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• Lithuania to extradite $100 mn email fraud suspect to US

  17-07-2017 23:21
  
  A Lithuanian man who allegedly swindled $100 million (87 million euros) from tech giants Google and Facebook must be extradited to the United States, a court ruled on Monday.
  
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• Netflix Has No 'Chill,' Crushes Expectations

  17-07-2017 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Netflix invested $6 billion in original content this year. Has the bet paid off?
  
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• Netflix shares jump as subscriptions top 100 million

  17-07-2017 23:15
  
  Netflix on Monday reported that the number of subscribers climbed more than expected, topping 100 million worldwide and sending shares in the leading on-demand television service soaring.
  
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• Judge: Govt. asked Google for too much data in gender case

  17-07-2017 23:15
  
  An administrative law judge has ruled that Labor Department officials investigating gender pay bias had asked Google for data in a way that's too broad and intrusive on employee privacy.
  
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• How to quickly make a bow and arrow

  17-07-2017 23:12
  
  DIYHere's how to craft a serviceable bow for survival situations.
  Here's how to craft a serviceable bow for survival situations. Read on.
  
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• Researchers find support for redistribution is a function of compassion, self-interest and envy—but not fairness

  17-07-2017 23:07
  
  Economic redistribution has been a core political dispute around the world for centuries. And while intuitively fairness seems a natural explanation for why people support redistribution, researchers at UC Santa Barbara find that fairness doesn't really explain who supports redistribution or why.
  
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• New research tracks global IT's shift from cost-cutting to revenue-boosting

  17-07-2017 23:00
  
  Information technology is often credited for its role in helping companies cut costs. However, new research by Professor Sunil Mithas at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business shows that information technology actually creates increased global profits through increased revenue, not through cost cuts.
  
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• Gun violence prevention groups strike middle ground to meet goals

  17-07-2017 22:45
  
  A study led by Oregon State University researchers found that American organizations identifying as gun violence prevention groups advocate for the right to bear arms and for some gun purchase and ownership conditions, which they argue will curb gun-related injuries and deaths.
  
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• Team develops fast, cheap method to make supercapacitor electrodes for electric cars, high-powered lasers

  17-07-2017 22:36
  
  Supercapacitors are an aptly named type of device that can store and deliver energy faster than conventional batteries. They are in high demand for applications including electric cars, wireless telecommunications and high-powered lasers.
  
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• Where's the beef on the loss leader strategy?

  17-07-2017 22:27
  
  Deep discounting by retailers, accompanied by a blitz of promotions, is a long-established and well-accepted strategy for boosting brand and category sales. But relatively few studies have analyzed store-level data in an effort to compile systematic empirical evidence on the impact of deep discounting on such store performance metrics as traffic, sales, and profits. New research delves into the numbers to find out if the received wisdom is justified.
  
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• Review article discusses potential role, benefits of non-rhizobia bacteria in root nodules of legume

  17-07-2017 22:26
  
  For many years, it was believed that the only nitrogen-fixing organisms of legume nodules were rhizobia. However, there is a strikingly diverse population of non-rhizobia bacteria often detected within nodules obtained from soil, revealing a complex phytomicrobiome, whose interactions likely affect the behavior and fitness of the host plant.
  
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• Key to speeding up carbon sequestration discovered

  17-07-2017 22:23
  
  Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean. Simply adding a common enzyme to the mix, the researchers have found, can make that rate-limiting part of the process go 500 times faster.
  
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• Material from shellfish delivers a boost to bioassays and medical tests

  17-07-2017 22:22
  
  Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered a simple way to raise the accuracy of diagnostic tests for medicine and common assays for laboratory research. By adding polydopamine—a material that was first isolated from shellfish—to these tests at a key step, the team could increase the sensitivity of these common bioassays by as many as 100 to 1,000 times.
  
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• The "Eleven Dimensional" Brain? Topology of Neural Networks

  17-07-2017 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last month, a neuroscience paper appeared that triggered a maelstrom of media hype:
  The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 DimensionsThe human brain sees the world as an 11-dimensional multiverseScientists find mysterious shapes and structures in the brain with up to ELEVEN dimensionsThe paper, published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, comes from the lab of Henry Markram, one of the world's most powerful neuroscientists. As well as being head of the Blue Br
  
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• New assessment identifies global hotspots for water conflict

  17-07-2017 22:20
  
  More than 1,400 new dams or water diversion projects are planned or already under construction and many of them are on rivers flowing through multiple nations, fueling the potential for increased water conflict between some countries.
  
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• Some invasive species actually help their new habitats thrive

  17-07-2017 21:57
  
  EnvironmentMore nuance, less nativism.
  In a few coastal areas, invasive species could help instead of harm. Read on.
  
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• Astronomers Discover Smallest Star to Date, EBLM J0555-57Ab

  17-07-2017 21:30 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered the smallest star to date. The star is about the size of Saturn....
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• What makes red algae so different and why should we care?

