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• Our pollution might actually be causing thunderstorms

  08-09-2017 23:34
  
  EnvironmentShips could seed clouds for lightning.
  Exhaust pollution from ships is creating lighting storms over the ocean.
  
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• Did Unlimited plans actually cripple Verizon's network? - BGR

  08-09-2017 23:00 via bgr.com
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  Did Unlimited plans actually cripple Verizon's network?
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  Early this year, Verizon launched a fantastic Unlimited data plan. Months later, it abruptly turned one plan into two, and tacked on a bunch of restrictions like mandatory video throttling. Analysts, competitors, and this lowly blogger were quick to ...
  US carriers partner on a better mobile authentication systemEngadget
  Ookla Issues Latest Speedtest Report, Crowns T-Mobile Fastest NetworkDroid Life
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• Destiny 2 DLC Curse Of Osiris Leaks; Bungie Confirms It's Real - GameSpot

  08-09-2017 22:58 via gamespot.com
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  Destiny 2 DLC Curse Of Osiris Leaks; Bungie Confirms It's Real
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  Update: Not that there was much reason to doubt an official store listing, but you can brush away any suspicions you had about Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris. Bungie has confirmed it is real, with marketing director Eric Osborne writing on Twitter, "Curse ...
  Destiny 2's First Expansion Will Be Called 'Curse Of Osiris'Forbes
  'Destiny 2' expansion 'Curse of Osiris' will take players to MercuryBGR
  The first 'Destiny 2' e
  
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• Equifax breach: Criticism from lawmakers, what people can do

  08-09-2017 22:40
  There's no way around it: The news from credit reporting company Equifax that 143 million Americans had their information exposed is extremely serious.
  
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• 117 years on, the storm which destroyed Galveston

  08-09-2017 22:36
  As the United States braced for its second major hurricane in two weeks, Friday marked the 117th anniversary of the deadliest storm in US history, the "Great Galveston Hurricane."
  
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• US court rejects Qualcomm bid to limit Apple lawsuits

  08-09-2017 22:35
  A US federal judge Friday rejected an effort by Qualcomm to limit legal challenges from Apple in the contentious patent battles between the two California technology giants.
  
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• NASA's fleet of satellites covering powerful Hurricane Irma

  08-09-2017 22:33
  NASA's fleet of satellites have been continually providing forecasters with data on Hurricane Irma. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a look at the wide-eye of Irma and if you think about the area of maximum sustained winds around the eye, it's similar to a wide F2 tornado.
  
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• Study on climate change shows how cities can prioritize public health

  08-09-2017 22:31
  The record flooding still devastating southeastern Texas and the ominous approach of Hurricane Irma offer a stark reminder in the importance of advance planning for the impacts of climate change.
  
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• Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways

  08-09-2017 22:31
  If the first thing that comes to mind when you think about ants is "industrious," you might be in for a surprise. In 2015, biologists at the University of Arizona reported that a sizable chunk of the "workers" that make up an ant colony spent the vast majority of their day engaging in one task: doing absolutely nothing.
  
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• 8 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now - BGR

  08-09-2017 22:31 via bgr.com
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  8 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
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  The weekend is finally here, but rather than breathe a sign of relief, we're holding our breath for those in the Southeast who are preparing for Hurricane Irma as it swiftly approaches Florida. We wish there was more we could do to help, but what we ...
  iOS 11: It's gone from awful to awesomeZDNet
  5 ways iOS 11 will change your iPadCNET
  Apple Pay FAQ: The ultimate guide on how and where to use Apple's payment platformMacworld
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• Animal welfare: Potential new indicator of chronic stress in horses

  08-09-2017 22:30
  Cortisol, deemed the quintessential stress hormone, allows us to cope with important events and imminent threats. A spike in cortisol levels mobilizes necessary resources—such as by tapping into our body's reserves to produce energy—and then allows us to return to a stable state. But can our bodies cope with prolonged or repeated stress in the same way? Some studies report lower cortisol levels in humans—or other mammals—subject to chronic stress, while other studies cont
  
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• Researchers invent novel process for extracting sugars from wood

  08-09-2017 22:28
  The shampoo you washed your hair with this morning. The balloons for the party. Refrigerators and sunglasses, medicine and mosquito repellent, guitar strings and fishing lures. These—and thousands of other products we use every day—contain chemicals made from petroleum. But researchers at the University of Delaware can now offer manufacturers a much sweeter alternative to this fossil fuel.
  
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• The Latest: Corporate culture a factor in Equifax breach?

  08-09-2017 22:23
  Expert says website Equifax created for customers after breach raises its own security questions
  
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• China's stealth fighter may be getting a new engine

  08-09-2017 22:15
  
  From Our Blogs: Eastern Arsenal Relying on Russian engines has put China at the mercy of a single, foreign supplier. That could be changing.
  China's J-20 stealth fighter is going to be powered by homemade turbofan engines.
  
