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• Size and Color Saturation, a Perceptual Connection?

  25-07-2017 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paint a room in light colors to make it look bigger. Wear black to look slimmer. These are well known facts about how color influences our perception—but it's not all black and white.New research from Boston College is showing that color saturation — how pure a color is — affects how we perceive an objects' size. The more saturated a color is, the bigger something looks, the researchers say, with attendant implications for marketing and design. More than that, however, the
  
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• Trump says Apple will build 'three big plants, beautiful plants' in the US - The Verge

  25-07-2017 23:03
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  Trump says Apple will build 'three big plants, beautiful plants' in the US
  The Verge
  President Trump says he's finally gotten somewhere in his years-long crusade to get Apple to build more products in the US. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal today, Trump said that Apple CEO Tim Cook called him and committed to build “three ...
  Apple will bring 3 manufacturing plants to US, President Trump revealsAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
  Apple Plans to Build Three 'Big' Fac
  
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• ThinkGeek Almost Immediately Sells Out Of NES Classic Edition Restock - Forbes

  25-07-2017 23:01
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  ThinkGeek Almost Immediately Sells Out Of NES Classic Edition Restock
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  If you're a retro gamer and fancy yourself a fast clicker, you just may be celebrating right now. If you were slow on the Nintendo uptake, some frustrated tears might be in order. Earlier today, nerd culture emporium ThinkGeek posted a fresh batch of ...
  Get the NES Classic on ThinkGeek while you can [Updated: You can't]Ars Technica
  NES Classic Edition Back In Stock Now, But Only in $140+ Bundles [UPDATE: Out Of
  
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• Sperm counts of Western men plummeting, analysis finds - CNN

  25-07-2017 22:52
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  Sperm counts of Western men plummeting, analysis finds
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  (CNN) Sperm counts of men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are plunging, according to a new analysis published Tuesday. Among these men there has been a 52% decline in sperm concentration and a 59% decline in total sperm count ...
  Sperm count drop 'may lead to human extinction'BBC News
  Sperm concentration has declined 50 percent in 40 years in three continentsWashington Post
  185 studies reveal men's sperm cou
  
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• Why the latest study on football players’ brains is so important

  25-07-2017 22:34
  
  HealthResearchers found evidence of CTE in 99 percent of the deceased former NFL players they studied.
  Scientists have published one of the most definitive studies on CTE’s connection to football thus far.
  
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• CTE Study Sends Shock Waves Through World Of Football (Part 1) - Forbes

  25-07-2017 22:32
  CTE Study Sends Shock Waves Through World Of Football (Part 1)
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  A dramatic story in the New York Times will send shockwaves throughout the world of football and other collision sports. The article details the findings of a study done by Dr. Ann McKee and researchers at Boston University and VA Boston Healthcare ...and more »
  
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• Musk And Zuckerberg Square-Off Over Risks Of AI But One Of Them Has Far More Experience - Forbes

  25-07-2017 22:10
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  Musk And Zuckerberg Square-Off Over Risks Of AI But One Of Them Has Far More Experience
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  Tesla CEO Elon Musk is generally a pretty mild-mannered guy but words from the young and almost always opinionated Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, may have gotten Musk's hackles up, and for good reason. In a recent Facebook live video stream, ...
  AP Explains: Should you be worried about the rise of AI?Washington Post
  What Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg both get wrong about AIMashable
  Biz Bre
  
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• NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Gets a Better View of Saturn’s Rings

  25-07-2017 22:08 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new image of Saturn’s rings on April 10th at a distance of 1.1 million kilometers. Although the rings lack the...
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• Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs, study finds

  25-07-2017 22:06
  A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are benefiting from "coral gardening," the process of restoring coral populations by planting laboratory-raised coral fragments on reefs.
  
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• When should the police use confrontational tactics?

  25-07-2017 22:05
  Citizens depend on police to provide public safety while maintaining the trust of the community. How can democratic societies balance these two, often conflicting, aims—given citizens' often divergent views over basic tenets of criminal justice policy?
  
