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• Uber's hyped-up IPO hits a few potholes on its first day

  10-05-2019 23:05 via abcnews.go.com
  Uber hits a few potholes on its first day of trading, closing down 8% and reflecting lingering doubts about its future prospects for profitability
  
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• Researchers Discover Deep-Sea Fish Might See In Color

  10-05-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the dim light of dusk, the world appears gray. That's because we, like most vertebrates, have just on type of rod opsin, the light-sensitive pigment in our eyes that lets us see in low light. During the day, a different set of pigments in cone cells pick up a broader range of wavelengths, giving us color vision.Now, an international team of researchers has discovered that fish living in the dark depths of the oceans nearly a mile below the surface may use rod opsins — which grant u
  
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• Prehistoric Medicine: How Archaic Humans Cured Themselves

  10-05-2019 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, people were using antibiotics to combat infections.In the late 1800s, French physician Ernest Duchesne observed Arab stable boys treating sores with mold growing on saddles. Duchesne took a sample of the fungus, identified it as Penicillium and used it to cure guinea pigs infected with typhoid. Earlier still, texts from ancient civilizations, including Rome, Egypt and China, discussed the healing powers of moldy bread applied t
  
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• Early Galaxies Shone Brighter and Hotter than Expected

  10-05-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our universe’s first galaxies shone hotter and brighter than scientists thought, according to a group of astronomers who tapped a whopping 400 hours of observing time on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery could answer a long-standing question about how light first traveled freely through the infant universe.“We did not expect that Spitzer, with a mirror no larger than a Hula-Hoop, would be capable of seeing galaxies so close to the dawn of time,”
  
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• Why Mark Zuckerberg needed to impress Emmanuel Macron

  10-05-2019 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  One day after a Facebook co-founder called for the company to be broken up, Mark Zuckerberg met with a man with the power to influence whether that actually happens.
  
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• Jeff Bezos wants Blue Origin to go to the moon. Here's why that's a big deal

  10-05-2019 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  The richest man in the world just made a lively presentation about his vision for sending humanity to live in space.
  
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• Here's who will get rich from the Uber IPO

  10-05-2019 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  Over the last decade, Uber raised unprecedented amounts of funding from a who's who of investors to pave the road for its rapid expansion into cities around the world. Now, as Uber finally becomes a public company, some of those investors and Uber's founding team are set to make billions.
  
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• Amazon considers AI-powered doorbell cameras to stop package theft

  10-05-2019 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon appears increasingly serious about stopping crime in your neighborhood.
  
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• Anti-drone tech at Miami festival maybe violated federal law

  10-05-2019 20:38 via abcnews.go.com
  The Federal Aviation Administration says use of anti-drone services during music festival may have violated federal law
  
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• Scientists Are Beginning to Understand How The Universe's First Stars Exploded

  10-05-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The universe's first stars were extremely hot and incredibly large, often reaching hundreds of times the mass of the Sun. And because they formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, these boiling behemoths contained virtually no elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, which were the only materials readily available at the time. But due to their sizeable stature, the first stars also lived fast and died hard — lasting only a couple million years before they exploded
  
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• Where Technocrats Play: U.S. Department Of Energy

  10-05-2019 18:44 via technocracy.news
  Ex-Governor of Texas Rick Perry was appointed Secretary of Energy by President Donald Trump on March 2, 2017.
  Even though President Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord on global warming, apparently Secretary Perry has not gotten word, for the Department of Energy’s web page on Climate Change is still present on the Energy.gov website, which prominently states, 
  Addressing the effects of climate change is a top priority of the Energy Department. As global temperatures ris
  
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• Uber opens below IPO price in disappointing Wall Street debut

  10-05-2019 18:27 via rss.cnn.com
  For nearly two years, Uber raced to rebuild its executive bench, overhaul its internal culture and repair its tarnished brand after suffering a long list of PR crises, all with the stated intention of being ready to go public in 2019.
  
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• Experts: Latin America Using Chinese Tech To ‘Exert Social Control’

  10-05-2019 18:06 via technocracy.news
  China expands its Technocracy as it simultaneously undermines free governments. Agressive Chinese suppliers with their sophisticated social control tech products have now penetrated Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. ⁃ TN EditorThe ongoing proliferation of Chinese surveillance and information technologies in Latin America can be used to exert social control, erode democratic governance, and challenge U.S. and regional strategic interest, expert witnesses told a House p
  
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• They don't know if their children will ever walk. But finding other families online has given them hope.

