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• White Nationalist Causes Twitter to Suspend Account Verification

  09-11-2017 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  Twitter came under heavy criticism for providing Jason Kessler, an organizer of the Charlottesville protest, a verification badge.
  
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• The curious case of the Cortana speaker: Harmon Kardon Invoke review

  09-11-2017 23:15
  
  GadgetsMicrosoft's digital assistant gets an audio-oriented home
  Cortana gets a stylish home.
  
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• 27 Ways to Die In A Heatwave

  09-11-2017 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you want to teach your children the alphabet while mildly traumatizing them at the same time, look no further than "The Gashlycrumb Tinies." In alphabetical order, and with a jaunty rhyme scheme, 26 children meet fates both gruesome and preposterous. In the future, though, as climate change warms the planet beyond our comfort zone in many regions, the book could be rewritten by adding some heat.There are 27 ways that a heat wave can kill you, say researchers from the University of H
  
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• This truly bizarre exploding star might be a zombie of sorts

  09-11-2017 21:30
  
  SpaceIt just keeps exploding.
  Scientists are genuinely perplexed by a star that seems to keep exploding—possibly over the course of decades.
  
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• Gov. Jerry Brown To Vatican Faithful: “We Need A Total, I Might Say ‘Brain Washing'”

  09-11-2017 20:26 via technocracy.news
  Gov. Jerry Brown is panicked and incensed over Global Warming, demanding a forced global transformation. He states, “We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.” When Brown attended Jesuit seminary in his youth, they taught him how to meditate, apply self-mortification which included painful self-flagellation. Even as he admits that he wasn’t transformed, he calls for the whole world to be transformed into a carbonless Utopia. ⁃ TN EditorGo
  
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• Apple just fixed that annoying autocorrect bug in iOS 11 so go download it

  09-11-2017 20:09
  
  GadgetsNo more "?" where your "I" should be.
  Typing got weird on the iPhone for a minute, but a new software patch should fix it up.
  
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• Superhuman: Brain Implanted Chips To Be Ready Within 15 Years

  09-11-2017 20:01 via technocracy.news
  Read carefully: Obama’s 2012 “Map the Human Brain” initiative is producing control freaks who want to achieve read/write access to the human brain. This includes reading, deleting, creating and altering memories. It would be the ultimate mind control mechanism ever created. Of course, it is over-hyped and likely impossible, but the fact that they believe they can do it is concerning enough. ⁃ TN EditorPeople will be able to buy new memories and delete unwanted ones i
  
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• First Americans: Overland Beringia Route Takes Another Hit

  09-11-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One if by land, two if by sea...if only the debate about how the first humans arrived in the Americas was as easy to sort out as Paul Revere's fabled lantern signal. Maybe it is. A new study from a different field offers indirect support to researchers advocating a coastal route for human migration to the New World.For decades, reconstructions of the earliest human migrations to the Americas had hunter-gatherers crossing from Siberia to what's now Alaska via the land bridge known as
  
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• VLA and Chandra Reveal the Shocking Results of Galaxy Cluster Collisions

  09-11-2017 19:58 via scitechdaily.com
  Observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-ray observatory reveal a giant collision of several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds of galaxies....
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• Fin24.com | Twitter halts user verification process, says it's `broken'

  09-11-2017 19:40
  
  Twitter is halting its system for verifying users’ identity, saying that the process has become “broken” and in need of repair.
  
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• Wolf-Sized Prehistoric Otter Had a Surprisingly Powerful Bite

  09-11-2017 19:39 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly published study reveals that a massive, wolf-sized otter that lived about 6 million years ago may have been a dominant predator in its...
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• Founding President Of Facebook Warns It Is “Exploiting Human Psychology”

  09-11-2017 19:20 via technocracy.news
  Sean Parker has regrets that the original team “understood this consciously, and we did it anyway”; Facebook produces a continuous low-dose regimen of dopamine leading to addiction. Even though Parker and a few other early players are recanting their earlier days with social media, Mark Zuckerberg is not! ⁃ TN Editor
  Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider’s look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.B
  
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• Study Shows Six-Month Old Babies Have a Sense of Probability

  09-11-2017 19:19 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have now shown that even six-month-old babies have a sense of...
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• How to test your tap water for lead

  09-11-2017 19:15
  
  DIYNearly half of Americans suspect that their water might be unsafe.
  Luckily, homeowners who suspect that their drinking water might be contaminated have more options than ever before.
  
