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• 'Pokémon Go' is great again, thanks to its sweeping new update - Business Insider

  28-06-2017 23:54 via businessinsider.com
  
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  'Pokémon Go' is great again, thanks to its sweeping new update
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  Pokemon GO_Raid Pokémon Go's new Raid battles are a big step in the right direction, letting up to 20 players team up to fight massive, powered-up monsters. Niantic Labs. Last week, "Pokémon Go" got a huge new update, bringing sweeping and ...
  Why Premium Raid Passes Are Pokémon GO's Most Valuable Item Yet (And May Be Pay-To-Win)Forbes
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• Use Google to shop? Here's what you should know after the big EU fine

  28-06-2017 23:30
  
  Google was levied a record $2.7 billion fine by the European Commission for allegedly favoring its Google Shopping results over other comparison shopping services.
  
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• California says a popular herbicide causes cancer

  28-06-2017 23:30
  
  HealthBut three out of four health agencies disagree.
  California will require a cancer warning on products containing glyphosate, a commonly used pesticide. Here's what you should know.
  
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• Revitalizing Detroit requires development of specific neighborhoods

  28-06-2017 23:21
  
  Despite the relatively large number of employees working in downtown Detroit, the city continues to be afflicted by urban blight, surrounded by a swath of vacant neighborhoods. Changing this pervasive phenomenon has been at the forefront for developers, city officials and groups like Detroit Future City, an initiative with a strategic vision for the city's future.
  
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• Slow-growing ponderosas survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks

  28-06-2017 23:20
  
  Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Montana as climate change increases the frequency of drought and insect pests, according to new research published by a team of University of Montana scientists.
  
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• Meet drone dueling, the sport California is about to inadvertently kill

  28-06-2017 22:54
  
  AviationVague legislation protects humans from watching awesome robot battles
  A bill designed to protect people from armed drones could end drone duels as a legal sport.
  
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• Pick Up the Samsung Gear 360 (2017) for just $199 – 6/28/17 - Android Headlines

  28-06-2017 22:51 via androidheadlines.com
  
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  Pick Up the Samsung Gear 360 (2017) for just $199 – 6/28/17
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  The Samsung Gear 360 is currently seeing its lowest price ever over on Amazon. Coming in at just $199.46, that's down from its regular price of $229, when it launched just a few short weeks ago. The Gear 360 is the second-generation of Samsung's ...
  Samsung Updates TouchWiz Launcher to Fix Lag IssuesDroid Life (press release) (blog)
  Samsung Wants to Sell Refurbished Note 7s With the Silliest Po
  
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• Strange 'sea pickles' keep washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest — and scientists are baffled - Washington Post

  28-06-2017 22:44 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Strange 'sea pickles' keep washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest — and scientists are baffled
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  There are strange sea creatures known as “sea pickles” invading the Pacific Northwest. These gelatinous and somewhat translucent organisms, called pyrosomes, have been seen congregating, sometimes by the thousands, close to shore from Northern ...
  Jellied sea creatures confound scientists, fishers on US Pacific CoastBusiness Insider
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• Carnegie Science Center gets $7.5M donation for new wing

  28-06-2017 22:30
  
  The Carnegie Science Center has received its largest gift, a $7.5 million donation from PPG and its corporate foundation for the interactive museum in Pittsburgh.
  
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• This year's hot graduation gift: Snapchat geofilters

  28-06-2017 22:20
  
  Ann Beverly had eyed a set of golf clubs as a college graduation gift for her son. In an impulse buy during commencement, though, she just had to tack on something else.
  
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• How artificial intelligence is taking on ransomware

  28-06-2017 22:15
  
  Twice in the space of six weeks, the world has suffered major attacks of ransomware—malicious software that locks up photos and other files stored on your computer, then demands money to release them.
  
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• Man sentenced for money laundering in massive hacking scheme

  28-06-2017 22:12
  
  A Pakistani man has been sentenced to four years in prison for laundering nearly $20 million as part of an international computer and telephone hacking scheme.
  
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• Scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier

  28-06-2017 22:06
  
  The technological future of everything from cars and jet engines to oil rigs, along with the gadgets, appliances and public utilities comprising the internet of things, will depend on microscopic sensors.
  
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• Soybean rust study will allow breeders to tailor resistant varieties to local pathogens

  28-06-2017 22:01
  
  Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive winter without a host plant, it's not much of a threat to Midwest crops under current conditions.
  
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• Meet eight species living on the brink, thanks to weather and climate change

  28-06-2017 22:00
  
  AnimalsA volatile future will affect way more than just the polar bears.
  Leopards, frogs, and fish all face weather and climate-related challenges. Read on.
  
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• Study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age

  28-06-2017 21:58
  
  It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms—and they're not just bacteria. A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.
  