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• Cassini Spacecraft Reveals a Wave Structure in Saturn’s Rings

  08-09-2017 21:50 via scitechdaily.com
  This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn’s rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. Resulting from...
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• A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading

  08-09-2017 20:56
  
  EnvironmentDicamba drift blues.
  New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields…
  
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• New Research Shows Antibiotics Work Differently Than Thought

  08-09-2017 20:45 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists at the Wyss Institute used synthetic biology techniques to discover that bacteria respond to antibiotics very differently — exactly opposite, in fact — inside...
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• Take steps now to see if your data was stolen in the Equifax hack - Digital Trends

  08-09-2017 20:37 via digitaltrends.com
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  Take steps now to see if your data was stolen in the Equifax hack
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  We hate to bring you bad news on a Friday – or any day, for that matter – but as you've likely heard by now, hackers gained access to personal information at credit reporting agency Equifax, one of the largest such agencies in America – or the world ...
  Equifax compromised 143 million people's Social Security numbers and other dataThe Verge
  Equifax Twitter account angers users with 'Happy
  
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• What finding boron on Mars actually means in the hunt for alien life

  08-09-2017 20:20
  
  SpaceWe're getting closer.
  You probably don’t think of boron as an essential ingredient to life, because it’s not essential for humans. But on Mars, it might have been crucial.
  
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• Hurricanes Harvey And Irma Can’t Be Blamed On Global Warming

  08-09-2017 20:20 via technocracy.news
  Global warming religionists are already blaming recent hurricanes on a heating planet, even though they have no shred of evidence to that effect. Technocracy is a much a religion as it is a social engineering system. This article sets the record straight. ⁃ TN Editor“Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like: It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming.” That August 28 Politico article by Slate weatherman Eric Holthaus was one of
  
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• Viking Warrior In Famous Grave Was A Woman

  08-09-2017 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  This one goes out to all my fellow shieldmaidens: researchers have confirmed through ancient DNA testing that the warrior buried in a famous Viking grave was a woman.Researchers have excavated hundreds of Viking-era graves at Birka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sweden. One of the graves, originally excavated in the 1880s, was particularly noteworthy for both its position — on a prominent terrace adjacent to what had been a garrison — and for its grave goods, which included a
  
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• Tech to Get You Through a Major Storm

  08-09-2017 19:53 via nbcnews.com
  From the Zello walkie-talkie app to GasBuddy and Snap Maps, these apps can help you stay safe, connected, and up to date as Irma makes landfall.
  
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• 'Sling-shot' show for NASA spacecraft over Australia

  08-09-2017 19:46
  Stargazers will be treated to a rare skyshow when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft 'sling-shots' its way over Australian skies on September 23.
  
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• Fin24.com | Navy ships on display at Durban Port Festival this weekend

  08-09-2017 19:36
  
  Durban’s port will be opened to the public this weekend, with visitors able to tour South African Navy ships, learn about sea rescue and listen to live music and entertainment.
  
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• Mexico's alert system plays its part as quake strikes

  08-09-2017 19:30
  Sirens wailed across Mexico City late Thursday warning its estimated 20 million population of a rapidly approaching quake from the Pacific, the latest use of its effective early warning system.
  
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• If everyone became vegetarian, would the planet actually be better off?

  08-09-2017 19:21
  
  Ask Us Anything Cutting back on red meat is probably the best place to start, but eating the right types of veggies is important, too.
  Losing our dependence on meat is a good start to making sure our food choices are environmentally-friendly, but looking at our food system as a whole isn't a bad idea…
  
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• Toll in Mexico quake rises to at least 32

  08-09-2017 19:20
  Mexico was severely jolted overnight by its most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 32 people as it struck the Pacific coast, officials said Friday.
  
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• In wake of Equifax breach, what to do to safeguard your info

  08-09-2017 19:20
  There's no way around it: The news from credit reporting company Equifax that 143 million Americans had their information exposed is very serious.
  
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• Wild tigers to reappear in Kazakhstan after 70 years

  08-09-2017 19:10
  Wild tigers could be returning to Kazakhstan after a groundbreaking reintroduction plan was signed off Friday.
  
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• Uber acknowledges FBI probe into software tool

  08-09-2017 19:06
  Uber acknowledged Friday it was the subject of a federal investigation into a software tool it used in the past aimed at interfering with competing ride-sharing operators.
  
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• Feds probe Uber's tracking of Lyft drivers (Update)

  08-09-2017 19:06
  The Justice Department in Manhattan is investigating whether Uber illegally used software to track drivers for Lyft, its main ride-hailing competitor, to gain an advantage in attracting and recruiting drivers, according to two people familiar with the probe.
  
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• Team produces unique simulation of magnetic reconnection

  08-09-2017 19:02
  Jonathan Ng, a Princeton University graduate student at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has for the first time applied a fluid simulation to the space plasma process behind solar flares northern lights and space storms. The model could lead to improved forecasts of space weather that can shut down cell phone service and damage power grids, as well as to better understanding of the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.
  
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• With ingenuity and solidarity, Cubans prepare for Irma

  08-09-2017 19:01
  Some tie down the roof tiles on their houses with fishing line and others open their homes to friends and neighbors seeking refuge against Hurricane Irma.
  
