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• Tesla sets a record for sales, and its stock jumps 7%

  02-07-2019 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  Tesla delivered 95,200 cars in its second quarter, a record for the company.
  
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• Trump Facebook ads use models to portray actual supporters

  02-07-2019 23:33 via nbcnews.com
  Some of the footage was produced far from the U.S. in France, Brazil and Turkey, and is available to anyone online for a fee.
  
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• Google's parent company pushes ahead with self-driving taxis — with California in its sights

  02-07-2019 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  The California Public Utilities Commission issued Waymo approval to join a test program called Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service Pilot.
  
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• Made in Space: Why Earth's Industries Might One Day Leave Our Planet

  02-07-2019 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Asteroids like Psyche 16, thought to be the core of a vanished planet, could be worth trillions. (Credit: Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech)What if the key to protecting our planet … was leaving it? Well, in part, at least. As worries about climate change mount, and the race to obtain resources from space heats up, some experts and über-rich CEOs are seriously considering moving our industry off-planet. That means using robots to build satellites and space stations by mining astero
  
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• U.S. advances to Women's World Cup final thanks to goalkeeping heroics - AOL

  02-07-2019 23:02 via aol.com
  U.S. advances to Women's World Cup final thanks to goalkeeping heroics  AOLU.S. Goalkeeper Rejects a Penalty Kick—and Questions About Her Skill  Wall Street JournalAlex Morgan – Player of the Match – England v USA  FIFATVFans are losing it over Alex Morgan's World Cup goal celebration  SFGate'She doesn't need to do that' - Sanderson disapproves of Morgan's controversial celebration  Yahoo SportsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Highway patrol pulled over a hearse in the HOV lane. The driver pointed to the back and asked, 'He doesn't count?' - CNN

  02-07-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  Highway patrol pulled over a hearse in the HOV lane. The driver pointed to the back and asked, 'He doesn't count?'  CNNNevada trooper pulls over hearse carrying corpse in carpool lane: police  Fox NewsNevada trooper pulls over hearse in HOV lane  Associated PressHearse pulled over in HOV lane  KTNV Channel 13 Las VegasNevada Trooper Pulls Over Hearse Traveling in HOV Lane  Snopes.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• NASA Selects 12 New Lunar Experiments in Advance of Human Return

  02-07-2019 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Private spaceflight companies will carry commercial payloads to the Moon in advance of NASA’s crewed landing slated for 2024. (Credit: NASA)NASA wants to return humans to the Moon by 2024 under a program called Artemis. And this time, they want the stay to be of a more permanent nature. In addition to landing humans on the lunar surface, NASA wants to put a Gateway space station in orbit around the moon, to host the next generation of space experiments and to serve as a waystation between
  
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• The Latest: Solar eclipse begins to darken sun in Chile

  02-07-2019 21:28
  A solar eclipse is starting to darken the sun over northern Chile
  
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• Lockheed Martin engineers in Highlands Ranch celebrate successful NASA Orion launch - The Denver Channel

  02-07-2019 21:28 via thedenverchannel.com
  Lockheed Martin engineers in Highlands Ranch celebrate successful NASA Orion launch  The Denver ChannelLaunch of Orion Spacecraft Ascent Abort-2 Test  NASAThe Orion spacecraft flew Tuesday morning, and it looked pretty spectacular  Ars TechnicaOrion data recorders come with return-to-sender instructions  Spaceflight NowLockheed Martin tests Orion launch abort system  Denver7 – The Denver ChannelView full coverage on Google News
  
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• A total solar eclipse has begun to darken the sun over northern Chile

  02-07-2019 21:28
  A total solar eclipse has begun to darken the sun over northern Chile
  
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• Chileans and Argentines ready to gaze at total solar eclipse

  02-07-2019 19:47
  Tens of thousands of tourists have flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to stake out spots in one of the world's best locations to witness Tuesday's total solar eclipse
  
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• Germany fines Facebook $2.3 million under hate speech law

  02-07-2019 19:40
  German authorities say they have issued Facebook with a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine under a law designed to combat hate speech
  
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• Arctic fox walks more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada

  02-07-2019 19:06
  Norwegian researchers say an arctic fox walked from northern Norway to Canada's far north, a distance of 4,415 kilometers (2,737 miles), in four months
  
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• Bonobos Get Their Iodine From Swampy Plants — Ancient Humans Might Have As Well

  02-07-2019 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Credit: Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock)Within the rainforests of Salonga National Park, in the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bonobos wade through swamps. The slender, three-and-a-half-foot tall apes are searching for rushes and white water lilies. They pluck the herbs from the water and then discard the flowers and leaves. The bonobos are after the soft pith at the base of the leaves and other parts of the plants that grow underwater.
  Now researchers find the aquatic h
  
