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• Drones, AI, and smart meetings at the beginning of the Microsoft Build conference

  07-05-2018 23:28
  
  TechnologyWhat you need to know about the company's developers' event.
  “The world is becoming a computer,” Satya Nadella, the company’s CEO, said towards the beginning of his keynote address.
  
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• Even as an unusual chill enveloped most of North America, the rest of the planet was plenty warm in April

  07-05-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some regions of the world shivered last month. But as was the case in March, most of the planet continued to be unusually warm.You can see the pattern in the map above showing temperature anomalies for April, produced by Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The chill was particularly pronounced over North America, as evidenced by the blue tones on the map. (This probably comes as no surprise to those of you from Canada or the eastern two-thirds of the United States!)Meanwhile,
  
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• Microsoft launches $25M program to use AI for disabilities

  07-05-2018 21:10
  Microsoft is launching a $25 million initiative to use artificial intelligence to build better technology for people with disabilities.
  
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• The Latest: Microsoft CEO says 'privacy is a human right'

  07-05-2018 20:50
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says "privacy is a human right" and internet users should be in control of their data
  
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• What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared?

  07-05-2018 20:45
  
  Ask Us Anything Life as we know it probably wouldn’t exist.
  The moon is more than just a pretty face to gaze upon at night. It helps direct our ocean currents and tides, the movement of Earth’s atmosphere and climate, and even…
  
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• Humans are the only animals to go through teenage rebellion, but a few species come close

  07-05-2018 20:30
  
  AnimalsAdolescence is more than a state of mind.
  Adolescence is more than a state of mind. Here's how a few members of the animal kingdom handle the transition to adulthood—from African elephants to wolf spiders.
  
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• Egypt approves law to govern popular ride-hailing apps

  07-05-2018 19:56
  Egypt's parliament has approved a law to govern popular ride-hailing apps Uber and Careem after the companies appealed a court ruling that revoked their licenses
  
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• Brazil court tells Microsoft to ease data-sharing opt-out

  07-05-2018 19:30
  A Brazilian federal court has ordered Microsoft to make it easier for users of its Windows 10 operating system to opt out of providing personal data to the software giant
  
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• Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond - ZDNet

  07-05-2018 19:25 via zdnet.com
  ZDNet
  Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond
  ZDNet
  0:00. Autoplay: onoff. share; fullscreen. Microsoft Build 2018. Build 2018 session highlights · Microsoft embraces Android and iOS, extends Timeline feature · Microsoft delivers new edge-computing tools · AI, Azure Machine Learning and Cosmos DB go big ...
  Microsoft's Nadella says privacy is a human right that needs protectingCNET
  Microsoft is moving Kinect to the cloudThe Verge
  Microsoft overha
  
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• Microsoft shows off Alexa-Cortana integration, launches sign-up website for news - TechCrunch

  07-05-2018 19:24 via techcrunch.com
  TechCrunch
  Microsoft shows off Alexa-Cortana integration, launches sign-up website for news
  TechCrunch
  Microsoft still isn't giving a timeline as to when its virtual assistant, Cortana, will support integration with Amazon Alexa – something the companies had announced last year. But the company at its Build developer conference today did show off how ...
  Microsoft demonstrates Alexa and Cortana integrationThe Verge
  How to make Alexa, Cortana your Android phone's assistantCNET
  Microsoft an
  
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• Last week in tech: Facebook dating, an iMac anniversary, and change your Twitter password

  07-05-2018 19:02
  
  TechnologyFacebook does dating, a Waymo crashed, and don't forget to change your Twitter password.
  Download the latest episode of the Last Week in Tech podcast!
  
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• Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than we thought - Inhabitat

  07-05-2018 18:58 via inhabitat.com
  Quartz
  Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than we thought
  Inhabitat
  For the first time, researchers have quantified the carbon footprint of global tourism around the world – and their findings show that tourism's impact is roughly four times greater than previously thought. The research, led by the Integrated ...
  Tourism nearly a tenth of global CO2 emissionsSpace Daily
  Tourists identified as leading carbon emission contributorsThe Irish Newsall 22 news articles &
  
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• Fitbit Smartwatches Get Menstrual Cycle Tracking and 'Quick' Messaging - Gizmodo

  07-05-2018 18:42 via gizmodo.com
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  Fitbit Smartwatches Get Menstrual Cycle Tracking and 'Quick' Messaging
  Gizmodo
  Today, Fitbit has begun to roll out a major update to its app that adds a handful of welcome features for its Versa and Ionic smartwatches. The new Fitbit features will allow its users to track their menstrual cycle, reply to messages from their ...
  Fitbit now has female health tracking and quick repliesThe Verge
  Fitbit's female health tracking goes live as its wearables get smarterSlashGear
  Fitbit gets quick
  
