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• The most amazing health innovations of 2018

  27-11-2018 23:30
  
  HealthThey're the Best of What's New.
  These 10 medical advances represent how science, technology, and creative thinking can help us live longer, better lives.
  
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• Tired of romaine recalls? One answer may lie in blockchain

  27-11-2018 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  Tracking food faster could speed up recalls, but it won't stop contamination from happening.
  
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• InSight Mars Mission Brought a First for NASA: Interplanetary CubeSats

  27-11-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Groundbreaking CubeSats
  Yesterday, NASA’s InSight lander touched down successfully on the martian surface in a flawless feat of engineering.Two briefcase-sized satellites known as CubeSats followed the exploratory probe all the way from Earth to the Red Planet. These twin Cubesats are the first of their kind to ever travel to another planet, and are already, successfully relaying important data to Earth, connecting us to Mars like never before. In fact, these satellites tran
  
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• The best recreation gear of 2018

  27-11-2018 22:45
  
  TechnologyThey're the Best of What's New.
  This year’s best products in recreation—including a one-pound tent, a truly innovative sports bra, and a fire pit that keeps smoke out of your eyes—make our active lives…
  
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• All the things New Yorkers fear about Amazon's HQ2 (and a little optimism)

  27-11-2018 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  Despite blowback to Amazon's HQ2 decision to come to New York, experts say the deal has the potential to be great for New York.
  
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• The International Space Station is crawling with bacteria and some may be harmful

  27-11-2018 21:30
  
  SpaceDon't worry, no one has gotten sick yet.
  Researchers are finding that all kinds of bacteria are thriving on the artificially-habitable International Space Station. A new study from researchers at the California…
  
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• Why Amazon could win the battle for holiday toy sales

  27-11-2018 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  Retailers are battling hard over toys, flat-screen TVs and new tech gadgets this holiday season, and Amazon appears to be in a strong position.
  
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• Former Facebook employee says the company has 'a black people problem'

  27-11-2018 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook has a "black people problem" according to a former manager at the company.
  
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• The best entertainment innovations of 2018

  27-11-2018 21:00
  
  EntertainmentThey're the Best of What's New.
  This year’s winners include a pro-grade HDTV, speakers that double as modern art, and an ill-fated movie subscription service that shifted the way people go to the…
  
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• NASA's InSight sends back stunning images as it settles into life on Mars

  27-11-2018 20:36
  Forgive her for keeping the lens cap on. It's dusty there.
  
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• How to Look Inside a Star With Artificial Intelligence and Sound Waves

  27-11-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Star Sound Waves
  Using artificial intelligence (AI) and sound waves, researchers have found a possible means of looking inside stars.It's based on the fact that stars aren't solid objects — far from it, in fact. They're intense, vibrating balls of plasma held together by their own gravity and with wildly energetic nuclear reactions at their core. Now, researchers say that they're beginning to find ways to discern the internal state of a star by looking at the vibrations that prop
  
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• Hurricanes are doing more damage and it’s our own fault

  27-11-2018 20:30
  
  EnvironmentIt has surprisingly little to do with climate change.
  As our oceans warm, hurricane rainfall and intensity are going to rise. But more water and wind aren’t the reason that today’s storms destroy more in their paths.
  
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• WATCH: Are genetically-edited babies ethical?

  27-11-2018 20:06
  Michael Strahan and Sara Haines break down the top stories this afternoon.
  
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• A History of Hits and Misses in Predicting New Planets

  27-11-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2016, astronomers announced there was a new planet in the outer solar system. Planet Nine, supposedly larger than Neptune and located far beyond the orbits of the planets known so far, is a particular mystery since no one has yet observed it. Scientists have merely tracked its supposed orbit by watching the gravitational pull the planet exerts on the asteroids and space debris near it.But this isn't the first time scientists have predicted planets before spotting them. It'
  
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• Scientists: Spray The Stratosphere, Dim The Sun, Cool The Planet

  27-11-2018 19:49 via technocracy.news
  The Technocrat plans for geoengineering are now official and publicly declared: the goal is to dim the sun with stratospheric spraying, thereby quickly cooling the earth.  Of course, all of these scientists are paid directly or indirectly by taxpayer money. ⁃ TN EditorZhen Dai holds up a small glass tube coated with a white powder: calcium carbonate, a ubiquitous compound used in everything from paper and cement to toothpaste and cake mixes. Plop a tablet of it into water, and the res
  
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• UK lawmaker hopes to publish secret Facebook documents within a week

  27-11-2018 19:31 via rss.cnn.com
  The British lawmaker who seized a cache of confidential Facebook documents says he could make them public within a week.
  