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• 3,000-year-old textiles are earliest evidence of chemical dyeing in the Levant

  28-06-2017 21:57
  
  Tel Aviv University archaeologists have revealed that cloth samples found in the Israeli desert present the earliest evidence of plant-based textile dyeing in the region. They were found at a large-scale copper smelting site and a nearby temple in the copper ore district of Timna in Israel's Arava desert and are estimated to date from the 13th-10th centuries BCE.
  
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• How are long strands of DNA packed into tiny cells?

  28-06-2017 21:53
  
  Scientists are a step closer to understanding how DNA, the molecules that carry all of our genetic information, is squeezed into every cell in the body. How DNA is "packaged" in cells influences the activity of our genes and our risk for disease. Elucidating this process will help researchers in all areas of health care, from cancer and heart disease, to muscular dystrophy and osteoarthritis.
  
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• Nanostructures taste the rainbow

  28-06-2017 21:50
  
  Engineers at Caltech have for the first time developed a light detector that combines two disparate technologies—nanophotonics, which manipulates light at the nanoscale, and thermoelectrics, which translates temperature differences directly into electron voltage—to distinguish different wavelengths (colors) of light, including both visible and infrared wavelengths, at high resolution.
  
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• Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH 'Follow that Cell' challenge

  28-06-2017 21:48
  
  Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has won the $300,000 first place prize in the Follow that Cell Challenge organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  
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• Zeolite catalysts pave the road to decentral chemical processes

  28-06-2017 21:46
  
  Fuel from waste? It is possible. But hitherto, converting organic waste to fuel has not been economically viable. Excessively high temperatures and too much energy are required. Using a novel catalyst concept, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now managed to significantly reduce the temperature and energy requirements of a key step in the chemical process. The trick: The reaction takes place in very confined spaces inside zeolite crystals.
  
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• The Petya ransomware is starting to look like a cyberattack in disguise - The Verge

  28-06-2017 21:42 via theverge.com
  
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  The Petya ransomware is starting to look like a cyberattack in disguise
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  The haze of yesterday's massive ransomware attack is clearing, and Ukraine has already emerged as the epicenter of the damage. Kaspersky Labs reports that as many as 60 percent of the systems infected by the Petya ransomware were located within ...
  Companies, governments worldwide assess damage from latest cyberattackChicago Tribune
  Ransomware in disguise: Experts say Petya out to destroy not ransom
  
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• Photosynthesis Design Principles Could Improve Solar Technology

  28-06-2017 21:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from Yale University have identified natural design principles in photosynthesis that could improve energy efficiency in new solar technology. In photosynthesis, green plants use...
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• Water Can Exist as Two Different Liquids at Low Temperatures

  28-06-2017 21:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a newly published study, researchers from Stockholm University detail the discovery that water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures. We normally...
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• Think weather forecasts are bad? Try forecasting a volcanic eruption.

  28-06-2017 21:04
  
  ScienceA new technique could bring us closer to accurately predicting volcano behavior.
  Forecasting the weather is hard enough. Forecasting volcanic eruptions is even harder. Read on.
  
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• Government and Bank Websites Flunk Privacy Test

  28-06-2017 20:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  We put a lot of trust in the websites we visit, especially those from the government and banks. This trust is often misplaced, according to a new analysis.
  
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• Yeast's Newest Trick: Detecting Deadly Pathogens

  28-06-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yeast, the ubiquitous little fungus that can seemingly do it all, is doing more.If you aren’t familiar with yeast’s accolades, here’s a refresher: It gives beer its buzz, it can produce textiles, safer opioids, tasty food and is the workhorse model organism in scientific labs around the world. Now, researchers have put yeast to work detecting deadly, pervasive fungal pathogens.A team of researchers lead by Columbia University's Virginia Cornish designed an elegantly simple bios
  
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• Researchers develop yeast-based tool for worldwide pathogen detection

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  Columbia University researchers have developed a tool that is likely to revolutionize the way we detect and treat pathogens in everything from human health to agriculture to water. Using only common household baker's yeast, they've created an extremely low-cost, low-maintenance, on-site dipstick test they hope will aid in the surveillance and early detection of fungal pathogens responsible for major human disease, agricultural damage and food spoilage worldwide.
  
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• Palm cockatoos beat drum like Ringo Starr

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  Professor Rob Heinsohn said while songbirds and whales can belt out a musical tune, few species recognise a beat.
  
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• More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has discovered that a marked decrease in summer cloud cover during the last 20 years has significantly accelerated melt from the Greenland ice sheet.
  
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• How to smile without looking like a creep, according to scientists

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  HealthResearchers have tried to isolate the traits of a winning grin.
  Using a variety of computer-animated faces, researchers from the University of Minnesota have isolated the traits of a winning smile. Read on.
  
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• High sea surface temperatures may affect immune competence of California sea lions

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  Anomalously high sea surface temperatures may compromise the immune response of California sea lions, according to a study published June 28, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse from Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, and colleagues.
  
