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• News outlets mostly avoided publishing the video of the New Zealand attacks

  15-03-2019 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  Except for a few British publications, most news organizations continued trying to reduce click-bait coverage of terrorists or violent attacks.
  
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• Social media platforms scramble to take down New Zealand shooting video

  15-03-2019 23:46 via nbcnews.com
  The video is raising new questions about how tech giants manage disturbing content that could inspire copycats.
  
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• With the Mars InSight Lander Stuck, NASA Tries to Hack a Fix With Earthly Clones

  15-03-2019 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, NASA's Mars InSight lander started digging into the Red Planet. Its HP3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package) instrument was designed to burrow and measure Mars from underground, uncovering new geological evidence about how heat flows through the Martian soil. The part of this instrument that actually burrows into the ground is known as the mole. It was meant to penetrate up to 16 feet deep. But it stopped just hours after it starting digging. The
  
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• New Zealand shooting leaves online extremism researchers 'hopeless and furious'

  15-03-2019 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  Researchers told NBC News that they had raised concerns about online extremism but said their warnings and ideas have been largely ignored.
  
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• Meet Chesley Bonestell, The Most Important Space Artist You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

  15-03-2019 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the last half century, spacecraft have visited every planet and their major moons, as well as two dwarf planets and more than a dozen asteroids and comets. Thanks to high-res images, we know these worlds intimately and can appreciate what makes each of them unique. These days, fewer than 3 in 10 Americans are old enough to recall a time when our neighboring worlds were indistinct dots in even the most powerful telescopes.And yet, even before there were spacecraft to show us, in the
  
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• When Did Humans Start to Get Old?

  15-03-2019 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Age 116, Kane Tanaka of Japan was recently crowned the oldest person on Earth. She’s six years shy of the longest human life on record: 122 years and 164 days reached by a French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, before her death in 1997.While turning 100 can get you a shout out on the Today show, there’s nothing newsworthy about surviving into your 70s. That’s just expected based on life expectancy. In the United States, on average, newborn males live to 76 years and females
  
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• Antarctica's Aging McMurdo Station is Getting a Major Overhaul

  15-03-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After more than 60 years, McMurdo Station, Antarctica’s main research center, is set to begin its first major infrastructure update. In February, the National Science Foundation got the green light to start construction on the so-called Antarctica Infrastructure Modernization for Science, or AIMS, project.As first reported by Antarctic Sun, the continent's NSF-funded newspaper, the project will consolidate the sprawling research station’s some 100 buildings into just six primary
  
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• Ancient Remains Shed Light On The Iberian Peninsula's Complicated History

  15-03-2019 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Iberian Peninsula of modern day Spain and Portugal has long held one of human history's lingering mysteries. Now, two new studies covering nearly 20,000 years have outlined the region's transformative genetic influence.“It shows how tremendously powerful such transect through time studies are,” said Wolfgang Haak, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who led one of the two works. “Both studies should
  
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• How the Christchurch terrorist attack was made for social media

  15-03-2019 18:44 via rss.cnn.com
  The attack on mosques in New Zealand were far more than a reaction against migrants. It was about the rise of white supremacy online and the power of social media in spreading that message.
  
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• Make love, not CO2: Students worldwide demand climate action

  15-03-2019 17:52 via abcnews.go.com
  From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, students are skipping classes to protest what they see as the failures of their governments to take tough action against global warming.
  
