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• Is this Jupiter, or a pizza? Join our Jovian guessing game.

  23-03-2018 23:00
  
  SpaceOur solar system's largest planet is a master of disguise.
  Yes, Jupiter is gorgeous, but it’s also a master of disguise. Here at Popular Science we’re always awed by the beautiful images of the largest planet in the solar…
  
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• Walmart Fields Robot Army To Inventory And Re-Stock Shelves

  23-03-2018 22:54 via technocracy.news
  Amazon has sparked robot wars with other retailers, and Walmart is raising to the challenge. The Technocrat mindset elevates efficiency and speed at the sacrifice of human ability. Of course, Walmart says no employees will lose their jobs over this, but everyone knows that is hogwash in the long run. ⁃ TN EditorWe checked out the expanded program at a Walmart location in Burbank. Customers there will see a robot in the aisles with bright lights and cameras on it. The autonomous bots propel
  
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• Feeding Frenzy: Can Green Finance Fill $18 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Gap?

  23-03-2018 22:33 via technocracy.news
  Sustainable Development, Green Economy, SDGs, New Urban Agenda, etc., are all predicated on the false assumption that population by 2040 will grow by 25%. There is not one shred of demographic evidence to support this premise. Without fear mongering like this or fake global warming claims, all of these programs would fall flat on their face. ⁃ TN EditorHundreds of trillions of dollars are needed for infrastructure investment over the next few decades.  A new campaign, The Green Bond P
  
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• Billionaires Are Betting That Lab-Grown Meat Is The Future Of Food

  23-03-2018 22:06 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats Bill Gates and Richard Branson are out of touch with reality. After they throw out the false assumptions to population explosion and food scarcity, they conclude that the future of nutrition is artificial meat. Of course, they both happen to be invested in lab-grown meat companies. When Gates concludes that ‘There’s no way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people’, you have to wonder if he understands anything about the livestock industry. ⁃ TN EditorVegeta
  
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• Dropbox IPO provides some much-needed good news for the tech industry

  23-03-2018 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  Dropbox Inc's shares rose more than 35 percent in their first day of trading on Friday
  
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• Tiny robo-tortoise has a big lesson to teach

  23-03-2018 21:21 via nbcnews.com
  Researchers created Shelly to help kids understand that robots deserve respect.
  
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• Robot abuse is real, but maybe this little tortoise can help

  23-03-2018 21:21 via nbcnews.com
  Researchers created Shelly to help kids understand that bots deserve respect.
  
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• Sinus infections can get to your brain—but don't panic

  23-03-2018 20:30
  
  HealthTraveling through the blood-brain barrier is difficult.
  The infectious bacteria that infiltrate our sinuses can—VERY RARELY—make its way to the brain. Because the sinuses are so close to the brain, on rare occasions an…
  
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• IQ is a really stupid concept

  23-03-2018 20:30
  
  ScienceIt's stacked against most of the world.
  IQ tests measure your ability to perform well on one particular type of test. But research shows that everything from healthcare access to GDP can influence a child's…
  
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• Future Cities Could Be Designed for Drone Delivery

  23-03-2018 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you think of drone delivery, what comes to mind? Pizzas falling from the sky, crowded skies or maybe you just don’t think it’ll ever happen? No matter the case, a new video shows what a future with delivery drones might look like.PriestmanGoode, an industrial design agency based in London, released the trailer for "Elevation" — a film of a drone delivery concept — at the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong earlier this week. The delivery system, called Dra
  
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• Ancient Flood Left Its Mark in the Mediterranean Sea

  23-03-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the largest floods in Earth's history may have deluged the Mediterranean Sea more than 5.3 million years ago, leaving behind a mass of debris roughly the size of Greece's largest island, Crete, researchers say.Scientists investigated a roughly 640,000-year span of time starting nearly 6 million years ago when the Mediterranean became a hyper-salty lake. This so-called Messinian salinity crisis "was the most abrupt environmental change, at a planetary scale, since the end of the Cr
  
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• The Arctic sea ice max for this winter was second lowest on record, thanks in part to an "extreme heat wave"