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• Planes may hold the secret to safe self-driving cars

  27-11-2018 19:31 via rss.cnn.com
  Silicon Valley startup Zoox looks to the aviation industry for inspiration.
  
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• Google employees call for company to end work on China search engine

  27-11-2018 19:14 via nbcnews.com
  Google employees stated in an open letter that they no longer believed the company was “willing to place its values above its profits."
  
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• If Mammoth Tusks Could Talk

  27-11-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  One day, about 11,000 years ago, a lone bull mastodon plodded through the shallows of a lake in what today is Michigan. Some time later, three females and a gamboling calf passed the same way. Luckily for paleontologists, clay-rich mud filled the animals’ footprints, preserving the tracks and giving scientists insights into the mastodons’ social structure. The long-extinct creatures likely lived in matriarchal herds, while mature males roamed singly, much like their modern-day relati
  
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• South Korea's newest K-pop hit: A digital band marketing a video game

  27-11-2018 17:58 via nbcnews.com
  K/DA is a band of digital avatars created to promote the free-to-play video game “League of Legends.”
  
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• Magazine giant Condé Nast is looking for a new CEO

  27-11-2018 17:56 via nbcnews.com
  Despite slashing costs and ditching print editions, the company is still expected to report a loss for 2018.
  
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• Microsoft and Apple are fighting to be world's most valuable company

  27-11-2018 17:41 via rss.cnn.com
  Forget FAANG. The new tech heavyweight is ... Microsoft?
  
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• Margaret Thatcher, Ice Cream Pioneer, Is Nominated as Face of £50 Note

  27-11-2018 17:41 via nytimes.com
  The Bank of England has released a list of 800 scientific figures who could feature on its next redesigned bill. One in particular has raised eyebrows.
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN executive exits said to intensify amid Nigeria crisis

  27-11-2018 16:56
  
  MTN is set to lose another high-ranking executive over the next few months, as the wireless carrier fights more than $10bn of claims in its largest market of Nigeria.
  
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• Fin24.com | Google accused of manipulation to track users

  27-11-2018 15:25
  
  Seven European consumer groups have filed complaints against Google with national regulators, accusing the internet giant of covertly tracking users' movements in violation of an EU regulation.
  
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• Facebook gets 9-nation grilling, but Zuckerberg refuses to attend

  27-11-2018 15:22 via nbcnews.com
  A chair was pointedly left open with Zuckerberg's name printed on a place card in front of it at the inaugural "Grand Committee on Disinformation" hearing.
  
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• Ocean Circulation: More Evidence Of An Approaching Mini-Ice Age

  27-11-2018 15:13 via technocracy.news
  Global Warmists are in total denial, claiming that it is really global warming that is causing dislocations in the weather. Technocrats who live by their science will eventually be crushed by it. ⁃ TN EditorResearchers have discovered that water in the North Atlantic has ‘dramatically weakened.’
  The study shows the levels are at their lowest of for 1,500 years – and climate change is to blame.
  Researchers warn the currents will have a ‘profound effect&rsqu
  
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• NASA's InSight lander touches down on Mars

  27-11-2018 15:05
  It marks the first American spacecraft to land since 2012.
  
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• In America: The Final Assault In The War On Cash

  27-11-2018 14:47 via technocracy.news
  The author does not have Technocracy in view, but only in name. Technocracy will force the extinction of cash in order to build a replacement monetary system to finance Sustainable Development that will resemble Alice in Wonderland. ⁃ TN EditorBefore I show you what I’ve learned about a plan to seize control of America’s money, let me make one point clear…
  If you value sound money and political freedom… if you value limited government and taxation with representat
  
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• Sweden: Cash Goes Out As Microchips Get Implanted To Pay For Things

  27-11-2018 14:31 via technocracy.news
  There is a people’s movement in Sweden to retain cash as a backup to tech failure, but others continue to squeeze it out. Young Technocrats think it’s cool to get chips inserted into their hands as a payment system.  ⁃ TN EditorMore than 4,000 Swedes have gone the microchip route as cash use fades and the government scrambles to figure out the effects on society and the economy.
  Few countries have been moving toward a cashless society as fast as Sweden. But cash is being s
  
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• UK lawmakers back off threat to release Facebook documents

  27-11-2018 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook faced tough questions from lawmakers from nine countries as part of an international hearing on disinformation in London.
  
