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• The Latest: Cal State LA measles quarantine grows to 656

  26-04-2019 23:36 via abcnews.go.com
  California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students and staffers possibly exposed to measles are under quarantine
  
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• Youth robotics global championship returns to Detroit

  26-04-2019 23:33 via abcnews.go.com
  Thousands of students from dozens of countries are in Detroit this week competing in the biggest youth robotics event in the world
  
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• California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students, staffers under measles quarantine; 131 others cleared

  26-04-2019 23:19 via abcnews.go.com
  California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students, staffers under measles quarantine; 131 others cleared
  
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• What is Rewilding? Scientists' New Roadmap For Restoring Ecosystems

  26-04-2019 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The human imprint on Earth is undeniable. Everywhere you look, you can find traces of our species’ short time on our roughly 4.5 billion-year-old planet. Often, those stamps are visible, like roads cutting through a forest or a patchwork of farmland covering what was once prairie. These marks can hinder the natural biodiversity of ecosystems, suffocating plant and animal species that once had a happy niche.One way to undo some of this damage is to follow a conservation practice called re
  
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• Humanity's Early Ancestors Were Upright Walking Apes

  26-04-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roughly 8 million years ago, some apes stood up and started human evolution.Okay, that’s not really what happened. But it is a fair characterization of the way scientists identify the oldest fossils likely to be human ancestors. Upright walking apes mark the start of the study of human evolution in many texts and classes.That’s because bipedalism, or two-legged locomotion, was the first major evolutionary change in human ancestors, which is evident from bones. Other distinguishing fe
  
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• LIGO Spots Two Gravitational Waves in Two Days

  26-04-2019 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It took astronomers a century to make the first-ever gravitational wave detection, confirming a core prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. But this month, the floodgates have opened.
  On Friday, scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they’ve likely detected a second gravitational wave event in as many days. Detectors at three locations around the world caught the arrival of a probable ripple in space-time around
  
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• Team recommends reducing lobstering gear to save whales

  26-04-2019 21:37 via abcnews.go.com
  A team organized by the federal government is recommending reductions and changes for lobster gear off the East Coast to protect a rare species of whale
  
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• Robot Astrobees Honey and Bumble Report for Duty on the ISS

  26-04-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  On April 19, the Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. Among plenty of other cargo, it carried special passengers: two small robots named Honey and Bumble. These “Astrobees” will soon become part of the station’s working crew, helping with such tasks as checking inventory, recording astronauts and experiments and running their own research projects.
  Bees in Space
  Terry Fong, Chief Roboticist at NASA Ames, expects that the robots might start work as e
  
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• Arizona utility spent big to sway election of its regulators

  26-04-2019 20:37 via abcnews.go.com
  Arizona's largest utility secretly gave millions in 2014 to groups that backed the utility's favored candidates in that year's elections for the commission charged with overseeing the state-granted monopoly.
  
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• Elon Musk totally stole Rainn Wilson's leaf blower idea

  26-04-2019 20:08 via rss.cnn.com
  Can't a guy get some credit?
  
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• Ocean changes affected deadly duo of Mozambique cyclones

  26-04-2019 19:24 via abcnews.go.com
  Warming oceans, rising sea levels affected deadly duo of Mozambique cyclones
  
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• Uber looks to raise up to $9B in initial public offering

  26-04-2019 19:03 via abcnews.go.com
  Ride-hailing giant Uber is aiming to raise $9 billion in its mammoth public stock offering that, while smaller than initially expected, still dwarfs most stock market debuts
  
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• Revealed: China Is Funded And Backed By Wall Street And Western Corporations

  26-04-2019 18:37 via technocracy.news
  Listen carefully to the video below. Steve Bannon pointedly reveals that the rise of China to be an existential threat to America is thanks to Wall Street and Western mega-corporation, which I have been saying for years.
  This is a continuation of a long trend that the West is being destroyed from within its own ranks. Professor Antony C. Sutton first exposed this nefarious collusion with his masterpiece books like Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, The
  
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• To Hide Surveillance Tech, Feds Drop Child Porn Cases

  26-04-2019 18:02 via technocracy.news
  It is deeply disturbing that courts are dropping criminal cases in order to shield the government’s clandestine surveillance software that was used to bring charges in the first place. The Feds have created public-private partnerships in order to create a wall of secrecy to hide behind. ⁃ TN EditorThe Department of Justice has been dismissing child pornography cases in order to not reveal information about the software programs used as the basis for the charges.
  An array of cases sug
  
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• Slack files to go public with an unusual approach

  26-04-2019 17:51 via rss.cnn.com
  Slack is the latest company planning to go public, but it's doing so with an unconventional approach.
  
