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• An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims' phone numbers are now for sale - The Verge

  01-09-2017 23:33 via theverge.com
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  An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims' phone numbers are now for sale
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  A bug that exposed users' contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said. The bug, which appears to have been responsible for Selena Gomez's account being hacked this week, allowed hackers to scrape email ...
  Instagram Done Got HackedGizmodo
  Hackers claim to have personal info of millions of Instagram accounts, including celebsTechCrunch
  
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• NASA sees large Tropical Depression Mawar develop

  01-09-2017 21:54
  NASA's Aqua satellite gathered temperature data on Tropical Depression Mawar as it was consolidating in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Satellite imagery showed that this large system was getting better organized.
  
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• Space superwoman returning to Earth with records galore

  01-09-2017 21:36
  The world's most experienced spacewoman returns to Earth this weekend with records galore.
  
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• Satellite tracks post-Tropical Cyclone Harvey spreading into Ohio Valley

  01-09-2017 21:35
  Harvey is beginning to lose tropical characteristics as heavy rain spread toward the Ohio valley on Sept. 1. NOAA's GOES East satellite provided a visible image of the clouds associated with the depression.
  
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• NASA sees Sanvu strengthen into a Typhoon

  01-09-2017 21:35
  Tropical Storm Sanvu continued to strengthen in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite viewed the storm after it became a typhoon.
  
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• Researcher looks at Trump's waterboarding boasts—do they matter?

  01-09-2017 21:34
  A study by a University of Cincinnati researcher is raising critical questions about the Trump administration's approach toward counterterrorism policies.
  
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• NASA gets a night-time and under-the-hood look at Hurricane Irma

  01-09-2017 21:31
  NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite provided a night-time and infrared look at the Atlantic's latest hurricane that revealed the power under the clouds. NASA's GPM also provided a look at the rainfall being generated by Hurricane Irma.
  
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• How Safe Is Your Connected Home?

  01-09-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Security experts are both thrilled and anxious about the internet of things (IoT), the ever-growing collection of smart electronic gadgets that interact with the world around them. It includes devices like internet-connected garage door openers, refrigerators you can text to see if you’re low on milk and tennis rackets that offer tips on a better backhand — even smart sex toys. The technology research firm Gartner estimates that 6.4 billion such IoT devices were connected online in 2
  
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• Most of Houston 'now dry,' as recovery begins

  01-09-2017 21:29
  Houston was limping back to life on Friday one week after Hurricane Harvey slammed into America's fourth-largest city and left a trail of devastation across other parts of southeast Texas.
  
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• British ban on cabin laptops to be lifted: EgyptAir

  01-09-2017 21:28
  Passengers flying with EgyptAir from Cairo to Britain will again be allowed to carry personal electronic devices in aircraft cabins, the North African country's national carrier said on Friday.
  
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• Cleanliness is next to sexiness for golden-collared manakins in Panama

  01-09-2017 21:26
  Few of us would find a marriage proposal made amidst dirty dishes and messy clutter particularly romantic, but we are not the only creatures who realize that cleaning up your act may improve your chances of attracting a mate. Juvenile male golden-collared manakins who received extra testosterone were stimulated to clean up their display area before performing for females, according to research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. The research team's results, published
  
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• Engineered Bacteria Could Lead to Better Drugs

  01-09-2017 21:25 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly developed method allows researchers to learn more about how existing antibiotics work and potentially help them to develop new drugs. MIT and Harvard...
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• Bacteria act as aphrodisiac for the closest relatives of animals

  01-09-2017 21:22
  To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for one-celled marine organisms notable for being the closest living relative of all animals.
  
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• Physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe

  01-09-2017 21:20
  UCLA physicists have proposed new theories for how the universe's first black holes might have formed and the role they might play in the production of heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium.
  
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• Plesiosaurs probably took over the world using all four flippers

  01-09-2017 21:00
  
  AnimalsA debate about dinosaur movement.
  Plesiosaurs definitely had a solid strategy for moving through water.
  
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• Instagram Says Hackers Accessed Celeb Info

  01-09-2017 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  At least one hacker exploited an Instagram bug to get celebrity phone numbers and email addresses, according to the company.
  
