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• Not at home? Amazon wants to come in and drop off packages - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  25-10-2017 22:48
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  Not at home? Amazon wants to come in and drop off packages
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  File photo Amazon has a new program aimed at countering thefts of products that are dropped off. The catch: homeowners would be giving Amazon access to their houses and apartments. Text size. comment. share · tweet · email. Print. more. Share on: Share ...
  Amazon Key indoor delivery system: A bit creepy or even more safe and convenient?Digital Trends
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• MIT Engineers Cut Carbon Emissions by Adding Recycled Plastic to Concrete

  25-10-2017 22:43 via scitechdaily.com
  By adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles to concrete, MIT engineers take plastic out of landfills and lower the cement industry’s carbon emissions. Discarded...
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• This Moth's Weird Inflatable Butt Is Going Viral, But It Has a Real Purpose - Newsweek

  25-10-2017 22:33
  Newsweek
  This Moth's Weird Inflatable Butt Is Going Viral, But It Has a Real Purpose
  Newsweek
  A video from Indonesia is making the rounds on social media, and it shows a bizarre sight—a moth with long, pulsing tentacles coming out of his backside. Speculations ran wild—is the moth infected by a parasite that is emerging? Are we looking at ...
  This terrifyingly tentacled moth reminds us that nature is freakier than any nightmarePopular Science
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• How to Pre-Order the iPhone X as Quickly as Possible With Apple Store App - Mac Rumors

  25-10-2017 22:24
  Mac Rumors
  How to Pre-Order the iPhone X as Quickly as Possible With Apple Store App
  Mac Rumors
  iPhone X pre-orders begin this Friday, October 27 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on a first come, first served basis, and customers that want any chance of receiving the smartphone on launch day will need a combination of speed and luck. The quickest way ...
  How to preorder iPhone X with Apple's battle-tested Apple Store appAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
  How to trade in your iPhone 8 for an iPhone X
  
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• Just How Easy Is It to Game Twitter Like the Russians?

  25-10-2017 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  So what does it take to influence an election through Twitter? Well, do you have a few bucks?
  
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• Microsoft has stopped making the Kinect, and that makes me sad - Ars Technica

  25-10-2017 22:14
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Microsoft has stopped making the Kinect, and that makes me sad
  Ars Technica
  Microsoft is no longer building any Kinect devices for consoles or PCs, writes Fast Co. Design. Since their 2010 introduction on the Xbox 360 and through major updates for Xbox One and PC, the sensors combined a depth-sensing camera, a regular video ...
  Microsoft kills off Kinect, stops manufacturing itThe Verge
  Microsoft Kinect Only Existed So That I Could Embarrassingly 'Just Dance'Forbes
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• Concussions make lasting changes to the brain, even after you feel fine

  25-10-2017 22:00
  
  HealthWe don’t know what those changes actually mean.
  A growing number of studies show that neurological changes linger even after clinical symptoms of a concussion clear up.
  
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• The universe shouldn't exist, according to science - New York Post

  25-10-2017 21:58
  New York Post
  The universe shouldn't exist, according to science
  New York Post
  The universe shouldn't technically exist, according to top scientists who have spent their careers trying to figure out how the beginning of everything didn't immediately destroy itself. The current model for the birth of the universe predicts that ...
  Physicist: 'The Universe Should Not Actually Exist'Newser
  Scientists baffled: Universe shouldn't existWND.com
  Scientists finally admit the universe shouldn't existHot
  
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• 2018 Honda Gold Wing: Riding the new techiest bike on the planet - CNET

  25-10-2017 21:31
  CNET
  2018 Honda Gold Wing: Riding the new techiest bike on the planet
  CNET
  Few bikes carry more baggage than the Honda Gold Wing, and that's not thanks to the current model's expansive saddle bags and cavernous top trunk. Since its introduction in the mid '70s, it rapidly pivoted away from the big sportbike template into the ...
  The 2018 Honda Gold Wing Is Lighter And Is So High Tech It Has Apple CarPlayJalopnik
  Honda's new Gold Wing: Lighter, leaner, more powerfulLos Angeles Times
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• How the Air Force planned to put men on the moon

  25-10-2017 21:30
  
  From Our Blogs: Vintage Space Just months after Sputnik's launch, the USAF had a manned lunar landing program all figured out. Just months after Sputnik's launch, the USAF had a manned lunar landing program all figured out.
  Just months after Sputnik's launch, the USAF had a manned lunar landing program all figured out.
  