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• French protesters block Amazon sites over climate, jobs

  02-07-2019 18:51
  Environmental activists have chained themselves to gates and turnstiles as they occupied an Amazon building near Paris
  
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• FBI says nothing dangerous after Facebook sarin scare

  02-07-2019 18:31
  The FBI says a package that initially tested positive for sarin at a mail facility near the company's headquarters in California did not contain any dangerous substance
  
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• Meet Big Tech's new foe - a congressman who fought City Hall

  02-07-2019 18:10
  Standing up to the world's biggest technology companies isn't the first time David Cicilline has picked a fight with powerful institutions
  
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• Germany fines Facebook for under-reporting illegal content

  02-07-2019 18:05 via rss.cnn.com
  Facebook has been fined more than $2 million in Germany for inaccurately reporting the amount of illegal content on its platform.
  
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• NASA launches Orion crew capsule to test abort system

  02-07-2019 17:28
  NASA launches test version of its Orion capsule to demonstrate the abort system meant to save astronauts
  
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• California Unveils Huge ‘Cradle-To-Career’ Student Tracking System

  02-07-2019 17:26 via technocracy.news
  This is the height of social engineering and far beyond Common Core Education Standards data tracking. SB-75 purposes to identify and track “predictive indicators” in order to “provide appropriate interventions” and “improve outcomes.”  ⁃ TN EditorThe California legislature has approved legislation that will be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to set up an educational system that will use big data to track children from “cradle to career.
  
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• Total solar eclipse visible in remote parts of the world - ABC News

  02-07-2019 17:11 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Google Being Sued Over Illegally Obtained Health Records

  02-07-2019 17:00 via technocracy.news
  University of Chicago Medical Center conspired to sell sensitive health records of patients to Google, violating HIPPA and privacy laws. The lawsuit notes, this is “likely the greatest heist of consumer medical records in history.”
  Google has been sucking up medical records for several years. In 2016, New Scientist discovered that Google secured access to 1.6 million patient records from the UK’s National Health Service.  ⁃ TN EditorA former University of Chicago med
  
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• Technocrat Scientists Look To Create Human-Monkey Chimeras

  02-07-2019 16:33 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats who believe that humans are just animals like every other animal, see no problem in crossing species by genetic modification. Transhumans go one step further by claiming to control evolution, creating Humans 2.0. ⁃ TN EditorThe monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.
  They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered la
  
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• NASA’s Orion Successfully Completes Final Major Flight Test

  02-07-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The crew capsule and its launch abort safety system lifted off on time from Cape Canaveral. (Credit: NASA)On Tuesday morning at 7am EDT, NASA successfully completed the final major flight test for their Orion crew capsule. This is the new craft NASA will use to transport humans to the Moon and Mars as a new age of space exploration begins.
  The Artemis Moon mission is slated to begin next year with an uncrewed flight to the Moon. With this final flight test cleared, that should be the ne
  
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• Adidas social media debacle produces racist and anti-Semitic tweets

  02-07-2019 16:14 via rss.cnn.com
  Adidas has come under fire for a social media campaign which inadvertently led to the sportswear giant tweeting out racist, anti-Semitic and abusive terms to hundreds of thousands of followers.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Responded After Being Dragged For His Silence On The Taylor Swift–Scooter Braun Drama - BuzzFeed

  02-07-2019 15:45 via buzzfeed.com
  Ed Sheeran Responded After Being Dragged For His Silence On The Taylor Swift–Scooter Braun Drama  BuzzFeedTaylor Swift Has ''Zero Regrets'' for ''Standing Up'' to Scooter Braun  E! NEWSLike Taylor Swift, every woman faces a Justin Bieber  CNNSelena Gomez & Ariana Grande React To Taylor Swift Fighting With Scooter Braun  HollywoodLifeTaylor Swift slammed for alleged lying and bullying after attacking former label boss  Fox NewsView full
  
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• CRISPR and LASER ART Eliminate HIV from Mice - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

  02-07-2019 15:15 via genengnews.com
  CRISPR and LASER ART Eliminate HIV from Mice  Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology NewsResearchers announce a breakthrough HIV cure in mice  CBS NewsResearchers say they're closer to finding cure for HIV after using CRISPR technology to eliminate disease in live mice for the first time  CNBCWhile HIV breakthrough renews patients' hope, experts encourage testing  WOWTIs gene-editing the future of HIV treatment?  The Week MagazineView full cover
  
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• Samsung hints at Galaxy Note 10 launch on August 7

  02-07-2019 14:23 via rss.cnn.com
  Samsung has revealed the date for its next press event, at which it's expected to unveil the Galaxy Note 10.
  
