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• The Argument For TechnoPopulism As Solution To Economic Problems

  25-07-2018 23:59 via technocracy.news
  Populism and Technocracy are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, so what better application of the Hegelian Dialectic that merging them together by thesis-antithesis-synthesis?  Technopopulism is in vogue but Technocrats will win if it continues. ⁃ TN EditorTrade technocracy is on the brink of a crisis as the United States-China trade war continues to brew. Dissatisfaction over trade policies, particularly in advanced economies, has opened the door wide to populists and demago
  
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• This tiny antenna could help future phones get ready for 5G speeds

  25-07-2018 23:34
  
  TechnologyThe Qualcomm devices work with millimeter wave tech.
  Qualcomm has just announced an important development.
  
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• NSA Watchdog Finds ‘Many Issues Of Non-Compliance’ In Data Handling

  25-07-2018 23:26 via technocracy.news
  The NSA mishandles data on a regular basis and much of what it collects is in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. Technocrats are known for pathological hoarding, believing that by right all data belongs to them. ⁃ TN EditorThe National Security Agency’s (NSA) inspector general issued a rare report Wednesday condemning the administration for insufficiently protecting data gathered from U.S. citizens.
  A semiannual report issued to Congress by the agency’s watchdo
  
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• Sex Robots Are Turning Japanese Into An Endangered Species

  25-07-2018 23:16 via technocracy.news
  Humanity is in big trouble if this sex doll trend is not quickly reversed. In the Japanese culture, men prefer AI powered sex dolls over real women and marriage. This trend is also rising in popularity in Europe and England. ⁃ TN EditorThe rising popularity of human-like sex dolls in Japan is threatening to turn the population into a “endangered species” if the birth-rate continues to plummet, according to an expert.
  features is growing across the world as technology becomes mo
  
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• YouTube issues warning to Infowars founder, takes down four videos

  25-07-2018 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  Infowars and Jones have become a flashpoint as platforms have pledged to crack down on users who push outlandish conspiracy theories.
  
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• The Kinkiest Scientific Study Ever? Neuro-BDSM

  25-07-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an eyebrow-raising new paper, neuroscientists report that they had participants wear a ball gag while watching images of people in pain. The lucky participants in this neuro-bondage were all female BDSM submissives, and their brain activity in response to the painful pictures was recorded with EEG.Here's the article: Embodiment and Humiliation Moderation of Neural Responses to Others' Suffering in Female Submissive BDSM PractitionersAnd here's some of the stimuli (I assume they we
  
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• The weirdest things we learned this week: Curing syphilis with malaria, ejecting bears from planes, and discovering new beer yeasts

  25-07-2018 21:30
  
  ScienceOur editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.
  What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s newest podcast.
  
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• These animals will self-amputate arms, legs, and even sex organs to survive

  25-07-2018 20:30
  AnimalsAnd for other weird reasons, too.
  Whether it’s fluorescent lights at work or actual danger, escape is in our DNA. But some animals take escape to an extreme. Yes, we’re talking about self-amputation.
  
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• Dust on Mars Likely Comes From Massive Volcanic Deposit

  25-07-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  As luck would have it, Mars will remain engulfed in a colossal dust storm as it reaches opposition on July 27. The viewing conditions might be abysmal, but astronomers can at least take solace in a long-awaited Martian mystery being solved — where all of this dust is coming from.New research published in the journal Nature Communications revealed that the massive amounts of dust are tied to Mars’ Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF), the largest explosive volcanic ash deposit in
  
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• Your home DNA test can now be used to develop drugs

  25-07-2018 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  DNA test results will be used to develop drugs under a new agreement.
  
