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• WATCH: NASA ends mission for Mars rover, Opportunity, after 15 years

  13-02-2019 21:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Opportunity went silent on June 10 after a massive dust storm covered the planet.
  
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• 'No one can own a dance step': 'Fortnite' maker pushes back against lawsuit

  13-02-2019 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  Rapper 2 Milly filed a lawsuit last year, claiming his dance "Milly Rock" was recreated as a dance emote in "Fortnite."
  
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• NASA Declares 'Mission Complete' For Opportunity Rover

  13-02-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  On January 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover sent back its first signal from the Red Planet. That marked the start of a 90-day planned mission for the six-wheeled, golf cart-sized rover. Fifteen years later, the rover’s mission has finally ended, NASA announced today.Its longevity and discoveries are a testament to Opportunity’s design and construction. The rover ultimately sent back more than 200,000 raw images and traveled a total of 28 miles (45 kilometers), farther than a standard
  
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• The Greatest Discoveries From NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover

  13-02-2019 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Opportunity rover, like its twin Spirit, was designed for an original mission of just three months. When engineers lost contact on June 10 of last year, it had been exploring for fourteen years. And today, mission scientists finally declared an official end to the mission. Here are just a few of Opportunity's many successes during its long Red Planet expedition.
  Heat Shield Rock
  Opportunity discovered the first meteorite on Mars, sitting near its own heat shield. While a few meteor
  
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• NASA's Opportunity Rover is Dead. We Asked Scientists to Write Eulogies For the Robot

  13-02-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After some 15 prolific years on the Martian surface, NASA's Mars Opportunity rover has gone silent. And after an all out effort to re-establish contact, the space agency says it's given up hopes of ever hearing back from the rover. We talked to the NASA engineers and scientists whose lives have been touched by the Opportunity rover about their experiences and what the craft meant to them. For some researchers, the mission has encompassed their entire career. For others,
  
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• Meet Mnyamawamtuka: The New Tanzanian Titanosaur

  13-02-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hailing from East Africa, the newly described giant, plant-eating dinosaur Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia lived around 100-110 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous. The animal, a member of the titanosaur lineage, is helping paleontologists understand how, where and when the mightiest of land animals evolved.
  Sauropodomorphs are some of the most common and geographically diversely dinosaurs in the fossil record, and their shape — small head, long neck, big torso, eleph
  
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• Apple's AirPods, once a punchline, emerge as a 'flex' and a financial force

  13-02-2019 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  After an inauspicious start, AirPods have "gone viral," according to one analyst, and CEO Tim Cook has described them as a "cultural phenomenon."
  
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• Reprogrammed Human Pancreatic Cells Treat Diabetes in Mice

  13-02-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 10 percent of Americans have diabetes, a chronic condition where the body does not process sugar. Diabetics either do not make enough insulin — a hormone that acts like a key to let sugars into cells to use for energy — or cells stop responding to insulin. As a result, sugar builds up in the bloodstream leading to high blood sugar. Over time, high blood sugar can give rise to nerve damage and heart disease among other complications.Now researchers have reprogrammed human cells
  
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• I binge-watched Amazon's version of QVC for a day. Here's what I learned

  13-02-2019 17:17 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon Live is one of the world's most valuable companies flexing its increasingly profitable muscles and offering a glimpse at how seamlessly its many products can fit together.
  
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• WATCH: Exciting news for electric cars

  13-02-2019 16:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Plus, a study reveals how long it takes before couples share streaming accounts
  
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• New ‘Smart Region’ Scheme Is Regionalism To Dictate Smart City Makeovers

  13-02-2019 16:07 via technocracy.news
  The Phoenix area Smart Region Initiative is a pilot program to see how much sovereignty can be stripped from member cities without a mass uprising by disenfranchised citizens. With no elected officials, SRI seeks domination over 22 cities and 4.2 million people to dictate uniform implementation of Smart City policies and technology.  ⁃ TN EditorImagine a perfect day in metro Phoenix: no traffic congestion and autonomous vehicles glide commuters through the streets, hitting nothing but
  
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• OECD Says Nations Must Boost Adult Training In Face Of Automation

  13-02-2019 15:48 via technocracy.news
  Globalist-led OECD foresees a human crisis if adult training is not provided for workers displaced by robotics and AI. The Technocrat solution is to just give them money via Universal Basic Income and forget the expense of training.  ⁃ TN EditorDeveloped countries need to “urgently” boost adult training and education programmes to deal with future mass job upheaval brought on by automation, the OECD said Wednesday.
  The OECD’s latest analysis found that one in seven
  
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• NASA To Speak Today on the Fate of Mars Opportunity Rover

  13-02-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  NASA will hold a briefing at 2pm EST today on the status of its Mars Opportunity Rover, which has been out of communication since June 10, 2018, when dust storms enveloped the planet.Mission scientists have been trying to rouse the rover since dust storms subsided in October, but have been unsuccessful so far. Previous reporting indicated that few options were left for Opportunity. Winter is coming on Mars, and the low temperatures could permanently damage the rover if it can't power its
  
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• IBM’s ‘Debater AI’ Loses Debate To Human

  13-02-2019 15:26 via technocracy.news
  Now computer AI can argue with you. IBM again pushes the envelope with its advanced AI software/hardware to take on a champion human debater, but it lost. The next debate may turn out differently. ⁃ TN EditorThe subject under debate was whether the government should subsidize preschools. But the real question was whether a machine called IBM Debater could out-argue a top-ranked human debater.
  The answer, on Monday night, was no.Harish Natarajan, the grand finalist at the 2016 Wor
  
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• Instagram removes gay Muslim comics after Indonesia warning

  13-02-2019 10:56 via abcnews.go.com
  The account depicted the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia.
  
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• T-Mobile, Sprint execs defending merger to lawmakers

  13-02-2019 07:39 via abcnews.go.com
  Top executives of T-Mobile and Sprint are taking the case for their 26.5 billion merger to Congress
  
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• Fortnite effect strikes again: Activision lays off 8% of its workforce

  13-02-2019 03:59 via rss.cnn.com
  Activision Blizzard has been hit harder than most gaming companies by the popularity of Fortnite. The company announced layoffs Tuesday.
  
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• NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration

  13-02-2019 03:05 via scitechdaily.com
  Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged...
  The post NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for 8 months

  13-02-2019 03:04 via abcnews.go.com
  NASA trying one last time to contact its silent Mars rover Opportunity before calling it quits
  
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• NASA Scientist Searched For 'A Couple Hours' Before Spotting Second Greenland Impact Crater

  13-02-2019 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last November, scientists' minds were blown by the discovery of a 19-mile-wide crater under Greenland. The crater had been hiding in plain sight just 150 miles from a major air force base. Scientists flying airborne surveys with NASA’s Operation IceBridge found it serendipitously while testing their equipment while en route to collect Arctic data. And, on Monday, the same group announced they’ve found another potential impact crater that's even larger, and it sits
  
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• Heading south: Warming to change how US cities feel in 2080

  13-02-2019 00:29 via abcnews.go.com
  A new study looks at what cities' future climate could be like under global warming by comparing them to hotter southern cities of today
  
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• Pentagon outlines its first artificial intelligence strategy

  13-02-2019 00:28 via abcnews.go.com
  The U.S. military wants to expand its use of artificial intelligence in warfare but says it will take care to deploy the technology in accordance with the nation's values
  
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• Trump nominee's family company fined for sexual harassment

  13-02-2019 00:15 via abcnews.go.com
  A family-run weather company, whose former CEO is President Donald Trump's nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has agreed to pay $290,000 after an agency found the company subjected female employees to sexual harassment
  
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