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• Watch: Animation of satellite images shows smoke from the Brian Head fire drifting across much of Utah and beyond

  27-06-2017 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With hot, dry and windy conditions continuing, the dangerous Brian Head fire is expected to grow significantly
  Super dry conditions and winds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour yesterday have fanned Utah's Brian Head wildfire, reportedly sending flames shooting 100 feet into the air.Those flames lofted giant plumes of smoke that were easily seen by the GOES-West weather satellite. You can see it happening in the animation above, which I created using i
  
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• EU hits Google with $2.7B fine for abusing weaker rivals

  27-06-2017 23:43
  
  European regulators fined Google a record 2.42 billion euros ($2.72 billion) for abusing its dominance of the online search market
  
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• Why Google's $2.7 Billion EU Fine Is Such a Big Deal

  27-06-2017 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The EU slapped Google with a $2.7 billion fine, alleging the company favored some of its own services and hindered competition. Here's why that matters.
  
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• Now kids can easily program a complex robot to recognize a smile

  27-06-2017 23:09
  
  TechnologyAnki’s cute Cozmo bot is finally programmable by the rest of us.
  In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.
  
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• A dash cam for 48 percent off? I'd buy it.

  27-06-2017 23:00
  
  GadgetsRecord your trip—for $62 less.
  A dash cam for 48 percent off? I'd buy it. Record your trip—for $62 less. Read on.
  
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• WATCH: New cyberattack causes mass disruption globally

  27-06-2017 22:56
  
  Hackers have caused widespread disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.
  
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• What Are "Hard" and "Soft" Drugs?

  27-06-2017 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new study examines the blurry distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs.The "hardness" of drugs is a concept that makes intuitive sense, but is difficult to put into precise terms. "Hard" drugs are those which are viewed as more addictive, more potent and more toxic than the comparatively benign "soft" variety. The concept has a normative aspect: "hard" drugs are bad, and you should avoid them, even if you use soft drugs.In the new paper, Slovakian researchers Peter Janik et al.
  
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• Dogs Notice When People (or Other Dogs) Sound Sad

  27-06-2017 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Your dog may act like a good listener—but does she really notice when you're feeling down? Or does she just know how to deploy a wet nose and a tail-wag to earn treats? A new study says negative emotions are contagious for dogs. They'll pick up a companion's bad feelings just by sound, whether that companion is human or canine."Emotional contagion" is the most basic form of empathy, write Annika Huber of the University of Vienna's Clever Dog Lab and her colleagues. We're&nbs
  
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• A new microscope uses light to "cut" through tissue samples and find cancer

  27-06-2017 21:11
  
  HealthIt could help surgeons remove cancerous breast tissues all at once.
  A new microscope lets doctors see cancer tumors in 3D. Read on.
  
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• Solving the Centuries-old Mystery of Rare 'Bright Nights'

  27-06-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On rare occasions throughout history, the darkness of night fails to materialize. Even with the moon darkened, the sky fills with a diffuse glow that seems to filter out of the very air itself. Such "bright nights" have been recorded back to the days of Pliny the Elder around 132 B.C., although explanations for the phenomenon have been lacking.Using a special interferometer and data from the 1990s, two Canadian researchers say that they can explain why the sky seems so much brighter
  
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• Reptile skin grown in lab for first time, helps study endangered turtle disease

  27-06-2017 20:35
  
  Scientists recently reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory, according to a recently published U.S. Geological Survey study . In turn, the scientists were able to grow a tumor-associated virus to better understand certain tumor diseases.
  
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• Pandas, which are basically giant poop machines, may inadvertently help save other species

  27-06-2017 20:13
  
  AnimalsProtecting charismatic animals could help less cute creatures.
  A new study suggests that it might not be so bad that pandas get the glut of China's conservation funding. Read on.
  
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• Fanciful Bitcoin Banknotes Show How Digital Currency Might Look in the Real World

  27-06-2017 20:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  There's a lot of information embedded in this artist's colorful renderings.
  
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• Biologist looks at butterflies to help solve human infertility

  27-06-2017 20:06
  
  When insects skip the light fandango their romantic foreplay often involves some pretty crazy things like hypnotic dance moves and flashy colors. In some species it ends with a complex ejaculate package that does more than fertilize offspring.
  
