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• Black Holes Surrounded by Gaseous 'Fountains,' Not 'Donuts'

  04-12-2018 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Hole Fountains
  Where once were donuts, now there may be fountains. Not literally, unfortunately, but new astronomical observations are rewriting scientists' conceptions of what the area around a black hole looks like, and the new evidence seems to lean heavily away from the morning delicacy.Scientists estimate that most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center, pulling in everything around them with tremendous gravitational forces. Up until now, astronomers believed&nbs
  
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• NYC taxi board sets minimum pay for app-based drivers

  04-12-2018 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  It's the first U.S. city to set minimum pay standards, a move that Lyft called "a step backward for New Yorkers."
  
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• Why Don't We Have an AIDS Vaccine?

  04-12-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  I mentioned to a friend, a gay man nearing 60, that World AIDS Day, which has been observed on Dec. 1 since 1988, was almost upon us. He had no idea that World AIDS Day still exists.This lack of knowledge is a testament to the great accomplishments that have occurred since World AIDS Day was created 30 years ago. It is also due to an accident in the timing of his birth that my friend escaped the devastation wreaked by AIDS among gay men in the U.S., before there was antiretroviral therap
  
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• 2019 Could Be a Big Year for Private Spaceflight

  04-12-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Future of Spaceflight
  The upcoming year is shaping up to be a big one for private spaceflight. A number of big players in the race to get paying passengers to space seem poised to actually make that happen, and companies like Boeing and SpaceX have announced a number of ambitious goals.It looks like they might be beat by the Brit, though. Last week, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson claimed that his company Virgin Galactic will send astronauts into space by Christmas of this year.
  
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• Nation's largest police department puts its eyes in the skies with new drone program

  04-12-2018 23:20
  The adoption of drones by the NYPD could effect departments across the nation.
  
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• Calif. police use Tesla system to halt sleeping man's car

  04-12-2018 23:08
  The Autopilot system on a Telsa Model S may have helped the California Highway Patrol stop the car after its driver fell asleep on a freeway
  
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• Why California’s recent wildfires are the 'new normal'

  04-12-2018 22:30
  It’s now more common to see multiple giant wildfires burning at once, straining firefighting resources, scientists say.
  
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• Data breach on Quora affects 100 million users

  04-12-2018 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  Today’s top question on Quora might be: 'Was my data stolen?'
  
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• Trump's Amazon battle continues, as postal task force recommends changes

  04-12-2018 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  Trump has repeatedly attacked Amazon on Twitter for treating the Postal Service as its "delivery boy."
  
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• Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accord

  04-12-2018 21:00
  Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks have gotten down to the nitty-gritty task of finalizing the rules for the Paris accord, a landmark agreement by countries three years ago to curb global warming
  
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• Fin24.com | Deadline for digital migration still to be set - minister

  04-12-2018 20:09
  
  The official date to switch off analogue signal for broadcasting is yet to be set by the minister of communications.
  
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• Top CFOs are being targeted by a sophisticated email scam

  04-12-2018 19:03 via rss.cnn.com
  A group of hackers based in Nigeria is trying to trick thousands of top executives across the globe into sending them company funds.
  
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• Europe won't give up on new tech taxes

  04-12-2018 19:03 via rss.cnn.com
  EU plans for a tech tax are on life support. But Facebook and Google could still be on the hook for millions in new payments.
  
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• A helicopter app for the wealthy plans to tackle Mumbai's traffic

  04-12-2018 19:03 via rss.cnn.com
  The on-demand chopper booking service is launching in Mumbai early next year, it announced Tuesday.
  
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• Facial recognition test monitors people outside the White House

  04-12-2018 18:43 via nbcnews.com
  The test “crosses an important line by opening the door to the mass, suspicionless scrutiny of Americans on public sidewalks,” the ACLU wrote.
  
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• A helicopter app for the wealthy is tackling Mumbai's traffic

  04-12-2018 16:42 via rss.cnn.com
  The on-demand chopper booking service is launching in Mumbai early next year, it announced Tuesday.
  
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• Is the new Apple Watch a good health gift?

  04-12-2018 16:17 via nbcnews.com
  The new Apple Watch includes new features designed to detect falls and heart problems. Would this make for a good health present? Experts weigh in.
  
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• Apple CEO Tim Cook says tech needs to take a moral stand against hate speech

  04-12-2018 14:15 via nbcnews.com
  "You have no place on our platforms. You have no home," Cook said of people who push division and hate.
  
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• Uber announces new minibus service in traffic-mad Egypt

  04-12-2018 14:03
  Microbuses — such as the ones Uber plans to use — are notorious in Cairo.
  
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• WATCH: Apple's most popular apps of 2018

  04-12-2018 14:02
  Despite privacy issues, social media apps top the list.
  