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• Large, distant comets more common than previously thought

  25-07-2017 22:02
  Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the solar system, many "long-period comets" will never approach the sun in a person's lifetime. In fact, those that travel inward from the Oort Cloud—a group of icy bodies beginning roughly 300 billion kilometers away from the sun—can have periods of thousands or even millions of years.
  
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• Well-designed visual aids improve risk understanding

  25-07-2017 21:14
  A University of Oklahoma professor, Edward T. Cokely, shows that informed decision making depends on the ability to accurately evaluate and understand information about risk in a newly published study in the scientific journal Human Factors. A state-of-the-science review of the literature concludes that visual aids are beneficial for diverse people with different levels of numeracy and graph literacy. Cokely identifies five categories of practical, evidence-based guidelines for the evaluation an
  
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• Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet?

  25-07-2017 21:11
  The idea of geoengineering, also known as climate engineering, is very controversial. But as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in our atmosphere, scientists are beginning to look at possible emergency measures.
  
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• There may be something weird going on with Western men's sperm

  25-07-2017 20:41
  
  HealthThe little swimmers that weren't.
  A meta-analysis of existing literature suggests sperm counts in Western countries have declined by as much as 50 percent.
  
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• Snopes meets $500K crowdfunding goal amid legal battle

  25-07-2017 20:40
  Fact-checking website Snopes.com has quickly met a $500,000 goal set for an online fundraiser amid a legal battle with an outside vendor that Snopes says is holding it hostage.
  
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• Gene therapy helps dogs with muscle dystrophy, humans next?

  25-07-2017 20:29
  Researchers have used gene editing to reverse symptoms in dogs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—a muscle-wasting and life-shortening disease that affects one in 5,000 baby boys.
  
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• Musk, Zuckerberg duel over artificial intelligence

  25-07-2017 20:25
  Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has turned personal between the two technology luminaries.
  
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• Earth's 2017 resource 'budget' spent by next week: report

  25-07-2017 20:25
  Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by next week, said a report Tuesday.
  
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• Physicists master unexplored electron property

  25-07-2017 20:24
  While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies such as transistors and memories, another aspect of the subatomic particle has long remained uncharted. This is the "valley" property which has potential for realizing a new class of technology termed "valleytronics" - similar to electronics (charge) and spintronics (spin). This property arises from the fact that the electrons in the crystal occupy different positions that are quantum mechanically di
  
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• KSU team contributes to DUNE, the world's biggest neutrino experiment

  25-07-2017 20:17
  A large international team of researchers—including Kansas State University scientists—is turning to tiny particles to address big questions about dark matter, black holes and the origins of the universe.
  
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• NASA's infrared view ofpPowerful storms surrounding Typhoon Noru's eye

  25-07-2017 20:15
  NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Noru and gathered infrared data on the cloud top temperatures which gave forecasters an idea of the powerful thunderstorms circling the eye.
  
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• Molecular microscopy illuminates molecular motor motion

  25-07-2017 20:13
  A toddler running sometimes loses footing because both feet come off the ground at the same time. Kinesin motors that move materials around in cells have the same problem, which limits how fast they can traverse a microtubule in the cell and carry cargo, according to Penn State researchers who have now seen these kinesin motors move using an unusual microscope and tagging method.
  
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• Smart surface enables advanced manipulation of droplets

  25-07-2017 20:11
  For many years, engineers have sought to create a special kind of surface: one that can both repel and absorb liquids, and whose ability to do so—its "wetting behaviour"—can be quickly and precisely controlled. The technology would have a wide range of potential applications, from water filtration and biomedical devices to liquid optical lenses and lab-on-a-chip systems.
  
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• NASA spots a waning Tropical Depression Kulap

  25-07-2017 20:04
  Kulap is now a tropical depression moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible light image of the diminishing storm.
  