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• US eases land restrictions meant to protect bird in West

  15-03-2019 17:50 via abcnews.go.com
  The Trump administration has finalized changes to sweeping federal land use plans for Western States to ease energy industry restrictions in a way officials say will protect a struggling bird species
  
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• The Latest: House chairman blasts Trump sage grouse plans

  15-03-2019 17:43 via abcnews.go.com
  The chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee says the Trump administration's decision to ease restrictions on energy development in the West will hand over more lands to fossil fuel companies
  
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• YouTube, Facebook, Twitter scrambling to contain video of New Zealand mosque shooting

  15-03-2019 17:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are scrambling to contain a video of a shooting that took place at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  
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• Opportunity's last photo is a bittersweet travel log of Mars - Mother Nature Network

  15-03-2019 17:07 via mnn.com
  Opportunity's last photo is a bittersweet travel log of Mars  Mother Nature NetworkOpportunity’s final image is a haunting panorama of the Martian surface  Digital TrendsIn 1997, NASA's Pathfinder Mission Unknowingly Landed Near the Shores of a Ancient Martian Sea  GizmodoThe sad reason part of the Mars Rover's last image is black and white  Popular ScienceThis is Opportunity last view from Mars  ZME ScienceView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Chile tests floating solar panels to power mine, save water

  15-03-2019 17:05 via abcnews.go.com
  A floating island of solar panels is being tested in Chile as a way to generate clean energy and reduce water loss at mine operations, a cornerstone of the Andean country's economy that uses huge amounts of electricity and water
  
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• WATCH: Tesla rolls out new car

  15-03-2019 16:54 via abcnews.go.com
  Plus, iCloud is back online after an outage that lasted for hours, and crosswalks that light up.
  
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• New Zealand shooting video circulates online despite takedowns

  15-03-2019 16:53 via nbcnews.com
  The video continues to spread across the internet, illustrating how difficult it is to keep graphically violent images away from the public.
  
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• Busted: Club Of Rome Reveals Gushing Support For Green New Deal

  15-03-2019 16:44 via technocracy.news
  The venerable global elite group, The Club of Rome, has tipped its hand by gushing over the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal.
  Founded in 1968, the Club of Rome was the original elite group who created crisis-mode global cooling and then global warming. They produced the infamous treatise called “The Limits to Growth” that was positioned as “A Report for The Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind.” Limits to Growth proposed a resource-based econo
  
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• NBA commissioner 'surprised' by changes after AT&T, Time Warner merger

  15-03-2019 16:39 via nbcnews.com
  “They are going to have to retool their packages so they are able to connect directly with that younger fan base,” said the head of the NBA.
  
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• 5 Reasons Universal Basic Income Will Never Work

  15-03-2019 15:08 via technocracy.news
  Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an economic impossibility being sold to ignorant masses as snake oil designed to pacify resistance against the onslaught of automation displacing workers. The sooner people see through this, the better.  ⁃ TN EditorTech entrepreneur Andrew Yang is a dark horse contender for the Democratic nomination in 2020 and one of his proposals is getting a lot of attention. His idea is to pay everyone in the United States $1000 per month. It sounds great, right? I
  
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• GMO Cooking Oil Quietly Arrives In Restaurants

  15-03-2019 14:56 via technocracy.news
  Flipping logic upside-down, the Technocrats at Calyxt state: “At Calyxt, we believe it is unethical NOT to use our technologies to address these issues head-on.” In reality, GMO is not equivalent to traditional plant husbandry. ⁃ TN EditorSomewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.
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• Boeing 737 Max 8: Ethiopian Airlines says flight recorders analysis starts - USA TODAY

  15-03-2019 14:54 via usatoday.com
  Boeing 737 Max 8: Ethiopian Airlines says flight recorders analysis starts  USA TODAYGrieving families given earth from Ethiopian crash site  Fox NewsPilot's audio shows Ethiopian Airlines flight had trouble right after takeoff: report | TheHill  The HillExperts begin examining Ethiopia jet cockpit recorder  ReutersWhy France is analyzing Ethiopian jet's black boxes  Fox NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Japan court hands Mt. Gox founder 2.5 years suspended sentence

  15-03-2019 14:47 via nbcnews.com
  Mt. Gox once handled 80 percent of the world's bitcoin trades but filed for bankruptcy in 2014.
  