  17-07-2017 21:00
  
  The red algae called Porphyra and its ancestors have thrived for millions of years in the harsh habitat of the intertidal zone—exposed to fluctuating temperatures, high UV radiation, severe salt stress, and desiccation.
  
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• Invasive plant species can enhance coastal ecosystems

  17-07-2017 21:00
  
  Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Wilmington finds.
  
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• Hundred-year-old law on fluid flow overturned by new research

  17-07-2017 21:00
  
  Engineers from Imperial College London have dispelled a 100-year-old scientific law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks.
  
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• Astronomers don't know what's causing these weird radio waves from a nearby star - The Verge

  17-07-2017 20:51
  
  The Verge
  Astronomers don't know what's causing these weird radio waves from a nearby star
  The Verge
  Bizarre radio signals seem to be coming from a small red star about 11 light-years from Earth, and astronomers aren't exactly sure what's causing them. The signals were first picked up in May by scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
  Ross 128: Mystery Radio Signals Detected From Red Dwarf Star Just 11 Light-Years AwayNewsweek
  Astronomers Detect Strange Signals from Red Dwarf StarS
  
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• NASA communications satellite damaged 3 weeks before launch

  17-07-2017 20:41
  
  NASA's newest, slickest communications satellite has been damaged, just three weeks before its planned August launch.
  
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• Vegetarian and vegan diets aren't necessarily more healthy

  17-07-2017 20:39
  
  HealthEspecially if they don't involve actual vegetables.
  A new study finds that vegetarian and vegan diets heavy in processed foods are still really unhealthy.Here's what you need to know:…
  
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• Fin24.com | Uber wants help from Fikile Mbalula

  17-07-2017 20:36
  
  Uber is calling for a meeting with Police Minister Fikile Mbalula, following the death of one of its drivers and ongoing violence against their workers and passengers.
  
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• Amphibians can become tolerant to pesticides, but at a cost

  17-07-2017 20:33
  
  Amphibians can develop tolerance to pesticides, but this tolerance can lead to increased susceptibility to parasites, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
  
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• Lab develops way to spot defects inside hard-to-image materials

  17-07-2017 20:25
  
  It's hard to get an X-ray image of low-density material like tissue between bones because X-rays just pass right through like sunlight through a window. But what if you need to see the area that isn't bone?
  
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• Cassini Views Enceladus’ Intriguing South-Polar Jets

  17-07-2017 20:22 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. Observations of the...
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• New light on the secret life of badgers

  17-07-2017 20:13
  
  Previous studies have fuelled the assumption that badgers are a territorial and anti-social species, living in exclusive, tight-knit family groups, known as 'setts'. This picture of the mammal's social system led to the belief that they actively defend territorial borders and consequently rarely travel beyond their social-group boundaries. Some culling and vaccination programmes now rely on this perception, considering badger society as being divided up into discrete, impenetrable units.
  
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• Space station project seeks to crystalize the means to counteract nerve poisons

  17-07-2017 20:08
  
  The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) may hold the key to improving our understanding of how to combat toxic nerve agents such as sarin and VX. That is the hope of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) project that is part of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health aimed at developing improved antidotes for chemical agents.
  
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• NASA Neutron star mission begins science operations

  17-07-2017 20:05
  
  NASA's new Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission to study the densest observable objects in the universe has begun science operations.
  
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• Citizen science project discovers new brown dwarf

  17-07-2017 20:03
  
  One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star. Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA-funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project when it began in February—not knowing she would become one of four volunteers to help identify the project's first brown dwarf, formally known as WISEA J110125.95+540052.8.
  
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• What Would It Take to Wipe Out All Life on Earth?

  17-07-2017 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first exoplanet was spotted in 1988. Since then more than 3,000 planets have been found outside our solar system, and it’s thought that around 20 percent of Sun-like stars have an Earth-like planet in their habitable zones. We don’t yet know if any of these host life – and we don’t know how life begins. But even if life does begin, would it survive?Earth has undergone at least five mass extinctions in its history. It’s long been thought that an asteroid impact e
  
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• Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain

  17-07-2017 19:44
  
  HealthDid his back trouble help kill him?
  Doctors have examined JFK's medical records to create a detailed report of the President's back pain and how it shaped his career—and possibly even his death. Read on.
  
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• Reebok Trolls Trump on Twitter for Appraising Mrs. Macron's Body

  17-07-2017 19:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Reebok is drawing attention after tweeting out a humorous take on President Donald Trump's foot-in-mouth comments on the first lady of France.
  