  23-03-2018 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The maximum extent of sea ice after a winter of growth was well below average — an area of lost ice about two-thirds the size of Alaska
  After expanding all winter, the Arctic's floating lid of sea ice has now reached its maximum extent — and it has continued an unsettling trend.The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced today that this year's maximum extent is the second lowest in the 39-year record of satellite observations."The four lowest maximum extents in the satellite
  
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• China targets $3 billion of US goods in tariff spat

  23-03-2018 19:40
  China lists $3 billion of U.S. goods including pork and steel pipe for possible retaliation in tariff dispute with Trump, girds for bigger battle over technology
  
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• Winter Arctic sea ice again grew far less than normal

  23-03-2018 19:32
  The National Snow and Ice Data Center on Friday reports that crucial Arctic sea ice had a weak winter for build-up
  
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• WATCH: Walmart to transition toward smart shopping

  23-03-2018 19:24
  The retail giant filed patents ranging from drone shopping assistants to smart shopping carts.
  
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• WATCH: Pro basketball players test their skills against robot

  23-03-2018 19:23
  Cue, a robot created by Toyota, has a 100 percent shooting record.
  
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• “Game Changing” Antibiotic is Capable of Killing Superbugs

  23-03-2018 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  A “game changing” new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs has been successfully synthesised and used to treat an infection for the first time...
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• To Scare Off Predators, Caterpillar Whistles like a Kettle

  23-03-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's hard to yell "BACK OFF!" when you have no lungs, but this caterpillar has figured out a way. Under attack, the Nessus sphinx moth caterpillar emits a sort of crackling buzz from its mouth. Scientists compare the unusual mechanism to a whistling teakettle. Or a rocket.Lots of insects make noise, of course, as opening a window on a summer evening will remind you. Conrado Rosi-Denadai, a graduate student at Carleton University, and his coauthors write that sound-making tool
  
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• UN reports see a lonelier planet with fewer plants, animals

  23-03-2018 18:32
  New United Nations reports see a sicker Earth because of loss of biodiversity, with fewer plants and animals and less food and clean water for people
  
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• Five rad and random DIY kits I found this week

  23-03-2018 18:30
  
  GadgetsThe end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 43.
  Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap.
  
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• Fin24.com | SpaceX page vanishes as Elon Musk joins #DeleteFacebook crusade

  23-03-2018 18:28
  
  Elon Musk is hopping on the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon, after deleting the Facebook page for his rocket company.
  
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• Scientists Identify Source of Galaxy-Sized Stream of Gas

  23-03-2018 18:25 via scitechdaily.com
  A cloud of gas 300,000 light-years long is arching around the Milky Way, shunted away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting our own. For decades, astronomers...
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• NASA's Mars rover Curiosity marks 2,000th day on red planet

  23-03-2018 18:22
  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has now marked 2,000 days on the red planet
  
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• New Method Boosts Blood Vessel and Muscle Growth

  23-03-2018 18:15 via scitechdaily.com
  A MIT study suggests new method for boosting growth of blood vessels and muscle. Activating proteins linked to longevity may help to increase endurance and...
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• New Study Shows Absence of ANGPTL4 Protein Reduces Cholesterol and Inflammation

  23-03-2018 18:03 via scitechdaily.com
  Diet-induced diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are leading causes of death worldwide. In their search for novel therapies for these related chronic illnesses, Yale researchers...
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• Elon Musk piles on as Facebook's woes continue

  23-03-2018 17:56 via nbcnews.com
  The blowback against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal continued on Friday when Elon Musk ordered pages for SpaceX and Tesla Motors deleted.
  
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• Fin24.com | For Tesla, cars+cash+credit+convertibles = crunch time: Gadfly

  23-03-2018 17:44
  
  Opinions differ on the exact nature of Tesla, ranging from struggling car manufacturer to tech pioneer to something akin to the second coming. Regardless, it is undoubtedly one thing: a money machine, writes Liam Denning.
  
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• Paleontologists Identify a New Species of Prehistoric Reptile, Colobops Noviportensis

  23-03-2018 17:42 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have identified a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut and, boy, does it have a mouth on it. Named Colobops noviportensis, the creature...
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• Scientists have identified a gene that's killing purebred dogs. Does that even matter?

