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• Blue Apron CEO Salzberg Steps Down, to Be Replaced by CFO - Bloomberg

  30-11-2017 23:53 via bloomberg.com
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  Blue Apron CEO Salzberg Steps Down, to Be Replaced by CFO
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  Blue Apron Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Matt Salzberg stepped down from the top role after the meal-kit company suffered production problems and projected slower sales growth. Chief Financial Officer Brad Dickerson will replace ...
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• China Pressuring Foreign Companies To Set Up Communist Party Cells Within Their Factories

  30-11-2017 23:46 via technocracy.news
  Chinese Technocrats are exporting their autocratic dogma by requiring foreign companies to setup Communist Part Cells within their plants and offices. Also, this is obviously an attempt to keep an eye Chinese citizens who are employed by these companies. Germany is considering pulling out of China completely. ⁃ TN EditorA trade group has warned that members of the German business community in China are concerned about a request from the ruling Communist Party to set up cell
  
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• Apple may make its own iPhone power management chips in 2018 - CNET

  30-11-2017 23:27 via cnet.com
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  Apple may make its own iPhone power management chips in 2018
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  The move to make more chips on its own reduces Apple's reliance on suppliers and helps it control costs. James Martin/CNET. Apple may be getting into semiconductors in an even bigger way. The company may make its own iPhone power management chips as ...
  Apple's hand is down and its $1 trillion dream now rests with consumersTechCrunch
  Razer Phone review: A tough sell, even if it's great for gamersEngadget
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• Artificial DNA Base Pair Expands Life's Vocabulary

  30-11-2017 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientists have taken another step towards putting two additional letters in the dictionary of life to work.Researchers at the Scripps Institute have engineered cells to successfully transcribe a brand new artificial DNA base pair and make a never-before-seen protein with it. The breakthrough is part of an effort to expand the library of amino acids that animal cells can work with, potentially leading to the creation of compounds entirely different from those life can produce now.
  
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• Scientists: Smartphone Addiction Creates Imbalance in The Brain

  30-11-2017 22:30 via technocracy.news
  This study is from the Radiological Society of North America, and is as authoritative as it can get: Cell phones are addictive to young brains! Technocrats like Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs knew full well that this was the case since they prohibited phone/screen use for their own children! There are serious adverse effects on adults as well. ⁃ TN EditorResearchers have found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet, according t
  
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• Smile, Your Car Is on Google Street View

  30-11-2017 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  When sedans outnumber pickup trucks, chances are the community votes Democrat. When pickup trucks rule, the community leans Republican.What you drive matters, at least when it comes to revealing the nuts and bolts of American demographics. That’s the assertion by researchers in a paper published in November in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.For thousands of years, authorities have conducted surveys to determine the demographic of regions and cities. I
  
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• Rats have been in New York City since the 1700s and they're never leaving

  30-11-2017 21:30
  
  AnimalsSome neighborhoods foster greater rat diversity.
  Since the late 1700s, Norwegian rats have haunted New York City’s alleys, parks and basements. They came on ships from France and England, and then they never left.
  
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• Fin24.com | Artificial muscles give 'superpower' to robots

  30-11-2017 21:15
  
  Inspired by the folding technique of origami, US researchers say they have crafted cheap, artificial muscles for robots that give them the power to lift up to 1 000 times their own weight.
  
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• Fin24.com | SA users flock to Twitter as WhatsApp goes down - again

  30-11-2017 20:59
  
  Instant messaging app, WhatsApp has crashed for the second time in one month, upsetting scores of South African users.
  
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• AI can figure out a place's politics by analyzing cars on Google Street View

  30-11-2017 20:59
  
  TechnologyA neural network combed through 50 million images.
  Google Street View images are filled with cars, a simple fact that AI researchers have taken advantage of to do something surprising.
  
