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• Smartphone makers bet on foldable screens as next big thing

  07-11-2018 23:46
  Samsung provides glimpse at flexible-screen phone that is expected usher in a wave of similar devices as industry searches for new features to revive slumping market
  
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• The 19th-Century Antarctic Air Molecules That Could Change Climate Models

  07-11-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Don’t forget to write!”Friends and loved ones bid adieu to members of the latest research team to begin the long trek to Antarctica this weekend.The goal of this latest expedition, which is scheduled to return mid-February, is to see whether concentrations of an atmospheric molecule called hydroxyl, or OH, has changed over time since the industrial revolution. The answer will greatly affect climate models: OH is responsible for degrading molecules like methane, one of our most
  
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• Engineering a better toilet could save millions of lives

  07-11-2018 23:15
  
  TechnologyBill Gates took a jar of poop on stage to remind us of this fact.
  Every sanitation expert in the world is in Beijing right now, at a Gates Foundation-sponsored conference on the future of the toilet.
  
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• Facebook blocks fake accounts but election battle goes on

  07-11-2018 22:29
  Facebook says it blocked more accounts during the U.S. midterm elections, in addition to the 115 it shut down earlier this week, due to suspected connections to foreign efforts to interfere in the vote.
  
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• Coming soon to a mall near you...a Facebook store

  07-11-2018 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  Facebook is wading into the brick-and-mortar retail world, with shops that will spotlight small businesses using Facebook and Instagram to grow sales.
  
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• What they're saying about tech's troubles at Europe's big web summit

  07-11-2018 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  After a year many in tech would like to forget, the big questions hanging over the future of the industry loomed large at Web Summit 2018.
  
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• A science-loving lady could head the next House Science Committee

  07-11-2018 21:30
  
  ScienceThe 2018 midterm elections shifted the balance of power in the House of Representatives. Here's what that means.
  For the first time since 2010, a democrat will chair the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology following the 2018 midterm elections.
  
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• Using Ultrasound, Scientists Deliver Drugs To Specific Brain Regions

  07-11-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  At least 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy. For nearly one-third of those people, anti-seizure medications don’t work. Surgery to remove the part of the brain that causes epileptic fits is an option for some, but the intrusive treatment might not work. It could also lead to memory and language problems, among other complications. Now researchers from Stanford University have developed a noninvasive technique that could enable patients to know the outcome of such a surgery befo
  
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• SNAPSHOT: Enemy Anemones Square Off For Science

  07-11-2018 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  These colorful looking koosh balls are sea anemones, a predatory sea creature related to coral and jellyfish. Scientists at the University of Plymouth are conducting a long-term investigation into the behavior of sea anemones, and what looks like a muppet battle is actually an experiment in action.The group has discovered that environmental changes like different flow regimes and decreased oxygen levels often lead to conflict beneath the waves. Understanding just how these changes affect
  
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• Watch people beatbox in an MRI

  07-11-2018 20:30
  
  ScienceThey’re blazing new linguistic territory.
  Many artists produce sounds entirely unknown to modern linguists. Now you can see exactly what produces those extra-lingual effects.
  
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• These synthetic canine cadavers help vets save real dogs

  07-11-2018 19:34
  
  TechnologyThey're even better than the real thing in some ways.
  A synthetic canine is a good option for vets who need to practice basic skills.
  
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• Oldest known animal drawing found in remote Indonesian cave

  07-11-2018 19:07
  Oldest known animal drawing is a red silhouette of a bull-like creature found on a cave wall in Indonesia
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN's $10bn feud in Nigeria could place SA at risk - Reserve Bank

  07-11-2018 19:03
  
  MTN Group’s fights with Nigerian authorities over $10bn in repatriated funds and back taxes could increase risk in South Africa’s financial system, depending on the outcome, the Reserve Bank has said.
  
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• WATCH: Samsung plans to present its new flip smartphone

  07-11-2018 18:21
  Plus, a new hydrogen electric semi truck is about to hit the market.
  
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• Netflix is launching series in Spanish and Norwegian

  07-11-2018 18:13 via rss.cnn.com
  Netflix is launching new series from Europe in Spanish and Norwegian as it seeks to capitalize on its growing international audience.
  
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• The 8 best science images, videos, and visualizations of the year

  07-11-2018 18:00
  
  ScienceThese are the 2018 winners of the Vizzies Challenge.
  Check out the 8 winners of this year's Vizzies awards for science visualizations…
  
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• San Francisco's biggest companies now forced to pay a homeless tax

  07-11-2018 17:23 via nbcnews.com
  A similar proposition in Seattle, dubbed the "Amazon tax," recently failed to pass.
  
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• Alarmist Redux: UK ‘Meat Tax’ Proposed Under Guise Of Saving Lives

  07-11-2018 17:15 via technocracy.news
  Ever since UN Agenda 21 was produced in 1992, there has been a war against red meat of every type. Environmentalists would ban it outright if they could, but attacks like these continue to proliferate in every nation. ⁃ TN EditorA ‘meat tax’ which would almost double the price of a packet of sausages should be brought in to prevent thousands of Britons dying each year, health experts have said.
  Researchers at Oxford University set out to determine the level of tax needed to off
  
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• With 3D-Printed Bacteria, This Bionic Mushroom Turns Light Into Electricity

  07-11-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Power mushrooms” sounds like something out of Super Mario, but a lab in New Jersey has made them a reality.Hoping to create a new source of renewable energy (and to test out some ideas), a team at the Stevens Institute of Technology engineered a symbiotic relationship between the common button mushroom, some cyanobacteria and a few electrodes made of “graphene nanoribbons” (GNRs) — basically really thin layers of electrically conductive carbon atoms.As a paper in Nano Le
  
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• A 'male' octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies

  07-11-2018 17:00
  
  AnimalsAnd now it's going to die.
  When the University of Georgia’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium acquired a common octopus recently, they got somewhat more than they bargained for.
  
