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• WeWork is getting $3 billion more from Softbank

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  WeWork, the New York-based coworking giant, is getting another major investment from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank.
  
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• Thousands of Americans were following suspected Russian pages on eve of midterms

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  The network of pages and accounts that Facebook began to take down on the eve of the midterm elections over possible connections to a Russian government-linked troll group was followed by more than 600,000 Facebook and Instagram users in the United States, Facebook said Tuesday.
  
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• Setback for Walmart: Flipkart CEO resigns after misconduct investigation

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  The head of Walmart-owned Indian online retailer Flipkart has stepped down following an investigation into allegations of "serious personal misconduct."
  
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• I live in Long Island City. Here's what Amazon needs to know

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  Long Island City -- one of the winners of Amazon HQ2 -- is a fast-growing enclave of New York City, home to shiny high-rise buildings, spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline, parks, contemporary art museum MoMA PS1 and trendy restaurants.
  
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• Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for second headquarters

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  After a year-long search, Amazon has chosen New York City's Long Island City neighborhood and Arlington, Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.
  
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• Amazon HQ2 plans get mixed reaction in New York and Northern Virginia

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  The news of Amazon's massive expansion in New York City and Northern Virginia is already stirring strong feelings from local leaders and communities.
  
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• Amazon HQ2 jolts NY, DC real estate

  13-11-2018 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  It wouldn't happen for months, if not years. But Amazon's eventual arrival in Northern Virginia and Queens has already sent shockwaves through two surrounding real estate markets.
  
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• 'Ghost' Dwarf Galaxy Found Hiding at the Edge of the Milky Way

  13-11-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  An international team of astronomers can't fully explain the “ghost” galaxy that they discovered about 130,000 light-years from the edge of the Milky Way.Finding a GhostThis galaxy, named Antlia 2 (or Ant 2), is described as a “ghost” because of how strangely dim it is. Ant 2 is rather large for a dwarf galaxy - it's about the same size as the 7,000 light-year-wide Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy. Yet it'
  
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• Biggest lure for Amazon to Virginia may be campus, not cash

  13-11-2018 23:31
  The key to luring Amazon to northern Virginia may not have been hundreds of millions in cash incentives but instead plans for a nearby $1 billion graduate campus that will train hundreds of high-tech workers annually
  
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• Handwritten Einstein letter auctioned off for nearly $40,000

  13-11-2018 23:29
  A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing nationalism and anti-Semitism years before the Nazis rose to power has been sold for nearly $40,000
  
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• Amazon goes bicoastal: will open HQs in New York, DC suburb

  13-11-2018 23:10
  Amazon says it will split its much-anticipated new offices between New York and a suburb of Washington, DC
  
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• Tech companies step up to help out in California wildfire response

  13-11-2018 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  “My heart is with the many people who have lost everything and will be spending the months ahead trying to pick up the pieces," Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Friday.
  
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• Amazon Villagers Bring Giant Turtle Species Back From The Brink

  13-11-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  A group of community members living in the Brazilian Amazon have created biodiversity hotspots by working to protect a single species, the giant South American river turtle. That's according to a new study out Tuesday. The finding showcases the power of local conservation efforts, particularly in places that lack financial resources, the researchers say.“Our research highlights the valuable conservation service currently provided by local communities, not just for turtles but for the wid
  
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• With two new headquarters, will Amazon get to double dip on tax breaks?

  13-11-2018 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  The $800 billion company will receive upwards of $2.8 billion in performance-based incentives.
  
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• CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects

  13-11-2018 21:55
  Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered a drug that might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks against the United States
  
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• Amazon's 'National Landing' HQ generates confusion and jokes

  13-11-2018 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  While previous reports had already tipped Crystal City as one of Amazon’s picks, the name came as a surprise to local residents who had never heard it before.
  
