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• August Smart Lock review: An easy way to smarten up a dumb dead bolt

  11-07-2017 23:49
  
  GadgetsTeach your old door hardware some new tricks.
  The second generation August Smart Lock adds Apple HomeKit, and is still easy and reliable. Read on.
  
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• Microsoft eyes buffer zone in TV airwaves for rural internet

  11-07-2017 23:07
  
  Microsoft is announcing a project to use TV "white space" to bring broadband internet to rural parts of the United States
  
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• Closely Orbiting Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller

  11-07-2017 23:07 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research reveals that two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single point of light, making planets appear less dense than previously...
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• Remember the North Pole winter thaw? A new study finds a rising trend in Arctic warming spikes in winter

  11-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During each of the past three years, something quite bizarre has happened in the central Arctic.No, global warming did not cause some Thing to rise up out of the ice and go on a rampage. It was temperatures that rose up. And not just by a little.This occurred during extreme warming events near the North Pole that sent temperatures spiking close to, or above, the freezing mark for one to three days. Compare that to average winter temperatures in winter: typ
  
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• Facebook takes down pages of some legal Alaska pot shops

  11-07-2017 22:59
  
  Facebook has shut down pages set up on the social media platform by several businesses licenses to legally sell marijuana in Alaska, severing what some shop owners say is a critical link to their customers
  
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• Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby of Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot

  11-07-2017 22:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Juno Spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit. All of...
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• Hidden stars may make planets appear smaller

  11-07-2017 22:53
  
  In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density. A low density tells scientists a planet is more likely to be gaseous like Jupiter, and a high density is associated with rocky planets like Earth. But a new study suggests some are less dense than previously thought because of a second, hidden star in their systems.
  
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• Amazon rivals offer deals during online giant's Prime Day

  11-07-2017 22:51
  
  Amazon's competitors are offering their own deals during the online giant's Prime Day promotion.
  
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• US need for four polar icebreakers 'critical,' warns report

  11-07-2017 22:50
  
  The rapid pace of global warming and ice melting at the poles have underscored the "critical" need for the United States to build four new polar icebreaker ships, US officials said Tuesday.
  
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• App turns Mexican women's phones into panic buttons

  11-07-2017 22:50
  
  The Mexican city of Juarez has been dubbed "the capital of murdered women": since the 1990s, hundreds of women have been raped, killed and dumped in the desert, or simply disappeared without a trace.
  
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• Experts: Scrapped electric-car plant may mean industry woes

  11-07-2017 22:49
  
  An electric car maker deserted its plan to construct a $1 billion manufacturing plant in southern Nevada in a move experts say could spell trouble for the company and the broader niche electric automobile industry.
  
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• PAINS-killer: Study finds serious issues with popular drug screening tool

  11-07-2017 22:46
  
  A widely used screening tool deployed in the early phases of drug discovery to weed out undesirable compounds is wrong so often it can't be trusted on its own, according to scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  
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• Breakthrough tool predicts properties of theoretical materials

  11-07-2017 22:45
  
  Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University have created the first general-purpose method for using machine learning to predict the properties of new metals, ceramics and other crystalline materials and to find new uses for existing materials, a discovery that could save countless hours wasted in the trial-and-error process of creating new and better materials.
  
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• In a First, Photons are 'Teleported' from Earth to Space

  11-07-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chinese researchers have successfully transmitted quantum entangled particles from a station on earth to a satellite orbiting far overhead.The experiment is part of an ongoing effort by researchers using the Micius satellite to achieve long-distance quantum communication, a feat that would yield hacker-proof information networks. In this most recent work, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China beamed photons to the satellite and transmitted the state of other
  
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• What the heck is “ice VII,” and why are scientists using lasers to make it?

  11-07-2017 22:30
  
  ScienceNo, it's not a superweapon.
  There are actually 17 different forms of crystalline ice—and some of them come from space. Read on:…
  
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• Inside the Store Where Everything You Need Is Just $3

  11-07-2017 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  What if you could get all of life's essentials — groceries, dishes, office supplies, you name it, for $3 or less?
  
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• Distant galaxies 'lift the veil' on the end of the cosmic dark ages

  11-07-2017 21:21
  
  Astronomers studying the distant Universe have found that small star-forming galaxies were abundant when the Universe was only 800 million years old, a few percent of its present age. The results suggest that the earliest galaxies, which illuminated and ionized the Universe, formed at even earlier times.
  
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• Twitter users file suit, saying Trump block is unconstitutional

  11-07-2017 21:12
  
  A group of Twitter users blocked by President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming the White House is violating the constitution by keeping them out of a "public forum."
  
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• Dutch project tests floating cities to seek more space

  11-07-2017 21:11
  
  Dutch researchers unveiled Tuesday a model of what could become within two decades a floating mega-island to be used as a creative solution for accommodating housing, ports, farms or parks.
  