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• Directed gene-copy variation: The key to conquering new environments

  27-06-2017 20:00
  
  A study of yeast reveals new mechanism that allows cells to adapt to environmental changes more rapidly by accelerating genetic changes around genes that boost fitness, publishing 27 June in the open access journal PLOS Biology, by Dr. Jon Houseley and colleagues at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK.
  
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• Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system

  27-06-2017 19:57
  
  Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR—whose name originated as a combination of "light" and "radar"—capitalized on the newly unique precision they offered for measuring both time and distance. LiDAR quickly became the standard method for (3-D) land surveys and is now used in a multitude of sensing applications, such as self-driving cars.
  
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• Ingredient found in soap can alter 'wettability' of your skin

  27-06-2017 19:56
  
  It's possible to alter the wettability of your skin using an ingredient commonly found in cosmetic cleaners, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
  
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• Facebook hits two billion user mark

  27-06-2017 19:36
  
  Facebook said Tuesday its ranks of monthly active users had hit the two billion mark—meaning more than a quarter of the world's population is on the giant social network.
  
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• Ransomware, the weapon wielded in cyber attacks

  27-06-2017 19:30
  
  Ransomware demands which hit a clutch of multinationals Tuesday are the latest in a wave of international cyberattacks in recent months.
  
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• Multibillion-dollar contract for Los Alamos lab up for bid (Update)

  27-06-2017 19:24
  
  The competition for a multibillion-dollar contract to manage the U.S. laboratory that created the atomic bomb is beginning as criticism intensifies over the troubled safety record of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  
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• Multibillion-dollar contract for Los Alamos lab up for bid

  27-06-2017 19:24
  
  The competition for a multibillion-dollar contract to manage the troubled Los Alamos National Laboratory is beginning after a week in which the northern New Mexico facility was hit with criticism for its record of safety lapses.
  
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• Lake harvests are likely more fruitful than we knew

  27-06-2017 19:24
  
  Harvests from freshwater fisheries such as the Great Lakes could total more than 12 million tons a year globally and contribute more to global food supplies and economies than previous estimates indicate, according to a study published today by Michigan State University and the U.S. Geological Survey.
  
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• Chernobyl's radiation monitoring hit by cyberattack: spokeswoman

  27-06-2017 19:21
  
  The radiation monitoring system at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear site has been taken offline after a massive cyberattack, forcing employees to use hand-held counters to measure levels, officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Scientific studies favor male mice—and that could hurt a lot of humans

  27-06-2017 19:20
  
  ScienceLet's talk about sex (in biomedical research).
  A new study quantifies how much sex differences impact the results of biomedical research—and it's a lot. Read on.
  
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• Distant earthquakes can cause underwater landslides

  27-06-2017 19:20
  
  New research finds large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs.
  
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• FLARE Technique Provides Snapshots of Neuron Activity

  27-06-2017 18:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from MIT and Stanford have developed a way to label neurons when they become active, essentially providing a snapshot of their activity at a...
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• Multinationals hit by vast wave of cyberattacks

  27-06-2017 18:40
  
  Several multinational companies said Tuesday they were targeted in a massive wave of cyberattacks which started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe.
  
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• US mayors bypass Trump to back Paris climate goals

  27-06-2017 18:30
  
  President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord has triggered a bipartisan push from US mayors to stick to the emissions cuts Washington had pledged to hit, the mayor of Atlanta said Tuesday.
  
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• This powerful PDF editing 'app of the year' winner is now 50 percent off

  27-06-2017 18:30
  
  Sponsored PostYou can easily make corrections and additions with this 2015 app of the year.
  This powerful PDF editing 'app of the year' winner is now 50 percent off. You can easily make corrections and additions with this 2015 app of the year. Read on.
  
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• NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover Examines the Edge of Endeavour Crater

  27-06-2017 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover examines rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or...
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• Israeli spy agency creates fund to invest in tech firms

  27-06-2017 18:29
  
  Israel's Mossad spy agency is starting a fund to invest in technology firms creating products that could assist its work, including those involving robotics and encryption, the prime minister's office said Tuesday.
  
