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• Why three gravitational wave detectors are so much better than two

  28-09-2017 23:28
  
  SpaceVirgo will help LIGO locate colossal cosmic collisions.
  For the first time, three gravitational wave observatories have all detected the same signal, produced when two black holes collided 1.76 billion years ago.
  
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• The Latest: Senate Dem not impressed with Twitter briefing

  28-09-2017 23:22 via abcnews.go.com
  The ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee says a closed-door presentation by executives from social media giant Twitter was "deeply disappointing."
  
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• 5 Things You Might Have Missed In The New 'Red Dead Redemption 2' Trailer - Forbes

  28-09-2017 22:47
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  5 Things You Might Have Missed In The New 'Red Dead Redemption 2' Trailer
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  I write about video games and technology. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. We take what we can get from Rockstar. We've seen precious little of the developer's new Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming open world Western that's ...
  Watch the New Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay TrailerPlayStation LifeStyle
  Rockstar reveals first story trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2VentureBeat
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• LG V30 coming to Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile on Oct. 5 - CNET

  28-09-2017 22:34
  CNET
  LG V30 coming to Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile on Oct. 5
  CNET
  The V30, LG's most premium phone of the season, will be available on the country's three largest carriers starting Thursday, Oct. 5. The phone will be available online and in retail stores for Verizon right on Oct. 5, without pre-order. On AT&T, you ...
  T-Mobile's New 600MHz Band 71: What You Need to KnowPCMag
  LG V30 Arrives in the US Next Week (Updated)Droid Life
  LG V30 finally launching in the US on October 5ZDNet
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• After booming IPO, Roku says streaming boxes aren't the future - MarketWatch

  28-09-2017 22:31
  MarketWatch
  After booming IPO, Roku says streaming boxes aren't the future
  MarketWatch
  The company that started as a secret Netflix Inc. NFLX, -0.70% project to build hardware that could stream media to televisions no longer thinks those gadgets are the key to its Wall Street success. Roku Inc. ROKU, +67.86% made its debut Thursday after ...
  TV-gadget maker Roku's stock soars after IPO raises $219MUSA TODAY
  Roku Rockets 50 Percent on Wall Street DebutTheWrapall 94 news articles »
  
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• FCC chief Ajit Pai wants Apple to stop disabling FM radio chips in iPhones [Updated] - Ars Technica

  28-09-2017 22:19
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  FCC chief Ajit Pai wants Apple to stop disabling FM radio chips in iPhones [Updated]
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  Pai cites public safety concerns; Apple says new iPhones have no FM chip at all. Jeff Dunn - 9/28/2017, 11:07 AM. Enlarge. Samuel Axon. reader comments 118. Share this story. Update (9/28/2017 4:25 ET): Apple has responded to FCC chairman Ajit Pai's ...
  FCC, NextRadio Want FM Radios on iPhonesPCMag
  The FCC Wants Apple To Activate The Hidden FM Radio In iPhones After Recent Disaste
  
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• Hubble Telescope Views the Farthest Active Inbound Comet Yet Seen, Comet K2

  28-09-2017 22:13 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. Coming from the distant Oort Cloud, K2 is visiting our inner solar system...
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• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Restores Consciousness?

  28-09-2017 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A report that nerve stimulation was able to partially restore consciousness in a patient in a vegetative state has attracted a great deal of attention this week.The paper, published in Current Biology from French researchers Martina Corazzol and colleagues, is certainly promising, but I didn't find it entirely convincing.Corazzol et al.'s patient was a 35-year old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years following a car accident. After receiving consent from his family
  
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• Aston Martin Dives Into the Submarine Business

  28-09-2017 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent years, Aston Martin has become the vehicle of choice for fictional secret agent James Bond. And now the British carmaker is taking its 007 reputation into the deep end.On Thursday—in Monaco, of course—Aston Martin announced it is partnering with Triton Submarines LLC to build a limited edition, luxury submarine that will have even the wealthiest of the wealthy playing catch-up with the Jones’s.The endeavor is codenamed Project Neptune and it will build upon Triton&rsq
  
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• To fight antibiotic resistance, we need higher taxes—or fewer meat eaters

  28-09-2017 21:30
  
  HealthPutting all our options on the table.
  Bacteria are increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics, driven in part by antibiotic use in animal feed.
  