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• New parasite decimates giant clam species in Mediterranean

  04-12-2018 11:49
  A new parasite is devastating populations of an emblematic species of clam found only in the Mediterranean, and scientists are racing to figure out how to save the noble pen shell from extinction
  
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• The most downloaded iOS apps of 2018

  04-12-2018 09:13 via rss.cnn.com
  Social media dominated the top apps of the year. YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat were among the most downloaded in 2018.
  
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• Tencent Music is moving ahead with a $1.2 billion IPO in New York

  04-12-2018 09:13 via rss.cnn.com
  Tencent Music is seeking as much as $1.2 billion from investors in its New York listing, capping a blockbuster year for Chinese tech IPOs.
  
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• Quora says 100 million users hit by 'malicious' data breach

  04-12-2018 09:13 via rss.cnn.com
  Question-and-answer website Quora warned late Monday that hackers gained access to the personal data of as many as 100 million of its users.
  
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• Fin24.com | Our CEO hasn't resigned, says SABC

  04-12-2018 07:55
  
  But the public broadcaster would not say whether three of its board members stepped down on Monday evening, saying the the presidency would have to comment.
  
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• Fin24.com | Apple said to miss rapid 5G takeoff, sit out tech shift

  04-12-2018 07:02
  
  Apple plans to hold off until at least 2020 before offering an iPhone that can connect to the next generation of high-speed phone services coming next year, according to people familiar with its plans.
  
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• Navy Looking Create New Marine GMOs To Detect Enemy Subs

  04-12-2018 06:17 via technocracy.news
  The Naval Research Laboratory has too many Technocrats with too much time on their hands. Still, this project points out that genetic modification is going on in every possible environment on the earth. What could go wrong? ⁃ TN EditorThe Pentagon is also looking at living camouflage, self-healing paint, and a variety of other applications of engineered organisms, but the basic science remains a challenge.
  How do you detect submarines in an expanse as large as the ocean? The U.S. mili
  
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• Walmart Welcomes Autonomous Robot Floor Scrubbers

  04-12-2018 06:01 via technocracy.news
  Janitors can write off floor care as part of their duties, which means layoffs for some jobs. Robot automation is disproportionately replacing lower-skilled and low-paid jobs that are essential for unskilled employees. ⁃ TN EditorRobots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick.
  The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Co
  
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• Update: Chinese Baby Gene-Editing Scientist Goes Missing

  04-12-2018 05:45 via technocracy.news
  Apparently He Jiankui is out of favor with Chinese Technocrats, since he has abruptly gone missing with rumors of his arrest. China seldom openly reveals outright and purposeful disappearances. ⁃ TN EditorThe whereabouts of Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims to have created the world’s first gene-edited babies, remain unknown amid rumours that he has been arrested.
  Reports claimed He was placed under effective house arrest in Shenzhen after making an appearance at the Second In
  
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• CIMON the European space robot cops an attitude in first test run

  04-12-2018 05:19 via nbcnews.com
  There are still a few bugs in the system — among them the 11-pound robot's waspish personality.
  
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• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu

  04-12-2018 02:59 via scitechdaily.com
  After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometers, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived...
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• How Tumblr's adult content crackdown could alienate users

  04-12-2018 02:56 via rss.cnn.com
  Tumblr says it is banning images and videos that feature "adult content," including pornography, from its platform. The change, which will start December 17, threatens to alienate some of the blogging website's most active communities.
  
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• Juno Spacecraft Views ‘Dolphin’ in the Jovian Clouds

  04-12-2018 02:55 via scitechdaily.com
  This series of images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures changing cloud formations across Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. A cloud in the shape of a dolphin appears...
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• Borophene Breakthrough Provides New Insight Into a Promising Material

  04-12-2018 02:51 via scitechdaily.com
  The thinnest flake, just one atom thick, has provided scientists at Yale and the Brookhaven National Laboratory with new insight into a promising material for...
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Clusters Within Clusters

  04-12-2018 02:41 via scitechdaily.com
  This image, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals thousands of globular clusters lying at the core of a galaxy...
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• WATCH: First manned Soyuz rocket since October accident takes off

  04-12-2018 01:57
  American astronaut Anne McClain joined Canada's David Saint-Jacques and Russia's Oleg Kononenko aboard the rocket that launched from the Baikonur spaceport in the desert in central Kazakhstan.
  
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• First manned Soyuz rocket since October accident takes off

  04-12-2018 01:18
  The rocket was travelling to the International Space Station.
  
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• Tim Cook: Hate has 'no place' on Apple's platforms

  04-12-2018 01:15 via rss.cnn.com
  "We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division and violence: You have no place on our platforms," Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday, emphasizing, "You have no home here."
  
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