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• How to prepare for a hurricane

  25-08-2017 23:20
  
  DIYKeep an eye on the weather.
  As Hurricane Harvey looms over Texas, residents are hunkering down—or evacuating. Here's what you should do when faced with a hurricane.
  
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• To make chef Jet Tila's chewy drunken noodles, you'll need to brush up on your chemistry

  25-08-2017 22:30
  DIYMake rice noodles with two hotel pans and a whole lot of science.
  Food Network star and cookbook author Jet Tila teaches us the science of making rice noodles from scratch, which he uses in his signature drunken noodles dish.
  
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• Astronomers Map Vigorous Atmospheric Motion in the Red Supergiant Star Antares

  25-08-2017 22:26 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the...
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• 70 percent of iPhone buyers won't even consider another brand - CNET

  25-08-2017 22:17 via cnet.com
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  70 percent of iPhone buyers won't even consider another brand
  CNET
  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. iPhone 7 Plus. $1,000 is too expensive, say iPhone lovers. But many will buy it anyway. Sarah Tew/CNET. Samsung has now released its new phones. Apple will ...
  Apple's forthcoming iPhone 8 will reportedly cost $999Business Insider
  Tim Cook Hits the Road to Visit Testing Equipment Manufacturer CTS in Cincinnati [Updated]Mac Rumors
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• Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice

  25-08-2017 22:05
  "Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then we get their leftovers—or their waste.
  
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• Hurricane Harvey—the strange storm set to hit Texas—is picking up speed

  25-08-2017 22:03
  
  EnvironmentFear the floods.
  Hurricane Harvey is getting ready to hit the Texas Gulf Coast.
  
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• Bell Prize goes to scientists who proved 'spooky' quantum entanglement is real

  25-08-2017 22:03
  A trio of scientists who defied Einstein by proving the nonlocal nature of quantum entanglement will be honoured with the John Stewart Bell Prize from the University of Toronto (U of T). The prize recognizes the most significant recent achievements in the world in quantum mechanics and is considered by many to be the top international award in the field.
  
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• Android TV: Android Oreo Is Here, This Is What You Get - Android Headlines

  25-08-2017 21:44 via androidheadlines.com
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  Android TV: Android Oreo Is Here, This Is What You Get
  Android Headlines
  So it finally happened this week. The final and consumer-ready version of Android O has now arrived and with a name. Android O is now officially Android Oreo. While this is exciting for the Android world, it is probably a little less exciting for those ...
  Android Oreo Review: Google Builds a Better OSTom's Guide
  10 Common Android 8.0 Oreo Problems & How to Fix ThemGotta Be Mobile
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• Eteplirsen: A Curious Scientific Controversy

  25-08-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In April 2016, an FDA committee voted not to recommend acceptance of eteplirsen, a drug designed to treat muscular dystrophy. In September, however, the FDA did approve the drug, following a heated internal debate.This wasn't the end of the story, however. What followed was an unusual scientific controversy that played out in the peer-reviewed literature, discussed in a Retraction Watch post this week.Following the approval of eteplirsen, Ellis Unger and Robert Califf wrote a let
  
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• US, Canada to investigate deaths of endangered whales

  25-08-2017 21:26
  Federal officials plan to provide more details on their investigation into the recent deaths of several endangered North Atlantic right whales
  
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• This mysterious ancient tablet could teach us a thing or two about math

  25-08-2017 21:24
  
  ScienceSome researchers say the Babylonians invented trigonometry—and did it better.
  Some researchers say the Babylonians invented trigonometry—and did it better.
  
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• The Latest: Analyst doubts Samsung scandal will hurt phones

  25-08-2017 21:14
  A technology analyst doubts the imprisonment of Samsung's scandalized chief will knock the company off its perch as the world's leading maker of smartphones
  
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• US, Canada to collaborate to investigate right whales deaths

  25-08-2017 20:56
  Federal officials plan to provide more details on their investigation into the recent deaths of several endangered North Atlantic right whales
  
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• Fin24.com | Huawei ambushes Samsung outside Joburg office

  25-08-2017 20:43
  
  In a clear ambush marketing strategy, Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei parked a branded vehicle outside Samsung’s Johannesburg offices, taking a cheap shot at Samsung Note8 launch.
  
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• FBI: Chinese national supplied rare, malicious malware

  25-08-2017 20:42
  Authorities say a Chinese national has been charged in California with distributing a type of computer malware that has been linked to attacks on U.S. businesses and to the theft of personnel records of millions of U.S. government employees
  
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• Even Monkeys See Faces in Things

  25-08-2017 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The impression that your cup of coffee is laughing at you, or that your laundry machine has googly eyes, is uncanny but common. It's even the subject of a Twitter account called Faces in Things with more than half a million followers. The account has featured winking chairs, moping suitcases and a smug lemon loaf. But this illusion, called face pareidolia, isn't uniquely human. Monkeys can see it too. Face pareidolia could be a side effect of humans' skill for abstr
  
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• Conformal metasurface coating eliminates crosstalk and shrinks waveguides

  25-08-2017 19:49
  The properties of materials can behave in funny ways. Tweak one aspect to make a device smaller or less leaky, for example, and something else might change in an undesirable way, so that engineers play a game of balancing one characteristic against another. Now a team of Penn State electrical engineers have a way to simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides by using a two-layer coating, each layer with a near zero thickness and weight.
  