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• How Ants and Plants Forged A Lasting Partnership

  13-11-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As alliances go, the one that exists between ants and plants is impressively robust. Symbiotic relationships exist between many species of flora and Formicidae fauna, and it's evolved past simple you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours deals. Some plants have been living and working with ants for so long, and the partnership has been so beneficial, that they've actually grown special structures to variously feed or house species of helpful ants.As the saying goes: A good friend will help
  
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• SNAPSHOT: Researchers Put a Bat in a Wind Tunnel to Study its Flight

  13-11-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  This little bat is chasing snacks for science. And in the process, he's teaching us more about aerodynamics. This guy is one of two brown long-eared bats (P. auritus) trained to fly in a wind tunnel by scientists at Sweden’s Lund University.It turns out there’s still a lot we don’t know about bat flight, particularly when it comes to turning in midair. To investigate this, the research team created a unique experimental setup combining a wind tunnel, high speed cameras, and a m
  
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• Amazon's growing pains in Seattle offer lessons to new hosts

  13-11-2018 20:31
  As Amazon turns its attention to setting up new homes in Long Island City, New York and Arlington, Virginia, experts and historians in Seattle say both places can expect a delicate relationship with the world's hottest online retailer.
  
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• The Small Magellanic Cloud Is Running Out of Gas — Fast

  13-11-2018 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as each successive smartphone companies release includes a higher-resolution camera for sharper, more detailed photos, each new instrument astronomers build reveals the universe in ever-finer detail. In this case, that new instrument is the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) array, containing 36 radio antennas whose data is combined into a single wide-field image of the sky. Researchers have now u
  
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• Amazon surprised with its HQ2 decision: But how will the new offices look?

  13-11-2018 18:33 via nbcnews.com
  Going for a high-level splashy look would be a jump away from the crucial everyday-ness that the company represents.
  
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• The backlash is already mounting over Amazon's choices for HQ2

  13-11-2018 17:57 via nbcnews.com
  “If you’re going to drop 25,000 people making more than $100,000 a year in a hot housing market, pressure for housing affordability is inevitable,” said one analyst.
  
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• Amazon picks New York City and Washington, D.C., for its new headquarters

  13-11-2018 17:04 via nbcnews.com
  Amazon said it will hire more than 25,000 employees in each location and open an "Operations Center of Excellence" in Nashville that will include more than 5,000 jobs.
  
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• IAEA urges quick plan on Fukushima radioactive water cleanup

  13-11-2018 16:53
  Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have urged the operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to urgently decide on a plan to dispose of massive amounts of radioactive water stored in tanks on the compound
  
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• Author Of Brexit Article 50 Revealed As Member Of Trilateral Commission

  13-11-2018 16:51 via technocracy.news
  Baron John Kerr is a member of the Executive Committee of the European branch of the Trilateral Commission. He regrets having authored Article 50 that made Brexit possible. Kerr has served on many boards of several giant companies like Shell and Rio Tinto. ⁃ TN EditorAs Brexit unfolds, come along and hear from the man who wrote Article 50.
  John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard is to be the keynote speaker at the Insider and Scotland Is Now Top 500 Business Breakfast early in the New Year.
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• NASA Scientists: Lack Of Sunspots To Bring Record Cold

  13-11-2018 16:35 via technocracy.news
  Global warmists will eat crow for awhile while the earth cools and it becomes obvious that the sun is the primary determinant for earth’s temperature. The global warming meme is a fraud that does not respect objective science. ⁃ TN EditorThe sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018, and the sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply dropped. New research shows that Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding.
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• Scientists Clash with Corporations in a Battle for the Soul of Mars

  13-11-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mars the planet is a unique world: a little like Earth, a little like the Moon, but entirely a world unto itself. Mars the television show is similarly one of a kind, an unusual amalgam of scripted science fiction and serious science documentary. The fictional part of the story begins in 2033, when the spacecraft Daedalus lands on the Red Planet to establish the first human outpost there. But as so often happens in space exploration, things don't go exactly as planned...Season 1 of Mars
  
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• Watch How Cells Cooperate to Grow Hair, Replace Skin

  13-11-2018 15:29 via scitechdaily.com
  In a little more than a month, the lab of Yale geneticist Valentina Greco has produced three high-profile research papers describing the complex choreography of cellular interaction...
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• Stunning Exoplanet Beta Pictoris B Time-Lapse Images

  13-11-2018 15:29 via scitechdaily.com
  ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an unprecedented series of images showing the passage of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b around its parent star....
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• Flipkart CEO resigns after misconduct investigation reveals 'lapses of judgement'

  13-11-2018 15:24 via rss.cnn.com
  The head of Walmart-owned Indian online retailer Flipkart has stepped down following an investigation into allegations of "serious personal misconduct."
  
