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• Motorola mocks rivalry between Samsung and Apple in new ad

  27-11-2017 22:11
  Motorola wants a piece of the smartphone market.
  
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• Watch an Epic Duet Between Human and Robot

  27-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dance can be defined as "a series of movements that match the speed and rhythm of a piece of music." Notice it doesn't say dance is specific to humans — and this performance proves it. A Taiwanese choreographer, dancer and inventor named Huang Yi programmed and created a robot to dance with.This isn't the first time machines and humans have shared the dance floor — Cirque du Soleil choreographed a magical sequence filled with twirling, flying drones that looked like lampsha
  
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• Is it possible to eat so much that your stomach explodes?

  27-11-2017 21:30
  ScienceAn ode to the mighty stomach.
  Have you ever wondered how much food your stomach can hold? Turns out, it’s not a simple answer. Also, your brain and stomach are ALWAYS talking.
  
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• Fin24.com | DA seeks new urgent probe into set-top box procurement

  27-11-2017 21:30
  
  The DA has written to the public protector to request a further urgent investigation into the procurement process of government-sponsored set-top-boxes, which has been dogged by delays.
  
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• Last week in tech: happy Cyber Monday

  27-11-2017 20:30
  
  TechnologyAll the tech stories and new products you missed in your turkey and shopping binge.
  Catch up on all the tech stuff you missed last week.
  
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• Meredith buying Time Inc. for about $1.8 billion

  27-11-2017 20:21
  Meredith Corp. says it is buying Time Inc. for about $1.8 billion in a deal that joins two giant magazine companies
  
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• Fin24.com | Mail & Guardian may be sold - report

  27-11-2017 19:32
  
  Weekly newspaper the The Mail & Guardian is up for sale, according to the Daily Maverick.
  
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• Babies understand that getting what you want in life means putting in the effort

  27-11-2017 19:20
  
  HealthNever underestimate the mind of a 10-month-old.
  Infants as young as 10 months old understand that getting what you really want in life means putting in the effort necessary to get it.
  
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• Newly Discovered Planets Could Solve Exoplanet Mystery

  27-11-2017 19:14 via scitechdaily.com
  Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet seventeen years ago, they have struggled to answer the question: how did the largest planets...
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• Discovery Helps Researchers Understand How Life May Survive on Other Planets

  27-11-2017 18:53 via scitechdaily.com
  Three new studies by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) scientists have identified key factors that help microbes survive in harsh environments. The results,...
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• Researchers Discover Oldest Images to Date of Dogs on Leashes

  27-11-2017 18:33 via scitechdaily.com
  While conducting research in the Saudi Arabian desert, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Max Planck Institute...
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• NASA Proves Humans Fly Drones Better Than AI

  27-11-2017 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artificial intelligence (AI) still has a ways to go before it reigns supreme.In October, a group of researchers at California’s NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) pitted a professional human drone racer, Ken Loo, against an AI-piloted drone. They set out to test two years of research into drone autonomy, which was funded by Google.The researchers built three custom drones with algorithms that were outfitted with Google’s Tango, a platform that uses computer vision
  
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• Physicist Challenges the Idea That Time Had a Beginning

  27-11-2017 18:12 via scitechdaily.com
  “I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at the University of Campinas’s Mathematics, Statistics & Scientific Computation Institute...
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• Fin24.com | Despite massive technical glitches, Takealot nets R87m for #BlackFriday

  27-11-2017 18:07
  
  Despite massive downtime, e-commerce website Takealot.com netted R87m from a record 2.2 million visits to its site on #BlackFriday2017.
  
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• These are the best Cyber Monday deals on the internet

  27-11-2017 18:00
  
  GadgetsTo cure your case of the Mondays.
  Cyber Monday deals are live. Here's what you outta know. Read on.
  
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• New Butterfly Species Discovered in South Russia

  27-11-2017 17:55 via scitechdaily.com
  What looked like a population of a common butterfly species turned out to be a whole new organism, and, moreover – one with a very...
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• New Microscope is 1,000 Times More Precise Than Current Techniques

  27-11-2017 17:45 via scitechdaily.com
  The microscope is 1000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization. Wetting...
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• Artist’s Rendering of Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li

  27-11-2017 17:36 via scitechdaily.com
  This artist’s rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass black hole was torn apart. The...
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• Researchers Show Distinct Muscle Subsets That Orchestrate Tissue Regeneration

  27-11-2017 17:29 via scitechdaily.com
  Whitehead Institute has illuminated an important role for different subtypes of muscle cells in orchestrating the process of tissue regeneration. In a paper appearing online...
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• Hubble and Gaia Measure 3D Stellar Motion with Record Precision