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• ESA’s Gaia Satellite Reveals the Rate of Stellar Encounters with the Sun

  01-09-2017 20:05 via scitechdaily.com
  The movements of more than 300,000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of...
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• What Made These Footprints 5.7 Million Years Ago?

  01-09-2017 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's the Friday before a long weekend (at least for most of us in the U.S.) and I get it: You're thinking about your plans for the next few days, wrapping up some stuff before slipping out of the office maybe a little early. You're not in the mindset of having your paradigm shifted. Sorry. A new study suggesting hominins were walking across a Greek island 5.7 million years ago is here to blow your mind.
  In a year of big shake-ups in the story of human evolution, a study published in the
  
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• Astronomers Map Atmospheric Motion in Red Supergiant Star Antares

  01-09-2017 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers have mapped the gas distribution and velocities in the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares, delivering insights into the fate of a star....
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• Irma forecast to remain a 'powerful hurricane for days'

  01-09-2017 18:41
  Hurricane Irma in the central Atlantic is expected to remain a "powerful hurricane" as it heads towards the Caribbean, US weather monitors said Friday.
  
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• A monkey named Spiderman dies in New York at age 43

  01-09-2017 18:41
  A monkey named Spiderman has died at a New York zoo after an unusually long life.
  
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• NASA examines Hurricane Lidia's eye on the Baja

  01-09-2017 18:40
  Hurricane Lidia's eye was visible in NASA satellite imagery as it approached Baja California, Mexico's southernmost tip. Hurricane Lidia was making landfall on the Baja on Sept. 1 at 5 a.m. PDT and continued to bring soaking rains to the region.
  
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• Look at the mysterious ‘dragon booger’ found in Vancouver's Lost Lagoon

  01-09-2017 18:35
  
  AnimalsPond gunk has never been so fascinating.
  “Dragon boogers” go by many names. “Moss animals,” for one, and “bryozoans,” for another. And they totally defy many biological principles.
  
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• NASA’s Van Allen Probes Celebrate Fifth Year in Space

  01-09-2017 18:25 via scitechdaily.com
  Launched in 2012, NASA’s Van Allen Probes are now celebrating their fifth year in space studying the Van Allen Radiation belts. Most satellites, not designed...
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• WATCH: Apple expected to unveil next iPhone on Sept. 12

  01-09-2017 18:01
  Apple sends out invites for a big event to introduce new products.
  
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• Aug 2017 Jobs Report: Labor Day job numbers remain upbeat for Americans with disabilities

  01-09-2017 17:39
  As we celebrate Labor Day, the job news remains upbeat for Americans with disabilities, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment - Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH-IOD). For the population with disability, the trend has now reached 17 consecutive months. Accessible public transportation systems, such as buses and trains, provide pathways to independence for people with disabilities. Target
  
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• This 1,000-year-old oak tree survived Hurricane Harvey

  01-09-2017 17:30
  
  EnvironmentOaks are poised to thrive in a changing climate.
  The community of Rockport has appreciated the tree for more than a hundred years.
  
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• The Incredible Legacy Of Antony Sutton: Persecuted But Never Prosecuted

  01-09-2017 17:25 via technocracy.news
  Antony Sutton uncovered and exposed the globalist cabal and subsequently got kicked out of UCLA and Stanford as his books were blacklisted. I am proud to have co-authored Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II with Sutton, which was also blacklisted and suppressed. Your support to raise awareness of Technocracy News and Trends, which continues in his memory, is critical to the future of liberty and freedom! ⁃ Patrick WoodThe prodigious author and researcher, Antony Sutton
  
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• How This Influential Tech CEO Pays It Forward

  01-09-2017 17:25 via nbcnews.com
  Belkin founder Chet Pipkin is one of the most influential leaders in the tech industry, but the understated CEO is much more than a top California tech giant.
  