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• New results reveal high tunability of 2-D material, provide most precise band gap measurement for monolayer moly sulfide

  25-08-2017 19:36
  Two-dimensional materials are a sort of a rookie phenom in the scientific community. They are atomically thin and can exhibit radically different electronic and light-based properties than their thicker, more conventional forms, so researchers are flocking to this fledgling field to find ways to tap these exotic traits.
  
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• NASA look at Tropical Storm Pakhar in infrared light

  25-08-2017 19:36
  NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Pakhar and gathered temperature data to determine the location of the most powerful storms within. Pakhar has triggered a number of warnings throughout the Philippines as the storm moves closer.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers shareholders vote in support of pay policy

  25-08-2017 19:29
  
  Naspers shareholders have voted in favour of its remuneration policy. This comes after investor Allan Gray said it would vote against the policy, pointing to an over-reliance on its 34% stake in Tencent.
  
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• Fin24.com | INTERVIEW: Naspers CEO on growth vs profit … and the pay policy

  25-08-2017 19:28
  
  Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk believes the company’s business model is aimed at hyper-growth and not short-term profits, and says “loyal” shareholders have supported the firm’s pay policy.
  
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• Want to Sell Your Home to the Highest Bidder? Get More Likes on Social Media

  25-08-2017 19:17 via nbcnews.com
  Home listings that are saved by 30 or more people within the first week of posting sell in less than two weeks, and 40 percent sell above the asking price.
  
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• Astronomers Demonstrate a Powerful New Technique for Observing Stars

  25-08-2017 19:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the most detailed study yet of the Pleiades star cluster. The...
  The post Astronomers Demonstrate a Powerful New Technique for Observing Stars appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• The Latest: US, Canada to collaborate on whale investigation

  25-08-2017 19:12
  Marine authorities in the U.S. and Canada say they will marshal resources to try to find out what's behind a string of deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales
  
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• Digital rights groups want more information on Facebook's policing of offensive content

  25-08-2017 18:50
  With more than 2 billion users worldwide, Facebook has been making tough calls when it comes to policing hate speech, harassment, nudity and violence online.
  
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• Drones Could Save Retailers Billions Lost Through Faulty Inventory Records

  25-08-2017 18:28 via scitechdaily.com
  Engineers from MIT have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses at a distance of several...
  The post Drones Could Save Retailers Billions Lost Through Faulty Inventory Records appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• This yarn makes its own electricity

  25-08-2017 18:22
  
  ScienceBatteries not required.
  Researchers created an energy generating yarn made out of coiled carbon nanotubes—and it's as awesome as it sounds.
  
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• New Hydrogel Material Could Aid Body’s Cellular Repair Process

  25-08-2017 18:18 via scitechdaily.com
  In a newly published study, biomolecular engineers and doctors demonstrated a therapeutic material that could one day promote better tissue regeneration following a wound or...
  The post New Hydrogel Material Could Aid Body’s Cellular Repair Process appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Nandan Nilekani lays out his agenda at India's Infosys

  25-08-2017 18:00
  Nandan Nilekani, the newly appointed chairman of troubled Indian software services giant Infosys, said Friday he wanted to find a new chief executive, reconstitute the board and stabilise a business roiled with conflict in recent months.
  
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• Should NASA keep flying flagship missions? A new report weighs in

  25-08-2017 17:50
  NASA's biggest, most ambitious missions may cost billions - but they're well worth it, according to a report published Thursday.
  
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• Iran media report Apple shuts down Iranian apps

  25-08-2017 17:44
  Iranian media are reporting that Apple Inc. has removed all Iranian mobile apps from its App Store.
  
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• Authorities say Apple shuts down Iranian apps

  25-08-2017 17:44
  Apple Inc. has removed all Iranian mobile apps from its App Store, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Tech companies unlikely to follow S&P's new Snap-inspired rules

  25-08-2017 17:40
  When the company that produces the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index announced this month that it would exclude the corporate parent of Snapchat from its benchmark market measure, the move was cheered by advocates of better corporate governance.
  
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• NASA gets an in-depth look at intensifying Hurricane Harvey

  25-08-2017 17:28
  As Hurricane Harvey continued to strengthen, NASA analyzed the storm's rainfall, cloud heights and cloud top temperatures. NASA's GPM and Aqua satellite provided information while an animation of GOES-East satellite imagery showed Harvey's progression toward the Texas coast.
  
