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• This Week's PS4, PS3, And Vita PSN Deals Available Now - GameSpot

  08-12-2017 23:22 via gamespot.com
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  This Week's PS4, PS3, And Vita PSN Deals Available Now
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  A new selection of game discounts are now available in the US PlayStation Store. As was the case last week's PSN deals, this week doesn't feature any publisher-specific sales, though there are still some new PS4, PS3, and Vita discounts to choose from ...
  Why PlayStation beat Xbox this generation (and what it taught Microsoft)Polygon
  Sony drops the price of PSVR bundles by $100 for the holidaysEngadget
  PS4 Sales Surpass 70
  
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• First black astronaut honored on 50th anniversary of death

  08-12-2017 23:19
  Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr. has finally received a long overdue honor.
  
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• Libratone Q Adapt On-ear Headphone Review: this is what a 'made for Google' sticker gets you

  08-12-2017 23:15
  
  GadgetsSolid, tweakable noise cancelling performance in headphones that are "made for Google."
  Libratone's on-the-ear headphones are get fast pairing and enhanced Google Assistant integration.
  
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• Apple is reportedly buying Shazam - The Verge

  08-12-2017 22:47 via theverge.com
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  Apple is reportedly buying Shazam
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  Apple is finalizing a deal to acquire Shazam, the app that lets you identify songs, movies, and TV shows from an audio clip, according to TechCrunch. The deal is reportedly for $400 million, according to Recode, which also confirmed the news. For Apple ...
  Apple in talks to acquire music identification app Shazam: sourceBusiness Insider
  Apple is buying Shazam at a big discountRecode
  Apple Might Acquire Popular Music Recognition Service Shaza
  
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• Jony Ive is retaking control of Apple's design team after two years in hands-off role - The Verge

  08-12-2017 22:19 via theverge.com
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  Jony Ive is retaking control of Apple's design team after two years in hands-off role
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  Jony Ive, technically Apple's design chief since 2015, is once again assuming management control of the iPhone maker's design team after two years in a largely hands-off role, according to a report from Bloomberg. Ive, responsible for the look and feel ...
  Jony Ive is leading Apple's design team againTechCrunch
  Jony Ive returns to hands-on control of Apple design teamAppleInsider (press rel
  
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• Nvidia Unleashes Titan V - Seeking Alpha

  08-12-2017 21:51 via seekingalpha.com
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  Nvidia Unleashes Titan V
  Seeking Alpha
  The world's most powerful graphics card is now available to anyone who can afford it. Musk confirms work on custom AI chip to supplant Nvidia. Apple Insider may have blundered regarding Finisar and Apple's TrueDepth sensor. Rethink Technology business ...
  Nvidia's Titan V Is 'The Most Powerful PC GPU Ever Created'Comicbook.com
  Artificial Intelligence Architecture | NVIDIA VoltaNvidia
  Nvidia: Nvidia Pictures, News Articles, Videos - NDTV Gadge
  
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• Never Pop a Zit With Woodcarving Tools

  08-12-2017 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s preface this whole story with a disclaimer: It’s never really a good idea to pop a pimple. But, if you must, absolutely do not use a dirty woodworking blade.How do we know? Because a 23-year-old man from Chicago did exactly that, and paid a gruesome price.According to a case report published in The Journal of Emergency Medicine, doctors at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County treated a construction worker who came to them with a crusty, bloody, bulbous, warty lesion
  
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• Good news: A microwaved egg can’t permanently damage your hearing

  08-12-2017 21:30
  
  ScienceBut it can totally explode in your face.
  A customer took a restaurant to court for burns and hearing damage after an egg exploded in their face, which is where scientists come in.
  
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• Net neutrality fans speak up as FCC set to strike down rules

  08-12-2017 21:26
  Everyday folks talking about net neutrality as FCC looks set to strike down Obama-era rules
  
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• The iPhone X's best feature might come to all iPhones next year - BGR

  08-12-2017 20:41 via bgr.com
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  The iPhone X's best feature might come to all iPhones next year
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  What's the best iPhone X features? Is it the huge OLED screen on the front? The Face ID camera? Or maybe the rear camera that's even more potent than the iPhone 8 Plus? If you ask me, it's the entire design. There's no Face ID without an all-screen ...
  An Apple analyst is saying next year's iPhones will use bigger, newly designed batteriesBusiness Insider
  iPhone Xc concept imagines iPhone X features in an affordable, colorf
  
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• Robotic manta ray may speed underwater search & rescue

  08-12-2017 20:40 via nbcnews.com
  The underwater bot can swim for up to 10 hours.
  
