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• Researchers Identify Mechanism That Leads to Cell Migration and Metastasis

  15-12-2017 23:33 via scitechdaily.com
  Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to...
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• Your Weekly Attenborough: Pristimantis attenboroughi

  15-12-2017 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FLS, FZS, FSA, is the best. That sounds like an opinion, but it's pretty much objective fact at this point. The British broadcaster and naturalist has been narrating the wonders of the natural world for over 50 years now, traveling to almost every country on Earth to do so.His crowning achievement is a massive documentary series known simply as the Life collection. Thirteen separate series filmed ove
  
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• Did the FCC just take the Net back to 2014? - USA TODAY

  15-12-2017 23:15 via usatoday.com
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  Did the FCC just take the Net back to 2014?
  USA TODAY
  When the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday to scrap Obama-era rules meant to prevent anti-competitive behavior by Internet service providers, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the action would simply return the Net to 2014. But the reality is ...
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• A bird, a plane, a polar bear? Wild guests at Alaska airport

  15-12-2017 22:28
  Many airports have problems dealing with bird strikes, but the one in America's farthest north community is having issues lately with marine mammals
  
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• U.S. considers ending rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders to work

  15-12-2017 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  The federal government is considering the end of a rule granting employment authorization to certain holders of H-4 visas, granted to spouses of H-1B recipients
  
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• SpaceX 1st: Recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

  15-12-2017 21:50
  SpaceX has racked up another first, launching a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on a NASA grocery run.
  
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• What's next for net neutrality, and when will we see change?

  15-12-2017 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  After the FCC voted to repeal laws that govern a free and open internet for all, when can we expect to see changes to our service and fee structure?
  
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• Ötzi the Iceman Stars in a New Feature Film

  15-12-2017 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  From a block of ice to the silver screen; Ötzi the Iceman, an archaeological star, is getting his own feature film.From German director Felix Randau, the movie is a fictionalized account of Ötzi's life and eventual death at the hands of an unknown archer in the Alps. Though the story is mostly fictional, the clothing, props and setting were all recreated with the help of researchers from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, with the goal of creating a story that could
  
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• Electric car vending machines are coming soon

  15-12-2017 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  Chinese conglomerate plans to open dozens of the automated retail outlets in China next year.
  
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• China is betting big on electromagnetic railguns and catapults

  15-12-2017 20:30
  
  Eastern Arsenal Just as the U.S. Navy is pulling away from the technology.
  China has been making under-radar advances in railguns and other electromagnetic technologies. It's particularly notable considering the U.S. Navy has recently reduced…
  
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• Fin24.com | Net Neutrality rules swept aside by Republican-led FCC

  15-12-2017 20:23
  
  The US Federal Communications Commission swept aside rules barring broadband providers from favouring the internet traffic of websites willing to pay for speedier service, sending the future of net neutrality on to a likely court challenge.
  
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• 'Alien probe' asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news? - BGR

  15-12-2017 19:53 via bgr.com
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  'Alien probe' asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news?
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  A couple of months back, a really, really weird asteroid flew through our Solar System. It looked nothing like any object humanity had ever spotted in space, and was moving might fast. First it was identified as a comet, then an asteroid, and most ...
  Interstellar visitor stays silent: No signs of life yet on 'OumuamuaFox News
  Stephen Hawking's search for extraterrestrial life came up shortQuartz
  Initial scans of i
  
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• Facebook says 'passively consuming' the News Feed will make you feel worse about yourself - The Verge

  15-12-2017 19:29 via theverge.com
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  Facebook says 'passively consuming' the News Feed will make you feel worse about yourself
  The Verge
  Using Facebook without contributing, in the form of messages and comments on your friends' posts, makes you feel bad, the company said today. In a remarkable blog post, citing both internal and academic research, the company said “in general, when ...
  What Facebook's fight with a former executive says about social media's futureWashington Post
  Facebook worries it might be bad for
  
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• Corals grow in patterns, even if we can’t always see them

  15-12-2017 19:15
  
  EnvironmentThere’s a method to the reef madness.
  New research suggests that while corals can look totally random, there's a real method to all that reef madness.
  
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• Today we say goodbye to AOL Instant Messenger

  15-12-2017 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  AOL Instant Messenger, the program beloved by '90s kids and people who really didn't want to talk to their co-workers, retires today.
  
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• Fin24.com | Bitcoin, WhatsApp crashes and Nokia 3310 took centre stage in 2017

  15-12-2017 19:10
  
  2017 was one of ups and downs for the tech industry and cyber space, with surprising smartphone launches and massive data breaches taking centre stage.
  