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• Pigeons Sound the Alarm with Whistling Feathers

  09-11-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the crested pigeon of Australia flees potential foes, it can raise an alarm — not by calling out vocally, but with whistling feathers in its wings. These new findings may be the first proof of an idea Darwin proposed nearly 150 years ago suggesting that birds could use feathers as musical instruments for communication.Birds are known for the songs they can sing, but many can also generate unusual noises with their feathers. Darwin called these sounds "instrumental music" in his 1871
  
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• New Findings Provide Further Evidence That Early Anthropoids Were Minuscule Creatures

  09-11-2017 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  The newly described fossils were originally recovered from a commercial quarry and belonged to tiny early primates — some half the size of a mouse....
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• Astronomers Observe Rare Low-Mass White Dwarf and Brown Dwarf System

  09-11-2017 18:47 via scitechdaily.com
  A group of astronomers in Brazilian universities and research institutions observed a star demoted to white dwarf status because of companion. A group of Brazilian...
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• This temperature-control mug is the best product I've tried in 2017

  09-11-2017 18:35
  
  GadgetsHonestly, it changed my coffee drinking habits.
  After a few weeks of trying Ember's new temperature control mug, it's changed my coffee drinking habits.
  
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• MetaCherchant Software Reveals New Causes of Antibiotic Resistance

  09-11-2017 18:28 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists from ITMO University and Center of Physical and Chemical Medicine developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut...
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• No More Blackouts? New Framework Guarantees the Stability of Microgrids

  09-11-2017 18:14 via scitechdaily.com
  By installing capacitors, MIT engineers reveal a new method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct current. Today, more than 1.3...
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• Reconstituted Silk Can Be Several Times Stronger Than The Natural Fiber

  09-11-2017 18:01 via scitechdaily.com
  New research from engineers at MIT shows that reconstituted silk can be several times stronger than the natural fiber and made in different forms. When...
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• NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Views Rare Encircling Filament

  09-11-2017 17:45 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a dark filament encircling an active region (October 29-31,...
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• Killer Mosquitoes Will be Released in 20 States

  09-11-2017 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Talk about a killer job. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week approved a bacterium that will be carried by mosquitoes to eradicate their offspring.A Kentucky-based company called MosquitoMate is using the common bacterium Wolbachia pipentisa and sexual attraction to help eradicate Asian tiger mosquitoes, Aedes albopictus, an invasive species in the United States. These mosquitoes can carry a cocktail of dangerous diseases including dengue, yellow feve
  
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• NASA Completes Review of Exploration Mission-1

  09-11-2017 17:36 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA scientists are providing an update on the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft after completing a comprehensive...
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• US and them: America, the elephant in room at climate talks

  09-11-2017 17:10
  Awkward: The US has a delegation at international climate talks working to implement a treaty Trump wants no part of
  
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• Mega Data Hacks Could Happen to Any Company, Yahoo Says

  09-11-2017 17:05 via nbcnews.com
  Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer emerged from avoiding the public eye to take literal center stage at a very public drubbing.
  
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• New Exoskeleton Does the Heavy Lifting for These Factory Workers

  09-11-2017 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  The EksoVest could protect assembly line workers from injury and strain.
  
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• New Exoskeleton Does the Heavy Lifting for Factory Workers

  09-11-2017 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  The EksoVest could protect assembly line workers from injury and strain.
  
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• 16 essential kitchen tools from around the world for $20 or less

  09-11-2017 17:00
  
  GadgetsOur favorite workhorse appliances, blades, and containers to buy on a budget without sacrificing quality.
  Our favorite workhorse appliances, blades, and containers to buy on a budget without sacrificing quality.
  
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• Trump Skirts 'Great Firewall' of China With Trip Tweets

  09-11-2017 16:36 via nbcnews.com
  President Trump managed to overcome the "Great Firewall" of China, tweeting during his visit despite a local ban on Western social media platforms.
  
