused mastermind nabbed

  10-04-2017 22:51
  
  The Justice Department says it is working to dismantle a global computer network that sent hundreds of millions of spam emails worldwide each year.
  
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• Raspberry Pi 3 gets Microsoft Cortana with Windows 10 Creators Update - PCWorld

  10-04-2017 22:51
  
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  Raspberry Pi 3 gets Microsoft Cortana with Windows 10 Creators Update
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  You will very soon be able to use Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands. But for that, you'll need to upgrade the popular developer board, which can run Windows 10 IoT Core, to ...
  How to prepare your PC for Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators UpdatePC Gamer
  I switched from Mac to Windows and I'm not going back — here's whyBusiness In
  
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• Early quake warning system expands to Oregon, Washington

  10-04-2017 22:50
  
  An early warning system for earthquakes has been expanded to Oregon and Washington, joining California in testing a prototype that could give people seconds or up to a minute of warning before strong shaking begins.
  
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• Chinese tech firm LeEco ends bid to buy TV maker Vizio

  10-04-2017 22:49
  
  Cash-strapped Chinese tech firm LeEco on Monday abandoned its effort to buy US television maker Vizio, citing "regulatory headwinds."
  
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• Researchers gain insight into protein critical to Zika virus reproduction

  10-04-2017 22:38
  
  Zika virus is a mosquito-borne infectious disease linked to certain birth defects in infants in South and Central America and the United States. A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researcher, Banumathi Sankaran, worked as part of a multi-institutional team to map a key viral protein called NS5. Necessary to virus reproduction, NS5 contains two enzyme activities: one reduces the body's ability to mount an immune response against infection and the other helps start the genetic
  
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• What happens to the boats? The 1755 Lisbon earthquake and Portuguese tsunami literacy

  10-04-2017 22:37
  
  In their paper published this week in Geosphere, authors Clara Vasconcelos, Joanna Torres, and Joana Costa point out the need for continued geoscience education on the topic of tsunamis and other earthquake-related hazards.
  
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• Soy protein concentrate can replace animal proteins in weanling pig diets

  10-04-2017 22:26
  
  Plant-derived proteins are less expensive than animal proteins if used in weanling pig diets, but may contain anti-nutritional factors that can negatively affect gut health and growth performance. However, results of a new study from the University of Illinois indicate that soy protein concentrate (SPC) may be partly or fully substituted for animal proteins without adverse effects.
  
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• Greenhouse gas effect caused by mangrove forest conversion is quite significant

  10-04-2017 22:22
  
  Clear-cutting of tropical mangrove forests to create shrimp ponds and cattle pastures contributes significantly to the greenhouse gas effect, one of the leading causes of global warming, new research suggests.
  
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• NASA sees new Tropical Cyclone Cook moving past New Caledonia

  10-04-2017 22:20
  
  Tropical Cyclone Cook formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean and on Sunday, April 9, 2017 and moved across the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean on early on April 10. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite passed over Cook as it was making landfall.
  
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• MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere

  10-04-2017 22:18
  
  Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysterious electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere) of Mars.
  
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• NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Ernie being blown apart

  10-04-2017 21:59
  
  NASA's Aqua satellite provided a birds-eye view of Tropical Cyclone Ernie as it was being battered by strong vertical wind shear and torn apart.
  
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• A prototype for a spin-wave majority logic gate that uses wave interference for information processing

  10-04-2017 21:59
  
  Computer electronics are shrinking to small-enough sizes that the very electrical currents underlying their functions can no longer be used for logic computations in the ways of their larger-scale ancestors. A traditional semiconductor-based logic gate called a majority gate, for instance, outputs current to match either the "0" or "1" state that comprise at least two of its three input currents (or equivalently, three voltages). But how do you build a logic gate for devices too small for classi
  
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• New study shows that three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light

  10-04-2017 21:57
  
  Ever since explorer William Beebe descended into the depths in a metal sphere in the 1930s, marine biologists have been astounded by the number and diversity of glowing animals in the ocean. Yet few studies have actually documented the numbers of glowing animals at different depths. In a new study in Scientific Reports, MBARI researchers Séverine Martini and Steve Haddock show that three quarters of the animals in Monterey Bay waters between the surface and 4,000 meters deep can produce t
  
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• US regulator reverses course on in-flight calling

  10-04-2017 21:56
  
  A top US regulator moved Monday to roll back efforts to allow cellphone use in aircraft, reversing course on relaxing a long-standing ban on in-flight calls.
  
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• Overwatch's 'King Row Uprising' Trailer Leaks, Shows Off The Best Skins Yet - Forbes

  10-04-2017 21:41
  
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  Overwatch's 'King Row Uprising' Trailer Leaks, Shows Off The Best Skins Yet
  Forbes
  I knew there would be at least one more leak before tomorrow's Overwatch event, and lo and behold, the French trailer for what's apparently called “King's Row Uprising” has accidentally spilled onto the internet, revealing much more impressive skins ...
  Overwatch's Insurrection event details leakPolygon
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• Amazon's Third-Party Sellers Get Ripped Off By Hackers

  10-04-2017 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hackers are using a simple method to rip off Amazon sellers.
  
