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• The 'Trillion Planet Survey' is Looking for Alien Laser Beams

  17-10-2018 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  An Extraterrestrial Search
  Physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara are taking a unique approach to the search for extraterrestrial life. Instead of searching the cosmos for radio signals, they’re hunting for brilliant light beams to locate intelligent beings in the Andromeda Galaxy.It's inspired by UC Santa Barbara physicist Phil Lubin’s previous suggestion that we could propel tiny spacecraft to nearby stars at about 20 percent the speed of light with las
  
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• Scientists Discover 102 Genes Linked to Autism In Largest Study To Date

  17-10-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The quest to understand autism spectrum disorder seems an unending one. Now, researchers discover 102 genes associated with the disorder. The find virtually doubles the number of genes implicated in the complicated condition.Curbed CommunicationAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental condition that affects at least 1 in 59 U.S. children. The disorder usually shows up as a range of symptoms in early childhood when kids are about 2 to 3 years old as a range of symptoms. Indiv
  
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• How Climatic Changes Toppled The Ancient Megacity Of Angkor

  17-10-2018 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Angkor, one of the most significant archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, was a thriving metropolis at the center of the Khmer Empire in the 13th century. Then its inhabitants suddenly left town. Now, researchers find abrupt climatic changes and vulnerable infrastructure led to the city’s demise. It's a cautionary tale for modern cities, many of which are already feeling the stress of climate change.
  Monumental Megacity
  Once a vast, urban hub, Angkor was the capitol city of a kingdo
  
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• Facebook shareholders back proposal to remove Zuckerberg as chairman

  17-10-2018 22:17 via nbcnews.com
  Zuckerberg has about 60 percent voting power, according to a filing in April, and previous efforts to remove him have failed.
  
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• Netflix has plenty of room left to grow

  17-10-2018 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  More and more Netflix customers are coming from overseas — a sign that there's plenty of room for the streaming company to get even bigger than it already is.
  
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• Elon Musk will cover Tesla's fine for tweets

  17-10-2018 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  Elon Musk will buy another $20 million of Tesla stock with his own money, covering the cost of the fine the company has to pay for his tweets.
  
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• Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

  17-10-2018 22:00
  A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia
  
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• Reddit CEO talks fending off Russians and limits of free speech

  17-10-2018 21:57 via nbcnews.com
  “We've become more sophisticated,” CEO Steve Huffman said of Reddit's efforts to stop foreign influence campaigns.
  
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• Mexico's vaquita porpoise gets new chance; 6 sighted

  17-10-2018 20:54
  Experts want to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where the critically endangered vaquita porpoise remains after they sighted about a half dozen of the elusive creatures in September
  
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• Twitter airs election meddling data

  17-10-2018 20:46
  Twitter releases all of the accounts and posts related to "information operations" it has found on its service since 2016
  
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• WATCH: Self-driving cars in Paris

  17-10-2018 20:45
  ABC News' Molly Hunter takes a ride in a self-driving car through the streets of Paris.
  
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• Where Should NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life? Underground, A New Report Says

  17-10-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  We usually associate habitability with terrestrial, Earth-like planets, but what if completely different environments are capable of harboring life?A new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recommends that NASA search these disregarded worlds for signs of life. With the recent discovery of an underground lake on Mars and suspected subsurface oceans on Jupiter and Saturn’s moons, the committee thinks that studying all sorts of e
  
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• Schmear campaign? Apple adds cream cheese to bagel emoji after uproar

  17-10-2018 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  Users posted on Twitter earlier this month to complain about the lackluster appearance of the bagel, with many Twitter users calling for a more appetizing design.
  
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• Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

  17-10-2018 19:49
  New study says what were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be rocks
  
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• EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 19:16
  The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science
  
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• Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia

  17-10-2018 19:13
  Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate Assange from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a diplomat to Moscow
  
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• Oldest Trace Fossils Ever Found Might Not Be Fossils

  17-10-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fossil or faux pas? A 2016 study that interpreted rock anomalies as the oldest evidence of life on our planet got it wrong, say researchers behind a new analysis of some of the same rock. The deformities aren't relics of early microbial life, says the team, but rather a snapshot of geological forces shaping and reshaping our world.
  The race to find the very first sign of life on Earth is one of the more heated contests in science — even though, for some, it lacks the glamour
  
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• Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

  17-10-2018 18:30
  Scientists aren't certain why the areas in which storms develop are shifting.
  
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• EPA puts off final decision on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 18:20
  The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science
  
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• A dust storm in Greenland? Beautiful satellite images show one far north of the Arctic Circle

  17-10-2018 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  In late September, a dust storm erupted in a seemingly unlikely place: high in the Arctic in Greenland.It was nothing compared to a Saharan dust storm. Even so, it was large enough to be visible from space. You can see it in the Sentinel-2 satellite image above: a grayish plume of fine silt being swept up by northwesterly winds. The source: a dry bed of a braided river valley that ends in Scoresby Sound on Greenland's east coast.This is about 80 miles northwest of Ittoqqortoo
  
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• Women's March targeted by Facebook scam

  17-10-2018 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  Hundreds of fake Women's March Facebook pages run from Bangladesh have prompted concern from American activists and have proven challenging for Facebook to keep under control, a CNN investigation has found.
  
