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• Updated: Every game available for Nintendo Switch

  02-06-2017 23:20
  
  GadgetsThe definitive list, continually updated.
  Every game available for Nintendo Switch. Read on for the complete list.
  
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• Pittsburgh to Trump: You don't speak for us on climate

  02-06-2017 23:19
  
  In announcing plans to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump declared that he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." But the Steel City is hardly in Trump's corner on this one.
  
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• NASA sees strengthening and weakening of Tropical Depression Beatriz

  02-06-2017 23:15
  
  NASA satellites have been keeping an eye on the tropical depression over southern Mexico that strengthened into a tropical storm for half of a day.
  
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• Zuckerberg Rejects Shareholder Calls for Fake News Fixes

  02-06-2017 21:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  At Facebook's annual shareholder meeting, shareholders were rebuffed after asking for more information on what's being done to fight fake news.
  
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• .@Fenergo 's Niall Twomey has responsibility for technical strategy, design and architecture. ow.ly/I0Hm30cg86Z

  02-06-2017 21:20
  .@Fenergo 's Niall Twomey has responsibility for technical strategy, design and architecture. ow.ly/I0Hm30cg86Z
  
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• "The future is here, we just aren’t maximising the technology yet." - Sean Doherty, @ThreeIreland ow.ly/6wpX30cg3yF

  02-06-2017 21:05
  "The future is here, we just aren’t maximising the technology yet." - Sean Doherty, @ThreeIrelandow.ly/6wpX30cg3yF
  
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• Fin24.com | Turkcell’s $4.2bn MTN claim to be heard in SA

  02-06-2017 20:48
  
  Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS’s claim for $4.2bn of damages against MTN will go to trial in the High Court in Johannesburg, five years after the case was first brought in.
  
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• According to finding from @ThreeIreland, almost everyone was using their smartphones at Slane last weekend. ow.ly/NF9G30cfOxg

  02-06-2017 20:45
  According to finding from @ThreeIreland, almost everyone was using their smartphones at Slane last weekend. ow.ly/NF9G30cfOxg
  
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• Algorithm Accurately Reconstructs Faces From A Monkey's Brain Waves

  02-06-2017 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When you see a face, what indicates that it is, indeed, a face?The question has vexed neuroscientists for quite some time, especially because humans seem to be so darn good at recognizing faces — not just in other people, but on sandwiches, in car grills, and even on other planets. The phenomenon even has a name, pareidolia. It is thought that our brain's ability to conjure faces from random objects is due to something called configural processing—a face is more than the sum of its p
  
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• Walmart touts investment in people, technology as advantages (Update)

  02-06-2017 20:35
  
  Walmart CEO Doug McMillon touted the company's investments in people and technology, but also said the company may have reached an employment peak and urged employees not to be afraid of automation.
  
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• Waymo turning tech talent to self-driving trucks

  02-06-2017 20:34
  
  Alphabet-owned Waymo is putting its autonomous driving expertise to work in trucking, in a new track for the unit formerly known as Google Car.
  
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• New ceramic nanofiber 'sponges' could be used for flexible insulation, water purification

  02-06-2017 20:31
  
  Researchers have found a way to make ultralight sponge-like materials from nanoscale ceramic fibers. The highly porous, compressible and heat-resistant sponges could have numerous uses, from water purification devices to flexible insulating materials.
  
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• ‘One of the things I enjoy is how fast-paced and demanding the role is.’ #LifeSciencesWeek ow.ly/WHDW30cfOeR

  02-06-2017 20:30
  ‘One of the things I enjoy is how fast-paced and demanding the role is.’ #LifeSciencesWeek ow.ly/WHDW30cfOeR
  
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• Reach for the stars with space events with @blackrockcastle and @CIT_ie ow.ly/P32N30cfN2k

  02-06-2017 20:15
  Reach for the stars with space events with @blackrockcastle and @CIT_ie ow.ly/P32N30cfN2k
  
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• A Possible New Treatment for Baldness, Regulatory T Cells Facilitate Hair Growth

  02-06-2017 20:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers reveal that regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell generally associated with controlling inflammation, directly trigger stem cells in the skin to promote...
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• Scientists are trying to confirm the existence of a giant ringed planet

  02-06-2017 20:00
  
  SpaceFifty times the size of Jupiter.
  This giant planet with rings hasn’t been officially found yet. Read on.
  
