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• Ancient DNA Analysis Could Return Aboriginal Remains to Native Peoples

  19-12-2018 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scores of Aboriginal Australians were taken from their homelands when Europeans colonized Australia. And today, native peoples and their ancestors’ remains are scattered throughout the country and at museums around the world. Now, new research shows DNA analysis can identify where to repatriate the ancestral remains.“Our findings show that DNA can be used to help determine the origin of ancient Aboriginal Australian remains that have [otherwise] been impossible to provenance,&rd
  
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• The Fed didn't help the economy today - Washington Examiner

  19-12-2018 23:17 via washingtonexaminer.com
  The Fed didn't help the economy today  Washington ExaminerCramer: Fed chief Jerome Powell is Trump's worst re-election nightmare  CNBCFederal Reserve raises rates despite signs of economic softening  CNNFed hikes rate, lowers 2019 projection to 2 increases  CNBCPowell to Markets: Take That  The Wall Street JournalView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Russia knows America's Achilles' heel: Race

  19-12-2018 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  In the land of equality, the truth about race created opening for Russia, experts say.
  
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• How Do Stars Get So Massive? Their Dense, Unstable Disks Could Be To Blame

  19-12-2018 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Any bodybuilder will tell you that you can’t bulk up overnight, but that might not be true for stars. While observing infant star Gaia 17bpi, astronomers saw part of its dense disk collapse onto its body below — adding mass at an incredible rate. This encounter is one of the few times that researchers have seen a star's disk become gravitationally unstable and fall down to its host. The findings, which will appear in the Astrophysical Journal, could shed light on stell
  
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• Astronauts Set To Return to Earth in Spacecraft They Just Cut a Hole In

  19-12-2018 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight at 8:40 p.m. EST, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst and Flight Engineers Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev will end their 197-day mission in space and return home inside the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.The astronauts will undock the spacecraft from the International Space Station, travel back toward Earth, and ultimately parachute down to Kazakhstan three-and-a-half hours later. Prokopyev will command the Soyuz flight which will be live-streamed o
  
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• Week 16: Patriots - Bills Injury Report - Patriots.com

  19-12-2018 22:07 via patriots.com
  Week 16: Patriots - Bills Injury Report  Patriots.comPFF: Robert Foster a top receiver in NFL since return to Bills  Bills WireJosh Allen Has Bill Belichick’s Attention  CBS BostonPatriots Practice Report: New O-Lineman Arrives Ahead Of Bills Game  NESN5 Bills storylines to watch vs. Patriots  Bills WireView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Facebook gave Netflix, Spotify, Amazon access to user messages, friends' data: Report

  19-12-2018 22:00
  Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada could read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread, claims the Times.
  
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• A New Robot Hand Can Play the Piano Without Moving its Fingers

  19-12-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Halloween may be behind us, but The Nightmare Before Christmas proved you can combine the spooky holiday with the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” to get some fabulous music. With that in mind, we present a robot hand, shaped like a human skeleton’s, that can play jingle bells:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYe3xEP0zxMCredit: Josie HughesTo paraphrase a Russian proverb, the marvel is not that the robot skeleton hand plays well, but that the robot skeleton hand plays at all. I
  
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• Fantasy football flex rankings Week 16 - ESPN

  19-12-2018 20:23 via espn.com
  Fantasy football flex rankings Week 16  ESPNThe Primer: Week 16 Edition (Fantasy Football)  FantasyProsFantasy Football Week 16 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em: Running backs  CBS SportsSaturday NFL Matchups Analysis - Week 16  RotoBallerAnalyzing Vegas Odds: Week 16  FantasyProsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Dr. Tim Ball: Why Canada Must Get Out Of The Paris Climate Agreement

  19-12-2018 19:31 via technocracy.news
  The world can thank the late Canadian, Maurice Strong, for leading the first Earth Summit that produced Agenda 21, Sustainable Development and alarmist calls on global warming and population reduction. Another Canadian, Dr. Timothy Ball, is leading the CLEXIT movement to get Canada out of the Paris Climate Agreement. ⁃ TN EditorI am proud to be the Canadian representative for the climate exit (CLEXIT) movement. Canada has more culpability than any other nation in creating and perpetuating
  
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• Daily Deals: Switch with $25 Amazon Gift Card, Starbucks with $5 Amazon Gift Card, $199 Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet - IGN

  19-12-2018 19:26 via ign.com
  Daily Deals: Switch with $25 Amazon Gift Card, Starbucks with $5 Amazon Gift Card, $199 Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet  IGNNintendo Switch includes free gift card, and Xbox One consoles are $100 off before the holidays  The VergeGet a neon Nintendo Switch with Pokémon, Smash Bros. or Zelda for under £300  Eurogamer.netNintendo Switch consoles come with free $25 gift card  PolygonXbox is poised to dominate the next console generation  Engadge
  
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• First lawsuit against Facebook over Cambridge Analytica filed in Washington, D.C.

  19-12-2018 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  “Facebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who had access to their data and how it was used,” Karl Racine said in a statement.
  