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• North Korea's digital divide: Online elites, isolated masses

  09-11-2017 16:20
  For Kim Jong Un, North Korea's first leader to come of age with the Internet, the idea of a more wired nation is both dangerous and irresistible
  
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• Boy Gets New Skin, New Life

  09-11-2017 15:49 via nbcnews.com
  Gene therapy created a whole body skin graft for a 'butterfly' boy. It's a newregenerative medicine approach using both gene therapy and stem cells.
  
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• Check your phone less by sending those notifications to your computer

  09-11-2017 15:30
  
  DIYYou don't want to miss a thing.
  Tired of constantly checking your phone? With the latest versions of Windows and macOS, you can shoot those notifications over to your computer.
  
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• Here comes La Nina, El Nino's flip side, but it will be weak

  09-11-2017 15:11
  Forecasters say La Nina, the flip side to El Nino, is returning for a second straight winter
  
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• Why some sharks are like blimps, and others are like airplanes

  09-11-2017 14:00
  
  AnimalsA brief lesson in buoyancy and aerodynamics.
  When you think of a zeppelin, you probably don’t picture a large, cartilaginous fish with rows of pointed teeth. But perhaps you should.
  
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• WATCH: Redesigned iPad expected in 2018

  09-11-2017 13:13
  Apple's new high-end tablet will include iPhone X features like slimmer design and facial recognition.
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook urges users to send nude pics to combat revenge porn

  09-11-2017 12:34
  
  Facebook is trying to combat "revenge porn" by encouraging users in Australia to submit their nude photos to a pilot project designed to prevent intimate images from being shared without consent.
  
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• Fin24.com | Blockchain becoming the rage at US business schools

  09-11-2017 10:20
  
  US business schools are beefing up training in the software that underlies digital currency bitcoin, a technology expected to be a game changer in many industries.
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple said to plan 2018 iPad redesign with facial recognition

  09-11-2017 09:43
  
  Apple is working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018 that incorporates key iPhone X features such as slimmer edges and facial recognition.
  
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• Las Vegas shooting victims still searching for their heroes

  09-11-2017 09:41
  Nearly 6 weeks later, Las Vegas shooting victims are still looking for their heroes
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN absolved in R200bn funds repatriation probe

  09-11-2017 07:13
  
  Nigerian lawmakers investigating allegations of illegal repatriation of almost $14bn by MTN's local unit found the company hadn’t violated the law.
  
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• Scientists Are Implanting Tiny HUMAN Brains Into Rats

  09-11-2017 05:19 via technocracy.news
  Medical ethics has been again thrown under the bus as Technocrat scientists push the envelope for no other reason except that they can. And they have. One scientist said, “The science is advancing so rapidly, the ethics can’t keep up.” A normal human being would slow down and let them catch up! ⁃ TN EditorTiny human brains injected into rats have sparked a major ethical debate among scientists worried it may give the rodents some type of human consciousness.
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• China Spied On Trump’s Every Move During State Visit

  09-11-2017 05:06 via technocracy.news
  Being a full-fledged Technocracy, China’s Technocrats know how to surveille, spy, hack, data mine and identify better than any nation on earth. Their entire spy network was pointedly focused on President Trump’s visit to ‘negotiate’ with Chairman Xi. ⁃ TN EditorHundreds of Chinese government analysts worked nonstop for months studying every detail on President Trump in preparation for his state visit to China this week.
  The information gathered includes hundred
  
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• Fin24.com | Africa's journey toward Fourth Industrial Revolution begins with youth

  09-11-2017 05:00
  
  The first step of Africa’s journey toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a focus on the youth, according to Huawei’s Chief Technology Officer, Paul Scanlan.
  
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• Self-Driving Shuttle Hits Las Vegas Streets, Crashes On First Day

  09-11-2017 04:46 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because they are answering a particular need; autonomous vehicles are going to be shoved down our collective throat. Testing is also taking place with Waymo vehicles in Gilbert, Arizona. When initial testing is completed, a wave of driverless cars, vans, busses and trucks will begin to displace privately owned vehicles of all types. ⁃ TN EditorA driverless shuttle bus crashed less than two hours after it was launched in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
  
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• Here's the weird alphabet soup that scientists use to name stuff in space

  09-11-2017 01:45
  
  SpaceI is for interstellar.
  What’s in a name? An asteroid by any other name would smell as singed, and would still be a rock orbiting the sun on some far-flung journey.
  
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