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• Concurrent hot and dry summers more common in future: study

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  A combination of severe drought and a heatwave caused problems for Russia in the summer of 2010: fires tore through forests and peat bogs. Moscow was shrouded in thick smog, causing many deaths in the local population. At the same time, Pakistan was engulfed in heavy rain, as the high-pressure area over Russia blocked a low-pressure zone over Pakistan. This led to the country's worst flooding for centuries.
  
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• Carved Skulls Flesh Out Neolithic Cult Evidence

  28-06-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fragments of uniquely carved skulls — at least one of which may have also been decorated — have turned up at one of Turkey's most important Neolithic sites. Investigation into how the skulls were modified, and what they might have been used for, points to a skull cult that's the first of its kind in the world.
  The archaeological trove of Göbekli Tepe sits on an artificial hill in southeastern Turkey. It's a complex of monumental buildings with enormous pillars, many of them carv
  
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• 'Bulges' in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions

  28-06-2017 20:00
  
  A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside volcanoes, and found that it can be a reliable indicator of future eruptions.
  
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• Google Photos adds smarter sharing, suggestions and shared libraries - TechCrunch

  28-06-2017 19:51 via techcrunch.com
  
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  Google Photos adds smarter sharing, suggestions and shared libraries
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  Google today will begin rolling out new sharing functionality in Google Photos, first unveiled at the company's I/O developer conference in May. Specifically, it's launching the AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, both of ...
  Google Begins Rolling Out Suggested Sharing For PhotosAndroid Headlines
  Google Photos' AI-powered sharing is now availableEngadget
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• Researchers say we have three years to act on climate change before it's too late

  28-06-2017 19:41
  
  EnvironmentIf we want a smooth transition into a sustainable future, we need to act fast.
  New comment in Nature says that we have three years to act on climate change.
  
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• Can antipoverty programs work globally? J-PAL offers user's guide

  28-06-2017 19:35
  
  It is a huge question in development economics: If a program yields good results in one country, will it work in another? Does a vaccination policy in India translate to Africa? Does a teen-pregnancy prevention program in Kenya work in Rwanda?
  
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• Analysis of Neanderthal teeth grooves uncovers evidence of prehistoric dentistry

  28-06-2017 19:31
  
  Neanderthals treating toothaches?
  
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• Scientists identify key locations for spread of Pin-tailed Whydahs

  28-06-2017 19:29
  
  Invasive parasites are a biological oxymoron. And yet, they are in our backyards! A new study analyzes the case of a brood parasitic bird, the Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura), and its recent spread into the Americas.
  
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• Guinness World Records names graphene aerogel as world's least dense 3-D printed structure

  28-06-2017 19:28
  
  The world's lightest 3-D printed structure is so lightweight that it can be placed on top of a cotton ball or the petals of a flower.
  
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• Chinese authorities put the brakes on a surge in live streaming

  28-06-2017 19:20
  
  It's becoming a common refrain. A new social networking technology takes China by storm. Its users outsmart the censors, ushering in an era of relative freedom. And then, almost inevitably, the Communist Party begins to feel threatened and shuts it down.
  
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• Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves?

  28-06-2017 19:17
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence gravitational waves. In a recently published paper they study the consequences of extra dimensions on these ripples in space-time, and predict whether their effects could be detected.
  
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• 2020 deadline to avert climate catastrophe: experts

  28-06-2017 19:13
  
  Humanity must put carbon dioxide emissions on a downward slope by 2020 to have a realistic shot at capping global warming at well under two degrees Celsius, the bedrock goal of the Paris climate accord, experts said Wednesday.
  
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• Minnesota scientist: EPA pressured her to change testimony

  28-06-2017 19:11
  
  A Minnesota scientist who leads an Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory board says she was pressured by the agency's chief of staff to change her testimony before Congress to downplay the Trump administration's decision not to reappoint half of the board's members.
  
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• How minimizing fluid friction can make oceangoing vessels more fuel-efficient and reduce harmful emissions

  28-06-2017 19:11
  
  Imagine walking from one side of a swimming pool to the other. Each step takes great effort—that's what makes water aerobics such effective physical exercise.
  
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• Calculating 'old' and 'new' water runoff

  28-06-2017 19:09
  
  Just ahead of a rainstorm, Cody Ross might run out to an agricultural research site as part of his graduate work. He'll need to get some dye into an injection well. The point? To evaluate the path that water follows from the field during and after the rainstorm.
  
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• Potentially lethal parasite rat lungworm found throughout Florida

  28-06-2017 19:08
  
  University of Florida researchers have found rat lungworm, a parasitic nematode that can cause meningitis in humans and animals, in five Florida counties.
  
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• Improving Chinese air pollution leads to business opportunities

  28-06-2017 19:08
  
  China's trouble with smog and air pollution is well known, but air quality is beginning to improve as Chinese authorities start to tackle the problem. According to a story in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, their efforts have made China a major market for those in the business of abating and measuring air pollution.
  
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