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• Depression and Alcoholism Linked to SEMA3A Gene Variant in African Americans

  25-10-2017 21:26 via scitechdaily.com
  A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) by Yale and University of Pennsylvania researchers found that a gene variant involved in brain development is strongly associated...
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• Amazon Will Now Deliver Inside Your Home

  25-10-2017 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  In the fight against holiday season porch pirates, Amazon is launching a new delivery system letting its employees enter your home via a one-time unlock code.
  
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• Insect-sized robot can go from air to water and back again - CBC.ca

  25-10-2017 20:30
  CBC.ca
  Insect-sized robot can go from air to water and back again
  CBC.ca
  Engineers at Harvard University have developed a tiny, insect-like robot — complete with flapping wings — that can fly through the air, land on water and take off again. At just 175 milligrams, this microrobot inspired by nature weighs one-thousandth ...
  Harvard Scientists Create a Robot Bee Which Swims and FliesOuter Places
  Scientists create robotic 'bee' which can fly, swim and dive into water before shooting
  
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• Toxins in widespread use excluded from EPA chemical review

  25-10-2017 20:27 via abcnews.go.com
  President Donald Trump's administration is retreating from a congressionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chemicals in public use
  
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• Genetically Modified Lean Pigs Are Healthier, Not Necessarily Tastier

  25-10-2017 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chinese scientists say they've found a way to take some of the sizzle out of our bacon.Though that sounds worrying, it was actually done with the pigs' health in mind. Pigs are so notoriously porky in part because they lack a gene, UCP1, that helps burn fat to generate heat. The result is plumper pigs, but it also poses an increased risk for newborns that can die if they're not kept warm enough.
  Porky No More
  With the gene-editing technology CRISPR, researchers from the Institute of Zo
  
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• VLT Survey Telescope Reveals Galactic Secrets of Galaxy NGC 1316

  25-10-2017 20:04 via scitechdaily.com
  The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1316 and its rich surroundings. Countless galaxies vie for...
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• Unearthed: Remains of the Earliest Known Tsunami Victim

  25-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tsunamis have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the past two decades. Now a new study finds that a 6,000-year-old skull may come from the earliest known victim of these killer waves.The partial human skull was discovered in 1929 buried in a mangrove swamp outside the small town of Aitape Papua New Guinea, about 500 miles north of Australia. Scientists originally thought it belonged to an ancient extinct human species, Homo erectus. However, subsequent research dated it to about 5
  
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• Southern Africa's New Mega-Carnivore: A Whole Lotta Dinosaur

  25-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  My, what big feet you have...200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints found in the mountainous Southern African country of Lesotho are unique within the Southern Hemisphere and the largest of their kind ever discovered on the continent. But size isn't the only thing that matters about the mega-carnivore that made them.
  The footprints, each measuring about 22 inches in length, were discovered on a layer of rippled, fine-grained sandstone dated to about 200 million years ago. The ripples
  
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• Cash Is Already Pretty Much Dead In China

  25-10-2017 19:47 via technocracy.news
  The subhead states that “the dominance of mobile transactions lends itself to greater data collection by the Chinese government.” There is little more that needs to be said about Technocracy’s rapid ascent in China. ⁃ TN EditorMobile pay is taking China by storm and changing daily commerce.
  The transformation of a society limited to bills denominated in 100 yuan ($15) or less into one where QR payment codes abound was by far the biggest change in mainland C
  
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• Criminalizing Knowledge: Censorship In The Digital Age

  25-10-2017 19:40 via technocracy.news
  To the Technocrat mind, scientific social engineering is comprehensive and must also extend to the very thoughts you receive and retain in your brain. Like the famously flawed ‘no-fly’ list used to catch terrorists, a future ‘no-knowledge’ list will trap dangerous thinkers. ⁃ TN EditorThe grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven St
  
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• This terrifyingly tentacled moth reminds us that nature is freakier than any nightmare - Popular Science

