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• Amazon's HQ2 deal makes most New Yorkers smile, poll finds

  05-12-2018 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  A separate poll from Morning Consult released Tuesday named Amazon the company "Americans love the most," with a net favorability rating of 79 percent.
  
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• U.K. lawmaker publishes confidential Facebook emails, claims company lacks 'straight answers'

  05-12-2018 20:06 via nbcnews.com
  The documents also include a summary that highlights Facebook's tactics in competing with other apps, moves that Collins called "aggressive positions."
  
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• Huawei's 5G ambitions suffer another big setback

  05-12-2018 19:51 via rss.cnn.com
  Huawei's dream of becoming a global leader in 5G mobile networks has suffered another blow.
  
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• Facebook exec says the social network would be 'dust' without AI

  05-12-2018 19:51 via rss.cnn.com
  Without artificial intelligence, there wouldn't be much left of how we know and use Facebook today.
  
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• Media mega-mergers under threat with Democrats controlling the House

  05-12-2018 19:13 via nbcnews.com
  A media landscape prone to tectonic shifts is likely to feel a series of aftershocks once Democrats take control of the House.
  
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• Fossil Ichthyosaur Blubber Is Evidence They Were Warm-Blooded

  05-12-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time, researchers have identified blubber, and other soft tissue, preserved in an Early Jurassic ichthyosaur. The new interpretation of the 180-million-year-old fossil suggests that the extinct marine reptiles were warm-blooded.Ichthyosaurs swam the Mesozoic Era seas and were roughly contemporary with dinosaurs. They are often compared with modern toothed whales, particularly porpoises (though at least one ichthyosaur species attained blue whale-like size). Many paleontol
  
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• A Compound that Makes Bees Into Queens Could also Aid Human Stem Cell Therapies

  05-12-2018 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientists have announced a breakthrough in stem cell research that could have major implications for medical treatments that involve regenerating human cells. And their discovery came from an unlikely source: royal jelly. It's the same substance honey bees use to turn a common bee larvae into a queen.
  Royal Jelly
  A queen bee starts her life just like any other bee – a larva in the honey bee hive, taken care of by her siblings. But when it’s time for a new queen, this larva is pulled
  
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• 'I fear loss of community': Tumblr's new 'adult content' rules worry LGBTQ users

  05-12-2018 17:28 via nbcnews.com
  Some of Tumblr’s LGBTQ users fear the platform’s new “adult content” guidelines will unjustly censor their content.
  
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• A milestone: Cubans will have internet access on their cellphones

  05-12-2018 17:17 via nbcnews.com
  "It was about time this became a possibility for Cubans too," said Havana resident Joaquin Montiel, 58, though cost is an issue for him and others.
  
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• This New App Can Diagnose Anemia Using Just a Picture

  05-12-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 25 percent of the world is anemic. Now researchers have created a smartphone app that can detect the condition with a photo. The new tech could mean diagnosing and monitoring the blood disorder without a finger poke or blood draw.“This is a way for anyone to screen themselves for anemia and all they have to do is download an app,” said Wilbur Lam, a bioengineer and pediatric hematologist at Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, who led the new research. “It doesn
  
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• UK releases Facebook emails about data privacy

  05-12-2018 16:44
  The British Parliament's media committee has a release a cache of documents that shows Facebook considered charging developers for data access
  
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• EU steps up fight against Russian 'fake news' ahead of vote

  05-12-2018 16:44
  EU authorities step up efforts to fight Russian-backed disinformation campaigns ahead of continent's elections next year
  
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• Rudy Giuliani falsely blames Twitter after typo points to anti-Trump website

  05-12-2018 16:11 via nbcnews.com
  Giuliani did not appear to understand the mistake and used it to add to growing claims that Twitter is biased against conservatives and Trump supporters.
  
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• UN: Curbing climate change would reap huge health benefits

  05-12-2018 14:16
  The United Nations says curbing climate change will have significant benefits for people's health worldwide
  
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• UK union loses challenge to Deliveroo over drivers' status

  05-12-2018 14:13
  Britain's High Court has ruled that Deliveroo riders do not have the right to collective bargaining _ the latest in a series of rulings as UK courts grapple with the rise of the so-called "gig economy.''
  
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• WATCH: Cuba lifts ban on cellphone internet access

  05-12-2018 13:28
  Cuban citizens are now able to access the internet on their phones for the first time.
  
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• Australia wants to snoop on WhatsApp and other encrypted apps

  05-12-2018 12:10 via rss.cnn.com
  Australia is alarming the tech industry by moving ahead with plans to give government agencies the power to demand access to encrypted messages on services such as Apple's iMessage and Facebook's WhatsApp.
  
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• The head of Alibaba's online video site has been arrested in China

  05-12-2018 10:09 via rss.cnn.com
  The president of Youku, Yang Weidong, was arrested on suspicion of accepting improper payments, Alibaba said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
  
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• Singapore's Grab ends its game-changing year flush with cash

  05-12-2018 10:09 via rss.cnn.com
  Grab, the most popular ride-hailing app in Southeast Asia, will end 2018 with $3 billion in new funds as it seeks to fend off rivals in a region of more than 600 million people.
  