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• Flammable floodplains are weak spot of Amazon forest

  10-04-2017 21:00
  
  Peripheral parts of the Amazon forest were long thought to be most vulnerable to climate-induced collapse. Now, a study by an international team of scientists reveals in the scientific journal PNAS that seasonally inundated areas in the heart of the forest may be an unexpected Achilles' heel. Those floodplains turn out to be particularly prone to fire which may subsequently spread into the surrounding forest.
  
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• Fish social lives may be key to saving coral reefs

  10-04-2017 21:00
  
  The social eating habits of fish may play a central role in protecting coral reefs, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, published April 10 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
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• El Nino shifts geographic distribution of cholera cases in Africa

  10-04-2017 21:00
  
  Cholera cases in East Africa increase by roughly 50,000 during El Niño, the cyclical weather occurrence that profoundly changes global weather patterns, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
  
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• As fins evolve to help fish swim, so does the nervous system

  10-04-2017 21:00
  
  The sensory system in fish fins evolves in parallel to fin shape and mechanics, and is specifically tuned to work with the fish's swimming behavior, according to new research from the University of Chicago. The researchers found these parallels across a wide range of fish species, suggesting that it may occur in other animals as well.
  
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• LeEco, China's Rising Tech Star, Can't Catch a Break - Gizmodo

  10-04-2017 20:49
  
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  LeEco, China's Rising Tech Star, Can't Catch a Break
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  A year ago, Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco, often known as “the Netflix of China,” was flying high. By many measures, the quickly growing company appeared poised to become a global consumer electronics powerhouse. How quickly things have ...
  LeEco announces exciting plan to not buy Vizio after all, everything is fine, nothing to see hereAndroid Police
  Embattled LeEco and TV Maker Vizio Call Off $2 Billion Dea
  
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• Watch three space station astronauts make a bull's-eye landing in the Kazakhstan desert - Washington Post

  10-04-2017 20:19
  
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  Watch three space station astronauts make a bull's-eye landing in the Kazakhstan desert
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  Three astronauts descended 250 miles to touch down in the desert near the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Monday. Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, both Russian cosmonauts, and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough made a clean landing in ...
  Soyuz MS-02 trio returns to EarthSpaceFlight Insider
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• Fin24.com | Dangor breaks his silence on Dlamini's role in Sassa crisis

  10-04-2017 19:46
  
  Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini helped create a crisis to ensure Net1 would continue to distribute payments, says her former director general Zane Dangor.
  
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• Subaru Telescope Helps Create the Most-Extensive Map of Neutral Hydrogen Gas in the Early Universe

  10-04-2017 19:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers create the most-extensive map of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe. Scientists have used the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru...
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• Apple Seeds Second Beta of iOS 10.3.2 to Developers - Mac Rumors

  10-04-2017 19:00
  
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  Apple Seeds Second Beta of iOS 10.3.2 to Developers
  Mac Rumors
  Registered developers can download the second iOS 10.3.2 beta from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air with the proper configuration profile installed. We don't yet know what features or improvements are coming in iOS 10.3.2 as Apple doesn't ...
  10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free todayBGR
  Apple issues second betas of iOS 10.3.2, macOS 10.12.5, watchOS 3.2.2 & tvOS 10.2.1AppleInsider (press release) (blog)
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• Preparing artifacts of the 'Great War' for the digital age

  10-04-2017 18:54
  
  Rick Maynard found the manila envelope containing letters from the battlefields of World War I while he and his sister were cleaning out the basement after their father's death.
  
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• Symantec says CIA tools found across 16 countries

  10-04-2017 18:51
  
  Computer security company Symantec says the CIA's cyberespionage toolkit made public by WikiLeaks has been linked to 40 spying operations in 16 countries, an early public assessment of the intelligence agency's global hacking operations.
  
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• Moose tracking: There's an app for that

  10-04-2017 18:51
  
  Ecologists in the University of Alberta's Department of Biological Sciences have developed an app to improve population modeling for moose, asking hunters record the number of moose they see while hunting in Alberta.
  
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• Proton-nuclei smashups yield clues about 'quark gluon plasma'

  10-04-2017 18:50
  
  Findings from Rice University physicists working at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are providing new insight about an exotic state of matter called the "quark-gluon plasma" that occurs when protons and neutrons melt.
  
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• Microsoft, Adobe build on cloud partnership

  10-04-2017 18:46
  
  Microsoft and Adobe are integrating some aspects of their sales and marketing software, building on the cloud-computing partnership the two companies announced last fall.
  
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• What triggers a high-school student to suddenly drop out?

  10-04-2017 18:32
  
  What pushes a teenager to suddenly drop out of high school? The answer: any number of very stressful "trigger" events that occur in their final few months in class, researchers at Université de Montréal's Public Health Research Institute have found.
  