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• iBorderCtrl Fail: The EU’s Border Control ‘Lie Detector’ AI Is Hogwash

  07-11-2018 16:41 via technocracy.news
  Overzealous Technocrats over-hyped iBorderCrtl in order to impress clients and the public. It is, however, able to collect massive amounts of data about you and add it to your permanent file. It is not a lie-detector machine. ⁃ TN EditorCalling the EU’s new border control AI a “lie detector” is like calling Brexit a minor disagreement among friends.
  The low-down is that the EU is testing a pilot program for international airports featuring a machine learning-based “
  
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• Mini-“Robot Supermarkets” Assemble Customer Orders On Demand

  07-11-2018 16:18 via technocracy.news
  The entire trillion dollar grocery industry is transforming before your eyes as Amazon sparks a robot war with other grocery store enterprises. Stores will be largely free of cashiers, pickers and stockers, putting millions of people out of work. Technocrats invent because they can not because there is a good reason to do so. ⁃ TN EditorGrocery group Ahold Delhaize will roll out small, automated warehouses to speed order picking and cut delivery times, Reuters has learned, as it revamps it
  
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• Scientists Replicate Surface Structures at the Atomic Scale

  07-11-2018 15:44 via scitechdaily.com
  Yale researchers have developed a procedure that can replicate surface structures at the atomic scale – a breakthrough that could lead to better catalysts, improved...
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• ALMA Views Galaxy-Scale Fountain in Full Glory

  07-11-2018 15:44 via scitechdaily.com
  A billion light-years from Earth lies one of the universe’s most massive structures, a giant elliptical galaxy surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies...
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• 'The Martian' author Andy Weir answers your questions about Mars

  07-11-2018 15:30
  SpaceHis favorite astronaut, his most beloved fictional space explorer, and the discoveries that would have changed the plot of 'The Martian.'
  Andy Weir's favorite real astronaut, his most beloved fictional space explorer, and the scientific discoveries that would have changed the plot of 'The Martian.'…
  
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• NASA’s Curiosity Rover is on the Move Again

  07-11-2018 15:15 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover drove about 197 feet (60 meters) over the weekend to a site called Lake Orcadie, pushing its total odometry to over...
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• International Space Station View of Earth Enveloped in Airglow

  07-11-2018 15:09 via scitechdaily.com
  On October 7, 2018, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph while orbiting at an altitude of more than 250 miles...
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• Former Intel boss Brian Krzanich to lead CDK Global

  07-11-2018 15:07
  CDK Global has named former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich its new president and CEO
  
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• San Francisco voters approve homeless tax on businesses

  07-11-2018 14:04 via rss.cnn.com
  The city voted in favor of a tax on San Francisco's largest companies to pay for homelessness services, which was hotly debated by tech CEOs.
  
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• How elite athletes keep their heads in the game

  07-11-2018 14:00
  
  ScienceA professional athlete's mental game is just as important, if not more so, as their physical one.
  Though the physicality of professional athletes may be the most visible part of their game, their mental training is just as important—and it can be just as rigorous.
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook, Google are US election ad winners despite meddling outcry

  07-11-2018 10:24
  
  Even before ballots are counted from Tuesday’s elections, some clear winners have emerged, as Google and Facebook reap windfalls from political advertising.
  
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• A false viral election video and Twitter's trouble with the truth

  07-11-2018 10:18 via rss.cnn.com
  Halfway through Election Day, a video purporting to show votes being switched by a machine at a polling place in Ohio began to go viral on Twitter.
  
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• China unveils stealth combat drone in development

  07-11-2018 06:38
  A Chinese state-owned company says it is developing a stealth combat drone in the latest sign of the country's growing aerospace prowess
  
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• WATCH: Online retail giants offering free shipping deals this holiday season

  07-11-2018 02:21
  Experts said other sales and discounts offered by Target, Amazon and Walmart would help consumers decide where to shop.
  
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• Flushed Pharmaceuticals Are Likely Drugging Stream Dwellers Like The Platypus

  07-11-2018 00:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Humans don’t absorb 100 percent of the drugs we consume. The pharmaceuticals that our bodies don’t use are cleared from our systems and flushed down into sewage systems, processed in water treatment plants, and finally dumped into streams and other waterways.But an alarming number of pharmaceutical compounds aren’t filtered out during the treatment process. Research published today in Nature Communications shows that this might have an even bigger effect on stream ecosyste
  
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• Amazon considers New York, Virginia amid reports of HQ split

  07-11-2018 00:03
  New York and northern Virginia are among the finalists in Amazon's search to build another headquarters, according to sources familiar with the talks
  
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• Facebook blocks 115 accounts ahead of US midterm elections

  07-11-2018 00:02
  Facebook blocks 115 accounts for suspected "coordinated inauthentic behavior" linked to foreign groups attempting to interfere in U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday
  
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• ‘Oumuamua is not the alien probe you’re looking for

  07-11-2018 00:00
  
  SpaceDespite what Harvard scientists say.
  Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes, and people going bananas over aliens.
  
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