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• Apple signals better days ahead despite weak iPhone demand

  30-04-2019 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  Apple's stock gained more than 5 percent in after-hours trading, following a forecast that signaled the revenue slump may be ending in the current quarter.
  
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• Should we be concerned about Netflix monetizing our user data?

  30-04-2019 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  Netflix continues to invest billions of dollars building its library of content, with analysts predicting the company will spend $15 billion on content in 2019. But their business model warrants a closer look, says Jason Mittell. Mittell, a film professor at Middlebury College, joined THINK to discuss why we shouldn’t trust Netflix with our data just yet.
  
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• Surprise 4,000 Mile 'Ice Corridor' Found on Saturn's Moon Titan

  30-04-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The great Age of Exploration may be over on Earth, but it’s just getting going on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. It's a world larger than even the planet Mercury. NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveyed the moon (along with Saturn and its other moons) for 13 years, and even deployed a lander, Huygens, to Titan’s surface. But although Cassini’s mission ended in 2017, its data lives on, and planetary scientists continue to learn more about the history and surf
  
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• Facebook dating service rolls out to 14 more countries

  30-04-2019 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  “We are getting great feedback in the five counties we have launched in,” said Fidji Simo, who runs Facebook’s main mobile app.
  
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• Facebook announces redesign, details privacy push

  30-04-2019 20:02 via nbcnews.com
  “I believe that the future is private,” Zuckerberg said from the stage.
  
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• Without warrants, U.S. border agents can search devices for wide range of crimes, lawyers claim

  30-04-2019 19:40 via nbcnews.com
  The government argues that the “border exception” to the Fourth Amendment gives it wide latitude to search inbound U.S. citizens in the name of national security.
  
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• Sri Lanka lifts social media ban imposed after Easter bombings

  30-04-2019 19:32 via rss.cnn.com
  Sri Lankans are able to sign into social media for the first time in over a week.
  
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• Forgotten features from past Facebook F8 events

  30-04-2019 19:32 via rss.cnn.com
  F8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, is a chance for the company to show off new features. But not all of its announcements come to fruition.
  
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• Regionalism: Smart Region Initiatives Overrule City Councils

  30-04-2019 17:36 via technocracy.news
  Utility companies are wedging their way into regional governance to facilitate the installation and implementation of smart city technology throughout a region. Note the article states “co-lead”, which means they are not the main driver of regionalization. ⁃ TN EditorThanks to their scale and infrastructure, electric utilities can play a central role in creating smart regions, and reap the benefits.
  The emergence of next-generation technologies, such as the Internet of Thi
  
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• Drone used to aid 3D remake of Japanese internment camp

  30-04-2019 17:20 via abcnews.go.com
  A University of Denver teams is using drone images to create a 3D reconstruction of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado
  
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• Atlantic Council Takes Over ‘100 Resilient Cities’ From Rockefeller Foundation

  30-04-2019 17:15 via technocracy.news
  Since 1973, the Atlantic Council has been a hotbed of Trilateral Commission members and initiatives. Founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Commission resuscitated historic Technocracy and fed it to the United Nations as Sustainable Development. Today, both are steeped in UN initiatives and its Sustainable Development Goals. ⁃ TN EditorThe Atlantic Council and Rockefeller Foundation announced the launch of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, whic
  
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• Wisconsin court says gun site not liable in spa shooting

  30-04-2019 17:05 via abcnews.go.com
  The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a firearms marketplace website that a man used to buy the gun he used to kill three people in 2012 is not liable in the attack
  
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• Sustainable Mobility: Half Of All City Trips By Bicycle By 2030

  30-04-2019 16:54 via technocracy.news
  The NGO Bycs is promoting the election of ‘Bike Mayors’ in cities around the world in order to get people out of their cars altogether in favor of bicycles. This has been a general initiative of Agenda 21 since 1992. ⁃ TN EditorWhen the first “bicycle mayor–a person who serves as a connecting point between city departments, nonprofits, and other bike advocates– was chosen in Amsterdam in 2016, the idea was to help an already bike-obsessed city become even mor
  
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• Samsung operating profit plunges to lowest level since Galaxy Note 7 fiasco

  30-04-2019 16:05 via rss.cnn.com
  Samsung reported a 60% plunge in operating proft for the first quarter, as the South Korean technology company grapples with the delayed launch of its troubled Galaxy Fold phone and waning demand for its memory chips.
  
