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• Stopping package theft could be just the start for Amazon's smart camera plans

  06-03-2018 23:45
  
  TechnologyThe next step may involve AI and machine learning.
  Amazon recently purchased Ring, a company whose standout product is a doorbell that also doubles as a security camera.
  
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• No love for guns: Dating app Bumble to bar photos featuring firearms

  06-03-2018 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  The dating and social networking app Bumble said it would no longer allow profile photos featuring firearms after recent mass shootings.
  
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• Washington state passes law protecting net neutrality

  06-03-2018 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  With net neutrality dead at the federal level, some states are now taking the reins to pass legislation protecting internet subscribers from the new norms.
  
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• School shootings spur real-time reaction, survivor support

  06-03-2018 22:51
  Modern technology has enabled real-time reaction, support and calls for action during deadly mass shootings in the U.S.
  
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• Drones Aid in Penguin Mega-Colony Discovery

  06-03-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s black, white and always dressed to impress? A penguin! And scientists, with the help of drones and poop stains, recently discovered a mega-colony of these dapper animals.The Adélie penguin population in the Antarctic continues to decline, particularly on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which some studies link to climate change. However, little is known about the population residing on the east side of the continent. After analyzing old satellite images, researchers
  
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• Blind Mice See Again With Gold and Titanium

  06-03-2018 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Returning sight to those for whom it's slipped away has been a goal of scientists for decades. But repairing or replacing the delicate internal machinery of the human eye has proven difficult so far. A few experimental devices have managed to grant low-resolution sight to the blind, but most require the use of bulky electronics and external power sources.But researchers from Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China say that they've come up with a more elegan
  
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• BlackBerry sues Facebook over messaging patents

  06-03-2018 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  BlackBerry Ltd on Tuesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger.
  
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• Some people's brains make them hear color and taste sounds. Genetics may explain why.

  06-03-2018 21:30
  
  ScienceUnraveling the real sixth sense.
  Researchers are beginning to unravel the molecular and genetic basis of sound-color synesthesia.
  
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• Tattoos are permanent, but the science behind them just shifted

  06-03-2018 20:30
  
  ScienceYour body never stops trying to contain the situation.
  If you ask most people how tattoos work, they’re likely to get it a little bit wrong. But a new study suggests we were all a little off the mark.
  
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• Hubble Discovers Huge 150 Billion Miles Wide System of Dusty Material

  06-03-2018 20:05 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A....
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• Cryptocurrency millionaires are pushing up prices on some art and collectibles

  06-03-2018 19:00
  
  TechnologyThe rise of Bitcoin and its ilk have seriously shifted some collectible prices.
  Magic: The Gathering and other markets have jumped thanks to cryptocurrency investors.
  
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• A Nanotech Device Harvests Water in the Driest Places

  06-03-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chile’s Atacama is Earth’s driest desert. You could sit for decades in some places and never feel a raindrop.And yet, life survives here. Well-adapted plants can catch Pacific Ocean fog; then they provide that hydration to other animals. Indeed, our planet’s atmosphere holds more water than all its rivers combined, and these organisms are tapping into this water supply that humans are only beginning to appreciate.It’s not just in fog and clouds either. The air itself is f
  
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• Scientists Identify Over 1,000 New 2D Materials for Nanotech

  06-03-2018 18:35 via scitechdaily.com
  A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a particularly interesting 2D structure. Their research, which made the cover...
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• With wind farms, bias is in the eye of the beholder

  06-03-2018 17:16
  
  Nexus Media News They can be beautiful monuments or ugly eyesores depending on how you feel about clean energy.
  Depending on your ideas about renewable power, you may view a towering, twirling wind turbine as the paragon of elegance or a hideous monstrosity.
  
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• UN’s New Urban Agenda In Latin America Calls For Paradigm Shift

  06-03-2018 17:08 via technocracy.news
  The main outcome of Habitat III held in October 2016, was  “the adoption of the final New Urban Agenda (NUA) document as the new mandate for the development of cities and human settlements during the next 20 years.” The U.N. is now meddling with Latin America to impose its Technocratic tyranny on unsuspecting city-dwellers. ⁃ TN EditorAn action plan for implementing the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in Latin America and the Caribbean envisions the city as a “macro-level pub
  
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• Wowsa! Smart Cities Market Worth $2.57 Trillion By 2025

  06-03-2018 16:57 via technocracy.news
  Smart City investment and infrastructure is instrumental in forming a full-blown Technocracy, enabling micro-management of people, systems and societal directions. There is a global frenzy for the money being spent, but most of it will go to giant multinational corporations like GE, Siemens, Nvidia, Cisco, etc. This is not the future that people have chosen, but they will trapped in it nonetheless. ⁃ TN EditorThe global smart cities market size is anticipated to reach USD 2.
  