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• UK Government Goes Full Orwellian, Building Biometric Database On Every Single Citizen

  13-11-2018 15:19 via technocracy.news
  When Theresa May became UK Prime Minister in 2016. She had once fought against the National Identity Card and national database program, but it has now reappeared in a worse form. ⁃ TN EditorWe’ve been warning about this moment since the first day TruePublica went online. We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for nefarious reasons.  DNA, fingerprint, face, and even voice data will be included. Bu
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple suppliers tumble on new signs of weak iPhone demand

  13-11-2018 13:53
  
  Major suppliers to Apple’s iPhone have fallen as investors fretted that one of the most important product lines in the technology sector was seeing weak demand.
  
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• WATCH: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer temporary outage

  13-11-2018 13:51
  Facebook says the outage was due to a routine test and issued an apology for the inconvenience.
  
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• Apple just lost its trillion-dollar crown

  13-11-2018 13:39 via nbcnews.com
  “Cook and company need to get back their mojo," said one analyst.
  
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• Scientists Hunt for A Seeming Paradox: A Magnet With Only One Pole

  13-11-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For centuries, physicists have hunted for magnetic monopoles to help put together their theory of everything. They may be closer than ever.
  
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• Report: Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2

  13-11-2018 11:27 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon has picked New York's Long Island City and Arlington County's Crystal City neighborhoods, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.
  
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• Google CFO: We can make a car drive itself. Why can't we sort out sexual harassment?

  13-11-2018 11:27 via rss.cnn.com
  Google CFO Ruth Porat spoke at a conference Monday about the tech industry's efforts to deal with sexual harassment: "Why can't we solve this? We should do better."
  
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• Report: Amazon chooses NYC, Northern Virginia for new headquarters

  13-11-2018 07:41 via nbcnews.com
  Amazon is expected to evenly divide its pledged 50,000 new jobs between the new offices, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.
  
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• Scientists: Wind, drought worsen fires, not bad management

  13-11-2018 07:06
  Scientists: Wind and drought to blame for deadly California wildfires, not forest management
  
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• GTA 5 Black Friday Ad Deals For PS4 And Xbox One - GameSpot

  13-11-2018 00:55 via gamespot.com
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  GTA 5 Black Friday Ad Deals For PS4 And Xbox One
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  Rockstar's open-world epic, Grand Theft Auto V, may be over five years old at this point, but the game is still consistently one of the best-selling titles on PS4 and Xbox One every month. It's also one of the most commercially successful video games ...
  Keyboard and mouse controls finally hit Xbox One this weekArs Technica
  Microsoft reveals Black Friday 2018 deals on Surface, Xbox One, and moreBetaNews
  Best Xbox Gifts of 2018IG
  
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• Amazon’s HQ2 Will Benefit From New York City. But What Does New York Get?

  13-11-2018 00:42 via nytimes.com
  Amazon promises tens of thousands of new jobs, but should we expect more than that?
  
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• WHO Report Finds Large Gap In Global Antibiotic Use

  13-11-2018 00:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new report Monday that finds large disparities in antibiotic consumption worldwide. Consumption rates documented in the report vary by as much as 16 times between countries. The discovery suggests some countries are likely overprescribing whereas others may not have appropriate access to the medicines.
  “Overuse and misuse of antibiotics are the leading causes of antimicrobial resistance,” Suzanne Hill, Director of the Department of Essen
  
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• Facebook, Airbnb end forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims

  13-11-2018 00:18 via nbcnews.com
  Critics have said forced arbitration provided a way for perpetrators and companies to avoid serious consequences by keeping complaints private.
  
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