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• A wind tunnel and laser guidance helped the Olympic luge team learn about uniform tech

  12-02-2018 23:59
  
  TechnologyThey felt the need for speed.
  The key piece of equipment at the San Diego Wind Tunnel is a 20-foot fan, powered by a 2,250 horsepower motor, that accelerates air up to 270 miles per hour.
  
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• Ford's Robot Police Car Is No RoboCop

  12-02-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before the RoboCop future arrives, a robot police car that pulls over speeding vehicles and issues tickets or warnings on its own could someday help ease a shortage of human officers at police departments across the United States. But the vision of a self-driving police vehicle described in a Ford patent also raises many questions about whether such technology is the right tool for law enforcement.The basic Ford patent description makes clear that this self-dri
  
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• Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level rise

  12-02-2018 22:35
  New satellite research shows global warming is making seas rise at an ever increasing rate
  
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• Huntington's Disease Reveals a New Weapon to Fight Cancer

  12-02-2018 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientists have found a silver lining to Huntington’s disease.The malady causes nerve cells in the brain to break down; there is no cure. But if there’s one redeeming quality to this fatal genetic illness it’s this: Medical data has shown that people with Huntington’s are 80 percent less likely to develop cancer than the general population. But why?Building off of previous experiments and related studies conducted over several years, Marcus Peter and his colleagues at Nor
  
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• Climate Politics, Commissions Of Inquiry, And Conspiracy Theories

  12-02-2018 22:02 via technocracy.news
  Everyone is calling for another Commission of Inquiry (CI) or Special Prosecutor to investigate FBI and DOJ involvement in the election of Donald Trump. I used to think a CI, or any government commission, was a wonderful vehicle for taking the politics and most of the emotion out of an issue. I believed, like most, that finally, the public will get an independent examination and complete exposure of all the issues and facts necessary for a reasoned decision. That was the illusion behind the form
  
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• Cities 2030: Implementing the New Urban Agenda

  12-02-2018 21:43 via technocracy.news
  The United Nations promotes Technocracy through its programs of Sustainable Development, New Urban Agenda and Agenda 2030. It has also sworn to overthrow capitalism and Free Enterprise altogether, and a key part of their strategy is to transform cities throughout the world. ⁃ TN EditorIn October 2016, the New Urban Agenda was unanimously adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), serving as a new vision for our cities and
  
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• How to speed up your sled

  12-02-2018 21:30
  
  DIYPlunge downhill as fast as you can.
  Everybody, Olympian or not, enjoys sledding. Even if you can't reach a luge athlete's speed, you can follow these tips to fly downhill as quickly as possible.
  
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• Anti-Google Protesters Crash San Jose Mayor’s State-Of-The-City Address

  12-02-2018 21:00 via technocracy.news
  Money flowing into and out of Google and other Big Tech firms in Silicon Valley have driven the cost of housing beyond the means of long-time residents, and citizens believe Google is at the fountainhead of it all. ⁃ TN EditorIn San Jose protesters disrupted the mayor’s State of the City Address, chanting, “Say it loud, say it clear, Google is not welcome here.”
  It’s a tactic not seen very often.
  They were fired up and the protests were loud and disruptive by d
  
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• 4 robots that aim to teach your kids to code

  12-02-2018 20:51
  4 robots that aim to teach your kids to code
  
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• Last week in tech: A dummy went to space and we got some new emojis

  12-02-2018 20:30
  
  TechnologyWe'll never get sick of looking at that view of earth from a Tesla in space.
  2018 is the year for Teslas in space and Olympians on ice.
  
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• Neutron Analysis on Glaucoma Drugs Offers Clues for Cancer Targets

  12-02-2018 20:09 via scitechdaily.com
  New insights from neutron analysis of glaucoma drugs and their enzyme target may help scientists design drugs that more effectively target aggressive cancers. A team...
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• Fin24.com | Harvey Weinstein sued by New York state over sexual harassment

  12-02-2018 20:05
  
  The disgraced movie producer has been sued for creating a hostile work environment.
  
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• Tech gossip app wants to become #MeToo platform

  12-02-2018 19:58 via nbcnews.com
  An app where many Silicon Valley employees go to silently scream about their big tech jobs is embracing the #MeToo movement.
  
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• Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells Demonstrate Exceptional Power Density and Stability

  12-02-2018 19:33 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new fuel cell offering both exceptional power...
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• In honor of his birthday, let's talk about Charles Darwin's sexy theory of selection

  12-02-2018 19:30
  
  AnimalsHappy Darwin-tine's Day, everybody!
  Charles Darwin's other theory of evolution—sexual selection—is one worth considering.
  
