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• This is the Google Pixel Slate - TechCrunch

  06-10-2018 23:00
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  This is the Google Pixel Slate
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  Maybe there will be some surprises at next week's Google event. At this rate, however, we're not entirely optimistic at the prospect. Just as the Pixel 3 got the full hands-on treatment in Hong Kong, a new contender has emerged. Like a number of recent ...
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• New images of Google's Pixel Slate tablet show off a USB-C port and round keys - The Verge

  06-10-2018 22:21
  The Verge
  New images of Google's Pixel Slate tablet show off a USB-C port and round keys
  The Verge
  Google's Pixel 3 XL isn't the only thing getting leaked ahead of the company's big event next week: images of the company's Pixel Slate tablet have also surfaced. Rumors of Google's first Chrome tablet have circulated in recent weeks. MySmartPrice ...
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• What to expect from Google's Pixel 3 event - TechCrunch

  06-10-2018 17:53
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  What to expect from Google's Pixel 3 event
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  Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have already held their big fall events — and now it's Google's turn. Over the past couple of years, the October event has become an increasingly important platform, as the company continues to press into various hardware ...
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• ‘Greater Phoenix Smart Region Initiative’ Takes Root In Arizona

  06-10-2018 16:47 via technocracy.news
  Arizona State University brags about being the leading Sustainable Development center in America, and is now taking a key role to promote regionalism and Smart City initiatives in Arizona. It will be a massive Public-Private Partnership. A key partner, Arizona Institute for Digital Progress, claims that this is America’s first Smart Region.  ⁃ TN EditorA new initiative to grow smart city projects is taking hold in the Phoenix metro region.
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• Project Safe Cam: Homeowners Hook Up Own Cameras To Police Net

  06-10-2018 16:25 via technocracy.news
  In Las Vegas, over 1,100 homeowners have volunteered their home cameras to be hooked up to the police video network. While this sounds like a good idea to some homeowners, it puts them directly in harms way for privacy liability. In this case, privacy issues have not been properly thought through. ⁃ TN EditorSurveillance cameras: It seems they are in service everywhere these days.
  At homes and businesses, these electronic eyes catch every move made in front of them. They are the reason loc
  
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• DARPA Developing GMO Insects That Genetically Modify Crops

  06-10-2018 16:15 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats at DARPA are creating a new technology that could potentially become the deadliest bioweapon on earth. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the Department of Defense and develops technology for the military. ⁃ TN EditorA team of scientist sounds the alarm in a new Science Policy Forum report about a mysterious US government program that is developing genetically modified viruses that would be dispersed into the environment using inse
  
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• Sony planning Backward Compatibility for PS5 [Rumor] - GearNuke

  06-10-2018 15:48
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  Sony planning Backward Compatibility for PS5 [Rumor]
  GearNuke
  Sony has registered a new patent that seems to be suggesting support of backward compatibility for the PS5. Read on see why the patent could suggest we could be getting the ability to play our PS4, PS3, PS2 and PS1 games on the Playstation 5. The ...
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  PS5 Release Date Backwards Compatibility SHOCK: Good News for XBOX, not Sony, if it's trueDaily Star
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• Why tiny fossils can tell us more than big ones

  06-10-2018 15:30
  
  ScienceSorting through microfossils at the LaBrea Tar Pits.
  At the LaBrea Tar Pits and Museum, big remains of sabertooth tigers and mammoths get all the glory. But we can actually learn more from wee microfossils.
  
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• NASA Voyager 2 Nearing Interstellar Space, Measures Increase in Cosmic Rays

  06-10-2018 15:19 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched...
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• 'Emotional' Facebook staff meeting addresses exec who supported Kavanaugh

  06-10-2018 04:31 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook is due to hold an internal town hall on Friday to address employee concerns after the company's top executive in Washington appeared in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
  
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• Some fruits evolve to smell stronger when ripe and attract animals that eat them

  06-10-2018 01:19
  Fruit scent of lemur-dispersed species changes when fruits become ripe, a study of two years suggests.
  
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• Large-Scale Wind Farms Could Warm the U.S.

  06-10-2018 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  If we humans want to slow down global warming due to carbon emissions, clean energy is the way. But, as with all things, there are cons to go along with those pros. New research reports that installing large-scale wind farms across the country could raise the temperature of the continental United States.The study, published in the journal Joule, is based on mathematical modeling done by experts at Harvard University. First, the team created a climate baseline; they used a standard weathe
  
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• Musk donation to pay for school water filtration systems

  06-10-2018 00:30
  A $480,000 donation from the Musk Foundation will allow schools in Flint, Michigan, to install ultraviolet water filtration systems to drinking fountains
  
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• Facebook VP addresses surprise appearance at Kavanaugh hearing

  06-10-2018 00:17 via nbcnews.com
  Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global public policy, said it was a mistake for him to have attended the hearing without consulting other executives.
  
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