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• WATCH: New allegations against Facebook

  19-12-2018 18:41
  Plus, Google addresses Chrome's back button issues, and LG unveils its new TV
  
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• WATCH: Elon Musk unveils test run of LA tunnel project

  19-12-2018 17:39
  The tech billionaire showed off the prototype tunnel of his proposed hyperloop in Los Angeles, where cars could move on an electric track at lightning speeds.
  
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• One year later, has bitcoin lost its luster?

  19-12-2018 17:07 via nbcnews.com
  A year ago the digital currency was valued at $20,000. Then the bottom fell out.
  
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• How Humans Invented Writing — Four Different Times

  19-12-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  About 5,000 years ago, 30 goats changed hands between Sumerians. To record the transaction, a receipt was carved onto a clay tag, about the size of a Post-it. Simple geometric signs represented the livestock and purveyor. The indents of circles and semicircles denoted the quantity exchanged.Imagine how surprised these people would be to learn their receipt is now held in a museum.That’s because the tag is one of the earliest texts from the oldest known writing system, Mesopotamian cu
  
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• The 'wall' is now 'steel slats' and Trump has screwed his supporters - Washington Examiner

  19-12-2018 16:40 via washingtonexaminer.com
  The 'wall' is now 'steel slats' and Trump has screwed his supporters  Washington ExaminerTrump is pushing for 'steel slats or a wall' as he prepares to meet with GOP House members  CNBCDonald Trump's border wall may have just crumbled forever  CNNMcConnell says Senate will vote on stopgap to avert shutdown – without new border wall funding  Fox NewsWhy Trump Can’t Build His Wall  BloombergView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Got Milk? Driverless Cars Will Deliver Your Grocies

  19-12-2018 16:25 via technocracy.news
  The next step in the automated food chain will be for your ‘smart refrigerator’ to automatically order replacement groceries when you run low, and have them auto-delivered by driverless chariots. ⁃ TN EditorDeliveries from an Arizona grocery store will soon be arriving with no one behind the wheel.
  A fully autonomous vehicle is about to pilot public roads Tuesday with no back up driver, though it will be monitored by humans in another automobile.
  After almost a thousand test ru
  
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• Weaponizing Child Protective Services To Enforce Adherence to Public Education

  19-12-2018 16:11 via technocracy.news
  Public schools teach government propaganda, conditioning students to be good global citizens without questioning the rhetoric. When home schooling fails to teach the same propaganda, the state moves to force them back into public schools. Such persecution of home school parents is seen in virtually every nation on earth. ⁃ TN EditorSchooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: “In fact, the whole
  
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• Chinese Authorities ‘Routinely Target Churches, Destroy Crosses, Burn Bibles And Arrest Pastors’

  19-12-2018 15:58 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy and Christianity are polar opposites. Technocracy insists on conformity to scientific dictates while Christians follow Romans 12:2, to “be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” As the severity of persecution increases in China, house churches are springing up everywhere, further aggravating Technocrats. ⁃ TN EditorIt was 40 years ago this week
  
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• Brazilian museum destroyed by fire lives on through Google

  19-12-2018 15:43 via nbcnews.com
  Google said it had been working with the National Museum of Brazil since 2016 to help bring its 20 million artifacts online.
  
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• 'Carlton Dance' suit against 'Fortnite' may have two left feet

  19-12-2018 15:05 via nbcnews.com
  "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Alfonso Ribeiro's lawsuit against the makers of the smash video game Fortnite faces tough hurdles, experts say
  
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• WATCH: Facebook gave access to user data: Report

  19-12-2018 14:33
  The New York Times says Facebook shared special access to user data with roughly a dozen companies and allowed Netflix and Spotify to read, write and delete private messages.
  
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• Meet Saltriovenator: Oldest Known Big Predatory Dinosaur

  19-12-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paleontologists working in northern Italy have announced the oldest large-size predatory dinosaur known to the fossil record. Saltriovenator zanellai weighed about a ton and, at nearly 200 million years old, predates more famous megapredators by at least 25 million years.Saltriovenator's bones are also the first dinosaur remains to preserve evidence of marine animals that gnawed on its carcass. The biggest thing about S. zanellai, however, may be its hands: The animal's fingers could&n
  
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• NYT: Facebook offered big tech firms more user data than previously revealed

  19-12-2018 12:37 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook offered more of its users' data to companies including Microsoft and Amazon than it has admitted, according to a new report by The New York Times.
  
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• Elon Musk's first tunnel is finished. Here's what it's like to ride in it

  19-12-2018 12:37 via rss.cnn.com
  We took a ride in the Boring Company's first completed tunnel underneath Los Angeles.
  
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• The Ethics of Genetically Editing Babies

  19-12-2018 12:00 via nytimes.com
  A scientist in China claimed to have created the world’s first gene-edited human beings. How should the U.S. respond?
  
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• Facebook purges more Myanmar accounts for misrepresentation

  19-12-2018 11:56
  Critics argue Facebook did too little to block material that fueled hatred.
  
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• European officials agree on ban of some single-use plastics

  19-12-2018 11:54
  Disposable cutlery, plates and straws will go, in an effort to cut pollution.
  
