Sci-Tech news

• Arizona lawmakers OK ban on cellphone use while driving

  18-04-2019 23:22 via abcnews.go.com
  The small list of states that allow either texting while driving or hand-held cellphone use is shrinking after the Arizona House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a cellphone use ban and sent it to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey for his expected signature.
  
  Read more

• What the Mueller report on the Russia investigation says about Vice President Mike Pence - USA TODAY

  18-04-2019 23:21 via usatoday.com
  What the Mueller report on the Russia investigation says about Vice President Mike Pence  USA TODAYChoice of Pence as graduation speaker divides evangelical university  NBCNews.comPence: Mueller report confirms 'no collusion, no obstruction' | TheHill  The HillCould Mike Pence be implicated for obstruction of justice in the Mueller report?  SalonView full coverage on Google News
  
  Read more

• How A 'Snowball Chamber' Might Help Scientists Finally Find Dark Matter

  18-04-2019 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you enjoy watching videos on the internet, you've likely already witnessed the phenomenon known as supercooling. Basically, the process involves taking ultra-pure water and putting it into a clean, smooth container that lacks any structural defects. If the conditions are right, when you attempt to freeze the water by dropping its temperature below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), it will surprisingly remain in a liquid state.This is because in order for ice crystals
  
  Read more

• New Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill

  18-04-2019 22:54 via abcnews.go.com
  A powerful regulatory authority in New Mexico is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 2 Zooms soared after the IPO: Did you buy the wrong one?

  18-04-2019 22:35 via abcnews.go.com
  Investors on Thursday pounced on their first chance to buy a stake in Zoom Video Communications, but have mistakenly bought shares in the delisted Zoom Technologies.
  
  Read more

• Peace Conference Derailed as Taliban Object to Afghan Delegation - The New York Times

  18-04-2019 22:10 via nytimes.com
  Peace Conference Derailed as Taliban Object to Afghan Delegation  The New York TimesTalks between Afghan leaders and Taliban canceled, in setback to U.S.-led peace process  The Washington PostTaliban-Afghanistan peace talks postponed over delegation row  Aljazeera.comAfghan Female Musicians Defy Taliban  TIMETalks between Afghan leaders and Taliban insurgents abruptly postponed  The Washington PostView full coverage on Google News
  
  Read more

• Facebook says more Instagram passwords exposed than thought

  18-04-2019 22:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook had acknowledged nearly four weeks ago
  
  Read more

• Scientists Discover 1.8 Million Hidden Southern California Earthquakes

  18-04-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Southern California is famous for its sandy beaches, wine country, theme parks and Hollywood glitz. And also its earthquakes. Now, researchers have identified more than 1.8 million previously unknown earthquakes that hit Southern California between 2008 and 2017. The findings suggest these truly tiny earthquakes — as small as just 0.3 magnitude on the Richter scale — happen every 174 seconds, yet they're hardly felt on Earth's surface.“The goal was to produc
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Listeria outbreak linked to deli meat, cheeses kills one - WGAL Lancaster

  18-04-2019 21:15 via wgal.com
  Listeria outbreak linked to deli meat, cheeses kills one  WGAL LancasterListeria outbreak linked to deli meats spreads to N.J., N.Y., Pa. Fatal case reported in Michigan.  NJ.comListeria outbreak linked to deli meats turns deadly  CBS NewsListeria Outbreak Tied To Deli Meats, Cheeses  CBS New YorkListeria Infections, Including One Fatality, Linked To Deli Meats, Cheeses  Daily VoiceView full coverage on Google News
  
  Read more

• We Might All Have Synesthesia, New Study Suggests

  18-04-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh, to be a synesthete, those rare people with access to an extra layer of perception. Sounds have colors. Words have taste. Colors play music. The list goes on. The phenomenon isn't totally understood by scientists, but the general idea is that those with synesthesia experience sensory inputs differently than the rest of us.
  It's no wonder that synesthesia is common among artists. But for those of us that just see letters as letters and can't taste a song
  
  Read more

• Burned out by Fortnite's battle royale? Try your hand at the game's creative mode World Cup instead

  18-04-2019 20:48 via rss.cnn.com
  If Fornite's knock-down, drag-out battle royale style isn't your speed, there's now another way you can get props for your gaming prowess.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | WATCH: Netflix drops strong earnings report, addresses new competition

  18-04-2019 20:23
  
  Netflix earned $4.52 billion in revenue and gained an additional 9.6 million paid subscribers in the first quarter of 2019, beating expectations, the company said in a note to shareholders.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Facebook poised to fight disclosure of US privacy assessments

  18-04-2019 20:14
  
  Facebook will seek to block disclosures from years’ worth of privacy reports it submitted to the US Federal Trade Commission, according to filings in a lawsuit seeking the release of information in the documents.
  