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• Silicon Valley is working with China on AI

  17-10-2018 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  Baidu has become the first Chinese company to join a US-led alliance on artificial intelligence that includes Silicon Valley's biggest names.
  
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• Microsoft was just the start for Paul Allen

  17-10-2018 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  For the last 35 years of his life, Paul Allen lived unapologetically large. But he was still best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, the company he started with Bill Gates.
  
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• Google Technocrats Love China Because It Is A Technocracy

  17-10-2018 17:17 via technocracy.news
  The only way to explain Google’s affinity for autocratic China is that they are both steeped in Technocracy. That is, it isn’t about money. Until Americans understand this evil ideology, they will be helpless to deal with it. ⁃ TN EditorChinese regional authorities recently laid out the kind of speech suppression that Google will likely have to facilitate for the country’s persecuted Muslim ethnic minority to launch its new product in China.
  Authorities in Xinjiang, a reg
  
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• Twitter releases massive data trove on foreign influence campaigns

  17-10-2018 17:14 via nbcnews.com
  The data includes more than 10 million tweets as well as images, GIFs, videos and live broadcasts, Twitter said.
  
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• Fin24.com | Musk settlement with SEC over tweets approved by US judge

  17-10-2018 16:56
  
  A US judge has approved Tesla and CEO Elon Musk’s $40m settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, resolving government claims that Musk misled the public with a flurry of tweets about a plan to take the company private.
  
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• Technobabble And Technocrats: The Rise Of The Smart City

  17-10-2018 16:53 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats are social engineers and not urban designers, but they somehow think they are more qualified to determine the fate of millions. If a tiny Mexican town can stop the Technocrat steamroller, then any city can as well. ⁃ TN EditorIn cities around the world, the drone of jackhammers is being met with the clacking of keyboards and the hum of computers tasked with building a new generation of metropolises, built from silicon rather than concrete. A new breed of brash and flash utopias
  
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• Netflix shares jump 6 percent on strong subscriber growth

  17-10-2018 16:52
  Netflix shares are jumping 6 percent in early trading after the company reported a big increase in subscribers
  
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• Mexican Town Gives The Boot To Smart City Technocrats

  17-10-2018 16:36 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats lied, misrepresented and bulldozed their way into this small town. When citizens finally saw what was going on, and that the interlopers had no authority, they gave them the boot. Bravo! ⁃ TN EditorLupita Tecual Porquillo had heard a rumour that the plaza was going to be “remodelled”. The 51-year-old grocery store owner lives around the corner from the centre of Santa Maria Tonantzintla, a sleepy town in the state of Puebla, about three hours from MexicoCity. S
  
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• A British invention that U.S. spies should copy

  17-10-2018 16:17 via nbcnews.com
  The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre is a relatively new agency responsible for protecting Britain from cyber threats. The U.S. has nothing like it.
  
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• Fin24.com | Tesla confirms to issue and sell to Musk $20m stock

  17-10-2018 16:13
  
  Tesla confirms that it will issue and sell to Elon Musk $20m of the company’s common stock during the next open trading window.
  
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• Elon Musk is buying up $20 million of Tesla stock

  17-10-2018 15:43 via nbcnews.com
  Tesla stock rose almost 2 percent in pre-market trading on news of the filing.
  
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• Physicist Details the Shape of a Symmetrical Wormhole

  17-10-2018 15:30 via scitechdaily.com
  A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole – a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a...
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• Wind Farms Cause More Environmental Impact Than Previously Thought

  17-10-2018 15:29 via scitechdaily.com
  When it comes to energy production, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately. As the world begins its large-scale transition toward low-carbon energy...
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• Scientists to Debate Mars 2020 Landing Site for Next Rover

  17-10-2018 14:58 via scitechdaily.com
  Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate...
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• WATCH: YouTube goes down worldwide for about an hour

  17-10-2018 12:47
  Visitors to the video site had pages load halfway, then stall before an "internal sever error" message.
  
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• Will Deep-Fake Technology Destroy Democracy?

  17-10-2018 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Imagine if a doctored video of a politician appeared the day before an election. It’s everything Vladimir Putin ever dreamed of.
  
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• YouTube back online after brief outage

  17-10-2018 07:22 via rss.cnn.com
  A collective "What the heck?" swept the World Wide Web Tuesday night as users of video giant YouTube couldn't get content to play for about an hour.
  
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• YouTube goes down for more than an hour

  17-10-2018 05:37
  YouTube goes down for more than an hour
  
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• Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

  17-10-2018 05:18
  A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers
  
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• Netflix's 3Q subscriber growth gets rave reviews on Wall St.

  17-10-2018 01:21
  Netflix regains its stride with strong subscriber growth during the summer after stumbling badly in spring
  
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• Netflix shakes off summer swoon, shares jump on subscriber additions

  17-10-2018 01:08 via nbcnews.com
  Netflix shares jumped 12 percent after reporting the addition of 7 million subscribers — and an expectation of 9.4 million more next quarter.
  
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• Four Massive Planets Discovered Orbiting "Toddler" Star

  17-10-2018 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Surprising Young Star
  Researchers have discovered a strange, young “toddler” star with four massive planets in orbit around it. This is the first time that so many massive planets have been found in such a young stellar system.The star at the center of this system, CI Tau, is only two million years old and surrounded by a protoplanetary disk made up of dust and ice. In this disk, the system’s planets, asteroids, moons, and other objects form. Scientists already knew about thi
  
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