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• Some women are attacked on Twitter every 30 seconds: Amnesty International

  19-12-2018 11:50
  Women of color are most frequently targeted, according to Amnesty International.
  
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• Sinking Greek village highlights nation's addiction to coal

  19-12-2018 09:10
  In north Greece, villages are being destroyed by coal mining but the country is still investing in a fossil-fuel future
  
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• Elon Musk unveils his test car tunnel as a fix for traffic in L.A.

  19-12-2018 08:54 via nbcnews.com
  Musk called his project still "a little rough around the edges." The system's first test drivers described a bumpy ride at less than optimum speeds.
  
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• Elon Musk unveils underground tunnel, offers rides to VIPs

  19-12-2018 08:40
  Elon Musk unveils his underground transportation tunnel
  
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• Even Antarctica Has Invasive Species

  19-12-2018 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Antarctica, a continent isolated by vast oceans and brutal weather, has weathered the impacts of human activities better than most places. It's clearly not immune, of course — it's melting — but the South Pole has been spared most other human-caused degradations.Unfortunately, we can add another to the list. An invasive insect species is spreading across Signy Island in Antarctica, endangering the local ecosystem. It's a species of flightless midge, Eretmoptera murphyi
  
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• Google hit with FTC complaint over 'inappropriate' kids apps

  19-12-2018 06:07 via nbcnews.com
  The complaint cites examples of apps tracking locations and showing kids inappropriate content.
  
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• Elon Musk unveils The Boring Company's test tunnel

  19-12-2018 05:24
  It's an underground tunnel to move cars underground on skates.
  
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• Tinder fires employees who sued its parent companies

  19-12-2018 04:08 via rss.cnn.com
  Tinder fired several employees, including its vice president of marketing and communications, after they took part in a $2 billion lawsuit against its parent companies, Match Group and IAC/InterActiveCorp.
  
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• Neuroscientists Devise New Technique To Preserve Biological Tissue

  19-12-2018 03:14 via scitechdaily.com
  MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have devised a new way to preserve biological tissue, allowing them to visualize proteins, DNA, and other molecules within cells,...
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• Astronomers Discover A New Neptune-Size Exoplanet, K2-263 b

  19-12-2018 03:11 via scitechdaily.com
  The remarkable exoplanet discoveries made by the Kepler and K2 missions have enabled astronomers to begin to piece together the history of the Earth and...
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• Chandra X-Ray Observatory Serves Up Cosmic Holiday Assortment

  19-12-2018 03:06 via scitechdaily.com
  This is the season of celebrating, and the Chandra X-ray Center has prepared a platter of cosmic treats from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to enjoy. This selection...
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• Need some milk? Driverless cars start delivering groceries

  19-12-2018 03:03
  The nation's largest grocery chain has leaped into the driverless delivery market
  
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• Google, Facebook to pay $450K for Washington state violation

  19-12-2018 02:12
  Google and Facebook are being ordered by a Washington state judge to pay $455,000 in a campaign finance violation case
  
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• This 200-Acre, 'Humungous Fungus' May Help Unravel Why Cancer Genes Are Unstable

  19-12-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the mid-'80s, scientists discovered a giant fungus growing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Now, researchers have found the organism is at least 2,500 years old. And the secret to the mushroom’s longevity might be a genome that’s highly resistant to mutation, the team reports today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The discovery could help researchers figure out why cancer genomes are so unstable.Forest Recycler
  In 1983, Johann Bruhn planted red pines in the f
  
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• Launch of next generation GPS satellite postponed for 1 day

  19-12-2018 00:54
  The launch of a new GPS satellite has been postponed because of an unspecified problem with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
  
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• When Black Hole Jets Create Natural Particle Accelerators

  19-12-2018 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cosmic rays are energetic particles moving at high speeds. Because it takes significant energy to create them, they often serve as cosmic messengers, revealing clues about the extreme environments that produce them — such as supermassive black holes. On Earth, scientists use accelerators to generate and study particles moving at high speeds, but nature needs no such apparatus. Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a possible mechanis
  
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• Flynn hearing leaves the far right's conspiracy theorists wanting

  19-12-2018 00:22 via nbcnews.com
  As Mueller’s investigation has widened and ensnared more members of Trump’s team, conspiracy theories of Trump loyalists have been forced to contort in a variety of ways.
  
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• SNAPSHOT: This Hummingbird's Elaborate Mating Display Lasts Just Milliseconds

  19-12-2018 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hellooo, ladies! This male broad-tailed hummingbird was captured on the upswing of a dramatic dive meant to impress a potential mate. Many male birds put on a flashy show to woo females, and the broad-tailed hummingbird is no exception.
  Princeton University researchers Benedict Hogan and Mary Caswell Stoddard have been studying the courtship routines of this tiny Don Juan, published today in the journal Nature Communications.
  A male looking to catch a lady hummingbird’s eye will clim
  
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• Not just Facebook: Other apps store unposted photos, too, and there's a reason

  19-12-2018 00:00
  It's so that you can load your posts faster, the companies say.
  
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