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• Amazon pushes service that puts Echo in conference rooms

  30-11-2017 20:41
  Office workers who fumble through dialing into conference call numbers could soon have Amazon's Alexa start the meetings for them
  
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• Wisconsin county settles suit over augmented-reality games

  30-11-2017 20:29
  Milwaukee County plans to settle a lawsuit from an augmented-reality game developer that challenged an ordinance requiring developers to get local permits for apps like Pokemon Go to be played in parks
  
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• Supercomputers Explore Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanovesicles for Drug Delivery

  30-11-2017 20:16 via scitechdaily.com
  Imagine a microscopic gold pill that could travel to a specific location in your body and deliver a drug just where it is needed. This...
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• New Study Shows Skin Pigmentation Far More Complex Than Previously Thought

  30-11-2017 20:04 via scitechdaily.com
  Many studies have suggested that the genetics of skin pigmentation are simple. A small number of known genes, it is thought, account for nearly 50...
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• Thousands flee Bali volcano, but some stay put or run to it

  30-11-2017 19:53
  Tens of thousands have heeded official warnings and fled the ash-belching volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali, but others have stayed near its slopes or even run toward them.
  
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• Heart-Stopping Sex? Forget About It

  30-11-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  During sex, the heart races, blood pressure rises and the breath quickens, sometimes to a pant. Muscles tense and euphoric feelings flood the brain.This is not a time to be thinking, “I hope my heart doesn’t stop.”But according to cardiologists, male patients over 50 during checkups sometimes ask what the chance is of a heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest during sexual intercourse. The concern is based on the heightened physiology experienced (racing heart, contracted muscles
  
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• First-of-Its Kind Seismic Study Challenges Concepts of Geology

  30-11-2017 19:53 via scitechdaily.com
  Slowly but steadily, an enormous mass of warm rock is rising beneath part of New England, although a major volcanic eruption isn’t likely for millions...
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• Supreme Court: Should Police Need A Warrant To Track Your Cell Phone?

  30-11-2017 19:46 via technocracy.news
  The Supreme Court will soon determine if a search warrant is required to access your cell phone tracking data held and owned by your cell service provider. It is a hot debate and critically important to the future of surveillance in the U.S. Technocrats want to track everything, everywhere, without legal constraints, and claim that for anything that leaves your phone, you have no expectation of privacy. This is bunk, and we can hope that the Supreme Court will uphold privacy laws in the digital
  
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• New Research Shows Alarming Obesity Projections for Kids in U.S.

  30-11-2017 19:42 via scitechdaily.com
  If current U.S. trends continue, more than 57 percent of today’s youth will be obese at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard...
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• Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Measures Solar Energy Input to Earth

  30-11-2017 19:32 via scitechdaily.com
  We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket...
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• Physicists Demonstrate A New Way To Manipulate Quantum Bits of Matter

  30-11-2017 19:22 via scitechdaily.com
  Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper published today in the journal...
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• Hospitals are scrambling to solve their air pollution issue

  30-11-2017 19:15
  
  HealthA single mid-size hospital contributes the same emissions as 1,200 cars.
  Carbon dioxide is perhaps the most famous climate-changing chemical, but some of the gases used to knock people out in the operating room are many times more potent.
  
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• Researchers Combine Nanoparticles and Machines To Improve Transplant Outcomes

  30-11-2017 19:11 via scitechdaily.com
  By combining the use of drug-carrying nanoparticles with an organ-preserving machine, Yale researchers have developed a procedure that could help improve long-term outcomes for transplant...
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• Why Some Bird Babies Ride Piggyback

  30-11-2017 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Having your children trail you like ducklings in a pond sounds pretty good to human parents, who are stuck carrying or pushing their offspring through toddlerhood. But some animals with mobile babies choose to carry them anyway. One scientist looked at waterbirds to figure out why certain species find it worthwhile to haul their kids around, while others leave them to paddle alone. The reasons he found range from snuggle time to murderous fish.Animals including ante
  
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• Astronomers Reveal That WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water

  30-11-2017 18:56 via scitechdaily.com
  A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water....
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• Startup event in Finland puts spotlight on European tech

  30-11-2017 18:21
  One of Europe's largest startup events is opening in Finland, with 2,600 companies and 1,500 investors networking and negotiating funding, as the region looks to ramp up an industry that has struggled to compete with the U.S. tech giants
  