  10-05-2019 17:13 via nbcnews.com
  Rare diseases used to be little more than a mystifying label. Now those who are told they are one-of-a-kind are finding others like them.
  
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• Uber makes its Wall Street debut

  10-05-2019 16:39 via rss.cnn.com
  For nearly two years, Uber raced to rebuild its executive bench, overhaul its internal culture and repair its tarnished brand after suffering a long list of PR crises, all with the stated intention of being ready to go public in 2019.
  
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• Meet the CEO taking Uber public

  10-05-2019 16:39 via rss.cnn.com
  It was less than two years ago that Uber picked its new CEO. Dara Khosrowshahi left his comfy gig as the head of Expedia to lead what was at the time the most dysfunctional company in tech.
  
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• Spitzer Reveals Clues to How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe

  10-05-2019 15:53 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. The excess light is a byproduct of the...
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• Mars Orbiter Reveals Why Martian Full Moon Looks Like Candy

  10-05-2019 15:51 via scitechdaily.com
  For the first time, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image...
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• Your Uber has arrived, on Wall Street

  10-05-2019 14:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Uber looking to lift its market value even higher in stock market debut
  
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• Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humans

  10-05-2019 11:52 via abcnews.go.com
  It's complicated, with reasons that include Facebook's size and business model.
  
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• Facebook and France haggle over regulating online hate

  10-05-2019 11:28 via abcnews.go.com
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is meeting French President Emmanuel Macron as the tech giant and France try to pioneer ways of fighting hate speech and violent extremism online
  
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• Uber shifts into lower gear, prices IPO at $45

  10-05-2019 10:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Uber sets the stage for its long-awaited arrival on the stock market by pricing its initial public offering at $45 per share
  
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• Ride-hailing drivers expose financial unrest before Uber IPO

  10-05-2019 10:30 via abcnews.go.com
  As Uber prepares for its stock market debut Friday, its long-term success or failure will largely depend on the nearly 4 million drivers who serve as the backbone of the company's network
  
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• 2 Chinese men indicted for hacking Anthem

  10-05-2019 10:00 via abcnews.go.com
  The Justice Department says a grand jury has indicted two Chinese men for hacking into the computers of health insurer Anthem Inc. and three other, unnamed companies
  
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• Disability rights group alarmed by Portland e-scooter rules

  10-05-2019 09:50 via abcnews.go.com
  A disability rights group in Oregon filed a letter of complaint with Portland over new rules about an electric scooter pilot program
  
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• Tesla seeks dismissal of suit challenging Musk pay package

  10-05-2019 09:40 via abcnews.go.com
  A Delaware judge is weighing whether to dismiss Tesla shareholders' complaints over a compensation plan that could net CEO Elon Musk more than $50 billion over the next decade
  
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• US indicts two people in China over hacks

  10-05-2019 07:51 via rss.cnn.com
  The US Justice Department has charged two people in China over their alleged role in a high-profile hacking campaign that started in 2014 and stole reams of people's personal information from multiple companies.
  
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• Student 'geek squads' maintain school devices, help teachers

  10-05-2019 07:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Student 'geek squads' are cropping up in schools as districts lean on youngsters to be part of the upkeep of the thousands of devices handed out in 1:1 programs
  
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• Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up company

  10-05-2019 07:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up Facebook
  
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• Amazon's Bezos says he'll send a spaceship to the moon

  10-05-2019 05:15 via abcnews.go.com
  Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos says he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there
  
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• Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images

  10-05-2019 04:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Extremist content slips through Facebook's web _ sometimes straight into videos the company auto-generates to celebrate users' birthdays and other milestones
  
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• Goodbye World: AI Arms Race Headed Toward Autonomous Killer Robots

  10-05-2019 03:02 via technocracy.news
  The rapidly emerging AI arms race to create autonomous killing machines is Technocrat insanity at its highest peak. To the Technocrat mind, every problem has a scientific solution; so why not let an armed and lethal AI robot do all the work of human soldiers? ⁃ TN EditorWhen it comes to deciding to kill a human in a time of war, should a machine make that decision or should another human?
  The question is a moral one, brought to the foreground by the techniques and incentives of modern tec
  
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• Nike's plan for better-fitting kicks: Show us your feet

  10-05-2019 01:48 via abcnews.go.com
  Nike says it will launch a foot-scanning tool on its app this summer that will measure and remember the length, width and other dimensions of customers' feet after pointing a smartphone camera to their toes.
  
