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• States blast Trump administration coal plan, mull lawsuits

  21-08-2018 23:59 via abcnews.go.com
  A coalition of states is denouncing a Trump administration move to cut regulation of coal-fired power plant emissions, with some threatening court challenges
  
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• AI could make MRI scans as much as 10 times faster

  21-08-2018 23:15
  
  TechnologyIn medical imaging, less data could be better.
  AI is frequently used to analyze images. In this case, AI is actually creating the images.
  
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• Trump's EPA just released its version of the Clean Power Plan—and it's not very clean

  21-08-2018 22:47
  
  EnvironmentFor environmentalists, ACE doesn't make the grade.
  It’s questionable how affordable or clean a plan that props up the declining coal industry can be.
  
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• Fin24.com | Microsoft's Russian hacking revelations spur US lawmakers' ire

  21-08-2018 22:15
  
  Microsoft’s declaration that it found and seized bogus web domains created by Russian hackers amplified calls by US lawmakers to pass legislation imposing more sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s government and his associates.
  
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• Ranks of most valuable companies shifted during bull market

  21-08-2018 21:56 via abcnews.go.com
  When the current bull market began more than nine years ago, many of the largest companies on the market were concentrated in areas that investors considered safe
  
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• Microsoft uncovers more Russian attacks ahead of midterms

  21-08-2018 20:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Microsoft says it's uncovered new Russian hacking efforts targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections
  
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• Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn't cleanse your body.

  21-08-2018 20:30
  
  HealthExcerpt: Gross Anatomy
  Sweating is not only entirely and utterly normal, but also necessary, so I wanted to know what gave the liquid such a toxic societal association. I began looking to the…
  
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• Microsoft claims new evidence Russia tried to hack U.S. politics

  21-08-2018 20:23 via nbcnews.com
  The alleged hackers, Fancy Bear, were named in Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian officials for alleged interference in the 2016 election.
  
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• Microsoft alleges more Russian attacks ahead of midterm elections

  21-08-2018 19:43 via abcnews.go.com
  Microsoft has thwarted newly attempted cyberattacks by Russian hackers targeting U.S. political campaigns before the midterm elections, the company alleged Monday.
  
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• Strange Drug Overdoses Are Mystifying Hospitals

  21-08-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  An explosion of strange new narcotics is hitting the streets, as clandestine chemists rush to produce drugs that exist outside the law.One United Nations report tallied 644 new drugs discovered across 102 countries and territories between 2008 and 2015. And in an interview last year, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesperson said they encounter previously unheard of drugs on an almost weekly basis.Known as new psychoactive substances (NPS), these drugs appear faster than gover
  
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• Why it's really important for your bra to fit (and how to finally make it happen)

  21-08-2018 17:00
  
  HealthWearing an ill-fitting bra is more than just uncomfortable.
  Wearing the wrong size bra is not only uncomfortable, it can cause a range of health problems.
  
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• China: He Who Has The Data Makes The Rules

  21-08-2018 17:00 via technocracy.news
  Jinping’s Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, relies on ‘a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data to monitor people’s lives and behavior in minute detail.’  MIT correctly notes that China got these ideas in the mid-1980s, but fails to show how. Namely, it was members of the elite Trilateral Commission who sowed the seeds of Technocracy after they brought China out of the darkness and onto the global economic stage. ⁃ TN EditorIn 1955, science ficti
  
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• IBM’s Watson Was Over-Hyped, Failed to Deliver Promised Results

  21-08-2018 16:40 via technocracy.news
  Industry insiders and analysts are finally wising up to Technocrat-ridden IBM’s massive over-hyping of its AI platform named Watson. It isn’t curing cancer. The market is rejecting it and revenue is falling. There are parallels between this and the over-hype of Technocrat Elon Musk and Tesla. ⁃ TN EditorWhat if artificial intelligence can’t cure cancer after all? That’s the message of a big Wall Street Journal post-mortem on Watson, the IBM project that wa
  
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• ‘Neuropolitics’: Consultants Who Secretly Hack Voters’ Brains

  21-08-2018 16:26 via technocracy.news
  Neuroscience is racing ahead of people’s ability to comprehend what it is doing to them. Your simple pictures that exist everywhere these days can produce an emotional profile that can then be manipulated in order to change your mind on an issue. What if the AI give a false analysis and bad data gets stamped into your profile record? Too bad. ⁃ TN EditorMaria Pocovi slides her laptop over to me with the webcam switched on. My face stares back at me, overlaid with a grid of white line
  