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• Health commentators say there is a lingering consent problem in biobanking

  25-07-2017 20:00
  Researchers throughout the world are going to great lengths to get hold of your genes, tissue and health information. Yet, remarkably, there is very little consensus on how they should be going about doing that. In an essay publishing 25 July in the open access journal PLOS Biology, University of Alberta health law researchers Timothy Caulfield and Blake Murdoch argue that there remains a deep lack of clarity around basic legal and ethical principles surrounding consent, and that these issues ar
  
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• NEOWISE Reveals Size Distributions of Comet Populations

  25-07-2017 19:39 via scitechdaily.com
  Using NEOWISE data from the four-band and three-band cryogenic phases of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, astronomers reveal that large, distant comets are more...
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• The troubling truth about vitamins and herbal supplements

  25-07-2017 19:37
  
  HealthThere’s shockingly little oversight of the companies who sell herbs and vitamins.
  Supplements are emblazoned with promises that offer quick and easy solutions in a way that medicine can’t—because medicine is bound by evidence. Supplements aren’t.
  
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• Crucial Steps Ahead for Flying Cars

  25-07-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Flying cars are up against a wall — literally. Turning aircraft into street-safe machines requires manufacturers to prove their safety standards in crash tests. So at least one expensive prototype needs to get smashed to smithereens, while its dummy passengers survive. This is no small financial hurdle, and for a decade the industry has been just a few years away from getting models street-certified.
  Flying Cars, or Driveable Planes?
  Farthest along, perhaps, are the MIT-graduate founders o
  
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• WATCH: Microsoft to keep Paint program after 'outpouring of support'

  25-07-2017 19:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Fans of the app were outraged and took to social media to voice their anguish.
  
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• Musk, Zuckerberg in Social Media Spat Over Doomsday Scenario

  25-07-2017 19:26 via nbcnews.com
  Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are having a rare public social media slapdown over their differing views on the future impact of artificial intelligence.
  
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• Cassini Continues to Reveal Surprises During Its Grand Finale

  25-07-2017 19:03 via scitechdaily.com
  The Cassini Spacecraft continues to make its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, revealing surprising details about the planet. Scientists are...
  The post Cassini Continues to Reveal Surprises During Its Grand Finale appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Why One Company Plans to Install Microchips in Employees

  25-07-2017 19:02 via nbcnews.com
  Executives with Three Square Market, which provides technology for mini-markets and kiosks, insist they aren't trying to become Big Brother.
  
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• Forget MS Paint—get these digital drawing tools and apps instead

  25-07-2017 19:01
  
  DIYYou don't need paint or Paint to make a masterpiece.
  Microsoft Paint may be deprecated, but never fear. From drawing tools to apps, these are the accessories you need to make digital art. So go ahead—get creative.
  
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• Technocracy: Wake Up To The Rockefeller Movie Of Political Reality

  25-07-2017 18:56 via technocracy.news
  Utopia is the promise but slavery is the end of the matter. If you believe the con, you will pay with your life and soul. If you don’t believe the con, you will fight the scammers until they no longer have any control. Technocracy would never survive if Technocrats told the truth about their intentions. ⁃ TN EditorThe key document here is the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation brainstorming exercise, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development&rdquo
  
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• Police turn to hackathons as crime fighting goes digital

  25-07-2017 18:31
  Police and law enforcement staff are turning to hackathons – collaborative events for developing technology – to come up with new ways of searching for clues within the terabytes of data that many people produce every year.
  
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• Freshwater flow affects Everglades fish, but how?

  25-07-2017 18:29
  With tarpon fishing season at its peak, FIU scientists are tracking the saltwater fish throughout the Florida Everglades. They want to know how water conditions affect some of the state's most lucrative recreational fisheries.
  
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• Satellite shows Tropical Storm Greg being affected by wind shear

  25-07-2017 18:26
  NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided an infrared look at a disorganized Tropical Storm Greg as it continues to weaken and get battered by wind shear in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Storm Sonca making landfall in Vietnam

  25-07-2017 18:26
  NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Sonca as it began making landfall in Vietnam. Aqua gathered temperature data using infrared light that showed the extent of the strongest storms. Those storms were generating heavy rains that were expected to affect Vietnam, Thailand and Laos.
  