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• Strong correlation between corruption and electoral success of populist parties

  10-04-2017 18:32
  
  The quality of society's institutions affects not only the service people receive but also who wins the political power. Research from the University of Gothenburg shows that corruption is one reason some European populist parties have achieved great electoral success in recent parliamentary elections.
  
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• Mild, wet summer in the midwest predicted by Mizzou weather expert

  10-04-2017 18:29
  
  Following a dry, mild winter in the Midwest, a University of Missouri meteorology expert is predicting a relatively wet and mild summer for Missouri and much of the Midwest. Tony Lupo, a professor of atmospheric science at Mizzou, says normal temperatures and average rainfall this summer should help boost agriculture in the region after a dry winter.
  
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• Hubble spots auroras on Uranus

  10-04-2017 18:27
  
  This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble—one for the ring and one for the auroras.
  
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• What obese fruit flies may tell us about the evolution of cold tolerance

  10-04-2017 18:00
  
  Researchers have hypothesized that migrations into higher, colder latitudes may lead to the evolution of fast-burning metabolisms that keep cells warm in chilly conditions, boosting cold tolerance. In Developmental Cell, on April 10, researchers show that a gene called THADA, which has previously been identified as one of the key genes in humans that differs in people from arctic latitudes and people from tropical latitudes, helps flies burn energy from fat. When the gene is knocked out in flies
  
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• New breed of supermolecule 'hunts down' harmful drugs and removes them from water

  10-04-2017 17:49
  
  A University of Surrey academic is leading research that has found an effective, environmentally friendly way to monitor and remove pharmaceuticals from water.
  
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• Many new doctors may be posting unprofessional content on Facebook

  10-04-2017 17:48
  
  When researchers searched Facebook for the public accounts of all urologists who graduated from US residency programs in 2015, they found that a substantial proportion of these accounts contained self-authored unprofessional content based on the professionalism guidelines of three physicians' organizations.
  
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• New HiRISE Image Views a Hill in the South Polar Region of Mars

  10-04-2017 17:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released image from the high resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides astronomers with a closer look at the...
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• UK and US share a similar mindset when it comes to horizontal drilling for shale energy: study

  10-04-2017 17:23
  
  UK and US share a similar mindset when it comes to horizontal drilling for shale energy, say Cardiff University researchers and colleagues
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Starbursts in Virgo (NGC 4536)

  10-04-2017 17:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This new Hubble image of the week gives us a closer look at the starburst region in NGC 4536. Galaxy formation and evolution are still...
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• The survival of journalism is fraught with danger and being squeezed from all directions

  10-04-2017 17:07
  
  London, UK. Well researched journalism is more important than ever. Around the world there are squeezes on press freedom from all directions, and with the rise of what has been dubbed "fake-news", it is a time for thorough journalism, says Rachael Jolley, editor of the Index on Censorship Magazine, on the publication of a special report called "The Big Squeeze: Freedom of Speech Under Pressure".
  
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• North America's freshwater lakes are getting saltier, study finds

  10-04-2017 17:05
  
  North America's freshwater lakes are getting saltier due to development and exposure to road salt. A study of 371 lakes published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that many Midwestern and Northeastern lakes are experiencing increasing chloride trends, with some 44% of lakes sampled in these regions undergoing long-term salinization.
  
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• The Forecaster's Dilemma: Evaluating forecasts of extreme events

  10-04-2017 17:04
  
  Accurate predictions of extreme events do not necessarily indicate the scientific superiority of the forecaster or the forecast method from which they originate. The way forecast evaluation is conducted in the media can thus pose a dilemma.
  
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• Womb lining grown in lab could reveal secrets of menstrual cycle and early pregnancy

  10-04-2017 17:00
  
  Scientists at the University of Cambridge have succeeded in growing miniature functional models of the lining of the womb (uterus) in culture. These organoids, as they are known, could provide new insights into the early stages of pregnancy and conditions such as endometriosis, a painful condition that affects as many as two million women in the UK.
  
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• Quantum dots that emit infrared light open new window for biological imaging

  10-04-2017 17:00
  
  For certain frequencies of short-wave infrared light, most biological tissues are nearly as transparent as glass. Now, researchers have made tiny particles that can be injected into the body, where they emit those penetrating frequencies. The advance may provide a new way of making detailed images of internal body structures such as fine networks of blood vessels.
  
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• Long ago and far away, an average galaxy: 'Typical' galaxy helps astronomers study epoch of reionization

  10-04-2017 17:00
  
  Astronomers led by a graduate student at the University of California, Davis have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe, and it's nothing out of the ordinary.
  
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• Huge permafrost thaw can be limited by ambitious climate targets

  10-04-2017 17:00
  
  Global warming will thaw about 20% more permafrost than previously thought, scientists have warned—potentially releasing significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere.
  
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• Forget sponges: The earliest animals were marine jellies

  10-04-2017 17:00
  
  When cartoonist and marine-biology teacher Steve Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants in 1999, he may have backed the wrong side of one of the longest-running controversies in the field of evolutionary biology.
  
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