  27-11-2017 17:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers used data from Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia satellite to directly measure the 3D motions of individual stars in a nearby galaxy, achieving...
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy Cluster Abell 2537

  27-11-2017 17:07 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant Universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537. Galaxy clusters such as this one contain thousands...
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• FBI leaves US targets of Russian hackers in the dark

  27-11-2017 17:02
  The FBI had evidence for a least a year that Russian hackers were trying to break into the personal Gmail accounts of scores of U.S. officials, but failed to notify almost all of them
  
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• Light pollution is getting worse

  27-11-2017 17:00
  
  EnvironmentWe're killing the night, and that's going to kill us.
  Goodbye darkness, my old friend.
  
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• The best gadgets for your friends who aren't super tech-savvy

  27-11-2017 15:30
  
  DIYTech is for everyone.
  Not all of your friends and relatives will live and breathe the latest technology, but you can still find the perfect gadget for them.
  
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• Why you’re never really happy with the things you buy anymore

  27-11-2017 14:00
  
  ScienceConstant bargain hunting makes us value all the wrong things about shopping.
  How shopping for a leather jacket in Macy's illustrates everything that's wrong with the way we approach shopping now.
  
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• Fin24.com | Why Tencent wants to be more like Facebook in advertising

  27-11-2017 13:47
  
  Tencent Holdings'rise into a $500bn company was fueled by a culture of internal competition, where teams raced against each other to make ideas work.
  
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• FBI gave heads-up to fraction of Russian hackers' US targets

  27-11-2017 07:30
  The Associated Press has found that the FBI notified only a fraction of U.S. officials that their personal email accounts were being targeted by Russian hackers despite having evidence for at least a year that they were in the Kremlin's crosshairs
  
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• Tens of thousands stranded as Bali volcano closes airport

  27-11-2017 06:46
  Indonesian authorities ordered a mass evacuation of people from an expanded danger zone around an erupting volcano on Bali that has closed the island's airport, stranding tens of thousands of travelers
  
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• Fin24.com | Bitcoin guns for $10 000 as cryptocurrency mania intensifies

  27-11-2017 06:32
  
  Bitcoin is showing no signs of slowing down, blowing past $9 000 less than a week after topping $8 000 and now quickly closing in on five big figures.
  
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• The Latest: Indonesia says 100,000 should leave volcano zone

  27-11-2017 06:08
  Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency says as many as 100,000 villagers need to leave the expanded danger zone around the Mount Agung volcano on Bali, but that less than half that number have left
  
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• Breitbart: The Liberal Astroturfers Behind The Global Warming Scare

  27-11-2017 04:48 via technocracy.news
  Finally, journalists are getting closer to discovering the specific sources of global warming hysteria, including funding, linkages and associations. Technocrats have cleverly disguised their network to avoid discovery, but those days may be over soon. ⁃ TN EditorIn order to drain the swamp, President Trump must first destroy the Green Blob.
  This is the only logical conclusion to be drawn from a series of data leaks and Freedom of Information (FOI) revelations exposing the relationship bet
  
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• 30 Years Later, Alarmists Are Still Predicting A Global Warming ‘Apocalypse’

  27-11-2017 04:17 via technocracy.news
  Considering that not one single single hysterical prediction has come to pass in the last 30 years, why would anyone put up with these alarmists? Global warming hysteria is phony snake oil where the only solution is to convert the world’s economy into Sustainable Development. ⁃ TN EditorFor at least three decades scientists and environmental activists have been warning that the world is on the verge of a global warming “apocalypse” that will flood coastal cities, tear up
  
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• Billionaire Tech Moguls Intend To Remake America’s Schools

  27-11-2017 04:01 via technocracy.news
  Technocrat billionaires are taking over American education, recasting teachers as mere facilitators who administer self-learning modules created by the same Technocrats. This is a must read story. If you think ‘government schools’ were already corrupted with Common Core Education Standards, then you will really hate ‘Technocrat schools’ where parents will have zero input as to what their Children are taught. ⁃ TN EditorIn San Francisco’s public schools, Marc B
  
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• Updated 8:30—These are the best Black Friday deals on the internet

  27-11-2017 02:30
  
  GadgetsWe'll be updating this through Cyber Monday.
  Black Friday starts the night of Thanksgiving, but lasts for days after. Here's what you outta know. Read on.
  
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• Senator calls for more scrutiny of home DNA test industry

  27-11-2017 02:15 via nbcnews.com
  With the holiday season in full swing, Sen. Chuck Schumer said customers may be putting their genetic information at risk of being sold to third parties.
  
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