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• Investigators sharpen focus on deaths of endangered whales

  25-08-2017 17:21
  Federal officials plan to provide more details on their investigation into the recent deaths of several endangered North Atlantic right whales
  
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• A Galapagos seabird's population expected to shrink with ocean warming

  25-08-2017 17:19
  Within the next century, rising ocean temperatures around the Galápagos Islands are expected to make the water too warm for a key prey species, sardines, to tolerate. A new study by Wake Forest University biologists, published in PLOS ONE Aug. 23, uses decades of data on the diet and breeding of a tropical seabird, the Nazca booby, to understand how the future absence of sardines may affect the booby population.
  
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• The Essential Phone Is Too Expensive to Have a Camera This Bad - Gizmodo

  25-08-2017 17:18 via gizmodo.com
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  The Essential Phone Is Too Expensive to Have a Camera This Bad
  Gizmodo
  In August 2017, Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, and his disciples at Essential Products descended onto this mortal plane to grace us with the PH-1—a device that seeks to right the wrongs of modern smartphone design. Almost monolithic in appearance ...
  Essential Phone begins shipping, only 58 days late (update)CNET
  Essential Phone (PH-1) ReviewDigital Trends
  The Essential Phone just started shipping to buyer
  
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• Researchers identify cheaper, greener biofuels processing catalyst

  25-08-2017 17:18
  Fuels that are produced from nonpetroleum-based biological sources may become greener and more affordable, thanks to research performed at the University of Illinois' Prairie Research Institute that examines the use of a processing catalyst made from palladium metal and bacteria.
  
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• Fin24.com | Koos Bekker defends Naspers for keeping $132bn Tencent stake

  25-08-2017 16:56
  
  Naspers chairperson Koos Bekker says that the assumption that Tencent is making money and Naspers’s other ventures are loss-making is 'illiterate.'
  
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• How the Folsom Point Became an Archaeological Icon

  25-08-2017 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Folsom spear point, which was excavated in 1927 near the small town of Folsom, New Mexico, is one of the most famous artifacts in North American archaeology, and for good reason: It was found in direct association with the bones of an extinct form of Ice Age bison. The Folsom point therefore demonstrated conclusively, and for the first time, that human beings were in North America during the last Ice Age—thousands of years earlier than previously thought.The Folsom discovery marked t
  
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• Never mind killer robots – even the good ones are scarily unpredictable

  25-08-2017 16:20
  The heads of more than 100 of the world's top artificial intelligence companies are very alarmed about the development of "killer robots". In an open letter to the UN, these business leaders – including Tesla's Elon Musk and the founders of Google's DeepMind AI firm – warned that autonomous weapon technology could be misused by terrorists and despots or hacked to perform in undesirable ways.
  
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• It's a myth that boys have beaten girls in A-level results

  25-08-2017 16:10
  Anyone who knows about the educational underachievement of boys compared to girls will have been surprised by the headlines about the 2017 A-level results. The Telegraph wrote that "boys are beating girls" and spoke of a "dramatic reversal". The Belfast Telegraph also reported that "boys emerged as the winners in this summer's results", while the BBC's article, with the headline "boys help to raise A-level grades" stated:
  
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• Britain to test part-driverless platoons of trucks

  25-08-2017 16:08
  Britain is set to conduct road trials of self-driving trucks, involving a "platoon" of vehicles controlled by a driver in the front.
  
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• The rise of the chatbots

  25-08-2017 16:00
  Skills of the Modern Age (SOMA) has been running an event series about the future, right here in Perth. The events focus on near technologies, with the goal of Australians staying ahead of the curve. SOMA's most recent (and sold out) event in early August looked at the future of interaction with each other and with machines.
  
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• Norway fines tourist guide for scaring polar bear

  25-08-2017 15:52
  Usually the humans are scared of the wild animals. But in the Norwegian far-north, an Arctic tourist guide has been fined 1,300 euros ($1,500) for scaring off a polar bear.
  
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• Chinese national charged with US hacking

  25-08-2017 15:52
  The FBI has charged a Chinese national with using malicious software widely linked to a devastating hack of government databases that saw the personal information of millions of federal workers and contractors stolen.
  
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• 'Mudbug' crabs on the march in central Berlin

  25-08-2017 15:51
  They have pointy eyes, prickly red claws, and they eat just about anything—an exotic crustacean is on the loose in Berlin's central government district.
  
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• Threatened languages and how people relate to them—a Cameroon case study

  25-08-2017 15:50
  The world is going through an unprecedented period of language endangerment. Some experts predict that half of the world's languages will disappear within a century, with urbanisation and the increasing use of major world languages diminishing smaller languages' chances of survival.
  
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• Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo

  25-08-2017 15:45
  A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
  
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• Space.com Staffers Experience the Total Solar Eclipse - Space.com

  25-08-2017 15:44 via space.com
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  Space.com Staffers Experience the Total Solar Eclipse
  Space.com
  Five Space.com staff members traveled to locations around the U.S. to witness the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017. It was the first total solar eclipse that any of us had seen in person, and we all came away awed and inspired. Here's our attempt ...
  The eclipse of 2017Herald Review
  FLOATING: the solar eclipse - 8/21/17HuffPost
  Don't Blame The Eclipse For Messing Up Your Menstrual CycleForbes
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