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• IKEA Is Buying TaskRabbit To Help You Build Its Complicated Dressers - Newsweek

  28-09-2017 21:29
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  IKEA Is Buying TaskRabbit To Help You Build Its Complicated Dressers
  Newsweek
  Swedish build-it-yourself furniture giant Ikea has finally solved its customers biggest complaint — it just bought TaskRabbit, a company that finds people to...build your Ikea furniture for you. Under the deal, TaskRabbit's 60 employees and 60,000 ...
  Ikea buys TaskRabbit, "gig economy" pioneerCBS News
  IKEA Buys Faded On-Demand Darling TaskRabbit To Make Furniture Assembly EasierForbes
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• Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris

  28-09-2017 21:09 via abcnews.go.com
  Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan
  
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• MIT Researchers Reveal a New Strategy for Halting Brain Tumors

  28-09-2017 20:58 via scitechdaily.com
  By cutting off a process that cancerous cells rely, researchers from MIT have identified a possible new strategy for halting brain tumors. MIT biologists have...
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• Sexually transmitted diseases are at an all time high. But why?

  28-09-2017 20:45
  
  HealthThe CDC's report is troubling, but not for the reasons you might think.
  The United States' rise in STD diagnoses isn't a sign of moral decline, it's a public health failure of epic proportions.
  
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• WATCH: 7 robberies, 1 attempted robbery involving dating apps appear to be related

  28-09-2017 20:44 via abcnews.go.com
  All of the victims are male, Omaha police say.
  
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• Drones Can Accurately Detect Heartbeats from the Sky

  28-09-2017 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drones have the ability to do a lot of good, and recently they've been proving useful to rescuers in the United States by helping with hurricane recovery efforts. But what if they could do more than just document damage or survey areas? What if they could actually detect life?Researchers from the University of South Australia conducted a study published in Biomedical Engineering Online that shows drones can successfully measure heart and respiratory rates from the sky. Aerially detecti
  
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• All the iPhone X's Face ID secrets were just revealed - BGR

  28-09-2017 20:14
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  All the iPhone X's Face ID secrets were just revealed
  BGR
  Face ID is one of the two signature features of the iPhone X, with the other one being the all-screen design. The device's new facial recognition feature is powered by a miniaturized Kinect camera and sensor setup, and should be able to perform the ...
  How Apple is managing the iPhone buying dilemmaMacworld
  What Apple's new push into AR means for your businessComputerworld
  iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Wireless charging is magic
  
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• Plastic junk brought invasive species to US after Japan's 2011 tsunami - Washington Post

  28-09-2017 20:10
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  Plastic junk brought invasive species to US after Japan's 2011 tsunami
  Washington Post
  In 2011, a massive earthquake shook Japan and reshaped the seafloor. The quake shoved an area the size of Connecticut up by 30 feet. The tsunami that followed killed roughly 18,000 people. As water swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ...
  Almost 300 marine species hitched a ride on tsunami debris from Japan to the USThe Verge
  Tons of animals have floated from Japan to Oregon
  
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• Tons of animals have floated from Japan to Oregon on plastic junk

  28-09-2017 20:00
  
  AnimalsTrash is the new Titanic.
  The 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan launched hundreds of tons of plastic into the ocean. More than 300 species colonized the debris.
  
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• An Unprecedented Number Of Species Have Crossed The Pacific On Tsunami-Liberated Plastic Debris

  28-09-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  March 11, 2011, 2:46 PM, 45 miles east of Tōhoku, Japan. Fifteen miles beneath the waves, a magnitude-9 megathrust earthquake strikes. The Pacific and Eurasian tectonic plates suddenly shift, shaking the surrounding crust for six minutes and creating a tidal wave almost 40 meters high, which races towards the coast of Japan. In the hours that follow, it claims at least 15,894 lives, with thousands more unaccounted for. More than a million buildings are damaged or de
  
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• Why Older Adults Fail to Burn Stored Belly Fat

  28-09-2017 19:45 via scitechdaily.com
  In a newly published study, biologists from Yale University described how nervous systems and immune systems talk to each other to control metabolism and inflammation....
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• 30 percent off an Amazon TV and Dot and other good deals happening today

  28-09-2017 19:30
  
  GadgetsA quick guide to getting the goods for cheaper.
  PopSci is always on the lookout for today's best deals. Our lists will be updated throughout the day, so check back to see if stumbled upon any awesome new discounts.
  
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• How Vulnerable Are Societies to Collapse?

  28-09-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Along the cottonwood-lined rivers of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona, the Mimbres people did something unique: By the year 1000, these farmers were producing stunning ceramics decorated with naturalistic images of fish, people, and rabbits, as well as magical creatures and elaborate geometric patterns. And then, rather abruptly, they stopped.After roughly a century of higher than normal rainfall, the area the Mimbres inhabited suffered a powerful drought, as indicated by
  
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• No one wants another H-bomb test in the Pacific

  28-09-2017 18:45
  
  MilitaryTo avoid reliving the worst of the Cold War, the United States needs to relearn deterrence
  North Korea raised the possibility of testing a nuclear weapon in the Pacific, which is a risk no one wants to accept.
  
