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• Uber wants to resume self-driving car tests on public roads

  02-11-2018 23:16
  Uber wants to resume testing on public roads nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian
  
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• IAU Vote Recommends Changing the Name of Hubble's Law

  02-11-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Hubble law has a new suggested name, as members of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) have voted to recommend that the law now be known as the Hubble-Lemaître law.The Hubble law, as it is typically known, describes the effect in which objects move away from each other with a velocity proportional to their distance in an expanding universe. The IAU is an international association of professional astronomers with authority over naming celestial bodies. And among the public,
  
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• How to spot misleading statistics in the news

  02-11-2018 23:00
  
  ScienceThree tips to avoid sneaky tricks.
  Whether it's a story about which foods will kill you or which politicians are likely to get elected, chances are some simple stats knowledge can help you out.
  
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• Here's how an AI lie detector can tell when you're fibbing

  02-11-2018 22:24
  
  TechnologyDeception detection meets artificial intelligence.
  A border project in the EU involves tech focused on deception detection. Just how accurate can it be?
  
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• "Why Is The Sun So Hot?" Is a Real Question Scientists Still Have

  02-11-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fact that the sun is hot should not be news to a single person. The sun's surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which seems toasty enough. But surrounding the sun is an atmosphere of sorts called the corona. This envelope of superheated gas -- plasma, actually -- measures more than 3 million degrees. And scientists are still trying to figure out how this outer layer is so much hotter than what lies beneath it.The part that confuses scientists is quite simple: Since the sun's he
  
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• Meet The Scientists Connecting Lab-Grown "Mini Brains" to Robots

  02-11-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alysson Muotri and his team have been toiling away in the lab for the last year and a half or so, obsessing over bland-looking, pea-sized lumps of cells. Despite their unassuming appearance, lumps like these have taken neuroscience by storm. They’re lab-grown “brains.” Scientists call them brain organoids, and they offer rudimentary 3-D models of the brain’s cortex — the outer layer where complex functions like memory, language, and likely self-awareness, play out &
  
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• Byers Market: The media and tech newsletter from NBC News senior media reporter Dylan Byers

  02-11-2018 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  The Byers Market newsletter from Dylan Byers covers news on the media & tech titans of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York and Washington. Subscribe for the latest in media & tech!
  
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• Don't worry, those weird patterns you see with your eyes closed are real

  02-11-2018 20:30
  
  Head Trip We still don’t understand why we see the particular images we do.
  Sometimes the noggin’s wiring goes haywire and sends phantom cues called phosphenes. They are the tiny stars that blur your vision when you whack your head or rub your…
  
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• Silicon Valley startups are still taking Saudi cash

  02-11-2018 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  Silicon Valley startups are still taking Saudi cash despite intense controversy over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
  
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• Podcasts help extremists get their message out

  02-11-2018 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  Social media isn't the only place on the internet where extremists are spreading hateful views. Podcasts are also fueling the hate.
  
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• Bitcoin is 10 years old

  02-11-2018 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  Bitcoin may have turned 10 years old but its continued drop in value is hardly cause for celebration.
  
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• Apple has a problem it doesn't want to talk about

  02-11-2018 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  The era of rapid iPhone growth ended years ago. Now Apple is making a change to ensure it doesn't have to talk as much about that problem.
  
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• Instant soup sends a shocking number of kids to the hospital

  02-11-2018 19:30
  
  HealthFlimsy cups of scalding water are not stable snacks.
  It shouldn’t surprise us that flimsy styrofoam and plastic cups aren’t exactly stable vessels to contain boiling water.
  
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• Surprise! Kids' apps are full of manipulative, unregulated advertising

  02-11-2018 18:31
  
  TechnologyAnd that’s just the start of a kindergartener’s gaming woes.
  A new study shows that 95 percent of children’s apps contain at least one type of advertising, a number that worries physicians and parents, and isn’t regulated under…
  
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• OSIRIS-REx Gets its First Close-up Photos of Asteroid Bennu

  02-11-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has delivered an up close and personal view of asteroid Bennu.This composite image was created from eight shots taken by the craft’s PolyCam camera. Transmitting data back to Earth, researchers used a super-resolution algorithm to combine the photos and give us a never-before-seen look at the asteroid’s diamond shape and rocky terrain. Th
  
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• Organic Carbon on Mars Found to Come From Natural "Batteries"

  02-11-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For years, astronomers have wondered where the Red Planet got its organic carbon compounds, which are thought to be necessary for life as we know it on Earth. That organic carbon often comes from biological sources on Earth, but researchers have been working to figure out how they're created on Mars. Now, a new analysis of Martian meteorites indicates that the organic carbon on Mars may have come from naturally-occurring “batteries."By analyzing three meteorites that fell to Earth from M
  
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• The First Amendment doesn't protect Google workers' walkout, but something else does

  02-11-2018 16:18 via nbcnews.com
  Free speech is protected against government action, but workers are protected by something else when they speak out about working conditions.
  
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• How do planes fly?

  02-11-2018 16:00
  
  ScienceA simple answer you can explain to your friends.
  Flight relies on two principles of aerodynamics, or the study of how air moves around objects. These are thrust and lift.
  
