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• New NASA Funded Research Opens a Window Into Mars’ Tumultuous Past

  26-04-2017 22:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research reveals that Mars experienced a 400-million-year lull in impacts between the formation of Borealis and the younger basins. Since the earliest days of...
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• NASA spacewalking suits in short supply, report finds

  26-04-2017 22:36
  
  A new report finds NASA's spacewalking suits are in short supply
  
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• Neanderthals in California? Maybe so, provocative study says

  26-04-2017 22:13
  
  A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought _ more than 100,000 years ago
  
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• The Plan to Kill Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules Is Here

  26-04-2017 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his plan for rolling back net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama Administration.
  
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• Palantir Settles Lawsuit Charging Hiring Bias Against Asians

  26-04-2017 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Palantir has agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve charges it discriminated against Asian applicants for engineering jobs.
  
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• Mastodon Bones Could Upend Understanding of Human History

  26-04-2017 21:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A mastodon carcass from 130,000 years old suggests that humans were in America tens of thousands of years before the history books say they were.
  
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• Fin24.com | SABC seeks Treasury guarantee as cash crunch bites

  26-04-2017 19:00
  
  The SABC is in talks with the Treasury to secure a guarantee to help it claw its way out of a financial crisis after it failed to pay some of its content suppliers in March.
  
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• Spacecraft flies between Saturn and rings in historic 1st

  26-04-2017 18:49
  
  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ventured into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings
  
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• Cassini Spacecraft Set to Dive Through the Gap Between Saturn and Its Rings

  26-04-2017 18:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  On April 26 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings. This is a region no...
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• Astronomers Discover Earth-Mass ‘Iceball’ Planet OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb

  26-04-2017 18:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By combining Spitzer and ground-based KMTNet microlensing observations, a team of astronomers has discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth. The planet, called...
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• How Does Silicon Valley Rate President Trump's First 100 Days?

  26-04-2017 18:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  One hundred days into the Trump presidency, there's a prevailing sense of cautious optimism in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Fin24.com | UK man jailed for running global cyberattack business

  26-04-2017 17:35
  
  A British man has been jailed for creating and selling programmes used in global cyber attacks
  
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• Old car, new tricks: Adding safety tech to an older car

  26-04-2017 17:33
  
  Old cars can learn new tricks
  
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• Black Tech: Diversifying Innovation in the Nation's Capital

  26-04-2017 17:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new co-working and incubator space is diversifying tech through Chocolate City.
  
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• Fin24.com | Russian hackers 'targeted Macron campaign'

  26-04-2017 14:06
  
  French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's political campaign has been targeted by a group of Russian hackers, according to a report.
  
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• Drones that detect early plant disease could save crops

  26-04-2017 14:00
  
  Researchers are developing drones that could detect plant disease before any visible signs show, allowing farmers to stop infections in their tracks.
  
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• Twitter Finally Had a Growth Spurt; Shares Soar 10 Percent

  26-04-2017 13:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  In a surprise after several quarters of disappointing results, Twitter on Wednesday reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue.
  
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• Police around the world learn to fight global-scale cybercrime

  26-04-2017 13:50
  
  From 2009 to 2016, a cybercrime network called Avalanche grew into one of the world's most sophisticated criminal syndicates. It resembled an international conglomerate, staffed by corporate executives, advertising salespeople and customer service representatives.
  
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• Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are

  26-04-2017 13:40
  
  Lawyers in the U.S. are claiming that headphone and speaker company Bose, is secretly collecting information about what users listen to when they use its bluetooth wireless headphones.
  
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• Environmental collapse or sustainable future?

  26-04-2017 13:30
  
  Young people have a bleak view of the future. They believe we are more likely heading towards environmental collapse than towards a sustainable world. A new dissertation from Uppsala University shows that although young people in upper secondary school are aware of current environmental issues, they think it is difficult, or impossible, to do anything to avoid environmental collapse.
  
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• WATCH: Possible data breach at Chipotle Mexican Grill

  26-04-2017 13:24
  
  The fast food restaurant cautions customers to check their credit statements.
  
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• New genes are more likely than expected to emerge full-fledged from a genome's non-coding regions

  26-04-2017 13:20
  
  New genes are more likely to appear on the stage of evolution in full-fledged form rather than gradually take shape through successive stages of "proto genes" that become more and more refined over generations. This is the surprising upshot from research led by Benjamin Wilson and Joanna Masel at the University of Arizona, published as an Advance Online Publication by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on April 24.
  
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• A new sensor increases smartwatch battery life five times

  26-04-2017 13:20
  
  Nearly 80% of the battery power in smartwatches is used up by the heart-rate monitor. But a new generation of sensors developed by EPFL startup ActLight consumes five times less energy. They have been tested and calibrated, and are now ready to be mass-produced for use in new models.
  
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• Subconscious bias and the battle for justice

  26-04-2017 13:18
  
  The second-year law school students watched in amazement.
  
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• The impact of a guide dog extends far beyond its guiding responsibilities

  26-04-2017 13:10
  
  Preliminary findings from world-first research reveal the impact of a guide dog extends far beyond its ability to guide its handler.
  
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• 'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

  26-04-2017 13:10
  
  Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world's largest river tree. Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms analogous to "a few" or "some."
  
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• Cutting EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense

  26-04-2017 13:09
  
  President Donald Trump recently ordered an air strike on Syria, fueled in part by moral outrage at images of babies being injured and killed by airborne toxins.
  
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• Cities are complex systems – let's start looking at them that way

  26-04-2017 13:08
  
  The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or more equitable. They are getting worse on these measures.
  
