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• Lyft falls below IPO price on second day of trading

  01-04-2019 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  Lyft fell below its IPO price on its second day of trading.
  
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• Facebook removes accounts linked to Indian political parties as election looms

  01-04-2019 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook said it had removed 687 accounts linked to the Indian National Congress (INC) for "coordinated inauthentic behavior."
  
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• Airbnb invests in India's biggest hotel company

  01-04-2019 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  Airbnb did not disclose how much it was investing in OYO, which aims to be the world's biggest hotel chain by 2023.
  
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• Climate protesters bare almost all during UK Brexit debate

  01-04-2019 21:38 via abcnews.go.com
  A dozen demonstrators have been arrested after stripping off in Britain's House of Commons to protest climate change
  
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• LA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictions

  01-04-2019 20:59 via abcnews.go.com
  Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other counties to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions
  
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• Notable Deaths 2019: Science and Technology

  01-04-2019 20:49 via nytimes.com
  A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2019
  
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• Dark Matter is Real. "Dark Matter" is a Terrible Name for It

  01-04-2019 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Astronomers have been grappling with the mystery of dark matter for a long time, and I mean a looong time. The history of dark-matter investigations goes back at least to 1906, when physicist Henri Poincaré's 1906 speculated about the amount of “matière obscure” in the Milky Way. Or really, it goes to back to 1846 and the first successful detection of dark matter: the discovery of the planet Neptune, whose existence had been inferred by its gravitational pull well befor
  
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• The Grandmother Hypothesis Could Explain Why Women Live So Long

  01-04-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From an evolutionary perspective, the point of life is to procreate and pass on genes. That’s why most animals keep reproducing until their deathbeds.Yet in humans, females tend to live for decades after they're no longer fertile. All around the world, women experience menopause at around age 50 and routinely continue living into their 70s or 80s.Few other primates ever live long enough to make it through menopause. The rare individuals that do are usually zoo
  
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• WWF sounds alarm after 48 lbs of plastic found in dead whale

  01-04-2019 19:40 via abcnews.go.com
  The World Wildlife Foundation is sounding the alarm over plastics in the Mediterranean Sea after an 8-meter (over 26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly
  
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• Movie theater owners, studios and stars convene at CinemaCon

  01-04-2019 19:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Movie theater owners, studios and stars convene in Las Vegas for CinemaCon
  
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• UK's only female giant panda artificially inseminated at zoo

  01-04-2019 19:16 via abcnews.go.com
  Britain's only female giant panda has been artificially inseminated in a bid to produce a cub
  
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• Astronomers Discover a Second Galaxy Without Dark Matter

  01-04-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One year ago, astronomers announced their surprise discovery a galaxy almost entirely devoid of dark matter. As the first galaxy ever found lacking the elusive substance — which is thought to account for 85 percent of the universe's mass — the news rippled through the astronomical community. This left some researchers delightfully intrigued, and others understandably skeptical."If there's [only] one object, you always have a little voice in the back of your mind saying
  
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• Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries'

  01-04-2019 18:55 via nbcnews.com
  "It never should’ve happened,” said Fox — and the Twitterverse was quick to agree.
  
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• Astronomers Finally Confirm Methane on Mars

  01-04-2019 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers have independently confirmed, for the first time, the detection of methane on Mars. For fifteen years, various research groups have claimed to see traces of methane in Mars’ atmosphere. Intriguingly, these often appear as puffs of gas that appear and disappear over short timescales. Groups have hotly debated whether the methane might be evidence of life, or merely geologic processes. Other researchers have argued whether the methane truly exists at all, or if the detections are
  
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• Israeli group finds fake pro-Netanyahu social media accounts

  01-04-2019 18:12 via abcnews.go.com
  Researchers said they uncovered hundreds of fake accounts.
  
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• Global IoT Market To Reach $330 Billion By 2025

  01-04-2019 17:39 via technocracy.news
  The Internet of Things in Smart Cities is growing at a rate of almost 23% per year, causing a feeding frenzy of Big Tech firms clamoring for their share. However, this is largely an artificial market created by Big Tech firms themselves, none of whom qualify as legitimate urban planners. ⁃ TN EditorZion Market Research has published a new report titled “IoT in Smart Cities Market by Component (Solution and Service), by Application (Lighting, Traffic, Utilities, Public Safety, En
  
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• Science Uncovers the Secrets of Tennessee Whiskey

  01-04-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Champagne is only champagne if it’s made in its namesake region in France, Scotch is exclusively distilled and matured in Scotland, and a “bourbon” label is reserved for products from the United States. And there’s one variation on the bourbon recipe — Tennessee Whiskey — that’s made exclusively in, well, Tennessee. You might be familiar with its largest maker, Jack Daniels.But Tennessee whiskey isn’t just bourbon distilled across a state line. (95
  
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• Facebook shuts down accounts linked to Pakistan's military

  01-04-2019 17:27 via abcnews.go.com
  Facebook says it has shut down more than 100 misleading pages, groups and accounts linked to the Pakistani military
  
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• German minister meets Zuckerberg, wary of messaging plans

  01-04-2019 17:09 via abcnews.go.com
  Germany's justice minister is criticizing plans for Facebook to combine its instant-messaging services after a meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but is offering a wary welcome to his call for more encrypted messaging
  
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• AT&T Taps Argonne National Labs For Climate Change Resiliency Project

  01-04-2019 17:08 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats of a feather, flock together. The national labs system, including Argonne, has been densely populated with Technocrats for decades. Together with AT&T they will spend millions on mitigating climate change using sophisticated computer modeling. ⁃ TN EditorAT&T* has engaged the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory for help on a Climate Change Resiliency Project to better anticipate, prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.  Thi
  
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• AI Can’t Understand Or Duplicate Humor

  01-04-2019 16:35 via technocracy.news
  AI is a machine algorithm and not a human mind. As such, AU does not share any semblance of human emotion, including humor. Every rendering of judgement will be made on sterile machine logic. Should AI ever be left making decisions for humans? ⁃ TN EditorAlexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them.
  Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools’ Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to
  
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• In a first, electric cars outsell traditional ones in Norway

  01-04-2019 16:20 via abcnews.go.com
  In a symbolic first, electric cars outsold fossil fuel-powered ones in Norway last month
  
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• Arizona repository houses dead animals for use by tribes

  01-04-2019 08:00 via abcnews.go.com
  Arizona wildlife officials are on the lookout for bear, bison and other carcasses for Native Americans' religious and cultural use under a unique new program that allows tribes to make requests for various animal parts
  
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• Toyota robot can't slam dunk but throws a mean three-pointer

  01-04-2019 07:30 via abcnews.go.com
  It can't dribble, let alone slam dunk, but Toyota's robot hardly ever misses a free throw or a three-pointer
  
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• There's a Ticking Time Bomb in the Constellation of Orion...

  01-04-2019 03:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  I'm a longtime fan of cosmic disaster scenarios. Not because I'm particularly gloomy (according to my friends and family, I'm actually more of a goof), but because they are fabulous ways to illustrate the workings of the universe. They are also great for making you appreciate the delicate set of contingencies that allow us to exist right now, right here on Earth. I wrote one of the first Armageddon-science articles, entitled "20 Ways the World Could End," which was published for the 20
  
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• Think you know how to Uber and Lyft? Make sure you're aware of these safety tips

  01-04-2019 02:59 via rss.cnn.com
  From staying indoors while waiting for a ride to navigating your own route, these pointers will help keep you safe as a rideshare passenger.
  
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