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• Making Outer Space Smell Like Fresh Cut Grass

  05-07-2018 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nina Lanza expected Antarctica to be cold. After all, she and her seven fellow meteorite hunters weren’t allowed to board their transport in New Zealand until they’d proved they’d packed all the necessary gear. And she’d been warned about the endless daylight at their location smack dab in between McMurdo Station and the South Pole. But, as she says, “People try to tell you what it’s like, but it’s hard to describe because it’s so different from yo
  
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• Scott Pruitt just resigned as EPA administrator

  05-07-2018 23:30
  
  EnvironmentThe "unrelenting attacks" had "taken a sizable toll."
  In his resignation letter, Pruitt wrote that "the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us."…
  
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• UK town faces new reality: Another nerve agent poisoning

  05-07-2018 22:11
  A British minister has accused Russia of turning the U.K. into a "dumping ground for poison" and demanded it explain how two people were inadvertently poisoned with the same military-grade nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter
  
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• Fin24.com | Elon Musk’s team in talks with Thai officials to help with cave rescue

  05-07-2018 21:37
  
  Representatives for Elon Musk are in talks with Thai authorities about aiding in the rescue of a boys’ soccer team stuck in a cave, a spokesperson for the billionaire has said.
  
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• New tech could soon let you test whether your lettuce carries E. coli

  05-07-2018 21:30
  
  HealthBut is at-home food testing actually beneficial?
  Short of swearing off fresh produce, how can you protect yourself from tainted meat, fruit, and vegetables? A new type of “smart” food packaging may hold the key to…
  
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• Facebook flagged Declaration of Independence post as hate speech

  05-07-2018 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  The mix-up highlights the challenges of using artificial intelligence and human review to crack down on hate speech on the vast social network.
  
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• CES 2018: Checking in on new tech six months later

  05-07-2018 20:35
  
  TechnologyChecking in on the new gadgets and promises from this years Consumer Electronics Show
  A half-year check-in on the new gadgets from CES 2018…
  
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• Meteorologists just found the coldest natural temperatures on the planet

  05-07-2018 20:30
  
  ScienceThe bottom of the world could get down to -145 degrees this month.
  A brisk night on Mars is often balmier than a July evening in eastern Antarctica. The coldest place on earth sits atop the Eastern Antarctic Plateau.
  
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• Hunting For The Lost Dogs of the Americas

  05-07-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Their skeletal remains curled into sleep-like positions familiar to any dog owner, the 10,000-year-old canines found at a site in Illinois are the earliest known dogs of the Americas. Ever since they were unearthed nearly a half-century ago, the animals have been at the heart of a debate: Were the dogs of the New World descended from Eurasian wolves and then brought here by humans, or were they locally domesticated from American wolves?New genetic research answers that question — and rev
  
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• Scientists Stage Battles Between Bats And Moths

  05-07-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientists staged dogfights between moths and bats — and experimentally altered the moths' wings — to recreate evolution and shed light on the sonic illusions moths spin to evade bats.For more than 60 million years, bats and moths have engaged in an evolutionary arms race across the night sky. Bats hunt their insect prey using ultrasonic sonar, while the insects counter these predators with numerous elaborate strategies, including aerial acrobatics, sonar jamming and sonic decoys.Pre
  
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• Meme fans, rejoice! European lawmakers reject copyright changes

  05-07-2018 18:57 via nbcnews.com
  A contentious proposal to require platforms to use upload filters on copyrighted material has been rejected in the European Parliament, but the fight isn’t over yet.
  
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• Google says Google Documents is secure despite Russian issue

  05-07-2018 18:31
  Google says its document writing tool, Google Documents, is secure even as Russian internet users discovered scores of files that appeared to be intended for private use
  
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• What to bring on your next beach trip

  05-07-2018 18:15
  
  GadgetsA Go-Pro shuttlecock? I love the beach.
  After a long winter and a wet spring, it's about dang time for some bona fide beach weather. But before you charge through your front door with your sun umbrella in hand…
  
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• Amazon has the ad industry looking over its shoulder

  05-07-2018 17:56 via nbcnews.com
  Amazon has already become something of a corporate boogeyman — and now it could be bringing its industry disruption to advertising.
  