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• #ICYMI: We may be accidentally creating teenage mutant ninja turtles. #environment ow.ly/FVsC30cfMXk

  02-06-2017 20:00
  #ICYMI: We may be accidentally creating teenage mutant ninja turtles. #environment ow.ly/FVsC30cfMXk
  
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• Off US coast, Tangier Island disappearing under water

  02-06-2017 19:50
  
  On Virginia's Tangier Island, about 100 miles and a ferry ride from Washington, the waters of the Chesapeake Bay are edging dangerously close to William Eskridge's house.
  
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• CEO of @Gizmodo says the key to navigating the future of media is getting the revenue model correct. #media ow.ly/jDzp30cfMtg

  02-06-2017 19:45
  CEO of @Gizmodo says the key to navigating the future of media is getting the revenue model correct. #media ow.ly/jDzp30cfMtg
  
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• Who will suffer the most from US climate exit?

  02-06-2017 19:40
  
  In withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate pact, President Donald Trump claimed that honouring its terms would cost the country billions of dollars for a miniscule change to the global warming trajectory.
  
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• Transparent frogs, solar arrays that look like fruit roll-ups, and other amazing images of the week

  02-06-2017 19:30
  
  ScienceNewsworthy eyecandy
  Our favorite images from this week in science, space, and health news. Read on.
  
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• The future of healthcare is Bluetooth. #medtech #health #IoT ow.ly/92ec30cfHZH

  02-06-2017 19:25
  The future of healthcare is Bluetooth. #medtech #health #IoT ow.ly/92ec30cfHZH
  
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• Hackers break into centralized password manager OneLogin

  02-06-2017 19:23
  
  Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online password manager that offers a single sign-on to multiple websites and services.
  
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• Scientists launch global agenda to curb social, human rights abuses in seafood sector

  02-06-2017 19:21
  
  As the United Nations Oceans Conference convenes in New York, a new paper calls on marine scientists to focus on social issues such as human rights violations in the seafood industry.
  
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• Crystalline structures database provides recipes for non-expert 'chefs' cooking up new materials

  02-06-2017 19:19
  
  In response to popular demand, materials scientists at Duke University have resurrected an online cookbook of crystalline structures that started when the World Wide Web was Netscape Navigator and HTML 1.0.
  
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• Are you dreaming of a faster phone charger? @Qualcomm might soon make your dreams come true. ow.ly/KPJS30cg5aE

  02-06-2017 19:15
  Are you dreaming of a faster phone charger? @Qualcomm might soon make your dreams come true. ow.ly/KPJS30cg5aE
  
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• Hubble 'traps' a vermin galaxy

  02-06-2017 19:13
  
  The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its jaw-dropping snapshots of the cosmos. At first glance this Picture of the Week appears to be quite the opposite, showing just a blur of jagged spikes, speckled noise, and weird, clashing colors—but once you know what you are looking at, images like this one are no less breathtaking.
  
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• Curiosity Reveals Environmental Conditions of Ancient Martian Lake

  02-06-2017 18:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from NASA’s Curiosity Rover, new research reveals that a long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one...
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• Sex Robots Are Coming, and They're Not as Skeevy as You Think

  02-06-2017 18:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sex doll manufacturers and independent roboticists are designing and building the first humanlike robots that people can have sex with.
  
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• Please don’t put ground-up wasp nests in your vagina

  02-06-2017 18:30
  
  HealthSeriously, your vajayjay is just fine.
  There are far better ways to tighten your vagina than shoving powdered wasp nests up there.
  
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• Astronomers Study Correlation Between Galaxy Stellar Mass and Star Formation Rate

  02-06-2017 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the correlation between a galaxy’s stellar mass and star formation rate is a tight one....
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• Gov. Jerry Brown Heads To China On Cap And Trade Mission

  02-06-2017 18:27 via technocracy.news
  
  California will tackle Global Warming and carbon mitigation all by itself as its Governor seeks to make his own deal with China. There is little wonder why some Californians refer to their own state as the ‘PROC’ – People’s Republic of California. ⁃ TN EditorCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday he will discuss merging carbon trading markets in his state and China when he travels to Asia later this week, a sign of the governor’s ambition to inf
  
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• AI Predicts Lifespan By ‘Looking’ At Your Organs, 69% Accuracy