  23-03-2018 17:30
  
  AnimalsInbred dogs are kind of doomed.
  Bull terrier owners might feel some sense of relief upon hearing that a team of international researchers have identified a genetic mutation behind lethal…
  
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• New Findings on Marijuana Use Among Young Men

  23-03-2018 17:27 via scitechdaily.com
  A new Yale School of Public Health study reveals that the social fabrics of their neighborhoods, including friendships and ideas about masculinity, have a powerful...
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• Rio judge: Youtube must remove videos on slain councilwoman

  23-03-2018 17:21
  A judge in Rio de Janeiro is ordering YouTube to take down 16 videos that express "assumptions and opinions" about an activist who was murdered last week
  
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• Hubble Measures Chemical Abundances in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream

  23-03-2018 17:21 via scitechdaily.com
  On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. The players are two dwarf...
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• Mars Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its Two-Thousandth Martian Day

  23-03-2018 17:12 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the...
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• Fin24.com | Psychometrics: How Facebook data helped Trump find his voters

  23-03-2018 17:04
  
  It was one of hundreds of cute questionnaires that were shared widely on Facebook and other social media, like "Which Pokemon Are You?" and "What Are Your Most Used Words?"
  
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• Astronomers Discover Ionized Molecules in Galaxy Markarian 231

  23-03-2018 17:02 via scitechdaily.com
  There is a process at work in most galaxies that affects both the central black hole mass as well as the galaxy’s global velocity structure...
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• The role of humans in self-driving cars is even more complicated after Uber's fatal crash

  23-03-2018 16:45
  
  TechnologyThe death of a pedestrian raises questions about how humans should act when robots are in control.
  A fatal Uber crash raises questions about the role of a human in a self-driving car.
  
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• WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg speaks out on data scandal

  23-03-2018 16:05
  The Facebook CEO apologized and said he would be "happy" to testify before lawmakers if it's the "right thing to do."
  
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• WATCH: New video shows moments before fatal self-driving Uber crash

  23-03-2018 15:06
  Police released videos from two different views that show the moments before Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by the autonomous car in Tempe, Arizona.
  
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• Naps are really beneficial. Here's how to take them.

  23-03-2018 14:30
  
  DIYLearn how to make any time naptime.
  Sneaking a little midday snooze feels unspeakably indulgent, whether it lasts a few minutes or a full REM cycle. But does it improve your health? We look into what…
  
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• City of Atlanta computer network hit by ransomware attack

  23-03-2018 14:20 via nbcnews.com
  City officials are talking to federal agencies about whether they will pay a ransom
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN prepaid voice tariffs jump as new price structure kicks in

  23-03-2018 14:02
  
  MTN prepaid customers can expect to fork out up to an extra 41 cents per minute, as the mobile network adopts a new prepaid tariff price structure.
  
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• These fish build group homes that double as devious shrimp traps

  23-03-2018 13:00
  
  AnimalsTeamwork is dreamwork.
  We don't generally think of fish as being super collaborative animals. But Neolamprologus obscurus—found only in a single lake in Zambia—teams up to dig burrows that…
  
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• Africa's young professionals embracing 'gospel of bitcoin'

  23-03-2018 11:41
  Africa's young professionals embrace 'gospel of bitcoin' as volatility another kind of hustle
  
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• Most of over 150 stranded whales die on Australian beach

  23-03-2018 09:50
  Authorities say palliative care will be administered where necessary.
  
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• WATCH: Tropical Cyclone Marcus marauding through the Indian Ocean, as seen in this beautiful satellite video

  23-03-2018 03:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marcus is the world's strongest storm so far in 2018
  https://youtu.be/IdDqSRBJ0HwAfter strengthening into the year's first Category 5 storm, Tropical Cyclone Marcus has weakened.At it strongest, the storm attained maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour as it swirled off the northwestern coast of Australia on Wednesday. As I'm writing this on Thursday (Friday morning in Australia), Marcus has settled down to 120 mph, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.It is fore
  
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• Jeff Bezos And Crony Technocrats Gather To Envision Utopia At MARS

  23-03-2018 02:43 via technocracy.news
  MARS – Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space exploration is Jeff Bezos brainchild to envision the ‘Golden Age’ and only a selected few are invited to attend. This is a gathering of global Technocrats, whose collective influence are far beyond observation and into causation. They can make things happen whether society wants it or not.  ⁃ TN EditorI’m planking, my muscles are on fire, and I’m face to face with the guy leading the development of
  
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