  25-10-2017 19:32
  Popular Science
  This terrifyingly tentacled moth reminds us that nature is freakier than any nightmare
  Popular Science
  As I attempted to enjoy some homemade tomato soup on Sunday evening, Popular Science Editor in Chief Joe Brown derailed my chill by sending me a video on Facebook. This video: My friends, I am generally fascinated by the range of strangeness that ...
  What on Earth? Freaky Moth with Hairy 'Butt Appendages' Stuns FacebookLive Science
  This terrifying tentacled moth is not fro
  
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• Homeland Security Sees Power Growing Under Trump

  25-10-2017 19:24 via technocracy.news
  The idea of curtailing government growth under the Trump Administration has not yet been realized. Resources at DHS could have more simply been repurposed to better fit Trump’s domestic security vision, but instead, DHS is in aggressive expansion mode. ⁃ TN EditorThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has seen its influence and power expand under President Trump, whose efforts to bolster border security and crack down on illegal immigration have run through the youngest feder
  
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• This terrifyingly tentacled moth reminds us that nature is freakier than any nightmare

  25-10-2017 19:15
  
  AnimalsHard nope.
  The world is full of great and terrible wonders. These are mostly terrible.
  
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• You Don't Need to Buy a New Car to Get All the Latest Tech

  25-10-2017 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  Want all the latest auto tech features without buying a new car? You can have them, and it's easier and more affordable than you think.
  
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• DNA Edits, Without All the Cutting

  25-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The human genome is composed of some 3 billion base pairs, the individual molecules that compose our DNA. A mutation to just a single base pair can have dramatic consequences if it occurs in certain locations. Cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease and more are caused by point mutations, or aberrations in just a single letter of our DNA.Those letters, A, T, C and G, represent the four molecules, or nucleotides, that comprise the alphabet of our genomes. In research publis
  
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• NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Views a Window into the Past

  25-10-2017 18:53 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) views layered sedimentary deposits on the surface of Mars. The layered sedimentary deposits inside the giant canyons of Mars have...
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• One cave's losing battle against a deadly bat fungus

  25-10-2017 16:47
  
  AnimalsGhosts of bats past.
  White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations across North America. Here’s an update on their status.
  
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• Try these 10 awesome virtual-reality apps for Google Daydream View

  25-10-2017 15:30
  
  DIYJump into a new world.
  Just unboxed your brand-new VR headset, the Google Daydream View? Then you'll need some apps and games to go with it. These are our favorite picks.
  
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• How to actually remove pesticides from your fruit

  25-10-2017 14:00
  
  HealthAssuming that you should be worried about them in the first place.
  There’s a lot to worry about when it comes to food—or rather, there’s a lot that people want you to worry about.
  
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• WATCH: Twitter promises greater transparency with political ads

  25-10-2017 13:07 via abcnews.go.com
  Social media sites are under pressure to reveal more information about political ads to help prevent anonymous accounts from spreading propaganda.
  
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• This Botnet Could Knock Out the Internet — But When?

  25-10-2017 11:14 via nbcnews.com
  Just in time for Halloween, a growing hacked device botnet named "Reaper" could put the internet in the dark.
  
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• Einstein note on happy living sells for $1.56 million - Phys.Org

  25-10-2017 07:48
  Phys.Org
  Einstein note on happy living sells for $1.56 million
  Phys.Org
  A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happy living sold at auction in Jerusalem on Tuesday for $1.56 million, the auction house said. The winning bid for the note far exceeded the pre-auction estimate ...
  Einstein 'Tipped' the Man With a Note. It Just Sold for $1.5MNewserall 164 news articles »
  
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• This is the absolute grossest thing about living in space

  25-10-2017 01:45
  
  SpaceTake it from an astronaut.
  How do you wash your clothes in space? What happens to sweat in space? And what is the grossest aspect of life in space?
  
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• Spots on Supergiant Star Zeta Puppis Drive Spirals in Stellar Wind

  25-10-2017 00:19 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of supergiant star Zeta Puppis are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind. Massive stars are...
  The post Spots on Supergiant Star Zeta Puppis Drive Spirals in Stellar Wind appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Twitter Is Launching an Ad Transparency Center

  25-10-2017 00:15 via nbcnews.com
  Twitter is taking what it characterizes as a huge step in the fight against fake advertising.
  
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