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• NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Influences Future Exploration

  08-09-2017 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is nearing the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, and it is having a powerful influence on...
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• Jose an 'extremely dangerous' Category Four hurricane: monitors

  08-09-2017 19:00
  Hurricane Jose strengthened to a powerful Category Four storm Friday as it followed in the path of Hurricane Irma, US weather forecasters said.
  
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• Hurricane records broken in 2017

  08-09-2017 19:00
  Not even halfway into the 2017 hurricane season, and before Irma makes landfall in Florida, tropical mega-storms in the Atlantic basin have already broken several records, and challenged others, experts say.
  
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• Investors punish Equifax for massive data breach

  08-09-2017 18:59
  Investors were bailing out on Equifax a day after the credit monitoring company said a data breach exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 143 million Americans.
  
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• Apple embarks on Emmy quest with big bet on video streaming

  08-09-2017 18:58
  Television is one of the few screens that has Apple hasn't conquered, but that may soon change. The world's richest company is appears ready to aim for its own Emmy-worthy programming along the lines of HBO's "Game of Thrones" and Netflix's "Stranger Things."
  
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• NY museum gets vast collection of Colonial-era artifacts

  08-09-2017 18:57
  More than 100,000 artifacts from one of the earliest European settlements in North America are now housed at an upstate New York museum located near where the objects were discovered more than 40 years ago.
  
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• Satellites show Hurricane Katia crawling to the Mexico coast

  08-09-2017 18:55
  Two days of satellite imagery from NASA's Terra and NOAA's GOES East satellites showed that Hurricane Katia was starting to crawl to the coast of southeastern Mexico.
  
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• NASA gets 'eyed' by major Hurricane Jose

  08-09-2017 18:55
  NASA's Aqua satellite captured clear view of the eye of Hurricane Jose at it moved toward the Leeward Islands and strengthened into a Category 4 Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Aqua also analyzed the storm in infrared light showing powerful storms around the center, capable of heavy rainfall.
  
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• 8.1 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest to ever hit Mexico

  08-09-2017 18:53
  
  ScienceAnd a hurricane may be on the way.
  A massive magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Mexico just before midnight on Thursday.
  
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• NASA flights map summer melt of Greenland Ice Sheet

  08-09-2017 18:52
  Operation IceBridge is flying in Greenland to measure how much ice has melted over the course of the summer from the ice sheet. The flights, which began on Aug. 25 and will go on until Sept. 21, repeat paths flown this spring and aim to monitor seasonal changes in the elevation of the ice sheet.
  
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• Why it's difficult to predict evolutionary fate of a new trait

  08-09-2017 18:51
  The phrase "survival of the fittest" makes the principle of evolution by natural selection easy to understand—individuals with a trait that adapts them well to their circumstances are more likely to pass that trait along. But as a new study explains, multiple factors make predicting the fate of a trait fiendishly difficult.
  
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• Young birds suffer in the city

  08-09-2017 18:45
  City life is tough for young birds. But if they survive their first year, they are less susceptible to the effects of stress, according to research from Lund University in Sweden.
  
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• Astronomers Model Extreme Jet Ejections from Black Hole X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni

  08-09-2017 18:20 via scitechdaily.com
  In a new study, astronomers modeled observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni during the most active phase of its June 2015 outburst....
  The post Astronomers Model Extreme Jet Ejections from Black Hole X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Hurricane Irma: Kennedy Space Center closes, Florida's Space Coast braces for storm - AL.com

  08-09-2017 17:43 via al.com
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  Hurricane Irma: Kennedy Space Center closes, Florida's Space Coast braces for storm
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  Kennedy Space Center is closed today with the NASA facility operating on a skeleton crew as it braces for Hurricane Irma. Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana said facility is closed through Monday except for essential work crews of about 140 ...and more »
  
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• Premature babies get worse healthcare if they're not white

  08-09-2017 17:03
  
  HealthSomething's wrong in the NICU.
  Race and ethnicity might play a role in the quality of attention very low birth weight babies receive in NICUs.
  
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• Rockefeller University: Doping Western Cultures With Oxytocin Will Cure Hatred Of Refugees

  08-09-2017 17:00 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats are dedicated to the ‘science of social engineering’, and that includes direct manipulation of the human herd by putting chemicals into the water supply. This study was edited by Bruce S. McEwen of Rockefeller University. That they would even discus this is a horror reminiscent of Nazi Germany during WWII. Remember, however, that most of America is already drinking fluoride that was imposed without advice and consent from the consuming public. ⁃ TN EditorA group of&
  
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• First imaging of free nanoparticles in laboratory experiment using a high-intensity laser source

  08-09-2017 15:50
  In a joint research project, scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and the University of Rostock have managed for the first time to image free nanoparticles in a laboratory experiment using a high-intensity laser source. Previously, the structural analysis of these extremely small objects via single-shot diffraction was only possible at large-scale research facilities using so-called XUV and x-r
  
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