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• Pole-To-Pole Survey Reveals The Oceans Teem With Viruses

  29-04-2019 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The oceans are crawling with viruses. An international team of researchers surveyed the world’s oceans from pole to pole, sampling the waters for the microorganisms and they found nearly 200,000 of them.Although we mostly think of viruses in terms of being sick, in the oceans, viruses and other marine microbes have an outsized impact on marine ecosystems. Their role is so large in fact that the researchers say the microorganisms can help predict how the oceans will respond to climate
  
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• A daunting task begins: Reducing lobster gear to save whales

  29-04-2019 22:29 via abcnews.go.com
  Fishing managers on the East Coast are beginning the daunting process of implementing new restrictions on lobster fishing that are designed to protect a vanishing species of whale
  
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• WeWork files confidential paperwork for IPO

  29-04-2019 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  WeWork has confidentially filed for an IPO.
  
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• Chase Bank's 'Monday Motivation' tweet backfires

  29-04-2019 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  “Our #MondayMotivation is to get better at #MondayMotivation tweets,” the Chase account later said. “Thanks for the feedback Twitter world.”
  
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• Several US airlines hit by brief computer-related outage

  29-04-2019 22:00 via abcnews.go.com
  Some major US airlines were hit by a brief outage of passenger-service systems provided by a technology company
  
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• Magma Ocean Covered Earth Before Moon-forming Impact

  29-04-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the past few decades, if you asked an astronomer how the moon was created, nearly all of them would tell you that a Mars-sized world nicknamed Theia crashed into the early Earth, sending a cloud of debris high into space where it coalesced into our silvery satellite. And there's strong evidence to support this idea.But dig deeper, and you'll find nagging problems with the theory. Almost all models of the giant impact imply that the moon should still contain a lot of Theia
  
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• Spotify now has more than 100 million paid subscribers

  29-04-2019 20:22 via rss.cnn.com
  Spotify has surpassed 100 million paid subscribers.
  
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• Correction: Endangered Whales-Gulf story

  29-04-2019 20:09 via abcnews.go.com
  Correction: Endangered Whales-Gulf story
  
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• PetSmart's Chewy.com files to go public

  29-04-2019 20:06 via abcnews.go.com
  Chewy, the online pet store owned by PetSmart, is going public
  
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• Police in parts of UK urge rape victims to hand over phones

  29-04-2019 19:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Police in England and Wales are distributing consent forms urging victims of sexual assault and other crimes to turn over access to mobile phones and other electronic devices or risk having the cases dropped
  
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• Is This The Oldest Human Footprint In the Americas?

  29-04-2019 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may look more like the impression of a jellybean in Play-Doh, or excavations for a kidney-shaped swimming pool, but researchers say the find, at about 15,600 years old, is the oldest human footprint in the Americas — and the latest evidence that people were living throughout the New World much earlier than thought.
  According to paleontologists, the single footprint — technically called an ichnofossil, or ichnite — belonged to a human. The impression, preserved in a
  
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• Biometric Smackdown: Backlash Grows Against Facial Recognition

  29-04-2019 17:38 via technocracy.news
  Stories of resistance against biometric schemes are seldom seen in established media because Big Tech lawyers head off such stories by bullying outlets with legal threats. Monsanto and Big Pharma turned this into an art form. ⁃ TN EditorA teenager is suing Apple for $1 billion. The lawsuit, filed Monday, hinges on the alleged use of an increasingly popular — and controversial — technology: facial recognition. The tech can identify an individual by analyzing their facial fe
  
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• UN Biodiversity Conference To Create ‘Paris Moment’ To ‘Rescue Nature’

  29-04-2019 17:04 via technocracy.news
  The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference is to nature what the Paris Conference was to global warming. The outcome will extend the 1,100 -page Global Biodiversity Assessment from 1995 and specify all human behaviors that are necessary to ‘rescue’ nature. ⁃ TN EditorDiplomats from 130 nations gathered in Paris on Monday to validate a grim UN assessment of the state of Nature and lay the groundwork for a rescue plan for life on Earth.
  The destruction of Nature threatens human
  
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• Streaming service Spotify hits 100 million paid user mark

  29-04-2019 17:00 via abcnews.go.com
  Music streaming service Spotify says the number of its paying subscribers has hit 100 million for the first time, up 32% on the year and almost twice the latest figures for Apple Music
  
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• 'Perplexing' New Crab Species Sheds Light on Crustacean Evolution