  Read more

• Tiny Star Flares 10 Times Brighter Than the Sun

  18-04-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On August 13, 2017, the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescope spotted an intense solar flare from a tiny star barely bigger than Jupiter. But despite this sun's diminutive size, the flare gave off as much energy as 80 billion megatons of TNT. That's 10 times as powerful as the strongest flare ever observed on our own sun. It’s also the coolest star ever observed to give off such a hot flare, and the spectacular outburst is teaching astronomers the power of small stars.
  Light it U
  
  Read more

• Missing teen may be traveling with murder suspects, LA police say - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

  18-04-2019 18:49 via kobi5.com
  Missing teen may be traveling with murder suspects, LA police say  KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2Missing California teen believed to be with murder suspects  NBC NewsA Calif. Teen Is Missing — and She's Believed to Be with 2 Murder Suspects  PEOPLE.comSouthern California Murder Prompts Amber Alert for Teen Girl  Santa Barbara EdhatAmber Alert: Suspected Killers Take Redondo Girl, Police Say  Redondo Beach, CA PatchView full coverage on Google
  
  Read more

• April's Pink Moon can be seen on Friday night - KUTV 2News

  18-04-2019 18:47 via kutv.com
  April's Pink Moon can be seen on Friday night  KUTV 2NewsPink Moon illuminates Denver’s skyline. No, it’s not actually pink.  The Denver PostPink Moon set to illuminate the skies on Friday  CNNFull Pink Moon coming Friday! But the name is deceiving…  WJW FOX 8 News ClevelandWhat you need to know about the mesmerizing Full Pink Moon for Thursday, Friday  MLive.comView full coverage on Google News
  
  Read more

• Uber uses push alerts to crack down on fake driver problem

  18-04-2019 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber is rolling out safety reminders for riders in an effort to crack down on fake drivers.
  
  Read more

• Pinterest pops 25% in its Wall Street debut

  18-04-2019 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  For years, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann has insisted his company is not an outright social network. As he told CNN Business in a recent interview, the platform is not focused on hard news or amassing followers. "At its most basic level, it's just about you," he said.
  
  Read more

• Facebook bans British far-right groups and their leaders

  18-04-2019 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook has banned a number of far-right groups and their leaders in the United Kingdom after determining that they "spread hate."
  
  Read more

• Apple is making it easier to recycle your old iPhone

  18-04-2019 18:02 via rss.cnn.com
  Apple is giving customers new ways to recycle their iPhones. It's part of the company's lofty long-term goal of using only recycled or renewable materials to make its products.
  
  Read more

• Google Dumps Fiber Optic, Pays To Restore Infrastructure

  18-04-2019 17:40 via technocracy.news
  Google placed big bets on fiber optic cable installation but now is leaving cities in the lurch by abandoning the entire effort. Instead, Google is now relying on 5G infrastructure to manage its expansion. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle Fiber agreed to pay Louisville, KY $3.84 million after ceasing its broadband service in the city this week (following a February announcement of the departure). The money will be used to remove cable from roads, pave streets and remove above-ground infras
  
  Read more

• Trump: 5G Rollout Is A Race ‘America Must Win’

  18-04-2019 17:19 via technocracy.news
  The Trump Administration is fully behind the rapid implementation of 5G in America, despite the lack of safeguards and ethical discussions over its applications of Smart City technologies. In China, 5G is clearly being used to complete its Scientific Dictatorship over its citizens.  ⁃ TN EditorPresident Donald Trump and the FCC on Friday announced several initiatives to spur 5G network growth in the U.S.
  “The race to 5G is on and America must win,” Trump said, noting
  
  Read more

• Africa Gets ‘Smart Housing’ While Buried In Poverty

  18-04-2019 17:03 via technocracy.news
  The UN is pledged to “End poverty in all its forms” (SDG #1) and Africa is its poster child. Instead of providing energy, property rights and capital, they get 3-D printed housing made from waste products. ⁃ TN EditorAfrica is urbanizing fast, as its population grows and many flocks to cities in search of jobs, education and healthcare.
  Studies show that hundreds of millions more Africans will live in cities over the next three decades.
  Many of these new urban Africans, however
  
  Read more

• The Quest For the Roots of Autism — and What It Says About Us All

  18-04-2019 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  As alarm grew over autism prevalence at the turn of this century, there was much public talk of a growing “epidemic.” That language has since softened, and it is now clear that many autistic people were there all along, their condition unrecognized until relatively recently.But what is the cause? The emerging narrative today is that there is no single cause — rather, multiple factors, roughly sorted into the categories of genetics and environment, work together in complex ways.
  