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• Permian Ecosystems Tell Us A Lot About Modern Earth

  15-12-2017 19:09 via scitechdaily.com
  A whopping two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, Earth was crawling with bizarre animals, including dinosaur cousins resembling Komodo dragons and bulky early mammal-relatives,...
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• Ion-Trap Technologies Are Suitable for Building Large-Scale Quantum Computers

  15-12-2017 19:08 via scitechdaily.com
  A study led by physicists at Swansea University in Wales, carried out by an international team of researchers and published in the journal Physical Review...
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• Archaeologists Discover Oldest Known Funereal Fish Hooks

  15-12-2017 18:58 via scitechdaily.com
  An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered the world’s oldest known fish-hooks placed in a burial ritual, found on Indonesia’s Alor Island,...
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• New Model of Protoplanets Sheds Light on Early Solar Activity

  15-12-2017 18:44 via scitechdaily.com
  A scientist from Siberian Federal University (SFU) and his colleagues from Austria and Germany constructed a physical and mathematical model of Mars- and Venus-sized planet...
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• Google Finally Lets You Mute Autoplay Videos In Chrome—Here's How - Gizmodo

  15-12-2017 18:31 via gizmodo.com
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  Google Finally Lets You Mute Autoplay Videos In Chrome—Here's How
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  For several months, Google has teased some updates for Chrome that aim to make surfing the web slightly less annoying. And on Thursday, Chrome developers announced that you can now update your browser and choose to mute those annoying autoplay videos ...
  You can now download Google Chrome beta and start muting autoplay videosThe Verge
  Google Chrome beta delivers mute tool for autoplay videosEngadget
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• NASA Scientists Will Survey an Unexplored Stretch of Antarctic Ice

  15-12-2017 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  In temperatures that can drop below -20 degrees Fahrenheit, along a route occasionally blocked by wind-driven ice dunes, a hundred miles from any other people,...
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• Researchers Demonstrate a New Electrochemical Method to Study Thermodynamic Processes

  15-12-2017 18:15 via scitechdaily.com
  The thermodynamic properties of compounds such as aluminum oxide, which are known as refractory materials because they melt at temperatures above 2,000 degrees Celsius (3,632...
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• Fin24.com | Dalai Lama turns to iPhone to spread app-iness

  15-12-2017 18:05
  
  He already has millions of Twitter followers and has spoken of the wonders of new technology. Now the Dalai Lama has launched a new iPhone app so devotees can keep track of his travels and teachings.
  
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• Climate Change, Disease and the Fall of Rome

  15-12-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  At some time or another, every historian of Rome has been asked to say where we are, today, on Rome’s cycle of decline. Historians might squirm at such attempts to use the past but, even if history does not repeat itself, nor come packaged into moral lessons, it can deepen our sense of what it means to be human and how fragile our societies are.In the middle of the second century, the Romans controlled a huge, geographically diverse part of the globe, from northern Britain to the edges o
  
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• Benefits Outweigh Costs of ‘Hidden’ Emissions from Wind and Solar Power

  15-12-2017 18:01 via scitechdaily.com
  A new study co-authored by Yale’s Edgar Hertwich finds that complete de-carbonization of the global power sector using wind and solar technologies would induce only...
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• Teaching Artificial Intelligence Humor

  15-12-2017 17:53 via scitechdaily.com
  We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And...
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• Kepler Characterizes “Starspots” on 2244 Stars

  15-12-2017 17:40 via scitechdaily.com
  Sunspots are regions on the Sun’s photosphere that appear darker than surrounding areas because they are cooler, usually by one or two thousand degrees Celsius....
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• China’s CCTV Surveillance Network Took Just 7 Minutes To ‘Capture’ BBC Reporter

  15-12-2017 17:36 via technocracy.news
  Seeing China’s Technocracy is believing: you must view the video below!
  A challenge experiment was just conducted in Guiyang, China to see how long it would take to locate and capture a BBC reporter who was mixed in at random with the general population of 3.5 million people. After the police snapped his picture and fed it into the massive facial recognition database, which contains the facial image of every Guiyang resident, the reporter took off. They gave him a head start as he mingled
  
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• Saturn's Rings Alter Its Ionosphere

  15-12-2017 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  In April of this year, NASA nudged the Cassini spacecraft into an orbit that took it through a narrow gap between Saturn’s innermost ring (the D-ring) and the gas giant itself.Over the next few months, Cassini skimmed the upper atmosphere of the ringed planet nearly two dozen times. During 11 of those orbits, Cassini’s Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument took unprecedented measurements of Saturn’s ionosphere — a shell of charged particles that surrounds the pl
  
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• Zelda Breath Of The Wild: Champion's Ballad is a Christmas treat - British GQ

  15-12-2017 17:18 via gq-magazine.co.uk
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  Zelda Breath Of The Wild: Champion's Ballad is a Christmas treat
  British GQ
  While The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is unquestionably a masterpiece, I never completed it. Having sunk 130 or more hours into exploring the vast and colourful world of Hyrule, I'd never progressed to the point that I could bear to make my way ...
  Zelda: Breath of the Wild Champions' Ballad Final Trial WalkthroughShacknews
  GOTY 2017: #1 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildPolygon
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• Twisted: Wired Magazine Suggests Cannibalism With Artificially Grown Meat

  15-12-2017 17:16 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats have no moral or ethical compass, so if humans are just bags of molecules and atoms, then they are no different than animals. This is the most hideous side of Technocrat thinking, and the most dangerous to the societies they are trying to engineer. Now that the discussion has started, it is just a matter of time before someone suggests recycling humans for food, aka Soylent Green. ⁃ TN EditorWhat if you could tuck into a juicy human burger that was guaranteed cruelty-free? No-o
  
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• Can these water-gathering devices prevent 'pipeageddon?'