  29-04-2019 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Inside Science) -- A newfound fossil that scientists described as perplexing, beautiful and the platypus of the crab family is now shedding light on how its crustacean relatives evolved, a new study finds.Paleontologists examined more than 70 exceptionally well-preserved specimens of the entirely new branch of the crab evolutionary tree, along with hundreds of fossils of shrimp and other kinds of crustaceans, from deposits in Colombia and the United States that are 90 million to 95 mill
  
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• No One Left Behind In New Global Cradle-To-Cradle Biometric Database

  29-04-2019 16:41 via technocracy.news
  A major global tech corporation based in Japan, NEC, says that a global biometric system will help solve health problems as per United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3, and touts “leave no one behind.” The program will initially tested in Kenya. ⁃ TN EditorLast week, NEC Corporation and Nagasaki University announced that they are creating a global facial recognition program based on the U.N.’s slogan of eradicating poverty called, “Leave No On
  
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• Search For The 'Dark World': Scientists Use LHC to Hunt Dark Matter Siblings

  29-04-2019 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dark matter has long frustrated researchers. It seems to make up most of our universe, yet it barely interacts with that universe. And despite a plethora of active experiments hunting for dark matter, so far they’ve all turned up empty.That has some researchers turning to the next best thing: other dark particles. Our world of normal matter has lots of different particles, so perhaps there’s a whole dark world of particles as well. To be clear, no one’s found the
  
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• Lawyer fighting palm oil among 6 to win environmental prize

  29-04-2019 16:05 via abcnews.go.com
  A lawyer who helped protect forest in Liberia from palm oil expansion is among six people awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism
  
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• Ethane storage seen as key to revitalization of Appalachia

  29-04-2019 15:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Two companies plan to build underground facilities to store a byproduct of natural gas drilling that's seen as key to creating a petrochemical and plastics industries and tens of thousands of jobs in a long-struggling Appalachian region
  
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• Spotify hits 100 million paid subscribers

  29-04-2019 15:08 via nbcnews.com
  The company has launched in regions like India, Middle East and North Africa in recent months as it looks to hold off Apple's streaming music competitor.
  
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• Want to work for L'Oreal? Get ready to chat with an AI bot

  29-04-2019 14:11 via rss.cnn.com
  Businesses are starting to use AI for recruiting and managing their workforce. But is that always a good thing?
  
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• Tests show high levels of coral-harming chemical in Hawaii

  29-04-2019 03:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Officials have found high levels of a chemical that's found in sunscreen.
  
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• At least one person was killed in a shooting at a cookout in Baltimore, police say - CNN

  29-04-2019 01:45 via cnn.com
  At least one person was killed in a shooting at a cookout in Baltimore, police say  CNNSeven people were shot, one fatally, near the 2500 block of Edmondson Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, police said.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Virginia cave rescue: 5 men freed from Cyclops Cave in Russell County, Virginia — live updates today - CBS News

  29-04-2019 01:28 via cbsnews.com
  Virginia cave rescue: 5 men freed from Cyclops Cave in Russell County, Virginia — live updates today  CBS NewsEmergency crews trying to rescue 5 men trapped in cave in Virginia  Global NewsAll five men rescued after getting trapped in Virginia cave  New York Daily NewsFive men who were trapped in a cave in Virginia have been rescued  CNNFive men trapped in cave in Virginia  Fox 32 ChicagoView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Online hate forges a dark path for suspect in attack plot

  29-04-2019 00:58 via abcnews.go.com
  Charges that three young men and a 16-year-old plotted to attack a Muslim settlement in upstate New York raise difficult questions about technology's role in exposing young people to ideology
  
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• Report: Apple Poached Intel's Smartphone 5G Modem Lead Before Resolving Battle With Qualcomm - Gizmodo

  29-04-2019 00:30 via gizmodo.com
  Report: Apple Poached Intel's Smartphone 5G Modem Lead Before Resolving Battle With Qualcomm  GizmodoApple poached Intel's 5G leader weeks ahead of Qualcomm truce  EngadgetApple hired away Intel's 5G modem lead just prior to Qualcomm settlement  AppleInsiderApple poached Intel’s lead 5G engineer in February to expand its own smartphone modem team  9to5MacThis Is Why Intel Killed Its 5G Modem Project  UbergizmoView full coverage on Google Ne
  
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• Top Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx subpoenaed over Jussie Smollett case - Page Six

  29-04-2019 00:05 via pagesix.com
  Top Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx subpoenaed over Jussie Smollett case  Page SixChicago's top prosecutor subpoenaed in Jussie Smollett case  Yahoo EntertainmentTrump attacks Jussie Smollett case as a 'disgrace to our nation'  Daily MailKim Foxx subpoenaed in Jussie Smollett case  Fox 32 ChicagoPresident Trump slams 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett as a 'third-rate actor'  USA TODAYView full coverage on Google News
  
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