  Read more

• Aphid Suicide Squads Save Colonies With Body Ooze

  18-04-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t you just hate it when a moth larva busts in through the wall of your house like some squirmy lepidopteran Kool-Aid man? If you’re a colony of aphids living in a gall, this is a real threat. But luckily there’s a team of heroes ready to spring to action, even sacrifice themselves, to repair that wall and save the rest of the clan.A team of Japanese researchers has been studying this phenomenon for over 15 years. Their latest work, out this week in PNAS, breaks down the int
  
  Read more

• Simbakubwa: Mega Carnivore Hiding In A Museum Drawer

  18-04-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take a polar bear. Take a lion. Mash them together and chuck them in a time machine, sending them back 22 million years to what's now Kenya and you've got the massive carnivore Simbakubwa kutokaafrika. The enormous bitey mammal was identified only after researchers rediscovered partial fossils of it, forgotten in the backroom of a museum.
  To be clear, Simbakubwa is neither a bear nor a member of the extended feline family, even though its name is Swahili for "big lion." Instead, the mas
  
  Read more

• Amazon will no longer sell Chinese goods in China

  18-04-2019 12:44 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon is partially retreating from the world's biggest market for online shopping.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Samsung's foldable screens fail in some early review models

  18-04-2019 10:42
  
  Some test models of Samsung's new foldable phone suffered defects after only days of use, casting a shadow over next week’s introduction of a $1,980 device meant to rejuvenate a flagging market and showcase the Asian company’s technology expertise.
  
  Read more

• Forecasters turn to array of technology to fight floodwaters

  18-04-2019 07:50 via abcnews.go.com
  Drones, super-computers and sonar that scans deep underwater are helping to maintain flood control projects _ and predict where rivers will roar out of their banks
  
  Read more

• Australia officials work with social media to safeguard poll

  18-04-2019 07:24 via abcnews.go.com
  Australian electoral authorities say they have for the first time set up a cybersecurity task force and are working with social media companies to tackle misinformation in the run up to general elections on May 18.
  
  Read more

• Some of Samsung's new folding phones are already breaking

  18-04-2019 07:16 via abcnews.go.com
  Several journalists say their new Samsung folding phones are breaking after just a couple of days
  
  Read more

• Samsung's Galaxy Fold is breaking for some early users

  18-04-2019 03:29 via rss.cnn.com
  First there was Bendgate. Now there is ... Foldgate?
  
  Read more

• Pinterest IPO priced at $19 per share

  18-04-2019 03:29 via rss.cnn.com
  Pinterest on Wednesdsay set final pricing for its IPO.
  
  Read more

• Lyft's fast path into e-bikes has run into trouble

  18-04-2019 03:29 via rss.cnn.com
  Lyft raced to keep up with the burgeoning e-bike and e-scooter market. Now, it finds its roughly 3,000 e-bikes grounded as the two-wheelers face safety questions over their design and upkeep.
  
  Read more

• Comcast and T-Mobile just rolled out a new anti-Robocall tool. But it doesn't do much yet

  18-04-2019 03:29 via rss.cnn.com
  There's some good news and bad news about those pesky robocalls.
  
  Read more

• NASA is renting out another piece of historic property to Jeff Bezos' rocket company

  18-04-2019 03:29 via rss.cnn.com
  Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is taking over a historic NASA facility — and it's only the latest example of a private "new space" company slapping its logo on former space agency territory.
  
  Read more

• Pinterest prices public offering at $19 per share

  18-04-2019 03:02 via abcnews.go.com
  Pinterest set the price for its stock at $19 per share Wednesday evening, putting it on track to raise more than $1.4 billion
  
  Read more

• Scientists Discover the First Type of Molecule Formed in the Universe

  18-04-2019 02:48 via scitechdaily.com
  The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in space for the first time, after decades of searching. Scientists...
  The post Scientists Discover the First Type of Molecule Formed in the Universe appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
  Read more

• Scientists Restore Partial Brain Function Hours After Death

  18-04-2019 02:42 via scitechdaily.com
  Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and...
  The post Scientists Restore Partial Brain Function Hours After Death appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
  Read more

• Hubble Image of the Week – Comet or Cluster?

  18-04-2019 02:37 via scitechdaily.com
  Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks the mould. The 12-billion-year-old cluster is distorted, and stretches out...
  The post Hubble Image of the Week – Comet or Cluster? appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
  Read more

• California dispute threatens plan to protect Colorado River

  18-04-2019 02:22 via abcnews.go.com
  A dispute between two major California water agencies is threatening to derail a hard-won agreement designed to protect a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West
  
  Read more

• Tick, tick, tick: Alaska braces for invading parasites

  18-04-2019 00:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Alaska health and wildlife officials are taking steps to track undesirable parasites showing up in the state
  
  Read more

Follow @NewslockSciTech on Twitter!