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• iBorderCtrl: AI Lie Detectors To Start Questioning Travelers In Europe

  02-11-2018 15:29 via technocracy.news
  This is the Technocrat version of ‘Your papers, please’. When experts say, ‘proven technologies’, they mean it has a high degree of correlation, but it is far from perfect. If you are wrongly accused of being a liar, your profile could be permanently stained. ⁃ TN EditorA number of border control checkpoints in the European Union are about to get increasingly—and unsettlingly—futuristic.
  In Hungary, Latvia, and Greece, travelers will be given an automate
  
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• Googled: Employees Stage Massive Global Walkout Protesting Toxic Culture

  02-11-2018 15:11 via technocracy.news
  The protest was over sexual misconduct of top Google leadership but the pent up angst waiting for a spark to explode was caused by many other issues of discontent. Leadership has created an elite Technocrat culture workers are fed up with. Google can expect more turmoil in the future. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle employees around the globe are taking part in a mass walkout on Thursday to protest the company’s protection of a former executive who has been accused of sexual misconduct.
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• DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities

  02-11-2018 14:54 via technocracy.news
  DARPA is the black-ops technology inventor for the military. Why does it need drones flying over American citizens? Is this an expanded market opportunity for military contractors or is it an overt move to create a police state like China? ⁃ TN EditorJust a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable fact of life. So, too, are military grade drones along the “border,” which in reality constitutes
  
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• YouTube king PewDiePie fends off Bollywood threat — for now

  02-11-2018 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  PewDiePie fans have rallied to help YouTube's most-subscribed account fend off a challenge from Indian music label T-Series.
  
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• Bitcon is 10 years old

  02-11-2018 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  Bitcoin may have turned 10 years old but its continued drop in value is hardly cause for celebration.
  
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• Study Shows Tiny DNA Modification Has Big Impact on Tumors

  02-11-2018 14:37 via scitechdaily.com
  A simple modification of a DNA base in small areas of the genome may explain why glioblastoma tumors are so deadly, researchers at Yale and...
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• NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Has Gone Silent

  02-11-2018 14:30 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed scheduled communications sessions...
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• Add USB ports to your outlets without springing for an electrician

  02-11-2018 14:30
  
  DIYMake charging easier.
  Ever feel like you have plenty of charging cables, but not enough adapters to plug them into the wall? Here are two easy ways to add USB ports to your walls.
  
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• OSIRIS-REx Captures ‘Super-Resolution’ Image of Asteroid Bennu

  02-11-2018 14:22 via scitechdaily.com
  This “super-resolution” view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on October 29, 2018, from a distance of about...
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• Fin24.com | Apple's $1trn value at risk after earnings stumble

  02-11-2018 14:10
  
  Apple’s disappointing earnings report has put the iPhone maker’s $1trn market value at risk.
  
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• WATCH: Online holiday sales skyrocket ahead of Cyber Monday and Black Friday

  02-11-2018 13:44
  Consumer online spending will exceed last year's sales by 15 percent, new forecast says.
  
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• Extreme summer weather will be back next year . . . and probably forever

  02-11-2018 13:00
  
  EnvironmentSome research suggest these outliers are shifting to norms.
  It’s not just in your head: we really are experiencing more dangerous and extreme weather events than ever before in modern times.
  
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• WATCH: Google employees stage worldwide walkouts

  02-11-2018 12:45
  Workers walked off the job to protest how the technology company handles sexual misconduct allegations.
  
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• Fin24.com | Google CEO Pichai says he's still the boss amid employee revolts

  02-11-2018 11:48
  
  Mass employee walkouts. Leaks about an effort to get back into China. Successful demands to stop building artificial intelligence for the Pentagon. These days, Google workers are exerting an unusual level of control over their company.
  
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• UK public urged to recommend scientist for new 50-pound note

  02-11-2018 11:35
  The Bank of England is asking the public to submit nominations of prominent British scientists to appear on a new 50 pound note
  
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• How WhatsApp became linked to mob violence and fake news

  02-11-2018 09:31 via nbcnews.com
  "Political messaging operations use these services to spread disinformation about opponents and groups, which has led to violence," one researcher said.
  
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• Why China's tech giants are cozying up to the Communist Party

  02-11-2018 08:40 via rss.cnn.com
  From Didi to ByteDance, China's top tech companies are touting their ties to the ruling Communist Party.
  
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• Tech elite stages a Revolt of the Haves against employers

  02-11-2018 06:48
  Tech elite stages a Revolt of the Haves against their employers
  
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• Palau to ban sunscreen as it tries to save its coral reefs

  02-11-2018 06:26
  The Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscreen.
  
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• Jeff Bezos says he's choosing HQ2 location with his heart

  02-11-2018 06:12 via rss.cnn.com
  New York City may be on the Amazon HQ2 shortlist, but CEO Jeff Bezos wasn't in town to make any major announcements.
  
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• Google employees walk out over sexual harassment scandals

  02-11-2018 02:57 via rss.cnn.com
  Google employees in Asia and Europe kicked off a global protest on Thursday over how the company deals with sexual harassment.
  
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• Photos: See Google employees protest around the world

  02-11-2018 01:11 via rss.cnn.com
  Google employees around the world walked out of their offices on Thursday to protest how the tech giant handles allegations of sexual harassment.
  
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• Apple no longer wants you to know how many iPhones it sells

  02-11-2018 01:11 via rss.cnn.com
  Apple reports fourth quarter earnings results after the bell Thursday. All eyes will be on demand for its new iPhone lineup.
  
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• Apple's 4Q, change in iPhone sales disclosure jar investors

  02-11-2018 00:17
  After Apple's iPhone sales disappoint investors, company raises more concerns by closing window used to gauge device's popularity
  
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