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• The Bottom of the Barrel of Science Fraud

  30-11-2017 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes, scientific misconduct is so blatant as to be comical. I recently came across an example of this on Twitter. The following is an image from a paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C:As pointed out on PubPeer, this image - which is supposed to be an electron microscope image of some carbon dot (CD) nanoparticles - is an obvious fake. The "dots" are identical, and have clearly been cut-and-pasted. Where one copy has been placed over the top of another, the overlap
  
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• Elon Musk wants to build a high-speed transit system in Chicago

  30-11-2017 18:13 via nbcnews.com
  Planned electric pods would move people from downtown to O'Hare International Airport within 20 minutes.
  
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• Australia Powers Up the World's Biggest Battery — Courtesy of Elon Musk - New York Times

  30-11-2017 18:01 via nytimes.com
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  Australia Powers Up the World's Biggest Battery — Courtesy of Elon Musk
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  ADELAIDE, Australia — The state of South Australia announced on Friday that it had powered up the world's biggest battery ahead of schedule: a feat already being heralded as one of this century's first great engineering marvels and a potential ...
  Tesla Turns on World's Largest Lithium-Ion BatteryInvestopedia (blog)all 129 news articles »
  
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• The best tech for people who appreciate practical gifts

  30-11-2017 18:00
  
  GadgetsGenuinely useful tech for the pragmatic people in your life.
  When you’re a kid, practical gifts are the worst. Sure, you needed those pens for school, but you asked Santa for Nintendo or a Ninja Turtle, not office supplies. They…
  
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• Researchers Use Drones to Track Glacier Change in Peru

  30-11-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the crisp Andes air, a drone flew at an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) in order to map and track the glaciers in Peru. This marks the highest altitude a drone has flown for mapping purposes in current scientific literature, according to a paper released in November in The Cryosphere. Using a drone to map glaciers is way easier than manually staking out individual data points and provides much crisper images than satellites. “The ultimate goal was to be down in to
  
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• Russian trolls pushed graphic, racist tweets to American voters

  30-11-2017 16:40 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News uncovered graphic and offensive tweets sent by Russian trolls in an attempt to further divide an already-divided nation.
  
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• Rising Seas Could Submerge the Oldest English Settlement in the Americas - Live Science

  30-11-2017 16:23 via livescience.com
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  Rising Seas Could Submerge the Oldest English Settlement in the Americas
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  Tens of thousands of known archaeological sites are threatened by sea level rise in the southeast, and far more currently unknown and unrecorded, as shown here at low spatial resolution. Credit: Anderson et al., 2017. Sea-level rise this century may ...
  US Archaeological Sites Threatened by Sea Level RiseArchaeology
  Sea-level rise might submerge America's first English settlement, Kennedy Space Ce
  
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• Shell Shape Helps Tortoises Get Up

  30-11-2017 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s tough being an adult giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands—they’re always one step away from flipping upside down. Whether it’s from a fight for male dominance or treading over a jagged field of lava rocks, being unable to get back up is among the most common ways these giant tortoises can die.There is no Life Alert button to press for help. Instead, these animals must rely on their ability to flip over and keep on living. Luckily, many Galapagos tortoises are succ
  
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• Trump lashes out at wrong Theresa May on Twitter

  30-11-2017 15:39
  President Donald Trump initially responded to British Prime Minister Theresa May's criticism of his retweeting inflammatory anti-Muslim videos from a fringe British political group by directing his message to the wrong Theresa May
  
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• Fin24.com | #DataMustFall: MTN to slash out-of-bundle rates

  30-11-2017 15:34
  
  Mobile network provider MTN will slash data rates down to 29 cents per megabyte on its lowest tariff.
  
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• These Gmail searches will dig up stuff you never knew you missed

  30-11-2017 15:30
  
  DIYFind lost messages, unearth attachments, clear your inbox, and more.
  Google built smart search tools right into the Gmail interface. You can use them to organize your inbox, find lost emails, unsubscribe from spam, and more.
  