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• Herschel Solves Decades-Old Mystery About Starburst-Driven Superwinds

  08-12-2017 20:30 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers have used ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory to solve a decades-old mystery about the origin of powerful cool gas winds in the hot environs of...
  The post Herschel Solves Decades-Old Mystery About Starburst-Driven Superwinds appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• 29 fail-safe present ideas for your office gift exchange

  08-12-2017 20:30
  
  Gift Guides You're sure to please with these.
  The annual office gift exchange is here, and you have no clue what to buy. Don't panic—these gifts are sure to please your coworker without breaking the bank.
  
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• Guanidinium Helps Stabilizes Perovskite Solar Cells

  08-12-2017 20:29 via scitechdaily.com
  Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under full-sunlight testing conditions. The study, carried out by EPFL, is...
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• Fin24.com | Did police tender probe butcher EOH’s share price?

  08-12-2017 20:21
  
  The massive drop in the share price of JSE-listed IT company EOH may be linked to the clampdown on multibillion-rand police tenders by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
  
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• Fin24.com | France to allow trading of securities via blockchain

  08-12-2017 19:56
  
  France's finance minister has unveiled a decree that would make it the first nation in Europe to allow the trading of some non-listed securities using the blockchain technology that underpins cryptocurrencies.
  
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• Destiny 2's Broken Exotic Weapon Is For Sale As Curse Of Osiris's First Trials Begins - GameSpot

  08-12-2017 19:45 via gamespot.com
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  Destiny 2's Broken Exotic Weapon Is For Sale As Curse Of Osiris's First Trials Begins
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  Destiny 2's Prometheus Lens, a trace rifle weapon added in the newly released Curse of Osiris expansion, is broken. Not broken in the way that fans sometimes refer to a weapon in a game that they feel is overpowered; Prometheus Lens is devastatingly ...
  Bungie promises to fix Destiny 2 achievement and other issuesPolygon
  Destiny 2 Xur Location and Inventory Guide for Dec 8-11, 2017, Prometheu
  
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• Physicists Discover New Form of Matter, Excitonium

  08-12-2017 19:23 via scitechdaily.com
  Abbamonte group achieves first-ever measurement of excitonium collective modes and first observation of soft plasmon in any material. Excitonium has a team of researchers at...
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• This tiny bit of the brain could offer clues about addiction

  08-12-2017 19:15
  
  HealthIt's responsible for getting you to stop doing things.
  A small part of the brain handles the contextual information when you decide to stop doing something.
  
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• Inner Ears of Living Aquatic Animals Resemble Those of Extinct Sea Monsters

  08-12-2017 19:12 via scitechdaily.com
  The inner ears of extinct aquatic reptiles from millions of years ago closely resemble those of some living aquatic animals with similar lifestyles or body...
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• Fin24.com | Music streaming giants Spotify, Tencent invest in each other

  08-12-2017 19:11
  
  Swedish music streaming service Spotify and Chinese internet company Tencent have struck a deal to take minority stakes in each other.
  
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• We Can Do Better Than Road Salt

  08-12-2017 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marshes, streams and lakes lie alongside many of the roads and highways that zigzag across North America. Plants and animals inhabit these water bodies and can be exposed to many of the substances we put on those roads, including road salt.Rock salt helps keep roads safe when winter storms hit, reducing winter road accidents. But it can also have serious, negative effects on aquatic ecosystems.At high concentrations, salt can be fatal to some aquatic animals. Salt can also change
  
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• For Homo Sapiens, This Is as Good as It Gets

  08-12-2017 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, that’s it.Pack it in, boys.Show’s over for us as a species: We’ve peaked.At least, we might have, according to a paper in Frontiers in Physiology. If anything, it looks like we might be going downhill, with climate change and other environmental effects taking our bodies away from their current idealized forms.Fastest, Highest, StrongestFirst, the findings themselves. In the paper, “Are We Reaching the Limits of Homo Sapiens?”, the authors looked at 120 years
  
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• An animation of nighttime satellite images shows the start and breathtakingly rapid spread of the first SoCal wildfires