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• NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Celebrates 10 Years in Space

  28-09-2017 18:42 via scitechdaily.com
  Ten years ago, NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft set sail for the two most massive bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta...
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• Tipping Point: The Global Journey From Cash to Cashless

  28-09-2017 18:12 via technocracy.news
  The ‘Cashless Journey’ is a global initiative of Technocrat, globalist bankers, who use governments with statements like: ‘Governments can speed the journey.’ In fact, Technocrats despise government except for how they can use them to manipulate the citizenry to buy into their globalist pipe-dreams. ⁃ TN EditorToday, around 85% of all retail payment transactions are done with cash, which equates to 60% of retail transaction value. Even though much of the world&
  
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• Space Sculptures, the Next Frontier in Art

  28-09-2017 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Next time you wish upon a star, you may actually be wishing upon a giant piece of orbital artwork.Contemporary artist Trevor Paglen wondered what it would be like to launch his work into space, and with the help of Spaceflight Industries, a satellite and spaceflight services program, he is doing just that.His sculpture, which has been named the Orbital Reflector, is essentially an inflatable satellite. Unlike the thousands of other satellites currently inhabiting the night sky, this
  
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• Congress Asks Facebook & Google To Testify On 2016 Elections - Android Headlines

  28-09-2017 17:13
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  Congress Asks Facebook & Google To Testify On 2016 Elections
  Android Headlines
  Facebook, Google, and Twitter were called to testify in front of the United States Congress on the 2016 presidential elections and possible interference with the thereof on the part of Russian operatives, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources ...
  Facebook Can Absolutely Control Its AlgorithmWIRED
  Is Twitter Teeming With Russians Agents And Bots?MediaPost Communications
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• Thousands Rally Globally To Mark Second Anniversary of UN´s SDGs

  28-09-2017 16:54 via technocracy.news
  Evidence that 2030 Agenda did not arise from the citizenry: “…goals will only be implemented if people demand action by their governments.” In fact, the 2030 Agenda was created by a very narrow elite and then marketed to UN member states. ⁃ TN EditorTwo years ago on 25 September 2015, 193 governments agreed to an action plan to end poverty, protect the planet and foster international peace by adopting the UN´s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  To mark the
  
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• More than 130,000 flee menacing Bali volcano

  28-09-2017 16:45 via abcnews.go.com
  People are fleeing the island of Bali fearing Mount Agung volcano will erupt.
  
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• Assisted Suicide Rising: Reducing C02 Output One Person At A Time

  28-09-2017 16:41 via technocracy.news
  Draped in the language of faux-mercy, the Technocrat mind values human life only according its current contribution to society. Their efficiency ratio plummets because of the elderly, the poor, the crippled and mentally handicapped. In short, eugenics is back and is far more dangerous to life than past movements. ⁃ TN EditorI am grateful to Reps. Luis Correa (D-Calif), Juan Vargas (D-Calif), James Langevin (D-R.I.), Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.), Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), Ralph Lee Abraham (
  
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• WATCH: Amazon introduces its 2nd generation smart home speaker

  28-09-2017 15:59 via abcnews.go.com
  The company says that the smaller, more powerful Echo allows users to make free phone calls across North America.
  
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• Bad news: Bed bugs like the smell of your dirty laundry - Popular Science

  28-09-2017 15:52
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  Bad news: Bed bugs like the smell of your dirty laundry
  Popular Science
  In the pantheon of global superpowers, we rarely stop to consider the humble bed bug. Perhaps it's because we would rather pretend they don't exist—or because they so often slip into our lives unseen—but either way, we would do well to recognize ...
  Bed Bugs Attracted To Dirty Laundry, Scientists SayCBS Tampa (blog)all 13 news articles »
  
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• Bad news: Bed bugs like the smell of your dirty laundry

  28-09-2017 15:30
  
  AnimalsAnd other horrifying facts.
  Bed bugs are tiny, flightless creatures that live only in crevices, but that have somehow managed to spread around almost the entire planet.
  