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• In China, ‘Social Credit’ System Forces Citizens Into Submission To The State

  06-03-2018 16:15 via technocracy.news
  When your personal data turns bad, whether real or imagined, China will basically ex-communicate you from the good life, and they have already done this to tens of millions of detractors. This is as effective as Tiananmen Square slaughter, but was implemented slowly so people never had a clue what was happening to them. Now, they are trapped, shunned, penalized and in some cases, destitute.  ⁃ TN EditorThe terrifying initiative, which has been rolled out through pilot scheme, bans low
  
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• The best apps for overworked parents

  06-03-2018 15:30
  
  DIYTech help for bringing up baby.
  Raising kids of any age tends to create chaos. Luckily, your smartphone can help you reclaim your time. Here are seven parenting apps for bringing up baby.
  
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• Influenza B is trying to escape our vaccine

  06-03-2018 14:00
  
  HealthHell hath no fury like a virus scorned.
  The Flu feels like one big thing. You get your Flu Shot to protect against The Flu during Flu Season. But it’s an astonishingly diverse virus.
  
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• This gigantic wind turbine will be the world's tallest

  06-03-2018 13:33 via nbcnews.com
  General Electric's Haliade-X will stand three times taller than typical wind turbines.
  
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• WATCH: Facebook survey asks British users if adults can ask minors for explicit photos

  06-03-2018 12:58
  Facebook quickly ends survey that asked some British users whether pedophiles should be allowed to request sexual explicit photos from 14-year-old girls.
  
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• Scientists hope to save northern white rhino from extinction

  06-03-2018 10:33
  As the health of the world's last male northern white rhino declines in Kenya, global team pushes ahead with ambitious effort to save the subspecies from extinction with the help of the last two surviving females
  
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• Fin24.com | Tesla's $2.6bn Musk award too costly, says Glass Lewis

  06-03-2018 10:30
  
  Tesla shareholders should turn down a plan to grant Elon Musk a $2.6bn award, the company's proxy adviser recommended.
  
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• SpaceX wants to bring the internet to the whole world

  06-03-2018 09:56 via nbcnews.com
  Because Elon Musk just wasn't busy enough...
  
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• Taking on 'microfiber' pollution, a laundry room at a time

  06-03-2018 06:21
  Innovators are coming up with new tools to prevent tiny pieces of threads from entering waterways after the laundry and reaching marine life
  
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• Trilateral Commissioner Michael Bloomberg Appointed As UN Envoy For Climate Action

  06-03-2018 05:43 via technocracy.news
  This is a hugely important appointment and illustrates the tight relationship between the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, Global Warming and Sustainable Development. Bloomberg is one of the richest men in the world, worth $50.3 in 2018. It is a must to read my book, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation to see how this all fits together, but it does and it is undeniable. ⁃ TN EditorThe U.N.’s new envoy for climate action, former New York Mayor Micha
  
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• Kuora: Why Do Technocrats Dominate China’s Political Elite?

  06-03-2018 05:26 via technocracy.news
  This written from within China, and states what I have been claiming for several years now. Zbigniew Brzezinski brought China into the economic mainstream in 1978 and wrote that communism was a natural stepping-stone to achieve what he termed the “Technetronic Era”, which was basically Technocracy. China is, in fact, a Technocracy and if the world wants to contain China’s ambitions, they had better wake up to this fact. ⁃ TN EditorWhy do Chinese political leaders have eng
  
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• Monarch butterfly numbers off for 2nd year in Mexico

  06-03-2018 04:35
  A Mexican government report says the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests has declined for a second consecutive year
  
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• Washington becomes 1st state to approve net-neutrality rules

  06-03-2018 02:11
  Washington became the first state Monday to set up its own net-neutrality requirements in response to U.S. regulators repealing Obama-era rules
  
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• eARTh: A portrait of our planet painted with photons

  06-03-2018 01:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I first saw this beautiful remote sensing image, I couldn't help but feel that I was looking at a painting by an abstract expressionist.Starting in the 1940s, abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollack and Clyfford Still "valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the highest importance to process," writes Stella Paul of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.These artists placed "an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture," she notes. Their works also were primari
  
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• The secrets web browsers hold about users are there for the taking

  06-03-2018 01:16 via nbcnews.com
  If you've ever used the autofill feature on your internet browser, some of your most sensitive information is there for the taking.
  
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• The Tyranny Of Algorithms Could Soon Rate Everything We Do

  06-03-2018 01:03 via technocracy.news
  The fourth and fifth requirements of Technocracy as declared in 1934 are,  “Provide a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services, where produced and where used.” and “Provide specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a record and description of the individual.” [Scott, Howard et al, Technocracy Study Course, p. 232 ⁃ TN EditorCredit scores already control our finances. With personal data being increasin
  
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• Judge delves into science behind Roundup cancer claim

  06-03-2018 00:36
  A federal judge on Monday waded into the arcane science behind claims that the widely used weed killer Roundup can cause cancer
  
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• Five new science books you should read this month

  06-03-2018 00:00
  
  EntertainmentSeeds, adventures, medicine, and more.
  While you patiently wait for spring to sprout, here's five science books to occupy your mind (and couch) with.
  
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