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• Sending wireless data 372 miles between two balloons takes really good aim

  11-09-2018 23:25
  
  TechnologyHere's why one of Google's sister companies is working on the tech.
  Loon just announced they’d sent data between two balloons more than 372 miles over the Atlantic.
  
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• WEF: Humans Aren’t Made For Repetition – It’s Time AI Took Over Manufacturing

  11-09-2018 22:18 via technocracy.news
  This is the short-sided view of Technocracy: get rid of Co2 breathing, fickle, unstable employees and replace them with AI. What could possibly go wrong? Well, no jobs equals no buying power. The Tehcnocrat’s only answer is Universal Basic Income, but without taxable wages being paid, where would that money come from? ⁃ TN EditorFor the past 30 years, gross domestic product (GDP) across the globe has been shrinking. Where capital investment and increases in labour have been traditio
  
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• Pigeon Poop And Strange Static: How We Proved The Big Bang

  11-09-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes scientific discoveries are made in world-class laboratories, when brilliant scientists come together to prove a wonderful idea true with fresh experiments. And sometimes, the secrets of the universe are hidden under a pile of pigeon poop.And so it happened that the first observation of the crackle of nascent energy left over from the Big Bang was not some long-sought holy grail of science. Instead, it was an annoying bit of static mistaken for bird droppings. Such is the lofty
  
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• Apple expected to unveil bigger, pricier iPhone on Wednesday

  11-09-2018 21:47
  Apple expected to expand iPhone line-up with biggest, expensive model yet along with cheaper alternatives
  
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• The double-hinged door between astrophysics and the military

  11-09-2018 21:30
  
  MilitaryExcerpt: Accessory to War
  One notable twentieth-century result of the countless alliances between astrophysics and the military is the thermonuclear fusion bomb, whose design principles arise in…
  
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• China Fleshes Out Technocracy By Building 19 ‘Supercity Clusters’

  11-09-2018 21:20 via technocracy.news
  As the world’s leading Technocracy, China is leading the way in creating so-called ‘supercity clusters’ that are a model for the entire world. City-states are deemed to be the future of Sustainable Development and its attendant supply chain. This World Economic article spreads the propaganda. ⁃ TN EditorThe world has a demand problem, and it is dealing with it all wrong. Rather than allowing itself to be harmed by other countries’ problematic policies, China must w
  
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• What to watch for at Apple's big event on Wednesday

  11-09-2018 21:18 via nbcnews.com
  The event comes shortly after Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach $1 trillion in market value.
  
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• Our street lighting doesn’t need to be this bad

  11-09-2018 20:55
  
  TechnologyLight shines at full intensity even during periods of low activity.
  Most streets are either too bright or too dark. If we have the technology, why are we still over-lighting our streets?
  
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• Tesla cuts number of stock colors to streamline production

  11-09-2018 19:36
  Tesla is dropping two of the seven colors it had offered to customers as it tries to streamline production
  
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• A running list of hacks, leaks, and vulnerabilities that have recently given up your personal information

  11-09-2018 19:30
  
  TechnologyMaybe it's time to change that password.
  It's hard to keep up on all the hacks, so we're starting a list.
  
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• Education Secretary DeVos Signs On To Globalist UN Education Agenda For U.S.

  11-09-2018 18:14 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy’s reach into the Trump Administration is deep and wide. The promise of dumping Common Core Education Standards and returning control to the states, has been abandoned in favor of piping directly into the United Nations globalist agenda, which is Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorU.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos signed on to a radical global “declaration” that calls for, among other absurdities, brainwashing children to believe in the Uni
  
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• Swiss Village To Use Crowdfunding To Implement Universal Basic Income

  11-09-2018 17:29 via technocracy.news
  UBI is a favorite meme of Technocrats around the world, and has already been tried and abandoned many times in recent years. Now a Swiss village that has no cash is going to try it by using crowdfunding. This is truly an Alice in Wonderland type of story. ⁃ TN EditorA village in Switzerland has decided to go ahead with an experiment on basic income, with a payout of 2,500 francs ($2,570) per month. The next step is to raise money to finance the plan via crowdfunding.More than 50 percent of
  
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• Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Make California 100% Carbon-Free By 2045

  11-09-2018 17:12 via technocracy.news
  California rate-payers will soon understand the insanity of their state leadership’s drive to kill carbon. California is rich in oil and natural gas resources which has adequately powered the state for many decades. Gov. Brown intends to scrap that entire infrastructure in return for an economically unsound system of ‘renewables.’ ⁃ TN EditorAhead of a summit this week meant to galvanize regional action on climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation that
  
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• Of course semi-automatic guns are deadlier. Here’s why scientists took so long to say so.