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• Astronomers Reveal Previously Unknown Details About The Milky Way

  21-08-2018 15:48 via scitechdaily.com
  The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by Masafumi Noguchi (Tohoku University)...
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• New Study Shows Dehydration Alters Human Brain Shape and Activity

  21-08-2018 15:37 via scitechdaily.com
  When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder. With the help of brain...
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• WATCH: Google accused of storing users' location data

  21-08-2018 15:22 via abcnews.go.com
  Google is being sued over allegedly storing location data even after users have chosen to turn the feature off.
  
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• MIT Scientists Discover New Antibiotic Candidates

  21-08-2018 15:19 via scitechdaily.com
  The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping to harness these peptides as potential antibiotics have...
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• NASA’s InSight Passes Halfway Point to Mars, All Systems Working Well

  21-08-2018 15:10 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s InSight spacecraft, en route to a November 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on August 6. All of its instruments have been...
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• Scientists Definitively Prove There Is Water Ice At The Moon’s Poles

  21-08-2018 15:00 via scitechdaily.com
  In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s...
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• Wasps, oak trees, and a creepy vine are involved in a parasitic Florida love triangle

  21-08-2018 14:00
  
  ScienceNature is wild.
  Karma exists, at least for gall wasps. These little bugs deposit their larvae in trees so their young can leech off of the plant’s nutrients.
  
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• Eerie Sky Glow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science - Live Science

  21-08-2018 13:04 via livescience.com
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  Eerie Sky Glow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science
  Live Science
  Late at night on July 25, 2016, a thin river of purple light slashed through the skies of northern Canada in an arc that seemed to stretch hundreds of miles into space. It was a magnificent, mysterious, borderline-miraculous sight, and the group of ...
  Mysterious Aurora-Like Lights Above Canada Continue to Confuse ScientistsGizmodo
  Scientists are obsessed with a purple ribbon in the sky n
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook users try data grab as Cambridge Analytica evaporates

  21-08-2018 11:50
  
  Facebook users who say their personal data was misused will find out whether they can squeeze more information out of a quickly evaporating company that played a role: Cambridge Analytica.
  
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• High-flying pseudo-satellite smashes endurance record

  21-08-2018 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  Solar-powered 'Zephyr' craft stayed aloft for nearly 26 days.
  
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• Fin24.com | WATCH: Under-fire Apple removes 25 000 apps in China

  21-08-2018 08:23
  
  Apple says it has removed many gambling-related apps from its Chinese app store as the US giant comes under scrutiny amid trade tensions between Beijing and Washington.
  
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• Trump ready to ease rules on coal-fired power plants

  21-08-2018 02:32 via abcnews.go.com
  The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming
  
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• How Human Smarts Evolved

  21-08-2018 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Suzana Herculano-Houzel spent most of 2003 perfecting a macabre recipe—a formula for brain soup. Sometimes she froze the jiggly tissue in liquid nitrogen, and then she liquefied it in a blender. Other times she soaked it in formaldehyde and then mashed it in detergent, yielding a smooth, pink slurry.Herculano-Houzel had completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience several years earlier, and in 2002, she had begun working as an assistant professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Bra
  
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• The Latest: Alaska Native leader responds to whale kill

  21-08-2018 01:26 via abcnews.go.com
  The head of an Alaska Native organization who received a federal warning about the illegal killing of a protected gray whale last year says her group respects laws and treaties protecting whales
  
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• APNewsBreak: Alaska Natives believed whale hunt was legal

  21-08-2018 01:20 via abcnews.go.com
  A U.S. report says indigenous hunters in Alaska initially believed they were legally hunting a beluga whale when they unlawfully killed a protected gray whale after it strayed into a river last year
  
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• Dismantling Oil Rigs Could Destroy Vital Coral Reefs

  21-08-2018 00:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rugged North Sea, between Norway and the United Kingdom, once held some of the world’s most productive offshore petroleum fields. And across the region, oil rigs still tower above the ocean floor — their beams crisscrossing up from the watery depths like mechanical mountains.But with productivity and oil prices in decline over recent years, hundreds of these structures are now set for removal. It’s a day that environmental groups have waited decades to see. Yet some scienti
  
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