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• UN experts fear Polish clampdown on dissent at climate talks

  07-05-2018 18:20
  A group of United Nations human rights experts is urging Poland to ensure peaceful protest can take place at this year's global climate talks amid concerns that new laws could stifle dissent
  
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• Android Things 1.0 launches, Google promises 3 years of updates for every device - Ars Technica

  07-05-2018 18:16 via arstechnica.com
  Ars Technica
  Android Things 1.0 launches, Google promises 3 years of updates for every device
  Ars Technica
  It's Google I/O week and even though the keynote isn't until tomorrow, news is already hitting the (Wi-Fi) airwaves. After being announced all the way back in 2016 and going through eight developer previews, Android Things is finally hitting version 1 ...
  At Google I/O 2018, Expect All AI All the TimeWIRED
  Google partners with JBL for an Android TV-powered soundbarThe Verge
  At Google, 'res
  
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• Report: Millions of tweets spread anti-Semitic messages

  07-05-2018 18:11
  A study by the Anti-Defamation League has found millions of anti-Semitic messages on Twitter
  
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• Astronomers Predict What Will Happen When Our Sun Dies

  07-05-2018 17:57 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. A team of international astronomers,...
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• Mars’ Growth Stunted by Planetary Instability, Could Have Become Habitable

  07-05-2018 17:55 via scitechdaily.com
  A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team explains why the growth of Mars was stunted by an orbital instability among the outer solar system’s giant planets...
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• Astronomers Discover a Cloud-Free ‘Hot Saturn’ Exoplanet, WASP-96b

  07-05-2018 17:50 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest for greater understanding of the planets beyond...
  The post Astronomers Discover a Cloud-Free ‘Hot Saturn’ Exoplanet, WASP-96b appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• Bacterium Thioglobus Perditus Gains Energy from Sulfur

  07-05-2018 17:46 via scitechdaily.com
  SUP05 bacteria are often found in places where there is really no basis for life for them. Researchers in Bremen have now discovered that they...
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• Cryptographic System Could Enable Crowdsourced Genomics

  07-05-2018 17:30 via scitechdaily.com
  Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research. But databases...
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• After A Disastrous Debut, Pokémon Go Fest Is Returning - Kotaku

  07-05-2018 17:20 via kotaku.com
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  After A Disastrous Debut, Pokémon Go Fest Is Returning
  Kotaku
  A year after Pokémon Go Fest's calamitous Chicago debut, the event is coming back. Anyone who heard about the misery its 30,000 attendees stood through might be a little surprised, but today, developer Niantic announced 2018's Pokémon Go Tour across ...
  How Pokemon Go Fest 2018 Will Avoid the Problems of Last YearIGN (blog)
  Niantic Announces Worldwide Summer Events For 'Pokémon GO' Fans, Brings Fest
  
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• NASA’s InSight Launches, Will Study the Heart of the Red Planet

  07-05-2018 17:12 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is on a 300-million-mile trip to Mars to study for the first...
  The post NASA’s InSight Launches, Will Study the Heart of the Red Planet appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• These plants are napping their way through climate change

  07-05-2018 17:00
  
  Nexus Media News Some species are hitting snooze on flowering season to cope with the stresses of a warming planet.
  Some plant species have found a novel way to cope with environmental dangers like a prolonged climate change-induced drought: They sleep through it. An international…
  
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• Sheikh Zayed: Islam’s Deep Roots In Sustainable Development

  07-05-2018 16:51 via technocracy.news
  Sheikh Zayed, father of the UAE, was an early adopter of environmental practices, indicating the compatibility between sustainable development and the Koran. This affinity may be one reason why Adolf Hitler (a radical ‘green’) had a such a robust relationship with the Islamic world during WWII. In other words, their mutual hatred of Jews may have a reason, but not the only reason for their mutual attraction. ⁃ TN EditorLong before “sustainable development” became a
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy Cluster RXC J0032.1+1808

  07-05-2018 16:50 via scitechdaily.com
  In the darkness of the distant Universe, galaxies resemble glowing fireflies, flickering candles, charred embers floating up from a bonfire, light bulbs softly shining. This...
  The post Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy Cluster RXC J0032.1+1808 appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• What Time Does 'Warmind' Go Live In 'Destiny 2?' - Forbes

  07-05-2018 16:27 via forbes.com
  Forbes
  What Time Does 'Warmind' Go Live In 'Destiny 2?'
  Forbes
  It's a big moment for Destiny 2, that beleaguered shared-world shooter still struggling to find some overarching structure to ferry people from one alien head-popping moment to another. Tomorrow is the release of Warmind, the second DLC for the new ...
  Here's when you can play Destiny 2: WarmindPolygon
  Does Bungie Really Care About What Their Fans Think Anymore?Hardcore Gamer
  How to Get a Prismatic Facet in Destiny 2 WarmindHeavy.co
  