  02-06-2017 18:13 via technocracy.news
  
  The gross speculation of this is deeply disturbing: it has a 69 percent accuracy but they don’t know why. Nevertheless, just wait until the insurance companies (life and health) get ahold of this kind of statistical analysis to use against you. You will be ‘graded’ and priced accordingly. ⁃ TN EditorScientists from the University of Adelaide have created an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can predict a person’s lifespan just by looking at images of th
  
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• Business Leaders Slam Trump’s Decision To Dump Paris Climate Agreement

  02-06-2017 17:30 via technocracy.news
  
  Who will have the more direct influence on human affairs: the Trump Administration or the collective corporate world? In 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote, “nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.” ⁃ TN EditorPresident Donald Trump announced Thursday t
  
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• It's Been a Bad Week for Uber — But Next Week Could Be Worse

  02-06-2017 17:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Uber's finance chief just quit, its self-driving guru just got fired, and the company is in a huge lawsuit with Google. What else could possibly go wrong?
  
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• Citizen scientists uncover a cold new world near sun

  02-06-2017 17:07
  
  A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a brown dwarf a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun. Just six days after the launch of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website in February, four different users alerted the science team to the curious object, whose presence has since been confirmed via an infrared telescope. Details were recently published in t
  
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• Virgin Galactic conducts 9th unpowered test flight

  02-06-2017 16:57
  
  Virgin Galactic has conducted another unpowered test flight of its space tourism spacecraft over the Southern California desert.
  
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• Russian and French astronauts land on Earth from ISS

  02-06-2017 16:57
  
  A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station.
  
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• Astronauts return after marathon ISS mission (Update)

  02-06-2017 16:57
  
  A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station.
  
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• Google moves to block 'annoying' ads in browser

  02-06-2017 16:56
  
  Google is working to block "annoying" ads in its Chrome browser, part of a broader effort by industry players to filter out certain types of marketing messages that draw complaints.
  
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• China's new submarine engine is poised to revolutionize underwater warfare

  02-06-2017 16:51
  
  From Our Blogs: Eastern Arsenal It looks a lot like 'Red October' in real life.
  A Chinese admiral reveals that China has mastered a new and silent electrical propulsion system for submarines.
  
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• Understanding a river's 'thermal landscape' may be the key to saving it

  02-06-2017 16:44
  
  River temperatures have long been an area of study, but until recently, the field has been hampered by technological constraints. Fine-scale measurements over large distances and long time periods have been difficult to collect, and research efforts have focused instead on average river temperatures, lethal extremes, and small-scale patterns. However, a suite of new technologies and methods, driven by inexpensive sensor technology, are enabling new insights, with significant implications for the
  
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• UQ physicist builds on Einstein and Galileo's work

  02-06-2017 16:41
  
  Sixteenth century scientist Galileo Galilei threw two spheres of different mass from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to establish a scientific principle.
  
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• Sydney Harbor emissions equivalent to 200 cars on the roads

  02-06-2017 16:40
  
  The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study has shown it is also a source of significant carbon emissions, which requires careful management as the city is poised to double its population by the end of the century.
  
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• Eco-label in exchange for less chemicals on rice fields

  02-06-2017 16:38
  
  Money isn't always everything: Taiwanese rice farmers are willing to produce in a more environ-mentally friendly fashion if this would earn them an eco-label for their products. For such a label, they are even prepared to accept lower compensation payments for a reduction in the use of fertilizers. These were the findings of a study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at the Chair Group for Agricultural Production and Resource Economics for agricultural enterprises. For this st
  
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• Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days

  02-06-2017 16:37
  
  The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data.
  
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• New catalytic converter composite reduces rare earth element usage

  02-06-2017 16:31
  
  Automobiles are facing increasingly strict emissions regulations in an effort to reduce the amount of harmful air pollutants that are released into the environment. In Japan, for example, the current emissions standards for NOx and nonmethane hydrocarbons are less than 0.05 g/km. Currently, one method of reducing harmful emissions is with a high-performance, three-way catalytic (TWC) converter. This device reduces harmful nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and oxygen, oxidizes carbon monoxide to carbon
  
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• Observation of the phase transition of liquid crystal defects for the first time

  02-06-2017 16:29
  
  KAIST researchers observed the phase transition of topological defects formed by liquid crystal (LC) materials for the first time.
  
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