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• From space, spring storminess looks like a boiling cauldron of atmospheric stew

  10-05-2019 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  And the stew is now boiling more vigorously: Heavy precipitation events have grown stronger and more frequent over the long run
  With big, boiling thunderstorms spewing hail and spawning tornadoes in the Southern Plains and beyond even as snow once again falls elsewhere, the weather sure does seem wild and weird this week.Spring often brings a meteorological roller coaster ride, thanks to the tension between lingering cold and spreading warmth. And, in fact, sev
  
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• Vibrator at center of tech sexism controversy gets its award back

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has returned an award for a women's sex toy, four months after it was revoked in a move that drew accusations of gender bias.
  
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• Uber's IPO will be an early test for SoftBank's massive venture fund

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  SoftBank bet big on Uber when the startup was still recovering from a long list of crises. Now that bet is about to pay off.
  
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• Uber settles disputes with thousands of drivers ahead of its IPO

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber has reached a settlement with tens of thousands of its drivers in the United States over their employment status. Uber and Lyft drivers staged a strike on Wednesday ahead of the IPO.
  
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• Toyota wants to make smart homes with Panasonic

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Like many carmakers, Toyota is trying to find new sources of revenue beyond making vehicles.
  
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• Marissa Mayer-backed startup wants $5,000 a year for a VIP family playspace

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  The Wonder recently raised $2 million in seed funding from investors, including former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, designer Rebecca Minkoff and the Female Founders Fund.
  
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• Google says Singapore risks hurting innovation with fake news law

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  A controversial law designed to stem the flow of misinformation online in Singapore could damage the city state's reputation for innovation.
  
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• FCC votes to bar China Mobile from operating in the U.S. over security concerns

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Federal regulators have voted to bar a Chinese state-owned telecommunications firm from selling phone service in the United States, arguing that letting China Mobile establish U.S. operations could pose grave risks to national security.
  
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• Facebook wants to make your birthday super awesome fun spectacular

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook really wants people to keep wishing each other a happy birthday on the social network, so it's launching a new birthday feature and throwing it a party to celebrate.
  
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• Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: It's time to break up Facebook

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Chris Hughes helped Mark Zuckerberg transform Facebook from a dorm-room project into a real business. Now, he's calling for the company to be broken up.
  
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• A senator wants to ban video games like Candy Crush from offering 'loot boxes'

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Sen. Josh Hawley said microtransactions and "pay-to-win" video game designs exploit children, encouraging addictive and compulsive behaviors.
  
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• US senators want Amazon's Alexa device for kids investigated by the FTC

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Amazon's Echo device for kids is again facing scrutiny from Washington over how it handles children's private information.
  
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• Uber IPO priced at $45 per share, raising $8.1 billion

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber priced its initial public offering on Thursday.
  
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• Instagram blocks '#VaccinesKill' hashtag after CNN Business report

  10-05-2019 01:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Instagram said Thursday it will now block additional hashtags that surface vaccine misinformation, but other hashtags and content promoted by anti-vaccination accounts are still thriving on the platform.
  
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• Facebook co-founder speaks out after calling to break up tech giant

  10-05-2019 00:45 via nbcnews.com
  Chris Hughes helped create Facebook alongside CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He speaks out to NBC’s Kate Snow in an exclusive TV interview after he called for the government to step in and break up the tech giant.
  
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• In Antarctica, Where Penguins Poop, Life Blooms

  10-05-2019 00:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penguins love company — some colonies of the flightless bird boast numbers over 1 million. And with squads that can run that deep, you can be sure they make a mess of things, if you know what I mean. (Hint: I’m talking about poop.) But penguin waste isn’t just messy, it can be useful, too. Researchers have used it to help spot colonies in the past. Now, it seems that poop might be good for something else as well.In a study out in Current Biology, researchers from Vrije Universi
  
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• Bezos Unveils Bold Plans for Human Spaceflight, Plus a 'Blue Moon' Lander

  10-05-2019 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Thursday, Blue Origin founder and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos unveiled the Blue Moon lander, a spacecraft that can deliver up to 6.5 tons of cargo – and possibly crew – to the lunar surface. The announcement was made at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Along with Blue Moon, he revealed his new BE-7 rocket for the lander, which he says has been in development for three years. If all goes according to plan, the company will test fire the rocket for the first time this summer. Toget
  
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