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• Fears Raised Over Human Cloning As New Biomedical Science Emerges

  07-05-2018 16:26 via technocracy.news
  Regardless of statements to the contrary, this technology will ultimately lead to the attempted cloning of humans. Technocrat scientists invent because they can, not because there is any good, moral or ethical reason to do so. The guiding philosophy is whatever science can do, it should do. ⁃ TN EditorThe research institute combined two types of stem cells to create a viable embryo, which could then be replicated multiple times.
  Amazingly, it means the researchers didn’t use either a
  
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• California Looking To Be First State To Mandate Solar Panels On New Homes

  07-05-2018 16:11 via technocracy.news
  Radical environmentalists are asserting themselves again in California as they seek to mandate solar panels for all new homes, which could cost up to $30,000 more per unit. The Technocrat mindset is that there is a scientific solution to every conceivable problem, but personal freedom of choice does not enter their mind. ⁃ TN EditorFor seven years, a handful of homebuilders offered solar as an optional item to buyers willing to pay extra to go green.
  Now, California is on the verge of maki
  
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• Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett not done with Apple stock, 'would love to own 100 percent' - AppleInsider

  07-05-2018 14:32 via appleinsider.com
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  Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett not done with Apple stock, 'would love to own 100 percent'
  AppleInsider
  The "Oracle of Omaha," who was revealed last week to have made another big investment in Apple, indicated that he's looking at continued investment in Apple in the future. Warren Buffett. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett had ...
  Warren Buffett got an iPhone X — but he hasn't worked up the 'courage' to use itCNBC
  Warren Buffet wants to be App
  
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• Local honey might help your allergies—but only if you believe it will

  07-05-2018 14:00
  
  HealthEating allergens seems like it should reduce sneezes. In practice? Not so much.
  Eating local honey to prevent the springtime sniffles seems like it should work: local bees collect pollen, pollen gets into the honey, you get exposed to the allergens,…
  
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• Bound for Mars, World's 1st Interplanetary Cubesats Phone Home - Space.com

  07-05-2018 13:40 via space.com
  Space.com
  Bound for Mars, World's 1st Interplanetary Cubesats Phone Home
  Space.com
  Two tiny satellites that just launched on a historic mission to Mars have phoned home for the first time. The Mars Cube One duo, officially known as MarCO-A and MarCO-B, lifted off early Saturday morning (May 5), rising into skies above California's ...
  InSight Diary: Mars mission emerges from the mistsBBC News
  Surviving the inferno of entry, descent and landingPhys.Org
  Mars-bound CubeSats Launch With NASA's InSi
  
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• WATCH: Facebook users seemingly unfazed by recent data breach

  07-05-2018 13:06
  A new poll found that 75 percent of users still visit the social media site just as much or more than before the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
  
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• Hawaii volcano destroys dozens of homes, forces evacuations

  07-05-2018 12:55
  Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how long they might be displaced
  
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• Apple confirms a serious problem with the iPhone X – and an unlikely solution - BGR

  07-05-2018 12:50 via bgr.com
  BGR
  Apple confirms a serious problem with the iPhone X – and an unlikely solution
  BGR
  Face ID, Apple's sophisticated 3D-sensing face recognition system, is one of the signature features of the iPhone X. It turns out, however, that Face ID isn't perfect and Apple already has instructions for its stores and authorized service providers to ...
  Apple performing in-store iPhone X replacements for troublesome Face ID issuesAppleInsider
  Apple Might Replace iPhone X Units With Face ID WoesFortune
  
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• Sternberg-er And Fries

  07-05-2018 12:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new scandal hit the world of psychology last week when it emerged that Robert J. Sternberg, an eminent experimental psychologist and former President of the American Psychological Association (APA), has been engaging in text recycling aka self-plagiarism.It has emerged that Sternberg re-used large chunks of previously published text in several publications without any acknowledgement that this done. This discovery came after Sternberg was already under scrutiny for a very high rate
  
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• China's ZTE seeks end to ban on buying American technology

  07-05-2018 11:28
  Chinese tech company ZTE applies for suspension of seven-year ban on buying US technology
  
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• The Latest: 26 homes destroyed by Hawaii lava flows

  07-05-2018 03:50
  Officials say 26 homes have now been destroyed in Hawaii by lava flowing from Kilauea volcano
  
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• Trial set for Latvian accused of running malware operation

  07-05-2018 00:16
  Jury selection is set to begin in Virginia in the trial of a Latvian man accused of running a hacking operation offering malware products and services to cybercriminals
  
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