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• AP source: GOP committee suffers midterm election email hack

  05-12-2018 06:18
  AP source: Emails stolen from GOP committee during midterm campaign
  
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• In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds

  05-12-2018 06:02
  In Brazil's rough northeast, termites built millions of mounds that remained hidden in plain sight until a chance meeting of a botanist and insect expert led to remarkable discoveries
  
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• LIGO Makes Vital Contribution to New Gravitational Wave Discoveries

  05-12-2018 04:59 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend. The new...
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• Chemists Discover Unexpected Synergy Between Two Cancer Drugs

  05-12-2018 04:32 via scitechdaily.com
  A class of cancer drugs called protein kinase inhibitors is one of the most effective treatments for melanoma. However, in many cases, tumors eventually become...
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• Imaging Techniques Will Help Bring Fusion Energy Closer to Reality

  05-12-2018 04:25 via scitechdaily.com
  Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth’s energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two...
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• Astronomers Reveal How Stellar Binaries Form

  05-12-2018 04:20 via scitechdaily.com
  Most stars with the mass of the sun or larger have one or more companion stars, but when and how these multiple stars form is...
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• The Latest: Trump says Macron's decision justifies his own

  05-12-2018 02:30
  President Donald Trump says the French president's decision to delay an energy tax hike after massive protests justifies his own decision to withdraw from an international climate accord
  
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• Cuba to begin full internet access for mobile phones

  05-12-2018 02:30
  Cuba says its citizens will be offered full internet access on mobile phones beginning Thursday, becoming one of the last nations to do so
  
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• Nat’l Geospatial-Intelligence Agency HQ: Feds Spend $1.7 Billion To Acquire 97 Acres In St. Louis

  05-12-2018 02:10 via technocracy.news
  The NGA answers to the Office of Director of National Intelligence and is charged with tracking everything that moves on planet earth. It is the ultimate in total surveillance in order to ‘master the human domain’. ⁃ TN EditorCity officials announced Friday that they had finalized the transfer of 97 acres north of downtown to the federal government for the construction of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s $1.7 billion western headquarters, capping nearly four
  
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• Cuba says it will offer its citizens full internet access on mobile phones Thursday, one of the last nations to do so

  05-12-2018 02:08
  Cuba says it will offer its citizens full internet access on mobile phones Thursday, one of the last nations to do so
  
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• Air Force Wants AI Tools to Solve Surveillance Data Glut

  05-12-2018 01:47 via technocracy.news
  Herein lies the problem: Surveillance produces a tsunami of data that cannot be analyzed fast enough without a) supercomputers and b) Artificial Intelligence. Technocrats are in their element. ⁃ TN EditorLike other military services and Department of Defense components, the Air Force is finding itself overloaded these days with streaming intelligence data, and is looking to machine learning and artificial intelligence to help its analysts quickly put all that information to practical
  
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• WATCH: Whale songs have changed over the last few decades

  05-12-2018 01:45
  Songs have lowered in frequency, in part because of changes to ocean water.
  
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• Netflix maintains high-priced relationship with 'Friends'

  05-12-2018 01:40
  Netflix will still be there for fans of the old TV series "Friends," but maintaining the relationship will come at a steep price
  
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• House GOP campaign arm targeted by 'unknown entity' in 2018

  05-12-2018 01:18
  The House GOP campaign arm says it was targeted by an 'unknown entity' during the 2018 midterm campaign; the FBI is investigating the breach
  
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• Scientists Struggle to tell Rodents Apart. Mouse Sperm May Offer a Solution

  05-12-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s easy to stereotype mice: They really can all look alike. In fact, even armed with genetic knowledge about their DNA, it can be hard for biologists to tell apart different species. They’re just so similar. Well, not every bit of them is. A group at biologists recently found a new way to tell apart their murine specimens — by looking at mouse sperm.Their findings appear in the Journal of Mammalogy, and could mean not just improved games of Guess Who in the lab, but also shed
  
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• Whale songs in ocean around Antarctica have transformed; climate change could be why

  05-12-2018 00:56
  Whale songs near Antarctic have become flat over the last 10 years and scientists said that climate change is a contributing factor.
  
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• House GOP campaign arm targeted by 'unknown entity' in 0218

  05-12-2018 00:48
  The House GOP campaign arm says it was targeted by an 'unknown entity' during the 2018 midterm campaign; the FBI is investigating the breach
  
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• The Technologies Building The Smart Cities Of The Future

  05-12-2018 00:39 via technocracy.news
  Smart Cities are being designed by Big Tech companies using failed urban planning designs from the 1940s and 50s, and they are a recipe for disaster. When the Public-Private Partnerships fail, the municipalities will be left with the hubris. ⁃ TN EditorBy 2050, 68 percent of the total global population will live in cities, according to the United Nations. By then, the world population will be 9.7 billion and 11.2 billion by 2100.
  The updated report from the United Nations states that curre
  
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• NYC sets first-of-its-kind minimum pay rate for Uber, Lyft drivers

  05-12-2018 00:28 via rss.cnn.com
  Drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ridehailing companies will soon get a minimum wage in New York City.
  
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