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• Snapchat parent Snap slides below IPO price

  11-07-2017 21:10
  
  Shares of Snapchat parent Snap Inc. plunged Tuesday, slipping below the price at the time of its stock offering, after a pessimistic outlook from a Wall Street analyst on the popular messaging service.
  
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• NASA probe successfully peers into Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  11-07-2017 21:10
  
  A NASA spacecraft, Juno, has successfully peered into the giant storm raging on Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, and its first pictures should be out in days, the US space agency said Tuesday.
  
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• Scientists upgrade database tracking global temperatures across millennia (Update)

  11-07-2017 21:07
  
  A consortium of international scientists led by a climate expert from USC have upgraded an open-source global database tracking the Earth's temperatures since 1 A.D. that further confirms that the Earth is warming at a rate unprecedented in recent geologic history.
  
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• Scientists upgrade database tracking global temperatures across millennia

  11-07-2017 21:07
  
  A consortium of international scientists led by a climate expert from USC have upgraded an open-source global database tracking the Earth's temperatures since 1 A.D. that further confirms that the Earth is warming at a rate unprecedented in recent geologic history.
  
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• Is Amazon Taking Over the World? These Charts Will Give You a Hint.

  11-07-2017 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Retail juggernaut Amazon is flexing its muscles in every market it enters.
  
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• United Nations: “Educated People Threaten Sustainability”

  11-07-2017 20:55 via technocracy.news
  
  The United Nations Technocrats says that educated people consume a disproportionate amount of resources, and are therefore unsustainable by definition. Long live stupidity and ignorance. ⁃ TN EditorSenior leaders of the United Nations gathered recently to continue plotting the future of globalized pseudo-education, which they said must be imposed on every child on the planet to advance the UN’s radical plan for humanity known as “Agenda 2030.” Speakers at t
  
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• Data Driven: How Your Car Will Soon Know All Your Habits

  11-07-2017 20:42 via technocracy.news
  
  To a Technocrat, it’s not about transportation, its about data, and your car is just one giant sensor that can report on your every activity. A rolling smartphone? Furthermore, your car will routinely rat on you by transmitting your data wirelessly to mobile collection devices. ⁃ TN EditorPicture this: You’re checking your friends’ Facebook updates on the windshield display screen while your car drives you to the other side of town.
  Suddenly, a coupon for a special d
  
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• Internet Surveillance Hurts Women And Young, And It’s Getting Worse

  11-07-2017 20:26 via technocracy.news
  
  This is a dead serious and scholarly article that demands attention: the biggest victims of surveillance are women and youth, the very groups that the UN promises to liberate. Well, just the opposite is true. ⁃ TN EditorEarlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats backtracked on a promise to disclose how many Americans’ communications have been swept up in warrantless mass surveillance of foreign targets. In fact, Coats admitted that even “Her
  
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• Video: How dragon blood could save your life

  11-07-2017 20:15
  
  Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds in some truly bizarre places in nature.
  
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• Squeezing innovation out of the NASA Twins study: Pipetting and cell isolation in space

  11-07-2017 20:12
  
  Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on twin astronauts as part of the One Year Mission that took place aboard the International Space Station is one such venture. As technology evolves so does the research. NASA is evaluating more efficient and innovative research techniques to prepare for the journey to Mars.
  
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• Even droplets sometimes take the stairs

  11-07-2017 19:54
  
  Sometimes, liquid drops don't drop. Instead, they climb. Using computer simulations, researchers have now shown how to induce droplets to climb stairs all by themselves.
  
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• News laser design offers more inexpensive multi-color output

  11-07-2017 19:46
  
  From checkout counters at supermarkets to light shows at concerts, lasers are everywhere, and they're a much more efficient light source than incandescent bulbs. But they're not cheap to produce.
  
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• Astronomers Track Multiple Disk Gaps and Rings Generated by a Single Super-Earth

  11-07-2017 19:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By combining two-fluid global hydrodynamics simulations with a radiative transfer code, astronomers from the University of Arizona track and investigate the observational signatures of super-Earths....
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• Fin24.com | Could credit and debit cards be gone by 2030?

  11-07-2017 19:10
  
  Credit and debit card payments could become obsolete by the year 2030, if digital payment experts are to be believed.
  
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• Earth's major 'mass extinction' events

  11-07-2017 19:10
  
  Most scientists agree that a "mass extinction" event is underway with the Earth's wildlife disappearing at an alarming rate, mainly due to human activity.
  
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• Lab makes changes in wake of botched nuclear shipments

  11-07-2017 19:09
  
  Los Alamos National Laboratory is making changes in the wake of last month's improper shipment of radioactive material to two other research facilities in the U.S.
  