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• Why Mouth Wounds Heal Faster Than Skin Scrapes

  25-07-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Biting your tongue or cheek when chewing can ruin a tasty meal. But thankfully, mouth wounds heal up fast — faster than cuts on skin — and now scientists know why. According to new research published today in Science Translational Medicine, mouths are primed for healing. The find could help researchers transfer the mouth’s curative superpowers to make skin lesions heal faster too.
  Paper cuts, scraped knees and similar skin wounds take about a week to heal. But pressure ulcers,
  
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• What Would You Do With a Third, Mind-Controlled, Robotic Limb?

  25-07-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just imagine what you could do with a third arm.
  You could sip coffee and type an email. You could scratch your nose and play Call of Duty. You could solve the Rubik’s cube and conduct a symphony. You could play Ping-Pong and knit a sweater. Clearly, we could all use a third arm.
  Fortunately, giving us a hand with a third arm might be a promise science can deliver on, like, soon. That’s because engineers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan recently showed o
  
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• Nikon is officially working on a full-frame mirrorless camera with a new lens mount

  25-07-2018 19:47
  GadgetsOne of the world's biggest camera makers is crafting a whole new camera system
  Starting a new mirrorless camera line is tough, mostly because of the lenses.
  
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• Scientists Create Metallic Hydrogen to Unravel the Mysteries of the Dynamo Effect

  25-07-2018 17:24 via scitechdaily.com
  Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets—including Jupiter, Saturn, and hundreds of extrasolar planets—are composed...
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• To understand fossils, scientists are baking their own

  25-07-2018 17:15
  
  ScienceHow to condense a 10,000 year cooking time into 24 hours.
  You’ll need an organism—preferably one with hard bones or a shell. Add fine-grained sediment and rapid burial and in 10,000 years or so, you’ll be well on your way to a…
  
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• Geologists Find Anomalies, Pieces of Mantle Found Rising Under Cascadia Fault

  25-07-2018 17:10 via scitechdaily.com
  New seismic data provide structural basis for strong earthquakes that strike at both ends of the Pacific Northwest fault zone. With four years of data...
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• Disrupting death: Tech's next big thing is immortality

  25-07-2018 17:05 via nbcnews.com
  New technologies are opening the door to near-everlasting life as well as a myriad of ethical and philosophical questions.
  
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• Vast Lake Of Liquid Water Discovered On Mars

  25-07-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Astronomers have discovered a large underground lake of liquid water lurking just below the surface of Mars. The find could end a more than century-long debate over whether or not the Red Planet still has liquid water.The newfound lake stretches some 12 miles from end-to-end, and was discovered using a radar instrument called MARSIS on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, which first reached Mars nearly 15 years ago. The results were published Wednesday in the journ
  
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• Scientists Discover a New Species of Venomous Snake in Australia

  25-07-2018 16:54 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers at Swansea University’s College of Science are part of an international team that has discovered a new species of venomous snake in Australia. The...
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• Astronomers Discover New Way to Unlock the Mysteries of the First Galaxies

  25-07-2018 16:42 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how the first galaxies formed and evolved. In a study published...
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• An unlikely victim of Trump's tariff war? Hollywood.

  25-07-2018 16:33 via nbcnews.com
  “This is like a blind, drunken bull crashing into a China shop,” said one Hollywood insider.
  
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• Radar Probe Reveals Huge Reservoir of Liquid Water Under Mars’ Surface

  25-07-2018 16:30 via scitechdaily.com
  Using radar to probe the polar ice caps of Mars, scientists have detected an underground reservoir of liquid that may be saltwater and that extends...
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• Physicists Design New System for Stopping ‘Leaks’ in Quantum Computers

  25-07-2018 16:19 via scitechdaily.com
  Yale researchers have designed a new system to keep tomorrow’s quantum computers from “leaking.” Large-scale quantum computers are still years away, but it is well...
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• Mars has tons of newly discovered water in a 12 mile wide reservoir

  25-07-2018 16:00
  
  SpaceBuried under an ice cap, the water is so deep scientists couldn't probe to the bottom.
  Mars is now a dry and dusty world, but at some point in the past it had water on it and it may still run at times today. For the first time, though, new research…
  
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• Why can't I use my dog's tick prevention medicine?

