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• The Drone Federalism Act would shift regulation to state and local governments

  08-06-2017 23:51
  
  MilitaryThe FAA would serve as a liaison between local governments and the national drone air traffic management system.
  Drone Federalism Act would shift regulation to state and local governments. Read on.
  
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• Bosch plans to use radar sensors in millions of cars to make better maps

  08-06-2017 23:30
  
  TechnologyIt would be a big help for autonomous vehicles.
  Maps of the future may get an accuracy boost, thanks to a new partnership between Bosch and mapping company TomTom. Read on.
  
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• China is building the world's fastest amphibious fighting vehicle

  08-06-2017 23:01
  
  From Our Blogs: Eastern Arsenal 30 miles per hour on water.
  The North China Institute of Vehicle Research has built an armored car that can swim at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour (faster than some warships).
  
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• Microsoft borrows from Amazon's philosophy as its cloud business grows, leader says at tech conference

  08-06-2017 22:50
  
  Microsoft is learning from Amazon.com, borrowing some of the company's guiding principles in a competition to provide web-based technology services.
  
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• Tidal reveals star-studded film, new streaming promotion

  08-06-2017 22:30
  
  Streaming service Tidal revealed an original movie starring recent Oscar winners Thursday as telecom giant and part-owner Sprint announced a new campaign to woo customers to the underdog music platform.
  
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• UQ, partners taking computing out of this world

  08-06-2017 22:21
  
  University of Queensland researchers have partnered with global technology leader Lockheed Martin to develop next generation computers for aerospace applications.
  
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• Drone and 360-Degree Video Tech Showcases Aquaculture in Tanzania

  08-06-2017 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SecondMuse, an agency that collaborates with organizations to help solve complex problems, looked to the latest drone and 360 video technologies to help showcase aquaculture — the farming of aquatic life-forms — in Tanzania.Last year, the Blue Economy Challenge awarded 10 projects for their creative uses of aquaculture. Led by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's InnovationXchange, in partnership with SecondMuse, the goal was to award projects that both help reduc
  
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• Verizon's first move with Yahoo is to ditch 2,100 jobs

  08-06-2017 22:11
  
  Verizon has a simple goal in buying Yahoo: It wants to challenge Google and Facebook in the huge and lucrative field of digital advertising.
  
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• Moroccan fossil find rearranges Homo sapiens family tree

  08-06-2017 22:10
  
  This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago—bustling with hominin species that included a very early version of our own, experts say.
  
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• As Gulf tensions flare, reports of hacking pour in

  08-06-2017 22:09
  
  As tensions flare between Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran and their allies, reports of hacking and leaks are emerging across the Gulf
  
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• Gadgets: Gifts for Dad—that he really wants

  08-06-2017 22:00
  
  You think you really know what your dad wants for Fathers Day but really, you don't. Let me fill you in on what he really wants; you can't go wrong with any of these.
  
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• The hottest products, iOS 11 features announced at Apple's big developer conference

  08-06-2017 21:50
  
  A new operating system, the "most powerful" Apple machine ever created and a totally redesigned App Store?
  
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• Facebook Live adds closed captioning for deaf and hard of hearing

  08-06-2017 21:47
  
  Facebook says it's bringing closed captioning to Facebook Live to make at least some of the videos streamed live on the social network accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
  
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• Uber woes mount ahead of workplace probe report

  08-06-2017 21:33
  
  Uber has parted ways with another top executive, in the latest dent to the reputation of the ridesharing giant as it prepares to release the results of a probe into workplace misconduct.
  
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• Don't Drain That Swamp! Accidental Wetlands Are Good for Cities

  08-06-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What's so bad about wetlands? These mucky, sometimes mosquito-ridden landscapes have a bad reputation, but they offer benefits to their neighborhoods too. Researchers say "accidental" wetlands—pockets of cities that have turned into swamps through flooding and neglect—might be a valuable resource to both the environment and the humans around them.It's hard to guess exactly how many accidental wetlands there are, say Monica Palta of Arizona State University and her colleagues. But it'
  
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• Prosecutor: Teen in texting suicide case wanted attention

  08-06-2017 21:14
  
  A prosecutor says the Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself played a "sick game" with another person's life
  
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• Honda plans mostly self-driving car, follows Waymo, others

  08-06-2017 21:07
  
  Honda said Thursday that it will have highly automated personal cars on the road by 2025.
  
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• The art of exoplanets

  08-06-2017 21:05
  
  The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space—to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded close to a dim, red sun.
  
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• Magnitude-5.3 earthquake strikes Hawaii's Big Island

  08-06-2017 21:01
  
  A magnitude-5.3 earthquake shook Hawaii's Big Island early Thursday, but no damage was reported.
  
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• Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Hawaii's Big Island

  08-06-2017 21:01
  
  A magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Hawaii's southernmost island Thursday morning.
  
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• Internet, social media back in Ethiopia after block

  08-06-2017 21:00
  
  Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been blocked since a wave of anti-government protests last year, a government spokesman told AFP on Thursday.
  
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• Qatar's Al-Jazeera says battling cyber attack

  08-06-2017 20:53
  
  Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster.
  
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• Verizon's first move with Yahoo is to ditch 2,100 jobs (Update)

  08-06-2017 20:52
  
  About 2,100 jobs are on the chopping block as Verizon prepares to combine Yahoo and AOL for a digital advertising offensive.
  
