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• Disrupt or be disrupted: Banks spend and merge to keep up with technology

  07-02-2019 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  BB&T and SunTrust announced a merger on Thursday, in part to stay competitive in today's digital landscape.
  
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• What does Wall Street have against Twitter?

  07-02-2019 20:50 via nbcnews.com
  Despite reporting its first full year of profitability since going public, Twitter stock tanked 10 percent on Thursday.
  
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• Europe’s Mars rover will be named after chemist Rosalind Franklin - The Verge

  07-02-2019 20:02 via theverge.com
  Europe’s Mars rover will be named after chemist Rosalind Franklin  The VergeEuropean Mars Rover Named for Crystal Scientist Rosalind Franklin  Space.comName revealed for Mars rover as UK commits to ESA post-Brexit  AFP news agencyA Rover That Will Look for Life on Mars Named for DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin  Live ScienceHere's Why Rosalind Franklin Is The Perfect Name For ESA's New Mars Rover  ScienceAlertView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Well, Hello There! Fish Recognize Themselves in the Mirror

  07-02-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to intelligence, fish get a bad rap. They’ve been plagued with the five-second memory stereotype, and thanks to Dory, are thought to “just keep swimming.” But a new study suggests that they might be smarter than we think.Research published today in the journal PLOS Biology shows that fish can recognize and respond to themselves in the mirror. When met with their own reflections, a species of fish called the cleaner wrasse identified and attempted to remove marks o
  
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• Apple releases fix for FaceTime bug that let users eavesdrop

  07-02-2019 19:20 via nbcnews.com
  The bug went viral last week after a 14-year old discovered that, while group FaceTiming with friends on his iPhone.
  
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• Not Only Can Honeybees Count, They Can Also Do Math

  07-02-2019 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Honey bees are a great study system to learn about the animal kingdom. They dance (albeit sloppily), they make jelly that turns their larvae into queens, they have crazy tongues … I could go on. Now, researchers have found, honeybees can add.In a paper out today in Science Advances, a team led by Adrian Dyer at RMIT University in Melbourne put the honey-makers’ arithmetic skills to the test. Instead of written numbers and symbols, they used colors to communicate with the bees. Blue
  
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• SpaceX may launch Crew Dragon ship for NASA astronauts on March 2 - Business Insider

  07-02-2019 18:44 via businessinsider.com
  SpaceX may launch Crew Dragon ship for NASA astronauts on March 2  Business Insider02.07.2019 :: 11:50AM EST SpaceX Delays Its First Crew Dragon Flight Until March 2  GeekSpaceX, Boeing crew test flights pushed back again  L.A. BizNASA and SpaceX launch date DELAYED: SpaceX’s Dragon flight test pushed back to March  Express.co.ukNASA Release Revised Commercial Crew Launch Dates  Rocket RundownView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia is Connected to Our Guts

  07-02-2019 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 21 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia, a profound mental illness that interrupts thinking, language and perception. Quite a few schizophrenic people experience delusions and hear voices. Many of the disease’s symptoms stem from faulty communication between brain cells. And, for decades, scientists have searched for a cure in the brain.Now researchers say they've discovered that the way to heal schizophrenia might be through the gut. There's an ecosystem of bacte
  
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• House Judiciary Dems kill amendment for Rod Rosenstein subpoena - Washington Examiner

  07-02-2019 17:22 via washingtonexaminer.com
  House Judiciary Dems kill amendment for Rod Rosenstein subpoena  Washington ExaminerMatthew Whitaker Hearing Updates: He Declines to Defend the Russia Inquiry  The New York TimesHearing erupts as Acting AG Whitaker calls time on Dem chairman: ‘Your 5 minutes is up’  Fox NewsAudible gasps as Matthew Whitaker clashes with chairman  CNNWhitaker clashes with Democrats in House hearing, says he has not spoken to Trump about Mueller probe  
  
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• Bone Cancer In 240 Million-Year-Old Proto-Turtle Pappochelys

  07-02-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  While many people think of cancer as a modern plague, researchers continue to find examples of tumors in animals much older than our own species. Discovery of bone cancer in a very early member of the turtle lineage, which lived 240 million years ago, reveals new information about the disease and just how long it's been a scourge to living things.
  The aggressive osteosarcoma was found in the femur of Pappochelys rosinae, a roughly 240 million-year-old reptile. Though you might mis
  
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• Australia PM Adviser: Climate Change Is ‘UN-Led Ruse To Establish New World Order’

  07-02-2019 16:33 via technocracy.news
  Although he is 100 percent correct, Newman is getting hammered for his remarks: “anti-science, fringe views”, “whacko”, “bizarre”,  “crazed conspiracy theorist”. His remarks were directed toward Christiana Figueres who previously stated that the UN’s goal is to destroy Capitalism and Free Enterprise and replace it with Sustainable Development, aka, Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorClimate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot
  
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• 2018 Was The Fourth-Hottest Year On Record And The Trend Is Set To Continue - IFLScience

  07-02-2019 16:18 via iflscience.com
  2018 Was The Fourth-Hottest Year On Record And The Trend Is Set To Continue  IFLScience2018 was the fourth warmest year on record  KATC Lafayette News2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record  TRT World‘A red screaming alarm bell’: NASA confirms last five years were the hottest on record  AlterNetThe Climate Scare: Ever More Shrill, Ever Less Serious  manhattancontrarian.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Sick: Aborted Baby Parts Fused Into Mice For ‘Frankenstein’ Experiments