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• Google To Conservative Website: Remove ‘Hateful’ Article Or Lose Ad Revenue

  01-09-2017 17:15 via technocracy.news
  Google is not just censoring content; apparently, it is now compiling a list of individuals who it will censor wherever they post, and on whichever website. Thus, websites will be punished for running stories by those banned writers. Google has gone completely rogue, having completely flip-flopped on its original motto, “Don’t be evil.” They are revealing the heart and soul of Technocracy – are you alarmed? ⁃ TN EditorOn Tuesday evening, Google sent a conservat
  
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• Girls in Tech founder embraces challenging mission

  01-09-2017 17:10
  The way Girls in Tech founder Adriana Gascoigne sees it, revelations about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley technology firms are a double-edged sword: They shine a light on a serious problem but depict an environment that can deter women from careers in tech.
  
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• Review: Attention, cord cutters: Tablo Dual brings DVR to your screens

  01-09-2017 17:00
  Recording TV shows for later viewing is something almost everyone who subscribes to pay TV can do.
  
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• Bit data goes anti-skyrmions

  01-09-2017 16:52
  Today's world, rapidly changing because of "big data", is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects - magnetic bits - each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Halle and Dresden have discovered a new kind of magnetic nano-object in a novel material that could serve as a magnetic bit with cloaking properties to make a magnetic disk drive with no moving parts - a Racetrack Memory - a reality in the near future.
  
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• Your smartphone got wet. Here's what not to do first

  01-09-2017 16:50
  Smart phones and water just don't mix, as thousands of people in Texas are learning to their distress during the flooding there.
  
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• Delivery wars are getting hotter as retailers compete with Amazon

  01-09-2017 16:40
  The delivery wars keep getting hotter.
  
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• Google effect unleashes downtown San Jose property boom

  01-09-2017 16:30
  Google's effort to acquire a broad swath of downtown San Jose properties for a massive new tech campus is triggering a sharp jump in selling prices for commercial real estate in the area.
  
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• 93-year-old American woman donates $22 mn to Cologne Zoo

  01-09-2017 16:21
  A 93-year-old widow from the United States has donated $22 million to the zoo in Cologne, Germany, saying she wanted to give back to the city where she and her husband met during World War II, German media reported Friday.
  
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• Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world

  01-09-2017 16:20
  Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world
  
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• AWI's underwater robot Tramper successfully recovered

  01-09-2017 16:18
  On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which had been taking measurements at a depth of 2435 metres for nearly 60 weeks - the first long-term mission involving a crawler under the Arctic sea ice. For the first 24 weeks, the robot took biogeochemical readings at various sites, just as it was intended to. Unfortunately, because of a broken tread, Tramper got stuck in the
  
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• Source code of award-winning knowledge base is now available for everyone

  01-09-2017 16:17
  Almost every word has more than one meaning. Modern search engines solve this problem using knowledge bases. Yago was one of the first knowledge bases, developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and the Télécom ParisTech in Paris. Last week, the researchers received an award for their work on Yago from the most important scientific journal in the field of artificial intelligence. Today, they are releasing Yago's source code.
  
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• ESO's La Silla Observatory will host new planet hunter

  01-09-2017 16:17
  Developed and built by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the University of Montreal, NIRPS (Near Infra Red Planet Searcher) is an infrared spectrograph designed to detect Earth-like rocky planets around the coolest stars. The formal agreement to add NIRPS to the suite of instruments on ESO telescopes was signed on June 7th, 2017 by ESO's Director General Tim de Zeeuw, Michel Oris, Vice-rector at the UNIGE .Marie-Josée Hébert, Vice-rector for Research, Discovery, Cr
  
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• What language tells us about changing attitudes to extremism

  01-09-2017 15:50
  The words "extreme","extremist" and "extremism" carry so many connotations these days – far more than a basic dictionary definition could ever cover. Most would agree that Islamic State, the London Bridge and Manchester Arena attackers, as well as certain "hate preachers" are extremists. But what about Darren Osbourne who attacked the Finsbury Park Mosque? Or Thomas Mair who murdered Labour MP Jo Cox? Or even certain media outlets and public figures who thrive on stirring up hatred between
  
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• Machinery that repairs itself

  01-09-2017 15:40
  In the EU-funded project SelSus, Fraunhofer scientists are collaborating in a consortium with partners from research and industry to develop maintenance technology capable of forecasting machine downtimes in production before they occur. This allows plant managers to rectify faults before the machine breaks down. The system even corrects some defects automatically.
  
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