  08-12-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  A second animation shows the giant smoke plume from the Thomas Fire illuminated by this week's supermoon as it streams over the Pacific
  Carl Engelking, Discover's online editor, has put together a gallery of scarily dramatic images of the SoCal wildfires as seen from space. With that in mind, I thought I would take a somewhat different tack with this post.Engelking's gallery consists of images acquired during daytime from the International Space Station and two satellites. (Click
  
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• Astronomers Map Galaxy Orbits in the Local Supercluster

  08-12-2017 18:16 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel, and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended...
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• New Discovery May Solve “Ocean Methane Paradox”

  08-12-2017 18:04 via scitechdaily.com
  MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane. Industrial and agricultural...
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• Geneticists Show Temperature Change Makes Gene-Editing More Efficient

  08-12-2017 17:54 via scitechdaily.com
  By modifying a single variable, temperature, Yale geneticists have expanded the potential uses of a groundbreaking gene-editing technology. The CRISPR-Cpf1 gene-editing technology has proved to...
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• MIT Spinout Develops Smart Needle-Free Drug Injector

  08-12-2017 17:46 via scitechdaily.com
  MIT spinout Portal Instruments has landed a commercialization deal for a smart, needle-free injection device that could reduce the pain and anxiety associated with needle...
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• Unusual Melting May Affect Key Processes Deep Within the Earth

  08-12-2017 17:35 via scitechdaily.com
  New research from Yale University suggests that the unusual melting behavior of the second most abundant mineral in the Earth may affect key processes deep...
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• Astronomers Find Variations in the Initial Mass Function (IMF)

  08-12-2017 17:16 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers have concluded from the study of NGC 1600 and similar galaxies that the relative populations of stars of different masses in a cluster of...
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• Russia claims radioactivity spike not due to nuclear plant

  08-12-2017 16:41
  Russian authorities have denied that a radioactivity spike in Europe resulted from a nuclear fuel plant leak in the Urals, saying their probe has found no release of radioactivity there
  
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• Fin24.com | 'Grinch bots' may steal Christmas

  08-12-2017 16:16
  
  If no one comes to the rescue, an online army of "Grinch bots" may end up spoiling Christmas for many kids by using automated software to scoop up prized toys and other sought-after items for big profit.
  
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• The Galaxy S9 will be smaller than the S8, but the display will be just as big - BGR

  08-12-2017 15:44 via bgr.com
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  The Galaxy S9 will be smaller than the S8, but the display will be just as big
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  Reports from a few weeks ago said that Samsung is looking to increase the screen-to-body ratio in the upcoming Galaxy S9 phones, with the display expected to account for up to 90% of the phone's front side. Some said that Samsung will switch to a 21:9 ...
  DEAL: Samsung's Instant $400-Off Trade-In Promo is Back and Better Than Ever for Note 8, Galaxy S8Droid Life
  Galaxy S9 display set Samsung an incredible cha
  
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• Instant hot cocoa sucks, and it's starch's fault. Here's how to make your own.

  08-12-2017 15:30
  
  DIYScrew off, Swiss Miss.
  Hot chocolate mix is fine in a pinch, but it has an unpleasant tendency to clump. The homemade variety is far tastier, and surprisingly easy to make.
  
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• Instant hot cocoa is awful, and it's starch's fault. Here's how to make your own.

  08-12-2017 15:30
  
  DIYSwiss Miss is a miss.
  Hot chocolate mix is fine in a pinch, but it has an unpleasant tendency to clump. The homemade variety is far tastier, and surprisingly easy to make.
  
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• What you should know about birth control and breast cancer

  08-12-2017 14:00
  
  HealthA new study has mostly just confirmed what we already knew.
  Given that about a quarter of all women in the U.S. use some kind of hormonal birth control, this sounds like a huge public health issue. Here’s the reality.
  
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• WATCH: Anheuser-Busch purchases Tesla's self-driving Semi trucks

  08-12-2017 13:05
  The makers of Budweiser preordered 40 electric trucks in an attempt to reduce fuel costs.
  
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• Russia: Spike in radioactivity unrelated to nuclear plant

  08-12-2017 12:41
  Russian authorities have denied that a radioactivity spike in Europe resulted from a nuclear fuel plant leak in the Urals, saying their probe has found no release of radioactivity there
  
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• Fin24.com | Dummies' guide to buying Bitcoin in SA

  08-12-2017 11:57
  
  Want to take a gamble on the cryptocurrency which has become larger than the GDP of some nations? Here's how to do it from your smartphone.
  