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• How Verizon hopes to grab digital ad dollars with Yahoo

  08-06-2017 20:52
  
  Verizon has a simple goal in buying Yahoo: It wants to challenge Google and Facebook in the huge and lucrative field of digital advertising. But Verizon faces its own challenge in doing so, given that it will be competing against a slew of other companies also looking to break in.
  
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• Relation between comets and earth's atmosphere uncovered

  08-06-2017 20:48
  
  The difficult yet successful measurement of several isotopes of the noble gas xenon on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using the Bernese instrument ROSINA on the Rosetta probe shows that materials arrived on Earth due to comet impacts. As proven by further Bern measurements of silicon isotopes, in the beginning our solar system was extremely heterogeneous. The high amount of so-called "heavy" water also shows that cometary ice is older than our solar system.
  
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• Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences advancing hope for reefs in the Philippines

  08-06-2017 20:43
  
  The California Academy of Sciences' initiative continues to advance global understanding of coral reef science through a series of ambitious expeditions. The team most recently returned from the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines—a longtime regional focus of Academy research considered the "center of the center" of marine biodiversity. The Academy's science diving teams explored both deep and shallow ecosystems to document species richness, evaluate ecosystem health, and gather data t
  
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• Astrophysicists identify composition of earth-size planets in TRAPPIST-1 system

  08-06-2017 20:37
  
  A University of Oklahoma post-doctoral astrophysics researcher, Billy Quarles, has identified the possible compositions of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Using thousands of numerical simulations to identify the planets stable for millions of years, Quarles concluded that six of the seven planets are consistent with an Earth-like composition. The exception is TRAPPIST-1f, which has a mass of 25 percent water, suggesting that TRAPPIST-1e may be the best candidate for future habitabili
  
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• Researchers Explain the Formation of Trappist-1 and Other Compact Systems

  08-06-2017 20:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  (Article translated to English) Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have developed a model to explain the formation of planetary system Trappist-1 and other compact...
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• Mars Express Provides a Window to a Watery Past on Mars

  08-06-2017 20:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New composite images captured by ESA’s Mars Express offer a window into the watery past of the Red Planet. This 70 km-wide crater and its...
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• Wide-Open accelerates release of scientific data by identifying overdue datasets

  08-06-2017 20:00
  
  Advances in genetic sequencing and other technologies have led to an explosion of biological data, and decades of openness (both spontaneous and enforced) mean that scientists routinely deposit data in online repositories. But researchers are only human and may forget to tell a repository to release the data when a paper is published.
  
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• The road not taken: Do stress-specific mutations lead down different evolutionary paths?

  08-06-2017 20:00
  
  Starvation for essential elements determines the pattern of genetic variation.
  
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• Scientists develop molecular code for melanin-like materials

  08-06-2017 20:00
  
  Scientists have long known that melanin—the pigments that give color to skin, hair and eyes—has numerous useful qualities, including providing protection from cancer-causing UV radiation and free radicals, but also electronic conductance, adhesiveness and the capacity to store energy.
  
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• Neutrons zero in on the elusive magnetic Majorana fermion

  08-06-2017 20:00
  
  Neutron scattering has revealed in unprecedented detail new insights into the exotic magnetic behavior of a material that, with a fuller understanding, could pave the way for quantum calculations far beyond the limits of the ones and zeros of a computer's binary code.
  
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• How to binge-watch Netflix without ruining your sleep

  08-06-2017 19:43
  
  DIYHave your screen time and sleep time too.
  Watching too many Netflix episodes too late at night can seriously mess up your sleep patterns and your health—but it doesn't have to be that way.
  
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• S.Africa bans poultry imports from Zimbabwe after bird flu outbreak

  08-06-2017 19:10
  
  South Africa has halted poultry imports from Zimbabwe after a recent outbreak of highly contagious avian influenza at a farm in the neighbouring country, the government said Thursday.
  
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• The oldest fossils of our species just got older

  08-06-2017 19:05
  
  ScienceThese possible Homo sapiens help confirm humanity's history.
  New fossil findings may help write our species' origin story—if we can agree on what it means to be human. Read on.
  
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• Physicists review three experiments that hint at a phenomenon beyond the Standard Model of particle physics

  08-06-2017 19:03
  
  To anyone but a physicist, it sounds like something out of "Star Trek." But lepton universality is a real thing.
  
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• Uber exec fired over India rape probe: report

  08-06-2017 19:00
  
  Uber has fired a top executive who obtained medical records of a woman raped during a ride in India in 2014, media reports said, the latest in a series of efforts to stem misconduct at the ridesharing giant.
  
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• Yahoo-Verizon deal set to close June 13

  08-06-2017 18:59
  
  Yahoo shareholders voted Thursday to back the sale of the company's internet business to Verizon, clearing the way for the deal to close June 13.
  
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• Research targets PFOA threat to drinking water

  08-06-2017 18:59
  
  A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close their drinking water supplies. Because of its historical use in Teflon production and other industrial processes as well as its environmental persistence, PFOA contamination is a pervasive problem worldwide.
  
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• SpaceX Dragon to deliver research to Space Station

  08-06-2017 18:57
  
  SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its eleventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station June 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center's historic pad 39A. Dragon will lift into orbit atop the Falcon 9 rocket carrying crew supplies, equipment and scientific research to crewmembers living aboard the station.
  
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• Fatherhood factors influence how dads spend time with children

  08-06-2017 18:54
  
  A father's resources, relationships, and parenting beliefs affect how he spends time with his children and financially provides for his family, finds a study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
  
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