  15-12-2017 17:11 via nbcnews.com
  Automatic water generators and water harvesters are designed to suck drinking water from the air.
  
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• California's wildfires are affecting the oceans—and these researchers are the first to study it

  15-12-2017 16:45
  
  EnvironmentA research trip planned long before the fires took hold takes on new importance.
  Scientists want to study the effect of smoke and ash on the organisms in the Santa Barbara Channel.
  
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• What the FCC rollback of 'net neutrality' means to you

  15-12-2017 16:13
  What the FCC rollback of 'net neutrality' means to you
  
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• How to build a structurally sound gingerbread house

  15-12-2017 15:30
  
  DIYNever fret about collapsing candy walls again.
  We created the sturdiest gingerbread house in all the land using the tastiest scientific principles we have.
  
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• These are the top Google searches of 2017

  15-12-2017 15:13
  Hurricane Irma earned the most Google searches of 2017, followed by Matt Lauer.
  
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• Road salt is actually pretty terrible for the planet

  15-12-2017 14:00
  
  EnvironmentCould beets be the solution?
  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.
  
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• WATCH: FCC votes to repeal net neutrality rules

  15-12-2017 13:48
  ABC News chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis reports on possible implications for Internet users from the controversial decision, including increased fees and slower service.
  
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• WATCH: Free Shipping Friday arrives

  15-12-2017 13:27
  Many companies are offering free shipping with no minimum purchase on one of the last days to shop online and still have your gifts arrive by Christmas Eve.
  
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• Fin24.com | SA said to target R4bn from Telkom stake

  15-12-2017 09:28
  
  South Africa is seeking to raise as much as R4bn from the sale of part of its 39% stake in Telkom to raise funds for SAA and the post office, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Fin24.com | 8 tech toys to blow your kids away this Christmas

  15-12-2017 07:15
  
  Many of the most expensive toys bought for kids during Christmas become short-lived fun with kids spending just minutes, hours or days with them before the novelty wears off.
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook moves to declare tax revenues locally

  15-12-2017 06:41
  
  Facebook has said that from mid-2018 it will start declaring advertising revenues in the country they are made, and not via its Irish HQ.
  
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• Popular PUBG streamer DrDisrespect takes hiatus after confessing to infidelity - PC Gamer

  15-12-2017 02:48 via pcgamer.com
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  Popular PUBG streamer DrDisrespect takes hiatus after confessing to infidelity
  PC Gamer
  Popular Twitch streamer DrDisrespect announced on his channel today that he plans to take time away from livestreaming to focus on his family. "I have a beautiful family, and a wife, and kid. And I want to be transparent that I've been unfaithful ...
  Popular Streamer Dr Disrespect Announces He's Taking Time off from Twitch After Admitting He Cheated on His WifeCOGconnected
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• Net neutrality supporters vow a reboot after FCC pulls plug

  15-12-2017 02:47 via nbcnews.com
  State attorneys general said they would sue to overturn the FCC's vote to roll back "net neutrality" as advocates said the decision threatens the open internet.
  
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• Is hand sanitizer bad for my microbiome?

  15-12-2017 01:45
  
  Ask Us Anything Don't lose your good bacteria just because someone sneezed.
  Because it kills both good and bad bacteria, hand sanitizer should be used sparingly, and only in situations that truly warrant it.
  
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• India Creates The Largest Biometric Database In The World

  15-12-2017 00:53 via technocracy.news
  Indians are mandated to link all their financial services to the national ID card, making surveillance ubiquitous with over 1 billion already signed up. India has already been described as a Technocracy, but this will certify it. Surveillance like this, as well a similar program in China, is coming to America soon, and then it will be too late to escape. You should now see why India was the first nation to drive cash out of circulation. ⁃ TN EditorPrime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing In
  
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• Astronomers Discover Eighth Planet Circling Kepler-90

  15-12-2017 00:27 via scitechdaily.com
  The discovery of an eighth planet circling the distant star Kepler-90 by University of Texas at Austin astronomer Andrew Vanderburg and Google’s Christopher Shallue overturns...
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• Advanced Chemical Oscillator Offers New Level of Molecular Control

  15-12-2017 00:10 via scitechdaily.com
  DNA molecules that follow specific instructions could offer more precise molecular control of synthetic chemical systems, a discovery that opens the door for engineers to...
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• Artificial intelligence just discovered two new exoplanets

  15-12-2017 00:08
  
  TechnologyThis is what happens when you turn machine learning loose on the cosmos.
  A machine learning technique called a neural network has identified two new exoplanets in our galaxy, NASA scientists and a Google engineer announced today.
  
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