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• Geophysicists Reveal Megathrust Fault Off Costa Rica

  12-02-2018 19:20 via scitechdaily.com
  Geophysicists have obtained detailed three-dimensional images of a dangerous megathrust fault west of Costa Rica where two plates of the Earth’s crust collide. The images...
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• Fin24.com | Your boss could have the rights to your social media accounts

  12-02-2018 18:59
  
  South African law is unclear about who may own your social media accounts when you leave the company - even if you have the passwords.
  
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• Does this huge warm water blob herald an end to La Niña?

  12-02-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  La Niña is still with us and influencing drought and other weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere.But check out the animation above. That large mass of warm water coursing through the depths of the Pacific Ocean may signal that by this spring, La Nada will be with us.The warm blob and other signs have prompted the Climate Prediction Center to peg the odds of La Niña fading to neutral conditions at 55 percent during the March through May season.La Ni&ntil
  
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• Fully Autonomous Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Seek and Destroy Tumors

  12-02-2018 17:55 via scitechdaily.com
  In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of...
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• How recycled astronaut poop might sustain a mission to Mars

  12-02-2018 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  How will we keep astronauts fed on deep-space missions?
  
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• Chandra Identifies X-Ray Emission from the Nuclear Region of Arp 220

  12-02-2018 17:19 via scitechdaily.com
  The galaxy Arp 220 is ultraluminous (defined as having more than about 300 times the luminosity of our own galaxy) and, at a distance of...
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• MIT Neuroscientists Identify Neurons Responsible for Routine Habits

  12-02-2018 17:06 via scitechdaily.com
  Our daily lives include hundreds of routine habits. Brushing our teeth, driving to work, or putting away the dishes are just a few of the...
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• Hubble Telescope Views ‘A Window Into The Cosmic Past’

  12-02-2018 16:55 via scitechdaily.com
  This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster PLCK G004.5-19.5. It was discovered by the ESA Planck satellite through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich...
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• The Olympics still aren't perfectly green, and they might never be

  12-02-2018 16:15
  
  EnvironmentCreating future Olympic venues requires thinking about how they will be used far into the future.
  In the past decade, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has emphasized the measures taken to make the Games sustainable. But in a world where reducing carbon…
  
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• Olympic stadiums are engineering marvels: here are seven standout facilities

  12-02-2018 16:00
  
  TechnologyThe designs made history. And they might be used again.
  The Olympics aren't just about the athletes. Architects also compete to design the world's most innovative new buildings.
  
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• Olympic biathletes are better than you at breathing

  12-02-2018 14:00
  
  ScienceTo hit a 1.6-inch target after an all-out cardiovascular sprint, take a deep breath.
  "It’s like running up a flight of stairs as fast as you can and then trying to thread a needle.”…
  
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• WATCH: Equifax hack reportedly worse than originally thought

  12-02-2018 13:55
  The credit-reporting agency says hackers gained access to tax records and email addresses in addition to social security numbers and birthdays.
  
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• World Urban Forum Commits To Global, Harmonized Definition of Cities

  12-02-2018 05:40 via technocracy.news
  With a Muslim woman now in charge of UN-Habitat and the New Urban Agenda, Islam has a direct path to potentially influence every city on earth. With many Islamic nations already committed to ‘green finance’, or Fintech, and Sustainable Development, it is little wonder that they would try to dominate at every turn. ⁃ TN EditorToday at the World Urban Forum in Malaysia, the Commission takes stock of what was achieved under the three commitments put forward by the EU and its part
  
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• Energy riches fuel bitcoin craze for speculation-shy Iceland

  12-02-2018 03:24
  Virtual currencies like Iceland for its renewable energy sources and cool climate but the 2008 banking crisis left locals wary of financial speculators
  
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• Chinese Police Using Facial-Recognition Glasses To ID Travelers in 3 Seconds Or Less

  12-02-2018 01:01 via technocracy.news
  Facial recognition in China has taken the next logical step by giving police wifi-enabled and camera-equipped glasses in order to identify anyone they look at. The ID process can take as little as 3 seconds across 1.3 billion citizen records in the centralized database. This technology is coming to America and sooner than you think. Why? Because Technocrats full intend to conquer the whole world into their technological matrix. ⁃ TN EditorChinese railway police are using facial-recognition
  
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• China Is Developing AI-Enabled Nuclear Submarines That Can Think For Themselves

  12-02-2018 00:20 via technocracy.news
  Technocrat engineers in all first-world nations are in a private competition with each other to see who can develop the most advanced technology for killing their fellow citizens. It is doubtful that they consider massive numbers of dead humans in their equations. ⁃ TN EditorChina is working to update the rugged old computer systems on nuclear submarines with artificial intelligence to enhance the potential thinking skills of commanding officers, a senior scientist involved with the progra
  
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