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• NASA looks at Hurricane Irwin in infrared light

  25-07-2017 18:25
  NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Irwin as it was strengthening toward hurricane status. Aqua gathered temperature data using infrared light that revealed the power building within.
  
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• France appeals for help in fighting Cote d'Azur fires

  25-07-2017 18:24
  France asked for Europe's help Tuesday in fighting wild fires that have consumed swathes of forest in the southeast, one of which is raging near the popular resort of Saint-Tropez.
  
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• Six billion records hacked so far this year: researchers

  25-07-2017 18:19
  A surge in computer hacking has led to the breach of more than six billion records so far this year, topping the total for 2016, security researchers said Tuesday.
  
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• Colorizing images with deep neural networks

  25-07-2017 18:13
  For decades, image colorization has enjoyed an enduring interest from the public. Though not without its share of detractors, there is something powerful about this simple act of adding color to black and white imagery, whether it be a way of bridging memories between the generations, or expressing artistic creativity. However, the process of manually adding color can be very time consuming and require expertise, with typical professional processes taking hours or days per image to perfect. A te
  
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• Total Solar Eclipse 2017: How to Watch Safely and When - Newsweek

  25-07-2017 18:01
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  Total Solar Eclipse 2017: How to Watch Safely and When
  Newsweek
  The total solar eclipse being called the “Great American Eclipse” will pass through 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21. Though eclipses are not rare per se, it's uncommon for a total solar eclipse to sweep across the third most ...
  Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA's WB-57F jetsPhys.Org
  This is what a solar eclipse looks like from spaceWPXI Pittsburgh
  Solar Eclipse Dates: NASA To Fly J
  
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• Flash loses final appeal: Adobe sentences its web tech to death - CNET

  25-07-2017 18:01
  CNET
  Flash loses final appeal: Adobe sentences its web tech to death
  CNET
  Armor Games' Crush the Castle is one of thousands of games written for Adobe's Flash Player, which is being squeezed off the web. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET. The Flash Player has been there for you all along, inside your browser, making it ...
  Adobe to Stop Distributing and Updating Flash in 2020Mac Rumors
  Get ready to finally say goodbye to Flash — in 2020TechCrunch
  How Apple, Microsoft, Google, and
  
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• This engineer has a wild plan to save coral reefs from climate change

  25-07-2017 17:59
  
  From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News A different kind of pipeline.
  An American researcher wants to use energy generated by ocean waves to pump cool water to heat-stressed corals through a durable, lightweight pipe he designed.
  
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• GM 2Q net earnings fall on loss from sale of European unit

  25-07-2017 17:51
  General Motors' second-quarter net profit fell more than 40 percent as the carmaker lost money on the sale of its European unit and took charges for restructuring in India and selling its business in South Africa.
  
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• Team uses airborne telescopes to study Sun and Mercury during total solar eclipse

  25-07-2017 17:50
  A team led by Southwest Research Institute will use airborne telescopes aboard NASA research aircraft to study the solar corona and Mercury's surface during this summer's total solar eclipse. The August 21 observations will provide the clearest images to date of the Sun's outer atmosphere and attempt the first-ever "thermal images" of surface temperature variations on Mercury.
  
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• Global ransomware attacks on the rise: Europol

  25-07-2017 17:50
  Global ransomware attacks soared by over 11 percent in the 12 months to March, Europol reported Tuesday, but specialist tools developed with its partners had helped unlock some 28,000 encrypted devices.
  
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• New research reveals potential for synthetic materials systems that can 'count' and sense their size

  25-07-2017 17:49
  From the smallest cell to humans, most organisms can sense their local population density and change behavior in crowded environments. For bacteria and social insects, this behavior is referred to as "quorum sensing." Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering have utilized computational modeling to mimic such quorum sensing behavior in synthetic materials, which could lead to devices with the ability for self-recognition and self-regulation.
  
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• Suomi NPP Satellite sees Hilary on verge of major hurricane status

  25-07-2017 17:47
  NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Hurricane Hilary as it continued to strengthen. The National Hurricane Center expects Hilary to become a major hurricane on July 27.
  
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