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• Verizon to cut 7% of staff from media division

  23-01-2019 23:49 via rss.cnn.com
  Verizon is about to cut hundreds of employees from its ailing media division as the company continues to tweak its multi-billion dollar bet on content and digital advertising.
  
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• Boeing's first autonomous air taxi flight ends in fewer than 60 seconds

  23-01-2019 23:49 via rss.cnn.com
  Everyone has to start somewhere, and air taxis are no exception.
  
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• Verizon cutting about 800 jobs in troubled media business

  23-01-2019 23:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Verizon is cutting about 800 jobs, or 7 percent of the staff in its media division, as it reorganizes the troubled unit
  
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• Fin24.com | Starbucks expands Uber delivery venture

  23-01-2019 22:20
  
  Starbucks is expanding its venture with Uber Eats, offering delivery in San Francisco followed by expansion into other major US cities, and rolling out a new test programme in London.
  
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• Heart Disease Risk Begins Before Birth. Vitamin C Could Help

  23-01-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  High blood pressure in adulthood may extend all the way back to before birth, according to new research in sheep. Scientists found not getting enough oxygen to tissues during pregnancy led to offspring with high blood pressure as adults. However, giving a high-dose of vitamin C to pregnant ewes seemed to counteract that. The researchers say the results point to the need for proactive prevention strategies rather than reactive treatments.“Treatment should start as e
  
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• Verizon Media Group laying off 800 people

  23-01-2019 21:12 via nbcnews.com
  The division formed in November as the result of a merger between Yahoo and AOL under the Verizon brand.
  
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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches 10th test flight of space tourism rocket

  23-01-2019 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, completed a 10th test flight Wednesday of its suborbital launch vehicle and capsule, indicating the company is getting closer to launching paying customers into space.
  
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• Can Genetic Engineering Save Disappearing Forests?

  23-01-2019 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty tame.But releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology. Even as the techniques of molecular biology have advanced, humans have not yet released a genetically engineered plant that is intended to spread and persist in an unmanaged environment. Biotech trees – genetical
  
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• Comcast loses cable users, but internet subscribers surge

  23-01-2019 19:50 via abcnews.go.com
  Comcast continues to lose cable customers, and gain internet subscribers
  
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• Shutdown makes it tough for groups to help endangered whales

  23-01-2019 19:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Rescuers who respond to distressed whales and other marine animals say the federal government shutdown is making it more difficult to do their work
  
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• 'Shooting Stars on Demand' Launch in Japan

  23-01-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artificial Meteor Showers
  A rocket blasted off from Japan on Friday, Jan. 18, carrying satellites that will deliver the first-ever artificial meteor shower.The Tokyo-based start-up ALE Co. Ltd has developed a new micro-satellite that will put on quite a show over Hiroshima early next year. Each satellite carries tiny balls with a secret chemical makeup. Once rocketed away from Earth, the satellite will release these balls, which will glow as they whiz through the atmosphere, simulating th
  
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• Astrophotographer Caught a Meteor Striking the Moon During the Eclipse

  23-01-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunday night’s total lunar eclipse treated Americans to a special show, as Earth’s shadow crossed the Full Moon’s face. And during the event, something unusual happened. Astroimager Jamie Cooper, from Dustin, England, caught an meteor impact on the moon. Such events were theory only two generations ago, but now are fact and somewhat commonplace to the discerning observer.Today a simple video camera can capture meteorites impacting the moon. Unlike meteorites hitting Earth, thes
  
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• Fin24.com | China rips into Tencent's news service, kills 9 300 mobile apps

  23-01-2019 18:37
  
  China is stepping up its efforts to rein in the country’s internet, singling out Tencent’s popular news app for spreading vulgar information while shutting down more than 700 websites and thousands of apps in the span of just three weeks.
  
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• SNAPSHOT: Astronomers Spot Supermassive Black Hole From Early Universe

  23-01-2019 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Astronomers spotted the brightest quasar ever discovered in the early universe, as depicted in this striking artist’s impression. And now it's offering astronomers a rare zoomed-in glimpse at how the earliest galaxies formed.Quasars are active supermassive black holes that lurk at the centers of galaxies. As they feed on nearby material, these black holes launch extremely bright jets out into the cosmos.A team of astronomers led by Xiaohui Fan of the University of Arizona sp
  
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• Macron’s Technocrat ‘Revolution’ Repudiated By Fed Up French Citizens

  23-01-2019 16:57 via technocracy.news
  The ‘Yellow Vest’ movement in France has its own problems, but it’s chagrin for Macron’s Technocrat policies is in plain view. The outcome if far from being clear, but the Euro-elite are frightened and on the defensive. ⁃ TN EditorJean-Baptiste Moreau, a farmer who splits his time between parliament and his cow sheds, thought he would be part of the solution to France’s political problems when he was elected.
  The 41-year-old won a seat in parliament in June 20
  
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• Consumer Warning: Internet Of Things Is Security Nightmare

  23-01-2019 16:19 via technocracy.news
  IoT promises Utopia but delivers a security train wreck. Consumers have virtually no chance of securely setting up a Smart Home because Technocrats have totally underestimated complexity and anti-hacking security.  ⁃ TN EditorWhen a major electronics firm started seeing strange documents being printed out remotely on more than 100 of its smart printers late last year, it frantically contacted the manufacturer to investigate.
  The firm nervously wondered how — and why — an u
  
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• World’s First Robot Hotel Fires Half Of Robot Staff

  23-01-2019 16:08 via technocracy.news
  The Japanese hotel was opened with much fanfare in March 2017 as the world’s first robot-run hotel. TN wrote then, “They built it, but will anyone come?” Guests did try it out, but repudiated the whole thing with a myriad of complaints about the robots themselves. ⁃ TN EditorA Japanese hotel reportedly fired half of its nearly 250 robot staff following various complaints from guests.
  Henn-na Hotel, which employs various robots from check-in staff to in-room help, reported
  
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• WATCH: Netflix joins the Motion Picture Association of America

  23-01-2019 15:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Plus, a majority of merchants now accept Apple Pay, and delivery robots are now on college campuses
  
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• The US is moving ahead with its extradition request for the Huawei CFO

  23-01-2019 12:35 via rss.cnn.com
  The United States will soon make a formal request for the extradition of Huawei's chief financial officer, marking the next step in a case that has set off a geopolitical storm.
  
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• Scientists Reveal How An Immune System Protein Helps Suppress HIV

  23-01-2019 03:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Much of the research on HIV has focused on preventing infection but little is understood about how the body keeps the virus in check post-infection....
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• Breakthrough Allows Astronomers To See What Makes Sagittarius A* Glow

  23-01-2019 02:49 via scitechdaily.com
  A black hole four million times as massive as our Sun lurks at the center of the Milky Way. This black hole, called Sagittarius A*...
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• Tech giant Oracle accused of underpaying women, minorities by $400M

  23-01-2019 02:37 via nbcnews.com
  Regulators allege the company engaged in discriminatory practices that resulted in thousands of female, black and Asian employees being underpaid by more than $400 million.
  
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