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• China Accelerates Gene Technology In Drive To Create Human Super-Soldiers

  17-07-2017 19:24 via technocracy.news
  
  Already heavily embedded in Technocracy, China has zero ethical problems with using technology for any conceivable advantage to its own cause. Technocracy prepares society for scientific dictatorship while Transhumanism prepares humanity to live in a Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorArmies of super-soldiers were a step closer to reality today after China announced it was genetically engineering hyper-muscular super-dogs.
  The dogs, which are test tube bred in a lab, have twice the muscle mass o
  
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• How to avoid eBay scams

  17-07-2017 19:19
  
  DIYSafely buy and sell your products.
  Most transactions on eBay are safe and hassle-free. To ensure all of them go smoothly, here's how to avoid scammers.
  
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• Size key to top speed in animals, study finds

  17-07-2017 19:14
  
  It's not quite E=mc2, but scientists unveiled Monday a simple, powerful formula that explains why some animals run, fly and swim faster than all others.
  
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• More children living in high-poverty neighborhoods following Great Recession

  17-07-2017 19:05
  
  More children are living in high-poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession - a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.
  
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• Police Will Soon Get Instant Facial Recognition Features On Body Cameras

  17-07-2017 19:01 via technocracy.news
  
  You will quickly see that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is deeply involved in this technology, and invested directly in Neurala. DARPA develops technology for military use, and is heavily weighted toward transhuman advances that will lead to human-machine hybrids, or super-soldiers. With the implementation of 5G wireless being rolled out very soon, these cameras will have high-speed and real-time integration with the Internet of Everything, massive surveillance and intelligen
  
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• Fin24.com | SEE: A finger-licking good smartphone

  17-07-2017 18:41
  
  International chicken fast-food franchise KFC has launched a limited edition Huawei smartphone.
  
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• Become a certified security expert with this ethical hacking training

  17-07-2017 18:30
  
  Sponsored PostLearn how to hack for a living and secure your own network.
  Become a certified security expert with this ethical hacking training. Learn how to hack for a living and secure your own network.
  
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• Sorry, but artificial sweeteners won’t help you lose weight

  17-07-2017 18:27
  
  HealthQuit now while you still can.
  If you’re gonna call something “diet,” it should have to actually help you lose weight. But like real dieting, diet foods don’t work as well in practice as they do in…
  
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• Oil impairs ability of coral reef fish to find homes and evade predators

  17-07-2017 18:25
  
  Just as one too many cocktails can lead a person to make bad choices, a few drops of oil can cause coral reef fish to make poor decisions, according to a paper published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A team of fisheries biologists led by Jacob Johansen and Andrew Esbaugh of The University of Texas Marine Science Institute have discovered that oil impacts the higher-order thinking of coral reef fish in a way that could prove dangerous for them—and for the coral reefs where they m
  
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• Stronger winds heat up West Antarctic ice melt

  17-07-2017 18:24
  
  New research published today in Nature Climate Change has revealed how strengthening winds on the opposite side of Antarctica, up to 6000kms away, drive the high rate of ice melt along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
  
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• Mutation speeds up sperm of zebra finches

  17-07-2017 18:23
  
  In zebra finches, sperm velocity and morphology and hence reproductive success strongly depend on a specific mutation (an inversion) on one of the sex chromosomes, called Z. This was discovered by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen. Males always carry two copies of the Z chromosome, but those that possess two different versions of it, one regular and one inverted, benefit from an optimal sperm design. Even under the strongest selection, in which only the fastest
  
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• Australia Responds To Al Gore’s Visit: Who’s Afraid Of The Big, Bad Climate Monster?

  17-07-2017 18:23 via technocracy.news
  
  Al Gore is a two-bit con-man who has made his fortune using extreme fear and public manipulation, but many are seeing through the huckster’s scam. And, if Al Gore is a willful liar, what does that say about his ‘settled science’ of climate change? His idea of ‘settled’ is whether or not the funds reached his bank account or not. ⁃ TN EditorIn Al Gore’s latest cinematic dose of climate scaremongering, a young Asian man is crying.“I feel so sca
  
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• Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies

  17-07-2017 18:22
  
  MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers have devised a way to image biopsy samples with much higher resolution—an advance that could help doctors develop more accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests.
  
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• NASA Records the Eerie Sounds of Plasma Waves Surrounding Earth

  17-07-2017 18:19 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA scientists, with the help of the Van Allen Probes mission, have recorded the eerie sounds made by different plasma waves in the particle symphony...
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• Mac-n-cheese probably isn't more toxic than other foods

  17-07-2017 18:05
  
  HealthBecause everything you love is toxic.
  A new report says that mac and cheese is toxic, but the truth is a lot more complicated. Read on.
  
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• Breathable, wearable electronics on skin for long-term health monitoring

  17-07-2017 18:02
  
  A hypoallergenic electronic sensor can be worn on the skin continuously for a week without discomfort, and is so light and thin that users forget they even have it on, says a Japanese group of scientists. The elastic electrode constructed of breathable nanoscale meshes holds promise for the development of noninvasive e-skin devices that can monitor a person's health continuously over a long period.
  
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