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• Beware Robot Emotions: ‘Simulated Love Is Never Love’

  26-04-2019 17:39 via technocracy.news
  Humans already have a strong emotional tendency to transfer attachment to inanimate objects. If robot makers exploit this tendency, then robot owners may have no idea they are being led into an emotional addiction. ⁃ TN EditorWhen a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting t
  
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• Work messaging app Slack takes next step for IPO

  26-04-2019 17:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Work messaging platform Slack is taking the next step in filing to go public, the latest in several highly anticipated tech IPOs
  
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• Amazon to bring 1-day delivery to Prime members

  26-04-2019 17:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Amazon to bring 1-day delivery to Prime members
  
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• Uber scales back its IPO ambitions, sets maximum value of $84 billion

  26-04-2019 15:30 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber is aiming to sell its shares for between $44 and $50 each when it goes public on the New York Stock Exchange, according to a regulatory filing released Friday.
  
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• The fight to stay ahead of deepfake videos before the 2020 US election

  26-04-2019 13:14 via rss.cnn.com
  With the 2020 US presidential election looming, political leaders, presidential candidates and the country's intelligence chief are worried about doctored videos being used to mislead voters.
  
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• Amazon says one-day shipping is coming for Prime members

  26-04-2019 12:31 via nbcnews.com
  Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said on Thursday that Amazon plans to shorten the current two-day default free shipping plan by one day for Prime members.
  
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• Cloning's Long Legacy — And Why It'll Never Be Used on Humans

  26-04-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cloning a person is dangerous, ethically dubious and ultimately unnecessary.
  
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• Be wary of robot emotions; 'simulated love is never love'

  26-04-2019 11:00 via abcnews.go.com
  Smart robots aren't alive, but that doesn't stop us from acting like they are.
  
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• New Zealander pleads guilty to sharing mosque shooting video

  26-04-2019 09:50 via abcnews.go.com
  A man has pleaded guilty to sharing a livestream video that was recorded by a gunman as he began killing 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand
  
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• O'Rourke might halt new oil and gas drilling on federal land

  26-04-2019 04:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke said Thursday he's willing to consider a moratorium on new leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands to help combat climate change. He says US taxpayers shouldn't contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
  
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• Musk still working on pact with SEC to avoid contempt ruling

  26-04-2019 02:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Elon Musk and U.S. securities regulators say they are still trying to work out an agreement that would avoid the Tesla CEO from being held in contempt of court over his tweets
  
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• California governor signs internet sales tax law

  26-04-2019 02:32 via abcnews.go.com
  California's Democratic governor has signed a law requiring companies like Amazon and eBay to collect sales taxes on behalf of some out-of-state sellers
  
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• Canada privacy watchdog taking Facebook to court

  26-04-2019 02:20 via abcnews.go.com
  Canada's privacy czar is taking Facebook to court after finding that lax practices at the social media giant allowed personal information to be used for political purposes
  
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• New York AG opens investigation into Facebook over email contact collection

  26-04-2019 01:56 via rss.cnn.com
  The New York State attorney general has opened an investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection of 1.5 million users' email contacts.
  
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• Amazon is spending $800 million to make free one-day shipping standard for Prime

  26-04-2019 01:56 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon plans to invest hundreds of millions to shift from two-day free shipping to one-day free shipping with Prime.
  
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• Breaking: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves From Another Neutron Star Merger

  26-04-2019 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  For just the second time, physicists working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have caught the gravitational waves of two neutron stars colliding to likely form a black hole.
  The ripples in space time traveled some 500 million light-years and reached the detectors at LIGO, as well as its Italian sister observatory, Virgo, at around 4 a.m. E.T. on Thursday, April 25. Team members say there’s a more than 99 percent chance that the gravitational waves were cr
  
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• Google updates misconduct reporting amid employee discontent

  26-04-2019 00:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Google says it has updated the way it investigates misconduct claims, changes it pledged to make after employees called for action last fall
  
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