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• Genetic engineering tool generates antioxidant-rich purple rice

  27-06-2017 18:29
  
  Researchers in China have developed a genetic engineering approach capable of delivering many genes at once and used it to make rice endosperm—seed tissue that provides nutrients to the developing plant embryo—produce high levels of antioxidant-boosting pigments called anthocyanins. The resulting purple endosperm rice holds potential for decreasing the risk of certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic disorders. The work appears June 27th in the journal Mol
  
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• NASA captures Hurricane Dora at peak strength, before weakening began

  27-06-2017 18:26
  
  NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Dora at peak strength late on June 26 before it started moving over cooler waters that began sapping its power.
  
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• Fin24.com | ALERT: Massive cyber attack hits several companies

  27-06-2017 18:22
  
  Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk has fallen victim to hacking, which seems to be part of a powerful cyber attack striking several companies.
  
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• Alaska volcano sends up ash cloud from Aleutian Islands

  27-06-2017 18:18
  
  A 14-minute eruption by an Alaska volcano sent an ash cloud to 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) in the Aleutian Islands.
  
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• Discrimination, lack of diversity, and societal risks of data mining highlighted in big data

  27-06-2017 18:16
  
  A special issue of Big Data presents a series of insightful articles that focus on Big Data and Social and Technical Trade-Offs. Despite the dramatic growth in big data affecting many areas of research, industry, and society, there are risks associated with the design and use of data-driven systems. Among these are issues of discrimination, diversity, and bias, which are discussed in the papers in the special issue organized by Guest Editors Solon Barocas, Princeton University, danah boyd, Micro
  
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• Chandra Reveals 25 Bright Point-Like X-Ray Sources in Arp 299

  27-06-2017 18:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New Chandra data has revealed 25 bright point-like X-ray sources in Arp 299, 14 of which are categorized as “ULXs”. These ULXs are likely binary...
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• Slow motion makes football referees more likely to give a red card

  27-06-2017 18:15
  
  Video assistant refereeing in football has to be used with caution. Researchers at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have shown that refs are more likely to give red when they see a foul committed in slow motion, even when a yellow card is more justifiable. This is because fouls viewed in slow motion appear to be more serious.
  
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• Fishing Fleets Threw Away 10 Percent of Their Catch Over the Past Decade

  27-06-2017 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Waste not, want not.”The origin of this proverb traces back centuries, but time has hardly tarnished its relevance. It’s a warning every generation would do well to heed: Mismanaging precious commodities today will lead to an impoverished future. It’s so simple. It’s so true. It’s so often ignored.Case-in-point: global industrial fishing operations. Over the past decade, fishing fleets simply threw away more than 10 percent—enough to fill 4,500 Olympic-
  
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• Adaptive cyber security decision support to prevent cyber attacks

  27-06-2017 17:58
  
  Recognising the complexity of cyber attacks and the multi-stakeholder nature of tackling cyber security are the key components of a new data-driven cyber security system being developed by experts led by the University of Nottingham. The aim is to support organisations of all sizes in maintaining adequate levels of cyber security through a semi-automatic, regularly updated, organisation-tailored security assessment of their digital infrastructures.
  
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• Israel security chief: Agency strikes back at online hackers

  27-06-2017 17:54
  
  Israel's security chief says his agency, the Shin Bet, has gone on the offensive against hackers trying to carry out cyberattacks against Israel on the internet.
  
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• Ozone recovery may be delayed by unregulated chemicals

  27-06-2017 17:31
  
  Recent increases in an unregulated ozone-depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels by 5-30 years, depending on emissions scenarios.
  
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• Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes

  27-06-2017 17:23
  
  For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.
  
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• Cotton candy capillaries lead to circuit boards that dissolve when cooled

  27-06-2017 17:21
  
  Building transient electronics is usually about doing something to make them stop working: blast them with light, soak them with acid, dunk them in water.
  
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• Facebook now deleting 66K posts a week in anti-hate campaign

  27-06-2017 17:17
  
  Facebook is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech.
  
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• Scientists illuminate structures vital to virus replication

  27-06-2017 17:16
  
  In the fight against the viruses that invade everyday life, seeing and understanding the battleground is essential. Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have, for the first time, imaged molecular structures vital to how a major class of viruses replicates within infected cells.
  
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