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• Facebook launches high-tech battle against 'revenge porn'

  15-03-2019 13:27 via abcnews.go.com
  At least 42 states have passed laws criminalizing revenge porn.
  
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• Tech companies scramble to remove New Zealand shooting video

  15-03-2019 13:13 via abcnews.go.com
  The gunman who killed 49 people live-streamed his attack.
  
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• Virginia Tech Baseball Moves To No. 10 in the RPI - TechSideline.com

  15-03-2019 13:08 via virginiatech.sportswar.com
  Virginia Tech Baseball Moves To No. 10 in the RPI  TechSideline.comNo. 12 FSU upsets No. 2 Virginia, advances to ACC Championship  Tomahawk Nation2019 ACC Tournament: Virginia knocked off by Florida State; what does this mean for NCAA seeding?  CBS SportsFlorida State vs. Virginia Condensed Game | 2018-19 ACC Basketball  ACC Digital NetworkOne of the few ACC basketball milestones not yet achieved dangles within reach  Raleigh News & ObserverV
  
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• Tesla Model Y: Elon Musk's second electric SUV is here

  15-03-2019 12:24 via rss.cnn.com
  Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's mid-size electric SUV, the Model Y, Thursday night in Hawthorne, Calif.
  
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• Former Mt. Gox chief Mark Karpeles acquitted of most charges in major bitcoin case

  15-03-2019 12:24 via rss.cnn.com
  The man who oversaw the collapse of a giant bitcoin exchange was found guilty Friday of falsifying data but acquitted of other charges, meaning he's unlikely to go to prison.
  
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• Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video

  15-03-2019 12:24 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show a massacre at a mosque in New Zealand as it was taking place.
  
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• Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer

  15-03-2019 06:06 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum...
  The post Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• Genetic Secrets to Whole-Body Regeneration Uncovered

  15-03-2019 05:47 via scitechdaily.com
  When it comes to regeneration, some animals are capable of amazing feats. If you cut off a salamander’s leg, it will grow back. When threatened,...
  The post Genetic Secrets to Whole-Body Regeneration Uncovered appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• Tesla Model Y: Elon Musk's latest electric vehicle is almost here

  15-03-2019 03:49 via rss.cnn.com
  Tesla is just hours away from unveiling its Model Y, a small SUV.
  
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• Chinese lawmakers endorse technology law amid US pressure

  15-03-2019 02:55 via abcnews.go.com
  Chinese lawmakers endorse law meant to help end a costly tariff with Washington by discouraging officials from pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology
  
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• Russian-US crew arrives at International Space Station

  15-03-2019 02:11 via abcnews.go.com
  A Russian-American crew has arrived at the International Space Station, five months after a botched launch for two of the three astronauts.
  
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• Bucking NDA, ex-Fox News reporter plans to tell Congress about outlet's role in Trump hush money story

  15-03-2019 02:01 via nbcnews.com
  House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings asked reporter Diana Falzone to talk with investigators and provide documents.
  
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• A rise in depression among teens and young adults could be linked to social media use - Minnesota Public Radio News

  15-03-2019 01:01 via mprnews.org
  A rise in depression among teens and young adults could be linked to social media use  Minnesota Public Radio NewsThe mental health crisis among America’s youth is real – and staggering  AlterNetMental health problems rise significantly among young Americans  Press HeraldDo Social Media Hurt Mental Health of US Young?  WebMDYoung Americans Today Are More Depressed, Prone To Suicide Than Generations Before Them  IFLScienceView full cov
  
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• Influencers react to Instagram's big outage: 'It was a pain'

  15-03-2019 00:24 via rss.cnn.com
  The Facebook outage became a cultural moment, with everyone from celebrities, to social media professionals, influencers, brands and the average user posting about it on rival products like Twitter.
  
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• Facebook loses two execs as it shifts to 'privacy-focused' platform

  15-03-2019 00:24 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook is losing two of its top execs a week after laying out plans to reposition itself as a "privacy-focused" social network.
  
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