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• Sharks Terrorize Reef Fish In The Shallows, Changing When And Where They Eat Seaweeds

  30-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's kind of incredible how our fears can shape our behaviors. When Jaws was released in 1975, it fundamentally changed how we interact with sharks. In the years that followed, we hunted these large marine predators more intensely, and came to view them as terrible monsters—attitudes scientists still fight to this day. But while our fears are largely unfounded, there are lots of species that have good reason to be wary of these awesome fish. Scientists have now discovered that&nb
  
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• Does apple cider vinegar actually do anything?

  30-11-2017 14:00
  
  HealthAn investigation into the internet’s favorite home remedy.
  If something claims to be a miracle cure, you should start by assuming it isn’t. That includes the internet darling that is apple cider vinegar.
  
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• WATCH: Volvo offers subscription model

  30-11-2017 12:56
  The Volvo XC40 offers a subscription plan that includes all service, maintenance and insurance costs.
  
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• Fin24.com | Which is South Africa's favourite mobile network?

  30-11-2017 12:53
  
  Customers are most happy with Vodacom and least satisfied with MTN according to the South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) for Cellular Networks.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers targets growth in food to cut value gap with Tencent

  30-11-2017 08:22
  
  Naspers is planning to invest more in businesses including food delivery to help narrow the valuation gap between Africa’s biggest media company and its stake in Tencent.
  
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• Fin24.com | Bitcoin mania interrupted as outage triggers selloff

  30-11-2017 06:46
  
  It takes a lot to startle fans of bitcoin, the digital gold of the moment. But Wednesday was, well, a lot - a wild run of exuberant peaks and white-knuckled declines that left even diehards breathless.
  
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• Fin24.com | Expect more 'hackers for hire' in 2018 - researchers

  30-11-2017 05:00
  
  After a year marked by devastating cyber attacks and breaches, online attackers are expected to become even more destructive in 2018, security researchers say.
  
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• Big Red Flag: Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Raised Their Kids Tech-Free

  30-11-2017 04:31 via technocracy.news
  The most prominent Technocrats in Big Tech that invented most of the technology that is taking over the world, kept their own kids away from it! This clearly shows that they knew what they were doing, and the true nature of the manipulative/addictive environment they were building. All parents should read this story and consider their own children. ⁃ TN EditorPsychologists are quickly learning how dangerous smartphones can be for teenage brains.
  Research has found that an eighth-grade
  
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• Moody’s Threatens Cities: Address Climate Risks Or Face Credit Downgrades

  30-11-2017 04:17 via technocracy.news
  Moody’s is now extorting cities to tow the line on climate change mitigation or face denial of credit access due to downgrades. Who got to Moody’s? The planetary Fintech machine that is behind the surge toward global Technocracy! This is the epitome of Al Gore’s famous statement that “Deniers deserve to be punished.” ⁃ TN EditorCoastal communities from Maine to California have been put on notice from one of the top credit rating agencies: Start preparing
  
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• Robots Could Kill 73 Million U.S. Jobs By 2030, 800 Million Globally

  30-11-2017 03:59 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrat inventors behind this anti-human movement of displacing human work are building a system that will control every facet of human existence. There is no moral or ethical restraint whatever. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being positioned as the Technocrat solution, which will result in a permanent slave-class of humanity from which there will be no escape. ⁃ TN EditorAutomation could destroy as many as 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030, but economic growth, rising produc
  
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• Is this the man who shut down Donald Trump's Twitter account?

  30-11-2017 02:55 via nbcnews.com
  A man who may have been involved in the process that led to the shutdown of the president's Twitter account told TechCrunch it was "definitely a mistake."
  
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• Can a zebra crossing change its stripes?

  30-11-2017 02:30 via rss.cnn.com
  London-based tech company Umbrellium has invented a smart crosswalk that can change size, color and shape according to the needs of its urban environment.
  
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• Yes, you are probably descended from royalty. So is everyone else.

  30-11-2017 01:45
  
  EntertainmentExcerpt: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
  We are all special, which also means that none of us is. This is merely a numbers game.
  
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