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• Twitter's Alex Jones ban: Blip in sea of abuse?

  07-09-2018 23:30
  Twitter's permanent ban of conspiracy-monger Alex Jones on Thursday again underscores the difficulty many social-media services face in trying to consistently apply their rules against harassment and other bad behavior.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO talks safety, company culture, future IPO and flying Ubers

  07-09-2018 23:18
  Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi reflects on his first year at the company in a wide-ranging interview with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis.
  
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• Verizon's digital media boss is in exit talks

  07-09-2018 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  Armstrong’s departure would be another setback for Verizon’s efforts to break into content production and monetization.
  
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• Homeless veteran will get all $400,000 donated to him, GoFundMe says

  07-09-2018 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  "We're fulfilling that commitment today and we will continue to work with Johnny's team to make sure he's receiving all donated amounts."
  
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• Adding clean energy to the Sahara could make it rain (and not just figuratively)

  07-09-2018 21:32
  
  ScienceTo green or not to green?
  Some see the Sahara as a potential solution to a looming energy crisis, and one that could potentially make it rain in one of the largest deserts in the world.
  
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• NASA's Mars rover Curiosity snaps dusty selfie

  07-09-2018 21:20
  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped a dusty but cool selfie
  
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• Two Stars Won't Collide Into a Red Nova in 2022 After All

  07-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's time to face a hard truth. Good science is mostly about meticulously testing informed predictions. And, sadly, these predictions often fall flat.
  This is exactly what just happened with one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the upcoming decade: the visible merger and fiery explosion of a pair of nearby binary stars in 2022.
  Five years ago, Calvin College astronomy professor Larry Molnar and his team began analyzing a pair of tightly bound stars — known as KIC 983222
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO says his app will someday tell you to take the subway

  07-09-2018 20:50
  Dara Khosrowshahi tells ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis that the company is developing technology to alert drivers when taking the subway might be more efficient.
  
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• Hurricane Harvey's record-setting floodwaters were packed with pollution and disease

  07-09-2018 20:30
  
  Nexus Media News And this problem isn't unique to Texas.
  A new study finds E. coli, Salmonella and other pathogens thrived in Houston floodwaters after Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• WATCH: Here's when Uber will become a public company, according to the CEO

  07-09-2018 20:25
  Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tells ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis that the company will likely become a public company by fall 2019.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO weighs in on whether companies should be forced to put women on boards

  07-09-2018 20:24
  Dara Khosrowshahi tells ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis he doesn't agree with a California bill SB-826 that would require public companies to have at least one woman on their board.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO talks major safety and security changes for the app

  07-09-2018 20:23
  Dara Khosrowshahi goes through new features to protect drivers and passengers with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO says flying Ubers will be possible in '5 to 10 years'

  07-09-2018 20:23
  Dara Khosrowshahi talks the future of e-scooters, flying cars and autonomous vehicles with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO says Facebook, Twitter, Google should do more to protect users and data

  07-09-2018 20:22
  Dara Khosrowshahi talks corporate responsibility and what regulators should demand with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis.
  
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• WATCH: Uber CEO on company culture: 'We have further to go'

  07-09-2018 20:22
  Dara Khosrowshahi talks with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis about changes he's made tothe company's culture since taking over a year ago.
  
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• Decades after a Nobel Prize snub, Jocelyn Bell Burnell's just won $3 million for her work

  07-09-2018 20:00
  
  ScienceAnd she's giving it all away.
  Around 50 years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars—but the Nobel Prize committee awarded her male supervisor for the find. She doesn't mind.
  
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• Elon Musk: 2 Hour Interview Reveals Inner-Workings Of Technocrat Mind

  07-09-2018 19:54 via technocracy.news
  Elon Musk granted a 2 1/2 hour interview with comedian and podcast interviewer, Joe Rogan. The podcast was live streamed to YouTube and received 1.6 million views within 12 hours.
  The reasons he did this are unclear, because during the same time that his adoring fans could tune in and listen to his wide-ranging prognostications, Tesla stock price collapsed by 10% within minutes of the opening bell.
  At any rate, the Technocrat mind of Musk is finally revealed. He talks about living in a simulatio
  
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• Pennsylvania's 9/11 memorial is one of the first in the world to use sound as a tribute

  07-09-2018 19:30
  
  TechnologyAfter centuries of silent designs, architects are designing for the ear, too.
  After centuries of silent designs, the architects of two major 9/11 memorial sites have settled on sound.
  
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• Five rad and random toys I found this week

  07-09-2018 19:05
  
  GadgetsThe end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 55.
  My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap.
  
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• A year of HQ2: Cities wait on Amazon announcement

  07-09-2018 18:18 via nbcnews.com
  Trying to predict where Amazon will go has become something of a parlor game among tech analysts and media.
  
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• WATCH: Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones, Infowars citing abuse

  07-09-2018 17:59
  Plus, a mirror that plays workout videos and the new Roomba 17 plus.
  