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• Why Only Academic Speculation Can Measure The Depth Of The Rabbit Hole

  05-07-2018 17:20 via technocracy.news
  The negative impact of academic speculation over the last 150 years cannot be overestimated. It has led humanity around by a ring in its nose, from pointless argument to pointless argument. This is the infertile soil that produced systems like Technocracy, Sustainable Development and Global Warming. ⁃ TN EditorThe headline said, “Polluted Air Can Cloud Your Morality, Lead to Unethical Behavior.” It is a classic of ‘reporting’ in today’s age of speculation. It&
  
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• Wildfire near Aspen, Colorado, sends neighborhoods fleeing

  05-07-2018 17:09
  More people have been evacuated by a western Colorado wildfire allegedly started by people firing tracer rounds at a shooting range
  
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• The science of superstition

  05-07-2018 17:00
  
  ScienceAnd why people believe in the unbelievable.
  The number 13, black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders, may all be things you actively avoid—if you’re anything like the 25% of people in the US who…
  
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• Astronomers Watch The Birth Of An Alien Planet

  05-07-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades, astronomers have thought that planets form out of the rotating disks of debris that encircle most newly formed stars. Within these so-called protoplanetary disks — which can be up to 1,000 astronomical units wide (1 AU is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles) — particles of gas and dust clump together over time, slowly but surely forming larger bodies that may eventually reach planetary status. However, despite years of searching, astronomers have so-far fa
  
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• Millions Of U.S. Homes Are Massively Tracked By Their Smart TVs

  05-07-2018 16:26 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats crave any and all data including data relating to your behavior. Technocracy was defined as the “Science of Social Engineering” as early as 1938 and nothing has changed. Smart TVs aim to change your behavior, period. ⁃ TN EditorThe growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants like Facebook and devices like smartphones. But people’s data is also increasingly being vacuumed right out of their living rooms via their television
  
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• Altering Human Genetics Through Vaccinations

  05-07-2018 16:02 via technocracy.news
  Just as a few Big Tech companies control media exposure on the earth, so to will a few Big Pharma companies control the genetic future of planetary citizens. Technocrats are outside of all ethical and moral bounds, bent on the ‘science of social engineering.” ⁃ TN EditorThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot.
  Over the years, I&rsqu
  
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• Scientists Show That Even Phenomenally Dense Neutron Stars Fall Like Feathers

  05-07-2018 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Harnessing the exquisite sensitivity of the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have given one of Einstein’s predictions on gravity its most stringent...
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• How the Icy Surface of Europa Could Transport Subsurface Ocean Water

  05-07-2018 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  This animation demonstrates how deformation in the icy surface of Europa could transport subsurface ocean water to the moon’s surface. This is just one of...
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• The Major Collision That Changed The Milky Way Galaxy

  05-07-2018 15:50 via scitechdaily.com
  An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed the “Sausage” galaxy....
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• Scientists Detail the Origin of Molecular Oxygen in Comet 67P

  05-07-2018 15:37 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface, as some suggested, but may be from its body. The...
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• So you bought a smart TV. Now you need these apps.

  05-07-2018 15:30
  
  DIYBuilt for the big screen.
  Why bother buying a smart television? These nine apps, available for Apple TV and Android TV, make the tech worth it.
  
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• 2018 has been full of weird weather so far

  05-07-2018 14:00
  
  ScienceHuzzah for snow in June and ice in Florida!
  There was snow where it had no right to be, blistering heat in mid-winter, and Arctic sea ice was nowhere to be found. It’s been a weird year the world around.
  
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• Fin24.com | Xiaomi IPO draws bids at 9.4% discount in grey market

  05-07-2018 13:31
  
  Xiaomi’s debut is off to a bad start even before its shares officially start trading in Hong Kong.
  
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• WATCH: Netflix is testing an ultra-subscription service

  05-07-2018 12:52
  The top-tier pricing plan would offer simultaneous high-definition video streams.
  
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• Some of the biggest names in Chinese technology

  05-07-2018 11:40
  Some of the biggest names in Chinese technology
  
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• Kim Dotcom loses latest legal bid to avoid US extradition

  05-07-2018 10:54
  Flamboyant internet entrepreneur, 3 colleagues face criminal charges in the U.S.
  
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• China push to end reliance on US tech at trade fight's core

  05-07-2018 08:52
  China remains heavily reliant on technologies from the West.
  
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• Fin24.com | Twitter beats back group-bias lawsuit by female engineer

  05-07-2018 06:00
  
  Twitter won’t have to face a group lawsuit alleging systematic discrimination against female software engineers following a court ruling.
  
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• New Zealand court says Kim Dotcom can be extradited to U.S.

  05-07-2018 02:26 via nbcnews.com
  The onetime file-sharing mogul has fought U.S. racketeering and criminal copyright charges for years.
  
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