  11-09-2018 17:07
  
  HealthWe desperately need research on firearms—but the federal government can't fund it.
  Today, researchers added another scrap of knowledge to the small pile of what we know about guns in America: semi-automatic rifles allow shooters to wound and kill more…
  
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• Bay Area City Halts 5G Development Over Health Concerns

  11-09-2018 16:52 via technocracy.news
  5G Technocrats who blatantly ignored early health warnings are now embroiled in conflict with cities who are blocking installation over those same concerns. As the news cycle spreads these development, other cities are further encouraged to throw up stop signs. It’s going to be a tectonic battle. ⁃ TN EditorThe city council of Mill Valley, CA, a wealthy city north of San Francisco, voted unanimously to effectively halt installation of new small cell towers to accommodate 5G technolog
  
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• Unusual Pair of Asteroids Reveal Evidence for Early Planetary Shake-Up

  11-09-2018 15:30 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an early planetary rearrangement in our solar...
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• NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots Two Lunar Transits in Space

  11-09-2018 15:13 via scitechdaily.com
  On September 9, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, saw two lunar transits as the Moon passed in front of the Sun. A transit happens...
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• Artificial Intelligence Helps Track Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts

  11-09-2018 15:07 via scitechdaily.com
  Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a...
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• NASA Satellites Show Hurricane Florence Strengthening

  11-09-2018 14:59 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA satellites are providing a lot of different kinds of data to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center to help them understand what’s happening Hurricane...
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• Fin24.com | Trillion-dollar investors don't mind billion-dollar CEO awards

  11-09-2018 14:49
  
  Some of the world’s biggest money managers have backed two unprecedented executive awards this year, emboldening other corporate boards to make colossal bets on their CEOs.
  
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• Fin24.com | Tencent steps up share buyback in first repurchases since 2014

  11-09-2018 14:26
  
  Tencent has bought back shares for a second day after its first repurchase in four years spurred speculation the battered internet behemoth may do more to support the stock.
  
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• WATCH: Woman allegedly used social media to solicit donations for fake firefighter husband

  11-09-2018 14:00
  Police said Ashley Bemis received over $11,000 in donations and supplies after she allegedly made up a husband and used a Facebook group to plead for help for him and his fellow firefighters.
  
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• New trackers will help scientists follow elusive critters

  11-09-2018 14:00
  
  AnimalsResearchers hope to map the path of bird flu and other pathogens.
  Researchers hope to map the path of bird flu and other pathogens—not to mention birds, bats, and baby sea turtles. These little beings have historically been too small…
  
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• WATCH: AT&T will deliver 5G wireless technology by end of 2018

  11-09-2018 13:33
  The wireless giant announced the rollout of mobile 5G service, offering customers a faster and more reliable experience.
  
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• Fin24.com | Alibaba inks $2bn Russia JV with Kremlin fund, Mail.ru

  11-09-2018 12:51
  
  Alibaba is setting up a $2bn joint venture with a Kremlin-backed fund and billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s Mail.ru Group to grow its e-commerce business in Russia.
  
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• Japan proposes end to commercial whaling ban, faces pushback

  11-09-2018 03:10
  Japan is proposing an end to a decades-old ban on commercial whaling, arguing there is no longer a scientific reason for what was supposed to be a temporary measure
  
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• Feasting off unusually warm sea surface waters, Hurricane Florence has exploded in strength

  11-09-2018 02:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  National Hurricane Center: "Unfortunately, the models were right"
  When I woke up this morning, Hurricane Florence was a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds a little above 100 miles per hour. As the storm has moved over very warm waters during the day, it has exploded in intensity to a Category 4 storm with max winds of 140 miles per hour.As the National Hurricane Center put it this afternoon:
  Unfortunately, the models were right. Florence has rapidly 
  
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• Les Moonves leaves CBS, denies new report of sexual misconduct

  11-09-2018 01:25 via nbcnews.com
  CBS and Moonves, who will get no severance for now, will make a $20 million donation to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement.
  
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• Inching Toward De-Extinction: Can CRISPR Resurrect Passenger Pigeons?

  11-09-2018 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Novak’s pigeons aren’t much to look at. Cosmetically, they’re not too different from the scavengers you’d see on any city street.But dive down to the cellular level, and you’ll find something very unusual: they’ve been bred for easier DNA editing. These birds are a step on the way to bringing back an extinct species.
  Novak, lead scientist at Revive & Restore, a California-based group that aims to help endangered and even extinct species through what th
  
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• This new blood test can figure out what time it is inside your cells

  11-09-2018 00:02
  
  HealthThere are tiny clocks inside you, and they're all out of whack.
  Your body has a clock—and thanks to the travails of modern life, that clock may not line up with the timing of the outside world.
  
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