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• Tesla stock plummets after Elon Musk smokes weed on live show and two execs quit in one day

  07-09-2018 17:05 via nbcnews.com
  A total of 48 executives have reportedly left Tesla this year, and analysts have downgraded the company's stock.
  
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• Apple Veteran: Silicon Valley’s ‘Fast Fail’ Approach Won’t Work In Health Care

  07-09-2018 17:03 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats in Silicon Valley have turned their technology toward solving health care problems, but the culture of  ‘fast fail’ to find success will not work in healthcare because people will die in the process. Technocrats may view this merely breaking a few eggs for a big omelet. ⁃ TN EditorThink about the last piece of technology you bought that didn’t work as expected.
  What did you do? Return it? Give it away? Put it in a drawer with its sad digital cousins?
  Most
  
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• Ritual Sacrifice May Have Shaped Dog Domestication

  07-09-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This story originally appearedin SAPIENS, an online magazine focused on anthropology.In the Siberian Arctic, the Ob River flows lazily across vast, cold stretches of tundra. In the city of Salekhard, Russia, where it meets with the Polui River, lie the remains of an ancient ritual site. Overlooking the floodplains, it is known as Ust’-Polui. It is thought to date back to 260 B.C. and to have been occupied until A.D. 140. The site has long fascinated archaeologists due to the huge numbe
  
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• Certain weather makes you more likely to get a rattlesnake bite

  07-09-2018 17:00
  
  AnimalsWhen it rains, it pours (snakes).
  A new study suggests you might be better off venturing into the wild during times of drought.
  
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• Lab-Grown Mini-Brains Are Causing An Ethical Uproar

  07-09-2018 16:45 via technocracy.news
  This is further development of President Obama’s multibillion-dollar brain-map initiative started in 2013. Just as human DNA was ‘mapped’, the BRAIN project was to probe the human brain in action and figure out exactly how it works. Driving forces behind this included Transhumanists who seek immortality through science. ⁃ TN EditorWriting in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School o
  
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• IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color

  07-09-2018 16:30 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats depend upon external data to fuel their various experiments. Without data, their is no reason for their existence. Further, data is seen as a universal right somehow granting them special powers of acquisition: it you have it, they think they have a right to it. ⁃ TN EditorIn the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to&nb
  
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• Heavy backpacks can hurt kids—here's how to send them back to school safely

  07-09-2018 15:30
  
  DIYWear that weight the right way.
  Over time, carrying too much weight can cause injuries and pain. This school year, choose an ergonomic backpack for your child—and make sure it fits just right.
  
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• Astronomers Detect Most-Distant Galactic “Wind” of Molecules To Date

  07-09-2018 15:28 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic “wind” of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was...
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• Gaia Satellite Refines Properties of Polaris Aa, Significantly Different Than Earlier Values

  07-09-2018 15:27 via scitechdaily.com
  The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions generate periodic oscillations with a period proportional to the star’s...
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• Curiosity Surveys Fading Global Dust Storm From Vera Rubin Ridge

  07-09-2018 15:17 via scitechdaily.com
  After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location...
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• NASA Image of the Day – ‘Snow Swamp’ on Canada’s Lowell Glacier

  07-09-2018 15:08 via scitechdaily.com
  Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a pond of slush on Canada’s Lowell Glacier. Mauri Pelto, a...
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• Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures on Nuclear Reactors, Failure and Asking Questions

  07-09-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The venture capitalist talks about going from “being a player on the field to being a coach” and what it’s like to see your company lose 98 percent of its value in one day.
  
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• Chandra Discovers a Ring of Black Holes in Galaxy AM 0644-741

  07-09-2018 15:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from...
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• The CDC just released new concussion guidelines for kids. Here’s what you need to know.

  07-09-2018 14:00
  
  HealthHow much rest is enough?
  For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control have released specific guidelines for health care workers treating young people with mild traumatic brain injuries…
  
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• Lyft enters the scooter race

  07-09-2018 13:57
  The ride share launches its scooter business in Denver. Hipsters can rent them using the Lyft app.
  
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• Fin24.com | WATCH: Facebook, Twitter come under US pressure to make rules clearer

  07-09-2018 06:45
  
  The more US lawmakers learn about how Facebook and Twitter work, the more they want to know.
  
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• Twitter permanently bans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and website Infowars

  07-09-2018 02:31 via nbcnews.com
  "We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts' past violations," the social media company said.
  
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• Hurricane Florence could be heading for the East Coast—but she’s a tough storm to track

  07-09-2018 00:21
  
  EnvironmentThe storm illustrates why forecasting is so difficult.
  Hurricane Florence could come close to the United States next week—but for now, its path is highly uncertain.
  
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• Japan's New Supercomputer Let's Astronomers Simulate The Stars

  07-09-2018 00:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the long-standing problems in astronomy is that you cannot hold the Sun. You can’t jump into it or examine it under a microscope. Nor can astronomers go back in time to witness the Big Bang or even step outside our own galaxy. Observations alone can only take the science of the stars so far.
  Instead, today’s biggest astrophysical questions are answered through simulations carried out on supercomputers. That's why the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) just intro
  
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