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• Amazon Doubles Down on Alexa With New Devices - Motley Fool

  28-09-2017 15:06
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  Amazon Doubles Down on Alexa With New Devices
  Motley Fool
  Just in time for the holidays -- and just as competition mounts -- Amazon is launching a range of new Echo devices. Daniel Sparks. (TMFDanielSparks). Sep 28, 2017 at 9:06AM. Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) launch of its first smart speaker three years ago took ...
  Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo ShowThe Vergeall 791 news articles »
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers buys $775m stake in online food service Delivery Hero

  28-09-2017 14:07
  
  Naspers has agreed to pay $775m to boost its stake in Germany’s Delivery Hero as the company increases its exposure to the online food-delivery market.
  
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• NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here's why.

  28-09-2017 14:00
  
  SpaceWe all like having options.
  Representatives of NASA and Roscosmos announced an agreement to work together on venturing into deep space—but we'll start pretty close to home.
  
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• Tech Companies Face Growing Questions in Russia Probe

  28-09-2017 11:35 via nbcnews.com
  Twitter will appear before Congress Thursday as investigators prepare to receive 3,000 ads turned over by Facebook showing Russian attempts at election meddling
  
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• Fin24.com | Uber appeals 'perverse' driver-pay decision by UK judges

  28-09-2017 10:57
  
  Uber’s global legal battles have returned to a London court, as the company continued to fight attempts by regulators to force it to pay overtime and vacation pay.
  
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• Vanuatu orders evacuation of island with rumbling volcano

  28-09-2017 09:37 via abcnews.go.com
  Vanuatu officials have ordered the complete evacuation of an island where a rumbling, belching volcano is threatening to blow
  
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• Fin24.com | China warns WhatsApp to stop spread of 'illegal information'

  28-09-2017 09:18
  
  China has hit out at WhatsApp, saying the messaging service should act to stop the spread of 'illegal information' as the country seeks greater scrutiny over the internet.
  
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• How The Internet Of Things, 5G And AI will Transform Europe

  28-09-2017 06:49 via technocracy.news
  This Nov. 8th conference in Brussels is sponsored by Huawei, a China electronics giant with tight connections to China’s government. Since China is already operating as a Technocracy, Huawei know full well how to transform Europe. ⁃ TN EditorRapid advances in mobile connectivity and artificial intelligence are bringing about a step change in automation that is transforming both individual organisations and entire industries.
  The widespread usage of smartphones and the expanding
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook touts success fighting fake news in German election

  28-09-2017 06:30
  
  Facebook said it launched a major effort in Germany to combat fake news during the election campaign
  
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• Internet Of Everything: The Best Definition You Will Find

  28-09-2017 04:27 via technocracy.news
  The Internet of Everything (IoE) incorporates the Internet of Things and everything else into a single architecture. If you don’t understand what Cloud Computing and Fog Computing are, then you must read this paper thoroughly, because it is at the very heart of global Technocracy. Everything will be connected to everything else as soon as it comes online. ⁃ TN EditorThe Internet of Everything (IoE) is a concept that aims to look at the bigger picture in which the Internet of Thi
  
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• The Growing Influence Of The Internet Of Things

  28-09-2017 04:08 via technocracy.news
  The Internet of Things (IoT), is poised to explode with the advent of 5G wireless technology, connecting everything together at blazingly-fast speeds. Technocrats are focused on monitoring and tracking everything that moves. ⁃ TN EditorThe world is at an intersection of changing our everyday lives through Internet of Things (IoT), the failure thereof will stand us at risk of cybersecurity vulnerability will ever experience.
  One of the core discussion when we attend Board meetings tod
  
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• Amazon turns up the volume on rivals with Echo price cut

  28-09-2017 02:01 via abcnews.go.com
  Apple slashes price of next-generation Echo by 44 percent as speaker battle intensifies
  
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• Russia on U.S. Moon Station: Beam Us Up, Uncle Sam

  28-09-2017 00:51 via nbcnews.com
  The head of Russia's space agency on Wednesday said the first parts of a U.S.-Russia lunar station could be orbiting the moon as early as 2024.
  
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• Scientists Untangle the Volatile Processes That Shaped Earth

  28-09-2017 00:44 via scitechdaily.com
  New research untangles many of the processes involved in shaping Earth, revealing that the mini-planets that added to Earth had previously undergone melting and evaporation....
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• You don’t need to buy a new Echo to get Alexa’s best new feature

  28-09-2017 00:14
  
  GadgetsMulti-Room Music is making its way to almost every Echo device new and old.
  If you bought into Amazon's Echo smart home speakers, you can now rig up a makeshift Sonos system.
  
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• What we know about the new Amazon Echo

  28-09-2017 00:11 via abcnews.go.com
  There are over 25,000 Alexa skills, and now there’s a new Echo that can keep up.
  
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