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• Internet restored in Ethiopia 10 days after assassinations

  02-07-2019 13:52
  Ethiopia has begun restoring internet access 10 days after it was cut following the assassinations of 6 top government officials
  
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• Japan cites security concerns in curbing exports to SKorea

  02-07-2019 11:20
  Japan has defended a decision to slap restrictions on exports of certain high-tech materials to South Korea, citing national security concerns
  
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• The Fall of Niels Birbaumer

  02-07-2019 11:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A highly acclaimed neuroscientist whose work offered hope for many patients with brain injury has fallen from grace.Niels Birbaumer. From https://www.wysscenter.ch/person/niels-birbaumer-phd/Prof. Niels Birbaumer, of the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in Germany, came under investigation earlier this year. The probe began after researcher Martin Spüler raised serious concerns over a 2017 paper in PLoS Biology by Ujwal Chaudhary et al. Birbaumer was the senior author.Now,
  
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• Florida woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after a fall on Gulf Coast beach - Boston 25 News

  02-07-2019 10:08 via boston25news.com
  Florida woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after a fall on Gulf Coast beach  Boston 25 NewsFlesh-eating bacteria in Florida waters: Three things you need to know.  Tampa Bay TimesFlesh-eating bacteria kills Florida woman; infection came after cutting leg while walking on beach  AL.comWoman dies from flesh-eating bacteria along Florida beach  ABC Action NewsFamily: Woman dies from flesh-eating disease in Florida  Reading EagleView full coverage o
  
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• Paleontologists Discover A Bird Three Times Larger Than An Ostrich

  02-07-2019 05:00 via scitechdaily.com
  A surprise discovery in a Crimean cave suggests that early Europeans lived alongside some of the largest ever known birds, according to new research published...
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• ALMA Discovers Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies

  02-07-2019 05:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13...
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• Chemists Edge Closer to Using Ribosome to Create Designer Polymers

  02-07-2019 04:51 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of Yale chemists is one step closer to using the ribosome — the cell’s protein-making factory — to create designer polymers, including stronger...
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• Hubble Views Rose-Like Bloom in Spiral Galaxy NGC 972

  02-07-2019 04:40 via scitechdaily.com
  This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows bright, colourful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC...
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• Uber will now show you where to rent bikes and scooters

  02-07-2019 01:38 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber wants to be the transportation company for everyone, no matter how passengers get where they're going. That's why the app will now give e-bikes and e-scooters the same prominence as car trips in two cities.
  
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• Spotify will no longer let artists upload their own music

  02-07-2019 01:38 via rss.cnn.com
  After a brief experiment, Spotify will no longer let artists upload their music directly to its platform.
  
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• Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos' $38 billion divorce settlement is expected soon

  02-07-2019 01:38 via rss.cnn.com
  Even with the settlement, the CEO and founder of Amazon remains the richest person in the world.
  
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• Girlboss CEO launches 'LinkedIn for women' platform

  02-07-2019 01:38 via rss.cnn.com
  Girlboss CEO and Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso has launched her newest venture: A LinkedIn-like platform for connecting "ambitious" women.
  
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• FTC reports a sharp increase in phone scams

  02-07-2019 01:38 via rss.cnn.com
  Julianne Stafford, a special education teacher in Massachusetts, recently got a terrifying phone call: someone claiming to be a Social Security official said a number of bank accounts opened in her name in El Paso, Texas, had been linked to drug trafficking — and that Boston police had a warrant for her arrest.
  
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• UK lawmakers urge new law in campaigning in digital age

  02-07-2019 01:23
  An influential British parliamentary committee has urged the government to urgently bring forward new laws addressing campaigning techniques in the digital age, insisting that democracy itself is under threat without speedy action
  
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• Facebook mail site evacuated after possible sarin scare

  02-07-2019 01:20
  A Facebook mail facility near company headquarters was evacuated Monday after a routine check found mail possibly containing the nerve agent sarin
  
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• Cyberattack forces Georgia agency to shut down websites

  02-07-2019 00:20
  A Georgia state agency says a cyberattack has forced it to shut down some court websites
  
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• The Struggle to Design a More Sustainable Toilet

  02-07-2019 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Credit: Erin McGrady/Shutterstock)(Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a horror scene than a sanitation solution. That's certainly what people in rural Louisiana thought in the summer of 1930, when black soldier flies infested a set of newly installed privies."[C]onsiderable consternation often resulted when a person lifted a privy lid and was greeted by a swarm of insects resembling wasps, or when upon leaving the privy he experience
  
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