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• How Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi got comfortable with reinvention

  27-11-2018 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  As a child, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wasn't a fan of his own last name. Khosrowshahi, who was born in Iran, would introduce himself to people as his alter ego — Darren K.
  
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• WATCH: Cyber Monday smashes sales records

  27-11-2018 14:05
  ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis reports on the deals still available as Cyber Monday has become a weeklong shopping extravaganza.
  
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• WATCH: Donald Trump's trade war with China could raise the price of your iPhone

  27-11-2018 13:35
  New tariffs also may drive up the cost of Apple's laptops.
  
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• WATCH: Getting to know Mars, the 'red planet'

  27-11-2018 12:47
  Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and over 4.5 billion years old.
  
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• Mars touchdown: NASA spacecraft survives supersonic plunge

  27-11-2018 09:11
  First snapshot from NASA spacecraft shows 'incredibly safe' landing spot on Mars
  
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• My journey from India's Silicon Valley to its 'no network' zone

  27-11-2018 07:00 via rss.cnn.com
  India has almost 900 million people that aren't online. When they get there, they could shape the internet as we know it.
  
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• Facebook's top exec in India: We must build 'a safe environment'

  27-11-2018 07:00 via rss.cnn.com
  Ankhi Das, Facebook's director of public policy in India, speaks to CNN about the country's opportunities and challenges.
  
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• इंटरनेट का भविष्य भारतीय है

  27-11-2018 07:00 via rss.cnn.com
  जमना देवी को अपना पहला मोबाइल क़रीब एक साल पहले मिला था। यह उन छोटे से स्क्रीन और नंबर्
  
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• The crazy tale of how the UK parliament ended up with secret Facebook documents

  27-11-2018 03:43 via rss.cnn.com
  An American app developer who gave confidential documents about Facebook to UK lawmakers during a visit to London says he did so because he panicked and feared he wouldn't be let out of the country unless he complied.
  
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• NASA InSight Safely Lands on Martian Surface, Ready to Discover What Lies Beneath

  27-11-2018 03:09 via scitechdaily.com
  Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the...
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• Alcohol Dependence and Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Links

  27-11-2018 03:08 via scitechdaily.com
  Gene variants associated with alcohol dependence are also linked to the risk of psychiatric disorders and other drug use, a massive study of more than...
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Tangled Cosmic Edition

  27-11-2018 02:46 via scitechdaily.com
  This dark, tangled web is an object named SNR 0454-67.2. It formed in a very violent fashion — it is a supernova remnant, created after...
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• Scientist's gene-editing experiment sparks worry, outrage

  27-11-2018 00:56 via nbcnews.com
  Some researchers say it’s time to allow gene editing, with careful regulation.
  
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• WATCH: NASA's Insight lander successfully touches down on Mars

  27-11-2018 00:27
  The lander will now investigate the planet's history by digging beneath its surface.
  
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• Millions of Years Ago, the Poles Moved — And It Could Have Triggered an Ice Age

  27-11-2018 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Geologists at Rice University have uncovered evidence that suggests Earth’s spin axis was in a different spot millions of years ago, a phenomenon called “true polar wander.” The change, which occurred sometime in the past 12 million years, would have shifted Greenland further up into the Arctic Circle – which may have contributed to the onset of the last major Ice Age, 3.2 million years ago.You can think of the Earth's spin axis as the invisible axle around which the plan
  
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• NASA's InSight lander survived 'seven minutes of terror' to touch down on Mars

  27-11-2018 00:12
  
  SpaceHuge success after a harrowing journey.
  Get ready for a wild ride: NASA's InSight lander is set to touch down on the surface of Mars on Monday. You can follow the excitement live right here.
  
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• NASA's Mars Lander Is Preparing to Peer Beneath the Planet's Surface

  27-11-2018 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  InSight on Mars
  November 26 at 2:54 ET, NASA’s InSight lander touched down successfully on the martian surface. Now, once the dust settles around the landing site in Elysium Planitia, the probe will get to work expanding our understanding of the Red Planet — specifically, what's inside of it.After initially landing, InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, captured its first image of its surroundings. This will be followed
  
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