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• Apple earnings: Is the worst over yet for iPhone?

  30-04-2019 16:05 via rss.cnn.com
  Apple reports its second quarter earnings results after the bell on Tuesday. The key question for the company: is the worst over yet?
  
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• Zuckerberg to explain how Facebook gets 'privacy focused'

  30-04-2019 10:48 via abcnews.go.com
  CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off Facebook's annual F8 conference Tuesday.
  
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• Slowing digital-ad growth could force change on Google

  30-04-2019 09:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Slowing digital-ad growth could force change on Google
  
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• Girls outscore boys on tech, engineering, even without class

  30-04-2019 07:29 via abcnews.go.com
  Though less likely to study in a formal technology or engineering course, America's girls are showing more mastery of those subjects than their boy classmates, according to newly released national education data
  
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• Stardust Shines New Light on the Formation of the Solar System

  30-04-2019 05:35 via scitechdaily.com
  The study of a tiny grain of stardust — older than our solar system — is shining new light on how planetary systems are formed....
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• Evidence of How a Dwarf Galaxy Contributes to Growth of the Milky Way

  30-04-2019 05:19 via scitechdaily.com
  Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are suggested to be the main building blocks of our Galaxy. However, it is unclear how many and what...
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• New Model Reveals How Earth’s Moon Formed

  30-04-2019 05:04 via scitechdaily.com
  For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth’s moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have...
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• Final Traverse Map for NASA’s Opportunity Rover

  30-04-2019 04:56 via scitechdaily.com
  This final traverse map for NASA’s Opportunity rover shows where the rover was located within Perseverance Valley on June 10, 2018, the last date it...
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• Samsung's 1Q profit slides on falling chip prices

  30-04-2019 04:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Samsung Electronics Co. says its operating profit for the last quarter declined more than 60% from a year earlier because of falling chip prices and sluggish demands for its display panels
  
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• A Brewery in Peru Ran For Centuries, Then Burned After One Epic Ancient Party

  30-04-2019 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five hundred years before the Incan empire reached its height in South America, a different civilization reigned: the Wari.One of the Wari’s claims to fame is that they were early brewers of a drink called chicha. The fermented beverage was made by the Inca after them and can still found in Peru today. Many variations of the drink have been common across Central and South America for centuriesNew evidence, recently published in the journal Sustainability, suggests  this beer relative
  
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• Google stock drops amid slowing ad-revenue growth

  30-04-2019 01:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Google parent Alphabet reported first quarter earnings Monday that beat analyst earnings expectations with a profit of $8.3 billion, but the company fell below expectations on revenue
  
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• Google's parent company now has more than 100,000 employees

  30-04-2019 00:48 via rss.cnn.com
  The addition of nearly 20,000 employees in the last year highlights Google's expanded ambitions.
  
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• Astronomers Watch As A Black Hole's Jet Wobbles Like a Top

  30-04-2019 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back in 2015, the black hole V404 Cygni got the attention of astronomers all over the globe when it suddenly brightened for two weeks. The outburst happened as the black hole began gobbling up material from a star that orbits it once every six days. As the material swirled into the black hole, it heated up enough to glow brightly. Then, the black hole starting shooting some of that material far out into space as bright jet beams. When astronomers took a close look at the jets
  
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• As synagogue shooting unfolded, extremists gathered on Facebook page connected to gunman

  30-04-2019 00:19 via nbcnews.com
  The shooting adds to a growing list of violent acts with ties to fringe parts of the internet that can also be found on mainstream platforms.
  
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• Google's parent company struggles with mobile clicks, YouTube changes

  30-04-2019 00:13 via nbcnews.com
  Shares of Alphabet dropped 7 percent after hours after closing up 1.5 percent at a record-high of $1,296.20.
  
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