  07-02-2019 16:10 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy views human life on the same level as animals, so Technocrat scientists see no ethical dilemma in using aborted baby parts in medical experiments with animals. Planned Parenthood remains in the middle of this controversy. ⁃ TN EditorAborted babies are being used in macabre experiments in the US that involve grafting dead fetus parts onto mice which are then used to test drugs.
  Documents seen by Sun Online outline procedures that involve cutting out glands and livers of unborn c
  
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• Researchers Think They've Identified the Brain Pattern that Signals Consciousness

  07-02-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine lying in a hospital bed, conscious, but unable to convey that to the world around you. For sufferers of strokes, traumatic brain injuries or the ever-terrifying locked-in syndrome, it’s not just nightmare fuel — it's reality for some patients. What’s potentially more frightening is that neuroscience hasn’t landed on a way to truly test for consciousness. That's not for a lack of trying. But a new paper published in Science Advances could help pave the way for
  
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• WATCH: Waze app under fire from police departments

  07-02-2019 15:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Plus, the New York Times is becoming a major digital company and new emojis are coming to the iPhone.
  
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• Sustainable: Democrats Launch 10-year ‘Green New Deal’

  07-02-2019 15:28 via technocracy.news
  Sooner or later, Democrats will regain control of Congress and the Green New Deal will be fully actuated. This will be the coup that the United Nations has been waiting for for over four decades and a rush into full-blown Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorRising Democratic star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Senator Ed Markey on Thursday laid out the goals of a Green New Deal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, setting a high bar for Democrats who plan to make cli
  
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• Twitter records its first annual profit, but it is losing millions of users

  07-02-2019 15:03 via rss.cnn.com
  Twitter reported fourth quarter earnings results before the bell on Thursday.
  
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• SoftBank's Masa Son makes a Warren Buffett move, and investors love it

  07-02-2019 15:03 via rss.cnn.com
  SoftBank CEO Masa Son has taken a page out of Warren Buffett's playbook, sending the Japanese company's shares soaring.
  
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• Germany orders Facebook to change the way it gathers data

  07-02-2019 15:03 via rss.cnn.com
  Germany is moving to break up Facebook's dominant position in gathering data about social media users.
  
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• NASA Honors Fallen Astronauts with Day of Remembrance

  07-02-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every year, NASA recognizes astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight with an official Day of Remembrance. This year, it's celebrated Feb. 7. And NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Another wreath-laying ceremony will also happen at Kennedy Space Center’s Space Mirror Memorial. Both ceremonies will also include observances for NASA’s lost explorers.The three great disasters in
  
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• Germany to Facebook: Stop pooling user data from multiple apps and internet use

  07-02-2019 14:16 via nbcnews.com
  The move could substantially restrict the company's collection and combining of data, potentially handcuffing Facebook's ability to build user profiles.
  
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• Twitter posts bigger 4Q profit, monthly user base slips

  07-02-2019 13:58 via abcnews.go.com
  The company also disclosed its daily user base count for the first time.
  
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• Dutch students march for better climate policies

  07-02-2019 13:58 via abcnews.go.com
  Thousands of students are skipping classes to join a march in support of more ambitious climate policies in the Netherlands
  
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• UK-built Mars rover named after scientist Rosalind Franklin

  07-02-2019 13:47 via abcnews.go.com
  The British-built Mars rover that is scheduled to be launched in 2020 has been named after scientist Rosalind Franklin
  
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• Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel chemistry laureate, dies at 91

  07-02-2019 13:08 via abcnews.go.com
  A German research institute says that Manfred Eigen, who shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on extremely fast chemical reactions, has died
  
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• The Lost World of the Maya is Finally Emerging From the Jungle

  07-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From massive fortresses to sprawling suburbs, a bold new vision of the vanished Maya civilization takes shape.
  
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• Canadian author, Reporters Without Borders get Israeli prize

  07-02-2019 12:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Canadian academic Michael Ignatieff, Reporters Without Borders among winners of Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize
  
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• German antitrust authorities restrict Facebook data use

  07-02-2019 11:50 via abcnews.go.com
  German antitrust authorities have issued a ruling prohibiting Facebook from combining user data from different sources, a decision the company will appeal.
  
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• AAA: Cold weather can cut electric car range over 40 percent

  07-02-2019 06:06 via abcnews.go.com
  A new study finds that cold temperatures can sap electric car batteries, temporarily reducing their range by more than 40 percent when interior heaters are used
  
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• 2018 was 4th warmest, but next 5 years could break records

  07-02-2019 05:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Four weather agencies say 2018 was the fourth-warmest on record, but meteorologists say it's only going to get hotter
  
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• WATCH: New emojis include wheelchairs, sloths

  07-02-2019 04:41 via abcnews.go.com
  The emojis, 230 in all, were announced Tuesday by the Unicode Consortium, which handles the standards of emoji.
  
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• ESO Captures Dazzling Image of Newly-Forming Stars in the LMC

  07-02-2019 04:01 via scitechdaily.com
  This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO’s Very...
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• Researchers Discover Planet-Forming Collision in Kepler 107 System

  07-02-2019 03:49 via scitechdaily.com
  Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth...
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• Scientists Reveal How a Fatty Diet Helped Develop Bigger Brains

  07-02-2019 03:37 via scitechdaily.com
  Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new...
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• Explore Alien Exoplanets with New Multimedia Treats

  07-02-2019 03:25 via scitechdaily.com
  Explore the plethora of planets outside our solar system with new multimedia experiences from NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP). In addition to a new Exoplanet Travel Bureau...
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• NASA Confirms 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend

  07-02-2019 03:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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• Instacart changes tip policy after worker backlash

  07-02-2019 00:22 via rss.cnn.com
  After mounting criticism from workers over its payment practices, Instacart has agreed to make some changes.
  
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