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• An Alexa Holdout Wants to Know Who's Listening - New York Times

  08-12-2017 11:01 via nytimes.com
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  An Alexa Holdout Wants to Know Who's Listening
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  One of my kids has asked for a Google Home Mini. But hold up, Santa. It's been three years since Amazon debuted Echo, a speaker that came with a talking digital assistant named Alexa, which you can ask to order a pizza or play a song or a great many ...
  All the cool gifts are made for spying on youEngadget
  Petition asks Siri and Alexa to flip the script on sexual harassmentVentureBeat
  Amazon Echo expands to 28 more cou
  
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• The Remarkable "Curvature Blindness" Illusion

  08-12-2017 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new optical illusion has been discovered, and it's really quite striking. The strange effect is called the 'curvature blindness' illusion, and it's described in a new paper from psychologist Kohske Takahashi of Chukyo University, Japan.
  Here's an example of the illusion:A series of wavy horizontal lines are shown. All of the lines have exactly the same shape - a sine curve. However, half of the lines appear to have a much more triangular, "zig-zag" shape, when they are superimpose
  
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• How North Korea recruits its army of young hackers

  08-12-2017 09:15 via nbcnews.com
  Experts from around the world recently gathered in Seoul to discuss North Korea's hacking capabilities — and how to defend against them.
  
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• Fin24.com | YouTube said to plan new music subscription service for March

  08-12-2017 09:13
  
  YouTube plans to introduce a paid music service in March, a third attempt by parent company Alphabet to catch up with Spotify and Apple.
  
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• Fin24.com | Bitcoin craze propels Coinbase app to #1 in Apple's store

  08-12-2017 07:56
  
  Cryptocurrencies are officially number one, at least when it comes to Apple’s App Store.
  
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• Smoke billowing from rampaging California wildfires streams across ~1,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean

  08-12-2017 06:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I'm writing this post on Thursday night, tens of thousands of homes in Southern California are threatened by raging wildfires. And with a forecast calling for bone dry humidity and gusty winds through Sunday, relief is not yet in sight.
  The total acreage burned so far in Southern California is already approaching 150,000 acres. This is equivalent to about 40 percent of the size of the city of Los Angeles.
  The fires have prompted authorities to order the evacuation of 200,000 pe
  
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• China’s Technocracy: ‘Ghost Collateral” And ‘Yin-Yang’ Property Deals

  08-12-2017 06:08 via technocracy.news
  China has no understanding of Capitalism or Free Enterprise because it is a Technocracy that scientifically engineers their society. ‘Ghost Cities’ and ‘Ghost Collateral go hand in hand, where the entire system is riding on thin air. The next global economic collapse will take China to the mat.  ⁃ TN EditorOne lesson from the 2007-08 crisis was that the vast majority of financial market participants, never mind the general public, were unfamiliar with subprime mortga
  
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• Fin24.com | ICT sector needs rapid transformation - survey

  08-12-2017 06:00
  
  A skills survey has highlighted the need for more rapid transformation and empowerment as well as recognition of the ICT sector’s value as an economic contributor.
  
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• Human Testing Begins: Brain Implants To ‘Change Moods Controlled By AI’

  08-12-2017 05:46 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrats at DARPA are often seen as the financiers of research such as this, all of which is conducted for military purposes. Why is the military so interested in creating malleable super-soldiers? Or will the government ultimately use such discoveries against their own citizens? ⁃ TN EditorDevices plugged into people’s skulls are being developed by boffins funded by the US military’s research division DARPA.
  These implants will use electronic pulses to alter the chemica
  
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• Satellites Show No Acceleration In Global Warming For 23 Years

  08-12-2017 05:30 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats will ignore any data that presents a contrary case against their own pre-conceived ideas and assumptions. In this case,  another solid report from university scientists with funding from the Department of Energy! ⁃ TN EditorGlobal warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than two decades, according to a new study funded by the Department of Energy.
  University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientists John Christy and Richard McNider f
  
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• Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe

  08-12-2017 01:45
  
  SpaceAnd it's much bigger than we expected.
  One of the brightest lights during that dawn had a dark and hungry hole at its heart.
  
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