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• Evaluating the performance of computer components designed to run 100 times faster than top supercomputers

  26-04-2017 13:07
  
  NIST scientists have developed a novel automated probe system for evaluating the performance of computer components designed to run 100 times faster than today's best supercomputers and consume as little as 1/1000th the energy.
  
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• Sea levels could rise by more than three metres, shows new study

  26-04-2017 13:00
  
  Global sea levels could rise by more than three metres – over half a metre more than previously thought – this century alone, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Southampton scientist.
  
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• Researchers' world first reveals structure of important drug target

  26-04-2017 13:00
  
  Monash University researchers have used a novel technique to reveal the structure of an important drug target, opening the way for improved treatments of chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes and obesity.
  
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• NASA balloon mission launches, with goal of breaking flight record

  26-04-2017 13:00
  
  NASA on April 24 launched a football-stadium-sized, super-pressure balloon on a mission that aims to set a record for flight duration while carrying a telescope that scientists at the University of Chicago and around the world will use to study cosmic rays.
  
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• As Dubai focuses on future, cybersecurity a growing concern

  26-04-2017 13:00
  
  Dubai races toward a future of self-driving cars, drones filling up its skies, but cybersecurity is a growing concern
  
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• A simplified fabrication process for high efficiency solar cells

  26-04-2017 13:00
  
  A team of EPFL and CSEM researchers in Neuchâtel presents in Nature Energy a new astonishing method of creating crystalline solar cells with electrical contacts at the rear, suppressing all shadowing at the front. Thanks to the new inexpensive approach, the fabrication process is strongly simplified with efficiencies in the laboratory already surpassing 23 percent.
  
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• World's first spherical drone display

  26-04-2017 12:50
  
  NTT DOCOMO has developed a spherical drone display—an unmanned aerial vehicle that displays LED images on an omnidirectional spherical screen while in flight—which DOCOMO believes to be a world first.
  
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• Using lasers to examine space, bugs and bones

  26-04-2017 12:50
  
  A novel way to harness lasers and plasmas may give researchers new ways to explore outer space and to examine bugs, tumors and bones back on planet Earth.
  
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• New Zealand fish and chips hold human DNA clues

  26-04-2017 12:47
  
  Before you pop that piece of battered fish in your mouth, be aware it might just hold the key to understanding the origins of a form of DNA memory critical to human development.
  
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• Parental guidance relinquished to kids regarding digital media

  26-04-2017 12:45
  
  Parents can toss out the owner's manual for that new smartphone or tablet—they can get all the digital assistance they need from their teens.
  
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• Study settles debate over origins of ants and bees

  26-04-2017 12:44
  
  Ants and bees – which by all appearances seem so different – are creepy-crawly cousins, according to new research published in a recent issue of Current Biology.
  
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• Stabilizing molecule could pave way for lithium-air fuel cell

  26-04-2017 12:43
  
  Lithium-oxygen fuel cells boast energy density levels comparable to fossil fuels and are thus seen as a promising candidate for future transportation-related energy needs.
  
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• No, epigenetics and environmental responsiveness don't undermine Darwinian evolution

  26-04-2017 12:40
  
  The remarkable adaptability of octopus with new evidence showing they can alter the information copied from their DNA is an example of epigenetics: modification of gene expression by factors "above" the DNA.
  
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• The financial cost of opportunity lost

  26-04-2017 12:38
  
  When we make big financial decisions, such as buying or selling property or even deciding to accept a new job, we are willing to accept a lower price in the short term rather than 'spend' our time to search longer, new Australian research from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) has found.
  
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• UAE's first solar-powered gas station opens in Dubai

  26-04-2017 12:30
  
  A government oil company in the United Arab Emirates says it has opened the country's first solar-powered gas station in Dubai.
  
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• Researchers build artificial synapse capable of autonomous learning

  26-04-2017 12:30
  
  Researchers from France and the University of Arkansas have created an artificial synapse capable of autonomous learning, a component of artificial intelligence. The discovery opens the door to building large networks that operate in ways similar to the human brain.
  
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• Researchers build a single-molecule diode

  26-04-2017 12:28
  
  Researchers of the University of Barcelona have led a project to create a diode out of a 1 nm-sized single molecule with high rectification ratios. Diodes, commonly used in in everyday electronic devices, allow current to flow in one direction while blocking the current in the opposite direction.
  
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• Fin24.com | Trump's constant tweeting isn't lifting Twitter's profit

  26-04-2017 12:15
  
  Twitter's frequent presence in the news as the preferred megaphone for President Donald Trump has not translated into meaningful user growth for the company.
  
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• Fin24.com | Downtime costs businesses over $21m a year - report

  26-04-2017 11:42
  
  Software company Veeam’s 2017 Availability Report has revealed that businesses globally suffer a $21.8m loss when downtime happens, each year.
  
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• Fin24.com | Uber plans to test flying cars in Dallas and Dubai by 2020

  26-04-2017 10:18
  
  Uber Technologies Inc. hopes to one day operate a network of flying cars. On Tuesday, the ride-hailing company laid out some aggressive plans to get closer to its first flight.
  
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• Bugs have stranglehold on Southern California region's urban forest

  26-04-2017 10:03
  
  The trees that shade, cool and feed people in California from Ventura County to the Mexican border are dying so fast that within a few years it's possible that the region will look, feel, sound and smell much less pleasant than it does now.
  
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• Trump's constant tweeting isn't lifting Twitter's profit

  26-04-2017 09:15
  
  You'd think Twitter would be able to milk its status as President Donald Trump's megaphone. But the company still faces stagnant user growth, has never made a profit and may even report a quarterly revenue decline Wednesday, a first since going public.
  
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