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• 'Ancient Brews' reveals tasty history of alcohol

  11-07-2017 19:07
  
  "Ancient Brews: Rediscovered & Re-created" (W.W. Norton & Co.), by Patrick E. McGovern
  
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• Researchers to develop new gene-editing method for the study of arthropods

  11-07-2017 19:05
  
  A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a Penn State-led team of entomologists to develop and disseminate a technology they say could bring gene-editing capabilities within reach of everyday scientists, regardless of the arthropod species they study.
  
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• Academic motivation suffers when economic mobility seems out of reach

  11-07-2017 19:05
  
  New studies from Northwestern University show that high school and college students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are much less motivated to overcome academic hardships when they have doubts about the likelihood of people from their backgrounds achieving upward mobility.
  
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• 'Big Muddy' Missouri river needs a plan

  11-07-2017 19:04
  
  As the Missouri River flows across the Great Plains to where it meets the Mississippi River at St. Louis, it accumulates such a large sediment load that it has earned the nickname "Big Muddy." A recent University of Illinois study looks at the history of the river, damages and changes from the 2011 flood, and its current post-flood condition. The study concludes that the river needs a comprehensive plan with multi-state cooperation.
  
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• How Ancient Peruvians Partied on Eclipse Day

  11-07-2017 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Solar-eclipse fever is about to heat up as millions of Americans celebrate the astronomical spectacle happening Aug. 21. Businesses and universities along its shadowy bandwidth from Lincoln Beach, Ore., to Charleston, S.C., are organizing days-long events.There will be festivals with live music, art displays and camping. A special event in Illinois features a performance by hard-rock legend Ozzy Osborne. Many more are organizing eclipse parties in their backyards. But this isn’t the firs
  
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• Cassini Views The Light Of Day As It Illuminates Saturn

  11-07-2017 18:51 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released image shows the light of a new day as it illuminates Saturn’s wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the vast...
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• This Wearable Could Let Us Look Inside Another Person's Brain

  11-07-2017 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new startup called Openwater aims "to create a wearable to enable us to see the inner workings of the body and brain."
  
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• The most worthwhile deals this Amazon Prime Day

  11-07-2017 18:16
  
  GadgetsA continually updated list of all the Amazon Prime Day deals we like.
  All the Amazon Prime Day deals we like—continually updated, in one place. Read on.
  
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• The LuminAid inflatable lantern Is the perfect light for outdoor adventures

  11-07-2017 18:00
  
  Sponsored PostSolar powered, long-lasting, waterproof, and incredibly versatile.
  The LuminAid inflatable lantern Is the perfect light for outdoor adventures. Read on.
  
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• Spiky ferrofluid thrusters can move satellites

  11-07-2017 17:55
  
  Brandon Jackson, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University, has created a new computational model of an electrospray thruster using ionic liquid ferrofluid—a promising technology for propelling small satellites through space. Specifically, Jackson looks at simulating the electrospray startup dynamics; in other words, what gives the ferrofluid its characteristic spikes.
  
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• Economic issues are key to predicting whether students will graduate college, study shows

  11-07-2017 17:53
  
  Economic issues play a significant role in determining whether first-time students enrolling in a four-year college will complete their degree and graduate within six years, a new study from Oregon State University has found.
  
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• Yes, coffee drinkers seem to live longer. But don't get too excited.

  11-07-2017 17:47
  
  HealthThe question isn’t if, it’s how much.
  The science is pretty clear on coffee's health benefits, it's just not as impressive as you're hoping. Read on.
  
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• The new Audi A8 luxury sedan is a high-tech beast that can drive itself - The Verge

  11-07-2017 17:41 via theverge.com
  
  The Verge
  The new Audi A8 luxury sedan is a high-tech beast that can drive itself
  The Verge
  Audi just unveiled its new A8 luxury sedan in Barcelona, and as you would expect from the German automaker, this car is brimming with high-tech features. There's a brand-new infotainment system, fully active electric suspension, and a mild hybrid engine.
  The New Semi-Autonomous Audi A8 Will Let Drivers Watch Television At The WheelJalopnik
  Audi's self-driving A8 goes on sale in the US in 2018Mashable
  New
  
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• Microsoft wants to close the rural broadband gap with TV white spaces - The Verge

  11-07-2017 17:38 via theverge.com
  
  The Verge
  Microsoft wants to close the rural broadband gap with TV white spaces
  The Verge
  Microsoft wants to improve rural broadband access by using TV white spaces spectrum, and eliminate the gap across the US over the next five years. Currently, in many rural parts of America you have to rely on poor cable connections, radio-powered ...
  Microsoft's Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might WorkGizmodo
  Microsoft to employ unused TV channels to offer rural broadbandTec
  
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• Survey: 4 in 10 US adults have experienced online harassment

  11-07-2017 17:31
  
  A new survey says a whopping 41 percent of U.S. adults have experienced online harassment, ranging from offensive name-calling to stalking and sexual harassment.
  
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