  25-07-2018 14:00
  
  Ask Us Anything The treatment isn't toxic to us, but it still wouldn't work very well.
  Tick season is in full swing.For furry hiking companions, though, there’s a simple strategy: products like Frontline and Advantix go on once and protect against pests…
  
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• WATCH: Apple will offer 2018 iPhones in new colors

  25-07-2018 13:41
  Reports say the new iPhones also are expected to have a 6.1-inch display.
  
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• To Understand Fossils, These Paleontologists Are Making Faux-ssils

  25-07-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To learn more from fossils they find in nature, paleontologists are trying to create their own.
  For decades, paleontologists have been experimenting with heat, pressure, and other factors to mimic nature’s ability to preserve the bodies of living things as fossils. Trying to copy fossilization in a laboratory would allow paleontologists to better understand the process and learn more about the history of life on our planet from the fossils they find.
  In a study published in the journ
  
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• Forbes: Facebook As The Ultimate Government Surveillance Tool?

  25-07-2018 07:20 via technocracy.news
  Facebook is on a one-way trip to oblivion if its Technocrat programmers don’t change their habit of manufacturing data out of thin air on users around the world. Inferred data is not real, verified data and it is often wrong. ⁃ TN EditorEarlier this month it came out that among Facebook’s myriad algorithmically induced advertising categories was an entry for users whom the platform’s data mining systems believed might be interested in treason against their gover
  
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• Cuomo: Big Brother Surveillance At New York Toll Plazas

  25-07-2018 06:14 via technocracy.news
  Governor Cuomo has no problem with facial recognition reading every face in every car that passes by, and feeding the results into a massive database – all to catch a few criminals? This is a ludicrous proposition by a hard-core Technocrat with a bad case of dataitis. ⁃ TN EditorNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver’s face and feeding them i
  
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• Investors Placing Huge Bets On China’s Facial Recognition Startups

  25-07-2018 05:57 via technocracy.news
  Citizens say “No”. but big money says “Yes”. Money is flowing by the billions into China to fund facial recognition companies who operate freely there due to their warm embrace by the Technocracy-loving government. ⁃ TN EditorChina’s facial recognition startups are attracting big investments at a time when Silicon Valley’s giants are facing a backlash over their use of the technology.
  In the past week, Chinese facial recognition companies, according to a
  
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• Nazis And Dead Dogs: Spaceflight Before The Space Race

  25-07-2018 01:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  In October 1957, a basketball-sized metallic sphere began circling Earth, transmitting a beacon from above. For many, the launch of Sputnik 1 heralded in the Space Age.
  But lost often in the story of Sputnik, the Space Age, and the Space Race is that Sputnik wasn’t the first spaceflight, and that the first image of Earth from space didn’t come in the 1960s, but the 1940s.
  The actual first spaceflight is a matter of debate. The Air Force defines space as starting at 50 miles (80 kilom
  
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• A Parasite In Cat Poo Could Push People To Take Risks

  25-07-2018 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A mind-altering parasite that can make rats suicidally attracted to cat pee may also make people more likely to start a new business, according to new findings. The scientists say that their results reveal how parasites could help shape the global economy.The parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects more than 2 billion people — that is, more than a quarter of the world population. The protozoans can live in many warm-blooded creatures, where they reproducing asexually, but they ultimately want
  
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• Newspapers endure more cuts, hope for brighter future online

  25-07-2018 00:53
  U.S. newspapers endure more cuts and hope for a brighter future with online newsgathering
  
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• Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years

  25-07-2018 00:38
  Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years, about 36 million miles apart
  
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• A female Ebola survivor infected her family more than a year after she had the illness

  25-07-2018 00:00
  
  HealthA case study in how viruses are sneakier than we sometimes think.
  A 33-year-old woman in Liberia harbored the Ebola virus for more than a year before transmitting the infection to family members—the first evidence scientists have that…
  
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